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Do you see that they can't find Casey Kasim?
Casey Kasim, America's Top, he's missing.
We need a hashtag, bring back our Casey.
There probably already is one.
But, I mean, it's working for the kidnapped girls.
Apparently, Casey's got, he doesn't know where he is.
I mean, he's advanced Parkinson or something at Parkinson's, and his wife spirited him away, and his kids can't find him.
And the courts have said, no, you've got to produce him.
And the wife says, hell with it.
They think he's honest to God, they're getting held on some Indian reservation in Idaho or Nevada or something.
But they can't find him.
Jeff Fisher, the coach of the St. Louis Rams, says that he will not hesitate to release Michael Sam if he doesn't earn a roster spot.
He's going to be treated like any other player, at least when it comes to on-the-field production.
That means, what, you don't believe this?
I don't believe you.
That means he will be cut if he doesn't earn a roster spot, Coach Jeff Fisher says.
We picked him with the process, and we're going to reduce this roster within the process.
So I don't see that being an issue.
Well.
Well, no, wait a minute.
What if he boycotted if they release him?
They drafted him.
You mean they're not going to...
They can't...
They drafted him.
Why are they going to get mad at the one team that drafted him?
I'll just tell you this.
If they're setting this up, I mean, why even say this now?
Well, no, you just said they were never going to cut him.
So if you're going to say this now, if you're going to say, well, hey, hey, hey, hey, this guy, if he can't cut it, we're going to cut him.
They had better play him every down, every snap of all four preseason games and be able to produce the evidence if they're going to cut him.
That if they do, they're going to have to be able to have football reasons for it to avoid what you say would be the massive protests.
So forth.
Yeah, transgenders in the military.
Yeah, I saw that.
You're shocked?
You were surprised?
No, no, I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised where things are headed.
Not at all.
I'm done being surprised.
I'm just now chronicling the speed with which all this is happening.
That's what I'm doing.
But surprise that's so 19th century.
It's the 21st century, like John Kerry says, Snerdley.
Nobody gets surprised at things like this in the 21st century.
You just accept it and you marvel at the speed with which it's all happening.
Jay Carney was actually asked today at the White House during the press briefing.
Some of you people think, for example, today we talked about the young millennials and their abject, I mean fear and panic over the report that there's nothing we can do about Antarctica breaking up.
And I know even now, after 25 years, some of you think that I overdo this, maybe exaggerated a little bit, and I caution you, don't think that.
I am Mr. Mainstream.
The rest of everybody else has gone kookie extreme, either on the left or right.
I am Mr. Mainstream.
And here's evidence: White House press briefing this afternoon, a reporter asked Jay Carney this question.
The French foreign minister dramatically said the world has 500 days to avoid climate chaos.
I'm wondering, what does your countdown clock say?
The view of the science that climate change is upon us and the effects and impacts of climate change are being felt today.
We've laid out a comprehensive strategy aimed at helping communities around the country prepare for the effects of climate change and address climate change in the future to try to mitigate future impacts.
The National Climate Assessment that was released last week, I think, paints a pretty stark picture about the fact that these impacts are already here.
In some cases, they've arrived sooner than expected, sooner than scientists expected.
And that only reinforces the need to approach this in the kind of comprehensive way that the president has laid out.
You wonder why they're panicked?
You wonder why these kids are scared?
This is what they think is the final authority.
This is the source authority.
The White House, the President's press secretary.
There is no foremost authority than this guy, in their view.
Their parents don't count for it.
Your parents don't know anything.
This, the president, the UN, the government.
That's what bugs me.
To these people, the government's got all the answers.
The government never lies, and the government's out for everybody being protected and treated fairly and equally and all this.
The government's an abject failure at everything it does.
But here, so you have this French oddball who shows up and says, Yeah, we got a guy in our country in 500 days, 500 days, and that's it.
We've only got 500 days.
What is your countdown?
And Carney says pretty much the same: it's deteriorating faster than anybody knows.
You wonder why they're scared because they believe this claptrap.
This to me is the height of irresponsibility.
Folks, there hasn't been any global warming for 17 years: Zilch, Zero, Nada.
This is why it's not called global warming anymore.
This is why they call it climate change.
And now they've even got a new term.
I've forgotten what they call it, climate deterioration or climate whatever, but there isn't any warming from the official temperature recorder places.
Back to the Donald Sterling story, just a couple soundbites on that.
Spike Lee was on Anderson Cooper 360 after they had Donald Sterling on.
And Anderson Cooper said, okay, look, for the record, Magic Johnson has the Magic Johnson Foundation.
His business life invests in inner city communities.
His foundation has given millions of dollars, HIV AIDS education, on overall education, on scholarships to people, on, you know, working communities.
So they had, CNN had a graphic list of all the great achievements and accomplishments of Magic Johnson after Sterling was on TV earlier and said, What's he done?
What's he done?
He got the AIDS and then had sex with every woman in every city.
Is this what we want to get?
CNN on the case, a list of every achievement.
Magic Johnson.
Then they got to Spike Lee and they asked him about it.
This attack on magic is crazy.
He's messing with the wrong brother.
And magic is loved by everybody around the world.
I did a documentary which was nominated for a Cami Award called Four Little Girls.
I remember about the bombing of the Sixth Century Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
And I interviewed George Wallace.
And this reminds me of George Wallace in an interview.
Him to say, you know, how he's helped minorities and then try to juxtapose that with what Magic's not doing is ludicrous.
And this thing is getting volatile now.
Yeah, that's the point.
That's the key.
It's getting volatile now.
So Anderson Cooper said, Donald Sterling says that he believes his players on his team love him and support him, but that they are intimidated.
That sounds like a plantation owner.
My darkies love me.
Just look at him, hear him talk, and he's delusional.
And he's not in touch with today's world.
He's back there with Leave It the Beaver or Ozzy Harriet.
There you go.
And you see, that, ladies and gentlemen, is another aspect of this.
That America, back in its so-called wholesome days, back in its days of morality and decency, nah, that wasn't that at all.
It wasn't decent.
It wasn't moral.
There wasn't anything good.
Though in Ozzy and Harriet days, Leave It to Beaver, America was just horribly racist and sexist and homophobic and bigoted and so forth.
And what's happening now is the answer to all that racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and inequality of the 50s.
Now we're getting to where it should have been all along.
And Sterling is just a throwback, just like a plantation owner.
By the way, one more soundbite 15 Friday.
We have a substitute broadcast engineer today whose name is Friday, in case you're trying to follow what I'm talking about.
Brian Williams introing the NBC nightly news last night.
Two groups of scientists reported today, based on close and constant examination, large parts of the Western Antarctica ice sheet appears to have collapsed.
The area shown here in red, scientists say further degradation is almost certainly unstoppable.
They say global warming is accelerating the pace of disintegration.
NASA's lead polar ice researcher said, quote, this is really happening.
There's nothing to stop it now.
These scientists say the ice sheet can add 13 feet to global sea levels slowly at first and over the next 100 years or so.
13.
Gosh, it was originally four feet last night or yesterday afternoon.
Now it's 13 feet.
And you know it, there's nothing we can do to stop it.
Okay, so we can keep driving our SUVs then, huh?
And we can drop all these policies because we can't stop it.
It's just, it's gotten beyond the point of no return now.
We can't do anything.
And yet at the White House, this French reporter, well, I'm going to guy 500 days.
That's all we've got.
And this has been the case.
And I was thinking the other day, we had a story I was able to find in the New York Times 100 years ago, or, well, almost, early 1900s.
Same exact story.
Global warming, climate change, destroying the planet, had to act now.
It's just an old part of the Democrat Party playbook, and it comes to life every now and then.
Just remember, a year ago, all of these great scientists traveling to the Antarctic to prove global warming, getting stuck in ice that their maps didn't say was there.
They ran into ice way before they thought there was any.
Took three icebreakers to rescue them and get them out, helicopters, a Chikom icebreaker, and another one got caught up in it too, just a year ago.
But in that year, man, it's really got to get hot down there because now it's collapsing, and there's nothing we can do.
There's no stopping it now.
And all of this is the height of irresponsibility.
It's not journalism.
It's simply liberal Democrat Party activism disguised as news.
I just found another good one.
I sound bite before we get back to the phones.
Alan Dershowitz was on CNN last night and the host, I mean, is it any wonder this network has 250,000 viewers?
This is an incredible exchange.
Bill Weir is the host.
He's talking to Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, about the kidnapped Nigerian girls.
And the CNN host asks Dershowitz, hey, what if we all chipped in and bought them back?
That was his question.
What if we just gave these terrorists the money?
And so Dershowitz had to explain to him how, well, if you do that, they're just going to keep doing it.
If you'll pay them off, they'll keep doing it to get your money.
And he said, we don't have to do that because we got magic working.
We got the first lady holding up a sign.
With use of force like that, don't worry.
It'll be okay.
It's a very snarky comment.
I love it.
Listen to this.
We don't know if there's any behind-the-scenes deals going, but what do you think?
Should we all chip in and buy these girls back and then go after the guys who took them?
This would be a very bad deal to negotiate and make a deal with them because they're talking about soft targets.
They'll just kidnap 200, 300, 400 more people.
If you negotiate a release, give them what they want, they're just going to do it again and again and again.
And it's going to be the beginning of a terrible, terrible cycle.
And when you have the first lady of the United States holding up a sign, obviously the pressures are enormous, and we all want to see the girls return safely, but there's no guarantee they will be returned safely.
When you have the first lady of the United States holding up a sign, obviously the pressures on the terrorists are enormous.
We don't need to buy them.
So this guy, so what if we all chip in and buy them back?
And then Don Lemon asks the former air transportation expert, could that Malaysian jet have been swallowed up by a black hole?
Where is CNN find these people?
It's a legitimate question.
Back to the phones as promises.
Andrew, Birmingham, Alabama.
I'm glad you waited.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, Millennial Dennos from Birmingham.
Thank you very much, sir.
Honor to speak with you.
Hey, so I've been a private math educator for 14 years now, and one of my favorite algebraic questions to give kids is, let's say we made a global effort to melt the polar ice caps.
I asked him to calculate the amount of wait is.
I love this, this is my point.
I made this point.
If Richard Nixon was sick and tired of looking at how big Antarctica is on the map and told his Secretary of Defense, melt it, just go down there and melt it.
What we did, that's what you've done.
You've made a yes.
So you would first calculate the volume of it to find the weight.
And it turns out that there's 26.5 thousand billion cubic meters of ice down there, and the specific heat required to raise the temperature of all that ice one degree would take five point, would take 51 trillion trillion joules of energy just to raise the temperature of all of it one degree Celsius, not even to melt it, just to raise it one degree.
The largest nuke.
And so I tell them, let's go big or go home, let's nuke it.
And so I say, what's the largest nuclear weapon that man has ever created?
The, the sar bomb that the Russians created?
Uh, it throws out 50 megatons of um energy.
Basically, in short, it would take detonating 243 000 of those simultaneously to raise the temperature of all the ice on Antarctica one degree Celsius.
It it cannot be done.
It's impossible to melt the Polar Ice Cap, 243 050 megaton nukes at the same time to raise the temperature of the ice in Antarctica one degree Celsius exactly.
Well, who says we couldn't do it?
We could have done it if Regan was present here with his finger on the button.
Everybody knows that.
Okay, well here.
So so say you did, say you did manage to melt it.
It's guess what.
Next winter it's going to be minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit for six months straight.
It's going to refreeze again.
You would have to do that every year to melt it all.
Why?
Why is it?
Why why is it going to freeze again?
Because it's minus 70 degrees, you mean down there.
But wouldn't, wouldn't, 236 000 nukes kind of warm it up down there?
Uh, I mean, I guess it could.
But I mean, is there enough uranium and plutonium to make that much?
I don't know, where would you put them?
All depends on how.
It depends how far along the Iranians are.
All right well, I just, you know, I just praise the lord that he himself made uh, made us uh well, you know, powerful that we can't even melt it ourselves, even if we tried.
I mean, he saved us.
That has been, that has been my, you know, during the days of the the ozone hole?
Uh it was.
It was said that uh, spray aerosol cans were, uh were causing it.
During the old days of the Rush To Excellence Tour, I used to try to make the point that if um, you know, if Ronald Reagen wanted every Democrat to get skin cancer and ordered Cap Weinberger to put a giant ozone hole over every city where the Democrat, what would he have to do?
And that you couldn't.
There's All of these things that they claim in the climate and the atmosphere that they think our improved lifestyles are causing.
It's impossible.
We don't have the vanity on the one hand of humanity amazes me.
And then the insecurity and paranoia on the other hand at the same time amazes me.
On the one hand, they think we have so awesomely powerful that we could destroy the Antarctic in 500 days or save it.
On the other hand, they think we're no different than a rat or a mouse or a pig if you talk to the animal rights people.
But it's amazingly easy, apparently, to make people believe that we can do all of this.
And it's the absence of critical thinking that makes it possible.
Now, this may be, I'd have to ask our official climatologist about this, Dr. Roy Spencer.
But it's all over the place that the Antarctic is melting today, and it's nothing we can stop.
There is nothing we can do.
Now, when in the last year has it been above freezing down there?
Now, I suppose what they're going to tell us is: no, it's not the reason.
The air temperature, Mr. Limbaugh, this shows how stupid you are.
What it is, is the sea water temperatures in the little inlets and caves beneath the ice.
That's what's warming, and that's what's melted.
We can't see it.
It's in these little coves and things.
Okay, so the water in the South Pole is warm enough.
It's over 32 degrees to melt enough ice to cause Antarctica, the western part of it, to start splitting in half.
Now, I don't see how it's possible.
This is, it doesn't matter.
Those questions are never even brought up.
They're not even raised.
They're not even asked.
They're not even considered.
All you need is somebody with the word scientist attached to them, a white coat, maybe, or somebody that looks through telescopes or a microscope to say something.
It's automatically believed.
And it's something you can't take the politics out.
There's a political agenda attached to all of this.
And the political agenda is grow government, make government more powerful, give government control over the way people live, because only government can stop this destruction.
If you leave people alone, they're naturally reprobates, and they're naturally going to destroy their environment.
They're naturally going to beat up their kids.
They're naturally going to steal from each other.
They're naturally going to kill people.
We need government policing everything everybody does and thinks.
And what scares me is not that Antarctica may be splitting up and melting, it's that so many people have become sheep and bought into this.
But apparently there are enough of them who have.
Here's Cheryl in Hampton, Illinois.
I'm glad you called.
It's nice to have you.
Hi.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I have to have at least one rush hour a day.
Is that enough?
One a day?
Is that enough?
I try to get three, but at least one rush hour a day.
I appreciate the effort.
And I want to let you know that I'm a grandma, and my husband bought me your book for Christmas so I can read it to my grandkids because I read them all the internet.
That is exactly.
That is it.
That's music to my ears.
That is exactly one of the many intentions with this book was to have people like you read it to your grandkids.
And then when they had questions for you, you'd be able to answer their questions and read the book together.
That's great.
Thank you so much for saying that.
Oh, you're welcome to hear from a voice of reason and to say, look, this is the way it is.
But the reason I called was to say, doesn't Michelle just get airtime when Barack is in trouble?
I mean, I've been watching for years now, too many, and observed that she only gets to be brought out when something bad's going on in the administration.
Otherwise, he lets her come out, hashtag Michelle, and I'm like, oh, see, I still have a beautiful wife, and we're all a normal family.
But he brings her out at appropriate times, like a trophy.
Just pay attention and see.
See, my servants.
I think that it's kind of Muchell deciding when she's going to show up, which I think she's the one that says, Barack, I'm doing X. If she even tells him.
I don't see Michelle as, you know, hidden away in the residence, only being brought out by Barack when he thinks it's necessary.
Well, we'll see as time goes on.
I mean, you're right.
She comes out when there are rough patches because the first ladies, they're all loved.
Every first lady has always been loved.
They tried to make the country hate Nancy Reagan.
And they tried to make the country hate Laura Bush.
They tried to make the country hate Barbara Bush.
But they failed.
First ladies are just automatically loved.
Respect.
Well, the kids in my neck of the woods are throwing out their school lunches, so I don't know how well she's liked.
Yeah, but are they blaming Michelle for it?
I mean, they think it's Michelle's menu that they're throwing out.
Well, they say it is.
Well, she's the one who changed the school program.
Maybe more happening.
Well, just an observant.
That is true.
If they're up to speed on that, that's cool.
Cheryl, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Speaking of this, I've got this story here from the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Snerdley, do you know what a beta parent is?
Dawn, do you know what a beta parent is?
Any of you in there know?
We had ladies, and this is a big day, we've got some 2F by T sweepstakes grand prize winners here just sitting in awe here for the past two and a half hours watching the program on the other side of the glass.
You ought to sit there in stunned awe and amazement.
They can't believe it.
And they're just having the greatest time.
Have any of you heard of beta parents?
B-E-T-A, as opposed to alpha.
Beta.
Brian, have you ever heard of beta parents?
Anybody in there, raise your hand if you've heard of beta parents.
Nobody.
You have an HR?
Friday.
No.
Okay.
Well, beta parents are new parents who are not following the group think on raising kids today.
Here's this story in the Huffing and Puffington Post.
I'm just going to start reading it verbatim.
It's written by a woman named Jan Nestle, N-E-S-S-E-L.
What comes after one?
Asked the mother, pushing her three-year-old on the swings.
He was too busy laughing to answer, so she was forced to repeat, what comes after one?
Two, he mumbled, looking off at the climbing structure.
Good.
What comes after two?
Three.
Okay, now, what comes after three?
Little kid said nothing.
What comes after three?
And grudgingly, the little kid said, okay, four, it's four.
Okay, now, what comes after four?
And Jen Nessel writes, and here is where I fell in love with the boy.
He glared at his mother and blurted, orange.
Can you blame him?
Who wants to do math drills when there's swinging to do and monkey bars to climb and popsicles to eat and, you know, childhood to have?
Kids are not the only ones rebelling.
Contrary to what you might read, there are parents out there who do not hire bilingual nannies or fall to pieces when their kids brush up against a non-organic toy.
Let's call them beta parents.
I'm one of them.
I let things slide.
My kid eats floor food.
Sometimes we go an entire week without going to a class of some kind.
I have barely begun his application to MIT.
Who are my fellow beta parents?
Well, beta parents don't spend $2,000 to prep their four-year-olds for tests.
Beta parents don't try to engage their children every second of the day.
Sometimes they leave them alone with a crayon and a piece of string in a cardboard box.
Beta parents let their kids eat processed cheese.
As I go through this, I want you to keep in mind that there are people reading this on the Huffing and Puffington Post who think this is blasphemy, who think this is sacrilege, who think this woman's irresponsible and that child services need to be sent over and get her kids.
And all she's doing is raising kids the way they used to be.
Not micromanaging her kids, not preparing her for MIT at age three, bilingual nannies.
You know, let them pick up food off the floor and eat it, let them sit in a room for an hour just playing, doing whatever comes naturally rather than shaping and melding and bending and flaking and forming them into good little whatevers.
Beta parents own televisions.
Beta parents don't do their children's homework.
Sometimes beta parents miss bedtime and are inconsistent because human beings are inconsistent.
Beta parents don't hide vitamin A-rich pumpkin puree in the pancakes.
Nor do they make cupcakes out of cantaloupe with frosting made of beet-based food coloring and Greek yogurt.
Beta parents don't have air purifiers, and if we do, we forget to change the filters.
Beta parents don't read parenting books.
Beta parents don't subscribe to a particular philosophy of child rearing.
Beta parents aren't even always beta parents.
Once in a while, we are alpha parents.
Sometimes we're omegas.
Beta parents aren't lazy, selfish.
We just don't think it's healthy for kids to be the center of the universe at every moment.
Or to feel pressure to succeed while digging in the sandbox.
Here's a radical thought.
What if we all worried about making our children into good people instead of successful people?
And what if instead of turning them into little bonsai projects, we let them grow a little wild.
Beta parents unite.
Our kids have nothing to lose but their third homes in the Hamptons.
Folks, this is quite fascinating to me Because that one line, what if we all worried about making our children into good people instead of successful people?
Is that what's really going on with the alpha parents?
Are they trying to mold their kids into being successful people with the two bilingual nannies and all that?
Or are they creating little mind-numbed robots for whatever reason?
Versus.
Anyway, it sounds to me like beta parenting is the way kids used to be raised.
Is that right?
I mean, I, not being a parent, can only assume that this...
I mean, I remember being raised, and this is the way I was raised.
I was not the center of the universe.
That didn't happen until I was, I don't know, 17.
Hi, welcome back.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
You know, Grab Friday, grab soundbite number five.
I don't have time to play the preceding soundbite, but it's CBS this morning, and they're talking about the boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel and the criticism of the Sultan of Brunei.
And it's hilarious.
The soundbite contains CBS people and their guests claiming that the Sultan's a big hypocrite.
I mean, here he is imposing Sharia law, but he engages in adultery and he has all these things.
He doesn't live by his own dictates.
And they're talking what a hypocrite he is.
And that that's the problem with him.
That Sharia's not the problem.
Radical Islam isn't the problem.
No, no, no, no.
It's the fact that he's rich and he's a hypocrite because he's not living by it.
And the left ought to know everything there is to know about that because that's them to a T.
So after that discussion, one of the things that they learned that the Sultan of Brunei has gold-plated toilet brushes.
And this exchange happened with Charlie Rose, Nora O'Donnell, and Gail King.
They were listing all the things that he had.
I thought, that's what you do when you have all the money in the world.
That's right.
A gold-plated toilet brush.
That's the M6.
And Gail King said, I got to find one of those for Oprah.
A gold-plated toilet brush?
That's probably something we get Oprah that she doesn't have.
Who knew?
But it's, I wish I had time to play the whole thing because they're just all upset that the guy is a hypocrite.
Not that he's imposing Sharia law, but that he doesn't live by it.
And all they have to do is look at themselves because they are identical in that regard.
That magic ingredient in red wine that everybody told you makes it okay to eat fat.
You have to worry about it.
Guess what?
It's called resveritol, and it doesn't have any magic effect.
Journal of American Medical Association.
So it's too bad, folks.
Sorry to disappoint you.
I hope you have a great rest of the day.
Thanks for being with us, and we'll see you in 21 hours.