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May 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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They found Casey Kasim.
They found him.
He was uh visiting in Washington State with his wife.
So now that they found Casey Kasen, they got to go back to the Malaysian Airliner on CNN.
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All right, here is the author of the year award that I received last night from the Children's Choice Book Awards, Children's Book Council.
What it says here, I'm going to turn it around just a second.
This is heavy.
This is really, really heavy.
It is glass in the shape of a book here on top of a stand.
This is Rush Limbaugh for Rush Revere, the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans author of the year.
And I'll turn it around and show it to you.
You won't be able to read it, but there it is.
It is really nice.
I mentioned, I sent notes out to people last night saying I'd won the award, and somebody wrote, oh, you won a bookie.
As in a Grammy, as in an Oscar, children's choice avoid a bookie.
But it's I'm going to put this with all the other awards, the other two.
Now, how many Marconi's are there?
Three or four out there.
We do have a little trophy case.
You know, President Obama was in New York yesterday.
It was a potential traffic problem, but fortunately his whereabouts did not coincide with where we had to go, so we didn't encounter any unusual traffic.
But I didn't know until just now.
And I I mentioned earlier that that this Miami Dolphins player being sent to re-education camp just kind of creeps me.
This is creepy stuff.
They're even calling it that.
Sensitivity training, re-education or whatever, simply because he tweeted his uh disapproval or his dislike with the PDA, Michael Stamm and his boyfriend after the draft.
The story here, PJ Tatler, apparently Obama, he's fundraising in New York.
He appeared with a group of donors in New York last night.
And he he made a joke that he should export some East Coast voters to the Midwest to increase Democrats' power in Washington.
So we got more votes here than we need.
We have we have far more we don't need all the votes we get here in New York to win.
We don't need all these votes.
Wouldn't it be great if we could move some of these excess votes in New York City to the Midwest.
We would be doing okay.
Now forget the creepy re-education schools.
What about it it's perfectly reasonable, well, reasonable, within confines, within context.
I mean, with Obamacare, will they maybe tell doctors Hillary care they were gonna tell you where you had to practice.
If they paid for your education, if you got any sort of assistance for your education, they were going to appoint you in exchange for a specialty.
No, it was even worse than that.
Under Hillary Care, if you wanted to go into a specialty, they were gonna be able to say, okay, but you have to go to Buffalo, or you have to go to wherever they wanted to send you.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
And if you didn't want to do a specialty, because they they wanted sp if you wanted to do GP, that's what they didn't want.
Hillary care, they wanted specialists.
If you wanted GP, and you were getting any kind of federal assistance, they were gonna assign you.
And what's what's creepy about this is uh this I can totally see them trying to figure out how to do this.
Tell people where they have to live.
Why why stop at what they're doing?
Obama said the country is by most measures doing much better than when I came into office, and that's demonstrable.
If you look at the numbers, you'd say not only are we moving in the right direction, but we've actually got better cards than most countries in the world.
He said that lingering anxiety among Americans can be partly attributed to the Bush administration because people still feel traumatized by what happened in 2008, 2008.
They are he is still blaming Bush, and I saw a poll the other day that a majority of Americans still do, too.
For the economy.
It was disheartening.
I have to admit it.
It was really dispiriting to see that even now, six years after Bush is gone.
It was right around 50% still blame Bush.
And Obama clearly is.
This is delusional.
The country is, by most measures, doing much better than when I came back.
That's delusional.
But he says it, it gets repeated all over low information media, and they just sop it up.
And whether their real lives portray it or not, they'll end up believing it.
Anyway.
Just wanted to mention that.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, and this morning in Washington, Capitol Hill, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, they held a hearing to review U.S. policy following the abduction of Nigerian screwgirls by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
I'll be curious to see if they discuss the hashtag as part of American foreign policy.
The chairman of this subcommittee is Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware.
And let's listen, shall we, to his opening remarks.
The Bring Back Our Girls hashtag, which some pundits have mocked, has been mentioned more than three million times on Twitter.
I don't believe those tweets, posts on Facebook, Instagram, and others were from our attention.
Stop the tape.
Who could he possibly be talking about here?
Which some pundits, now many pundits have, but only one pundit has been acknowledged as having mocked.
And I didn't mock the hashtag for people that are powerless.
What I thought was pathetic that the hashtag was being used by officials in the regime to represent action.
Is this all we've got at the ministry?
Well, how many how do they know how many times?
Well, I think you I think Twitter tells you what the retweets are.
I think you can, I think it calculates how many times.
I don't know.
You think he's lying about three million retweets?
You don't Twitter, so how could you possibly know?
Well, you think that they're gonna they're gonna start okay, they got three million retweets, and you think some of them could be in jest and some of them could be repeats.
Do you think they're actually gonna count that?
They're just gonna count the number.
They're crediting the hashtag is the point.
They are crediting the hashtag here.
Why are they crediting the hashtag?
Because of me.
I hate to say it.
Here you have a Senate subcommittee hearing, and the first thing cited is the hashtag.
By the way, Snerdley, I just had somebody check, bring back our girls.
The hashtag bring back our girls is not even in the top trending list at Twitter right now.
You know, they've got their top trending tweets, and it's not in there.
Okay, back to Soundbite No.
Chris Kuhn's Democrat Senator Delaware, opening remarks.
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, African Affairs reviewing U.S. policy on all of this this morning.
Trying to make sure the United States is doing everything it reasonably can to help the Nigerians bring these abducted girls home.
It took too long for the Nigerian government to accept offers of assistance from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and China.
And once accepted, it took too long for that assistance to be implemented.
All right, and play it again from the top.
Just the first to just hear this the way he opened it.
You just got to hear this.
Don't have to play the whole thing again.
We'll parse it in here saying The Bring Back Our Girls hashtag, which some pundits have mocked, has been mentioned more than three million times on Twitter.
And those tweets, posts on Facebook, Instagram, and others were from people trying to get our attention.
All right.
That's it.
Which some pundits have mocked.
I live rent-free in all of these people's heads.
I'm now it took too long for the Nigerian government to accept offers from us, United Kingdom, France, and China.
And once accepted, once they took it, it took them too long for that assistance to be implemented.
So it's the Nigerian government that is to blame.
Exactly as I told you how this was coming down yesterday.
Exactly.
I had so many people tell me yes.
You know, Wosh, I didn't understand all until your show yesterday.
Now I understand.
They didn't know didn't get it, because the story isn't out there.
The Nigerian government is being blamed.
Not only, in fact, they're even being implicated in the kidnapping because they didn't care.
In fact, they oppressed these guys that became Boko Haram.
Boko Haram didn't even exist till the Nigerian government, the Christian government started harassing them, and that's what made them organized.
And that is, you just heard it.
Chris Kuhn's here.
And the thing they're hanging their head on is this hashtag.
Great thing, great stuff, great action.
Calls the a lot of people to pay attention.
Major, major success here.
And this is at the height of absurdity.
Bob Menendez, who came back, I guess, from uh his own harem in the Dominican, started speaking up for the rights of women and girls.
We must reaffirm and recommit ourselves to the fundamental rule of law everywhere.
Why do we have a second?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why do we have to recommit to that?
What when did we stop being committed to the rule of law everywhere, Senator?
What do you mean recommit?
Who's running things here?
All right, go ahead, finish it.
We must insist women and girls be treated with dignity and allowed to live and learn in safety from extremists everywhere.
Like you.
The mothers, activists, and concerned citizens who have taken their outrage and grief to the streets of Aju, London, and Washington, and the electronic highways of Twitter and Facebook deserve credit for focusing the world's attention on this crisis and insisting that the Nigerian government bring them home.
It's the hashtag.
It's the hashtag.
It's the beautiful thing, folks.
It's the hashtag.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Grab soundbite number 27.
Last night on the late show with David Letterman, interviewed Barbara Walters.
And they were talking about Monica Lewinsky's recent article in Vanity Fair magazine.
What about this?
Would you ever have considered putting her uh on the view?
Um I won't tell you what we have done, but it would have been possible.
I don't think that's what you wanted.
Permanently in the view, I want to.
We'll just say, okay, how about a test?
We bring Monica in for a week and just see how it goes, and then maybe you bring her back.
We've I think it would be great if she were on the view.
I wouldn't expect it tomorrow.
They've obviously talked about it.
Monica Lewinsky on the view.
Well, I'm not going to tell you what we've done, but it would have been possible, which kind of tells us what they've done.
I don't think that's what she wanted, which means they know what they've done.
Permanently on the view or one day on the view.
Maybe Monica says she'd do a day, but she don't want to be permanent.
She'll be tied down.
She'd been there, done that on the bee and tied down.
Yeah, she did are you kidding me.
You ask me that?
What does Monica bring to the table to be one of the co-host on the View?
Are you seriously asking me that qu are you not paying attention to the pop culture?
Are you not seeing what's happening out there?
You know that you know ratings don't matter, prior experience doesn't matter, professionalism doesn't matter.
None of that buzz PR being talked about.
That's all that matters in terms of who you hire on TV today.
Les Moonvis said so at the Milken Global Conference.
That's not what she would talk about, stains on dresses.
I mean, maybe one show, but then then they'd move on to other things.
By keeping dresses with stains on them, uh, and then preserving dresses with stains.
That'll be the next day.
You're missing if you're really serious about it.
What would she bring to the view?
Bre bragging bragging rights for whoever hired her is what she would bring to the view.
Did you not hear what Les Moonvis said about why they hired Colbert?
Bragging rights.
It's not about ratings.
He even said ratings don't matter.
It's particularly late night.
We don't even sell them anymore.
Let me grab a quick call.
Tampa, Tom has been waiting for a while.
I wanted to get to it's a good question here.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing, Russ?
Well, thank you very much.
And congratulations on that uh author of the year award.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, the readers voted it.
That's what's great about it.
Well, it means you still got it, right?
You still Do you know what the AP says in their story?
Readers purportedly voted.
Really?
The organization.
It's all it the readers vote.
The AP, or maybe it was U.S. News, I forget.
Purportedly determined by anyway.
Yeah, but thank you.
Thank you, Tom anyway.
I appreciate your saying so.
Yeah, I'm sitting here looking at a picture.
You and I together.
You know where it was from?
Were you at the book awards last night?
No.
But where were you?
Where was the picture?
Uh it was it was a uh the time at the uh Tampa Bay Bucks won the Super Bowl.
And you were playing golf at uh McDill.
Oh yeah.
Flew over there for a it was it was one of the Super Bowl charity golf tournaments.
Yeah, it was a general driving you around.
I'm looking at the picture here.
You had a black sleeveless vest on.
Yeah, yes, yes, yes.
I remember that.
That was a fun day.
I remembered that.
Yeah.
Hey, a question I wanted to ask you.
They got all these concords and mothballs, right?
And somebody could probably buy one for a little bit of nothing.
Hey, why couldn't you convert that to a private jet?
It would be the coolest damn private jet around, wouldn't it?
Well, uh I guess with as many gazillionaires as there are this wouldn't matter, but those things were falling apart for one thing.
That's why they grant they were literally falling apart.
Didn't know that.
And they didn't have any spare parts.
They weren't they stopped making them.
They they it was uh and they they ate fuel faster than any uh you're talking about Saturn V rockets in terms of the fuel efficiency.
But there's probably other reasons.
It's still a fascinating question, though, for now the the uh the Concord.
They were falling apart.
There was, you remember uh toward the end of their run.
I think one of them was taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport, might have been orly, I'm not sure which one, but uh it either ran over something on the runway which popped up and popped a fuel line.
It was on fire on takeoff, and it lifted off and crashed, and it was it was a disaster.
Um but whole tail sections were just falling off for portions of the tail, uh there were some holes.
They're just they it it was so expensive.
I think first class one way, New York to London at the end was fourteen thousand dollars.
That might have been round trip.
I'm not sure.
And they were very small.
They're really there's they're the uh the tube, the fuselage is tiny.
They the whole thing is fuel.
And the cost was just out of sight.
Uh there were only two seats on each side in in each row, well, four, middle aisle.
But they were not first class size seats.
They're a little bit bigger than coach seats, but they it was still tiny.
I mean, if you have claustrophobia, these are very, very narrow tube.
Saving grace was you get from New York to London in three hours.
But here's another thing.
You can't fly the Concorde at supersonic speeds over land.
Sonic booms, governments won't permit it.
So let's say you take off from New York from JFK and you're going to go to London or Paris.
You have to get well out in the Atlantic before you kick in the afterburners, which is what takes you to supersonic.
And then when you are ready to pull into London or Parish, you are right at limits on fuel.
They can't put you in a holding pattern.
You don't have enough fuel.
So they're they really were never practical.
It burned, it requires so much, you know, flight is a series of compromises.
To get something that weighs as much as your average jet airliner off the ground requires more power than you ever stop to consider.
You hear all about lift or aerodynamic air pressure that makes an airplane fly, but you have to get a certain speed going before that air pressure differential is created.
And the heavier the airplane, the faster it has to go.
A Boeing 747, fully loaded for a uh you know, flight of its its max duration.
Well, it is just a uh I was on an L 747, they let me sit up in a cockpit a long time ago.
It took near every feet, every foot of the 10,000 foot runway at JFK to get thing off the ground.
You've got to get up to speed, takes a long time.
Just the the weight of these things, and then it's all about what you'll pay for.
If you want to travel supersonic, you are going to be paying out the nose for it at current technology.
And then you can't do it over over populated areas because of the sonic booms.
It break people's windows or just your animals that go nuts and go crazy.
So you can't even do it unless it's over the ocean.
Uh but it it the whole thing was fuel.
The wings, parts of the fuselage, in order to have enough to even fly supersonic.
And here's the thing about flood, the faster you go, people don't think about this.
The faster you you try to go through the air, the more fuel it takes because the resistance that you face builds up.
As you're going through the air faster, the air coming against you is faster.
That's more resistance.
That's why you want to fly as high as you can, where the air is thinner, and there's less resistance, so it takes less fuel.
That's why if you can fly at 51, you'll do it.
If you can fly at 43, you'll do it.
If you can only fly at 3537, it's gonna cost certain and and so we're not that there there really is no way that we can fly at current prices any faster than we do.
The the the well, apparently not, not that are affordable in a consumer aircraft.
Now, there are there are some some prototypes, corporate jets, supersonic, smaller aircraft and so forth.
I don't know how far along they are.
I'm really not at that speed on them.
I just know that they're always looking at it.
But there's only so much you can do.
If you want to fly right up to the speed of sound, um, I think the fastest corporate jet is the Cessna citation 10.
And it mocked 9.9 something or other, but only on with precise conditions, and it costs.
Uh it Just the faster you go, the more fuel it takes to get you through the air that fast.
Because the resistance builds up.
And you start going supersonic at 2,000 miles an hour as opposed to 550, which is what the Concorde did.
Conquering 1500.
I mean, how do you get to London three hours?
It takes a lot of fuel.
So you got to buy the fuel, then you've got to maintain the airplanes, and you've got to cater them.
You've got to pay the people that uh maintain them and staff them and so forth.
This became cost prohibitive.
And the only two destinations for London and Paris.
I remember Bill Buckley once chartered one for an around the world trip with National Review donors and so forth with Australia.
That's one where they had to fly in a replacement because a portion of the rear rudder just came loose, fell off during flight on their way into Australia or something.
I remember seeing a picture of it on the ground.
Commercial aviation.
I I once had a, I was on a on a flight around Christmas time to uh California, and a pilot was deadheading, and he was sitting next to me, and he was explaining his theory.
Well, that's where he was the one talking about flight being a series of compromises.
Look, if you want to get something this heavy off the ground this fast, here's what's going to cost you.
Are people going to pay that?
That's what the airlines have to determine.
And there are demands that people have, expect speed to be this and that, but it costs.
And it's all contingent on the price of oil.
But by the time you start talking going supersonic, that's an entirely different aerodynamic design, fuel consumption.
They fly at 60,000 feet.
In order to get there, you know, it takes a while to get up that high because you're going to burn off a certain amount of fuel fuel fuel to get rid of the weight.
The windows on the Concorde were three inches, and you couldn't see out of them.
They needed that space.
They couldn't trust windows not to blow out.
The structural integrity would have to be really precise when you do that.
And then you start talking about space travel, you know, escaping the atmosphere, the power needed to do that.
That that's for this is one of the reasons why when I listen to these yokels talk about wind and solar, it's an absolute joke.
I mean, powering an air uh an airplane this way is we're we are a hundred thousand years away from being able to do that.
Uh with automobiles, we're now limited to what?
Uh 150 miles on a battery charge if we go electric on a car, but you start talking about windmills or solar panels to power a car, it's ridiculous.
And this is how we save the planet.
It's not possible.
It simply isn't possible.
Or a transport truck or ocean-going cargo vessels.
None of it's possible without using oil and its refined products.
None of it is.
That's why all this is a joke, getting rid of fossil fuels.
It's never gonna happen.
The economy of the world would collapse.
You know the principle of the airfoil and how it all works.
I mean, the reason, you know, some people, if you get into one of these uh, you know, get into a Puritan that's there's no such thing as lift, it's air pressure differential.
What do you mean, lift?
There's no lifted.
And the way that if you look at an airplane wing, the bottom is flat for the most part.
The top is curved, and it's a bulbous curve at the front and tapers toward the back.
That means that it takes air longer to go over the top of the wing, more time.
It's it's it's minuscule, but it's enough.
It takes air longer to go over the top of the wing than it does over the bottom, because the bottom's flat and nothing stopping it, bam, but you've got a little bit of an instruction, and that creates uh, for the lack of a better term, uh uh uh sort of like it's an air pressure differential.
There's the air weighs more underneath the airplane than above.
It lifts it up if you have the right speed.
And if you notice on a propeller airplane, even the props have that airfoil, the fuselage, the nose is also an airfoil.
Everything is oriented toward getting that airplane off the ground and then fly to the right speed.
The whole thing, it's always fascinated me.
I still to this day am fascinated watching something that big get off the ground.
Still, even though I know how it's happening, it still amazes me.
It just it it uh and then I imagine, okay, we're gonna put enough windmills on one of these things to make this happen.
Or solar panels.
It's a joke.
That's why I say there's no substitute for oil.
There's nothing even close.
Well, nuclear, but you can't put a reactor in an airplane.
Powering engine, not yet.
You can a submarine.
We ran out of time today.
There's so much left on the table.
But there's always tomorrow.
And I can already tell you tomorrow's gonna be gangbusters, just because what I already have.
Plus, it's gonna be open line Friday.
So be sure and be back 21 hours from now.
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