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June 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Welcome.
It is Eric Ericsson in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Roger Hedgecock in tomorrow.
The phone number here, 800-282-882.
Just a delight to be with you.
We got a ton of stuff to get through in this hour.
Yeah, you know, on occasion, you know, there are days, Snerdley asking if I ever miss CNN.
I was at CNN for three years.
And occasionally I I will sit like in the airport when that's all you can watch, and I just think, man, I need to be the guy on to respond to this drivel, because the the other guy's just not given what needs to be.
And you know, there's something for having the redneck in George on TV who can laugh at himself and then laugh at them to to ridicule.
Yeah.
But you know, I I love Fox and and I've been a huge admirer of Roger Ales forever, and I'm delighted to be there.
And I don't wake up every day thinking my job's in jeopardy because I dared to be conservative, so it's it's great.
Yeah.
Good people.
Okay.
When I was I turned 40 last week, so I can I can date myself.
June 3rd was my birthday.
I've crossed over now to legitimately being able to tell kids to get off my lawn.
When I was 17 years old, I believe, was when Jurassic Park came out.
And my sister Lafay and I, she was living in Virginia.
I went to stay the summer with her, and we went to the theater in Chesapeake, Virginia to see Jurassic Park.
And if you remember, if you go back to to to when that was, that would have been the early 90s.
And the advertising campaign was go see the CGI, the dinosaurs look real.
They're the cute dinosaur movie.
It's a they advertised it as a family-friendly adventure.
Friends, fellow Dittoheads, the word thriller.
Horror movie.
Those words, they never entered the lexicon to describe Jurassic Park.
We win and there were families bringing in happy, smiling kids, and 40 minutes into the movie the hurricane starts, and moms are having to drag the kids out of the theater screaming.
One kid wets himself, horrified so much by the the Tyrannosaurus Rex getting the guy in the or the person in the bathroom.
Spoiler alert, by the way.
Well, Jurassic World is coming out this weekend, and I gotta see it.
By the way, my sister and I, we we left the movie theater after that.
And both of us were were so shaken.
It was it was n maybe if I knew what I was expecting, I would have prepared myself.
But what?
What?
Yep.
I I I was look, I was seven look, the dinosaurs looked real, Sterley!
I was 17 years old.
I if I had gone in knowing that's what it was going to be, that action adventure actually meant dinosaur thriller, my producer Charlie sitting here laughing at me.
I no, I didn't think it was gonna be Barney, but I didn't think it was gonna be.
I mean, I did think it was gonna be transgender dinosaurs trying to eat everyone.
Remember, they were all female dinosaurs, but one of them apparently decided that he was Caitlin Jitter because he still had his junk and decided to start breeding with the other dinosaurs.
And it was, I mean, it was it was horrifying.
I mean, it was an awesome movie, don't get me wrong.
I've seen all the Jurassic Parks.
One through 2387, uh, where Jeff Goldberg is is in The Walker.
I I've seen them all.
Um it was a wonderful movie.
We just weren't expecting it, and we could barely eat lunch at the Pizza Hut af after the movie's over.
So Jurassic World comes out.
You've gotten me distracted, Barney.
No, no purple dinosaurs.
Jurassic World is coming out with Chris Pratt, who who he he's the it guy right now.
He's on the cover of all the magazines.
Uh Guardians of the Galaxy, funny guy.
Uh funny guy.
His wife's a comedian.
He he is a very funny guy.
There have been several interviews with him though, and and profiles of him that that have the the writers have addressed some skepticism, because you know, he's well, he's he's a gun owner.
Ugh Yeah, he he's a gun owner.
And apparently he at one point made a comment that that's come out in some of these reviews of him that maybe he's not who Hollywood thinks he is, that he and his wife they they might have prayed one time or two or three.
Yeah.
So you you you know the left in Hollywood that the these are these are trigger warnings.
At some point he's gonna have to preside over gay marriage so that they they're convinced that he's he's still a legit legitimately one of them.
And Jurassic World now, the reviews are coming out, the critics don't like it, and you know why they don't like it?
It's sexist.
Yeah, you heard me.
It's apparently sexist.
One of the characters is a corporate high powered corporate female.
And she apparently, as as the reign of terror of dinosaurs begins on Jurassic World, as we all know it would, sh her maternal instincts kick in to save children on the island.
And that's sexist.
Because clearly, instead, she should have found gotten a foundation founded with her husband and started running for president of the United States.
And that would have been empowering.
But no, this is this is sexism because of the movie.
And Chris Pratt is apparently he's a misogynist.
He's a masculine male Indiana.
They're actually thinking of Casting as Indiana Jones in a remake of Raiders of the Lost Ars.
That'll be awesome.
But he he's a misogynist and a bully, and he's an awesome guy, therefore we can't applaud this movie.
Molly Hemingway over at the Federalists has been laughing at this.
She's got a great piece over there at uh The Federalists.
Unreasonably is sadly a very good way of describing progressive thinking these days.
That is motorcycle Chris Pratt, sprinting dinosaurs.
If you require more than that out of a movie, you're being unreasonable.
A perfect example comes from the Daily Beast Marlowe Stern, an entertainment editor and writer with a masters from Columbia.
Oh, that explains it all right there.
Apparently, what he learned there was to regurgitate the worst of campus groupthink.
His review of Jurassic World is headlined, Jurassic World a big dumb sexist mess.
He laments it's not about corporate greed, anti-militarization, crass commerciality, disrupting the food chain, etc.
But about a woman's evolution from an icy cold, selfish corporate shill into a considerate wife and mother.
Really, that's what he's upset about.
I kid you not.
I mean, this this is like the guys coming after Jerry Seinfeld.
You've got a guy in, oh, wherever the, you know, it's not even worth owl, it's at CNN with figures.
Dean Obadala, who they put on scene in the guy is on s on satellite radio, no one's ever heard of him.
He claims to be a comedian and is perhaps the least funny person you will ever encounter, and has deigned to lecture the Jerry Seinfeld on what is and is not funny.
Now, this is a guy who believes Islamic radicalism doesn't exist.
He's an apologist for for Islamism in the country.
He horrified by Pamela Geller, you name it.
Listen to this.
Where I greatly disagree with Seinfeld is that based on my experiences of performing on college campuses, I believe young adults for the most part really get racism, sexism, and other isms.
For example, I've been in shows where comedians told very thexist or homophobic jokes.
These same jokes would elicit good laughs in comedy clubs, but we're met by numerous objections from college students.
The students have every right to voice their views about these shows.
They're just not funny.
His jokes aren't funny.
He's not a funny person.
I mean, Seinfeld makes observational humor.
They have taken the nicest, politest comedian in American history and made him scared for his life to be funny.
It's insane.
You can't do a movie, Jurassic World, because it's about dinosaurs and somehow it's sexist.
Or take the Avengers.
Scarlett Johansson, who's hot, by the way.
She's black widow.
My nine-year-old now wants to be black widow.
She was throughout the movie killing people and fighting people and an instrumental integral part of the movie.
Yet the left was outraged because she was sexed up or something on the screen.
Have you seen the comic books?
And now Bob Costus is in trouble.
Because he pointed out that maybe just maybe ESPN's courage award to Bruce Jenner is absurd.
I'm sorry, I I'm I'm not going with Caitlin Jenner.
I'm just not.
So he he's he's points out that the courage award to Bruce Jenner is absurd because you know there might actually be current athletes in athletics who are doing things who are a little more courageous.
And can I be heartlessly honest with you?
I mean, my my dear friend Andrew Breitbart, God rest his soul.
He used to say the truth isn't mean.
It's not intended to hurt, it's just truth.
What Bruce Jinner did, first of all, if you polled Americans, I bet the majority of Americans think that he actually cut off his his male piece.
He didn't.
He didn't do that.
So he's not completely transitioned.
And he's probably not going to do that.
But they're calling it courageous.
What is courageous about the media worshipping you and putting you on the cover of Vanity Fair?
Courage is the guy who stood up and said, I think there's a mental health issue going on and driven from his job.
The left has done this.
You got the professors on college campus now.
Who are outraged.
You know, so my my friends, Mary Catherine Ham Guy Benson, they wrote a book into discussion about this very topic.
The left wants to shut down all conversation, no debate.
I'm writing a book come out next year, my phrase you will be made to care.
They want to shut you up and then they're going to force you to care.
You're not going to be able to get a job unless you agree with them on these issues.
And part of that is you gotta lose your sense of humor.
The left has finally decided that it is so dominant.
It can do dumb things like give Bruce Jenner a courage award for being well ha having mental health issues and award him for that.
They can say that you can't make Jurassic World because it's sexist, or or putting Scarlet Johansson in the costume that the Black Widow character wore is sexing her up and is anti-feminist.
And then you have these crazy other bag of worms just I mean, bag of crazy stories.
You've got who is it?
Fallon Fox is a uh a transgendered MFA fighter who he broke some girl's jaw, but he's decided to identify as a girl, and so everyone's oh yes, go beat up the So he's beaten up all these women.
He broke one of their jaws the other night.
And people are cheering him on because he identifies as a she, and so she's strong.
It's like a five-one record.
Um my buddy Stephen Crowler's written about this.
This is like man hitting women.
And suddenly it's okay.
It's it's the perversion of the left society.
You got all these professors now running in fear.
This is the return of the reign of terror from the French Revolution, and now the professors themselves are getting caught up in it.
I I got some uh thoughts on this, these professors now.
And frankly, why I don't care about them when we come back.
Eric Erickson here in for Rush Limbaugh.
Some lady somewhere is upset about my comments on the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
But it's true they were all supposed to be female, but somehow some of them became male and started having having baby dinosaurs.
Ah.
In any event, welcome back.
It's Eric Ericson here, in for Rush Limbaugh, 800 282-2882 is the phone number.
You these all play the the jury Seinfeld comments about political correctness run amuck on campuses, the the outrage over Jurassic World, Chris Pratt being a manly man who owns guns and and the female role in the movie by by Ron Howard's daughter, Bryce Stallas Howard, I think her name is, is somehow her maternal instincts kicking in or sexism.
I mean, and Obadala attacking attacking Seinfeld, saying college kids are right to be concerned with these things.
No, they they don't want to be offended, they don't want to be triggered.
This is the French Revolution all over again.
You can call it a new McCarthyism, but you know, back in uh 1793, the comedian General Security and the French Revolution, they issued a proclamation.
Let me read this to you.
It is time that equality bore its scythe above all heads.
It is time to horrify all the conspirators.
So legislators place terror on the order of the day.
Let us be in revolution, because everywhere counter revolution is being woven by our enemies.
The blade of the law should hover over all the guilty in the name of equality.
That's what's happening now.
And it's now starting the very professors on college campuses who rolled it out, who pushed the issue, they're now getting caught up like Rose Pierre in the guillotine of political correctness.
College kids, the the Vox kids, so I said at the end of the last hour.
The phrase that the left is now turning on.
You guys, you're not allowed to say you guys anymore because it's sexist.
You're not allowed to do I kid you not.
This is from the the the kids at Vox.com, none of whom have ever had a real job and yet pretend that they have.
The tech startup in PM recently blogged about the unusual challenge some of its employees have agreed to participate in.
They put a dollar in a glass jar every time they say you guys.
Now remember, it is the South that is the culture of misogyny and sexism and Christianity in this country.
And yet we say y'all.
I mean, maybe the Yankees need to get in with it and say y'all instead of you guys.
Creeping sexism, they're worried about.
I mean, the millennials are swept up in this nonsense, and it's affecting college campuses.
I don't have any sympathy for the professors.
I mean, they can all lose their jobs or heads to political correctness with these kids.
They're the ones who started it.
They're the ones who run it run amok.
At some point we're gonna have people moving into monasteries to house Western civilization until these people until it burns out across the country.
Jerry Seinfeld can't make funny jokes because college kids might cry.
Let them cry.
Let them be upset about it.
Or deprive them of the humor.
This is an advantage, though, I think, politically.
I think this is an advantage for conservatives.
I really do.
The left, they won the White House in 2008 with a guy pedaling hope and change.
And they got progressively angry after they won.
I mean, think about this.
Go back to 2009.
They had the White House.
They had the House of Representatives, they had the Senate, they had governors mansions and state houses, galore in the country, and they got even angrier after they won.
I've never seen a group of malcontened people that angry.
It's like they've all run out of batteries or something.
And there's just no humor, no pleasure left in their lives.
And now they see the rest of us laughing at stuff.
Well, we can't have you laughing at things.
You might be hurting someone's feelings.
We're hurting your feelings, and we don't care.
You should not be so wrapped up in people caring about it.
But yeah, I mean, it's gotten to a point where people can't talk about it.
That's this into discussion book, and Kirsten Bowers has written a book about it as well.
That they want to shut you up, but yet you may be shut up, but you still you're rolling your eyes at the Bruce Jenner thing.
You're rolling your eyes at the people applauding.
It's so courageous to do the thing that's in Trindy right now.
We used to talk about the silent majority.
I am a firm believer that there is a growing majority of people who are horrified by what's going on, horrified by the people being forced to bake the cake for the wedding, horrified by the story out of Cal Canada, where the jeweler who disagrees with gay marriage, he made the wedding ring and they're still upset with him.
And then Snerdley sent me this story.
A transgender woman has filed a complaint against Med Star Georgetown University Hospital saying she was denied breast implant surgery because of her gender identity.
Alexa Rodriguez says she was examined by a doctor there and told she was ready for surgery, but after getting approval for coverage from her insurance company, they told her they're not taking transgender females.
And so now she's suing.
She wants them to be forced to perform a service that they don't want to do that doctors do not want to do.
That most doctors, if you were to ask them, said no, no.
I mean, they want to they want you not to be able to laugh at them.
They want you not to be able to ridicule them.
I mean, it it's I mean, this is what the the the jihadists do.
They want you to live in fear.
They want to publicly destroy lives.
They want to ruin you.
They want to make you so scared you don't laugh, you don't ridicule, you don't draw Muhammad, you don't draw Bruce Jinner, you don't do any of this stuff.
You're not allowed to anymore.
You're not allowed to parody, you're not allowed to show sarcasm.
And that means you have to.
You can't let them win.
You gotta be able to laugh at them.
You gotta be able to laugh at yourself.
I laugh at myself all the time.
When I don't laugh at me, I'm surrounded by a bunch of people, including Mr. Snerdley here, who laugh at me.
You gotta be able to laugh at yourself, and they don't want you to do that because they're humorless.
And that's gonna hurt them.
Because essentially what the left is arguing now is that you've got to be against almost everything.
And no one wants to vote against anything.
That was part of Mitt Romney's problem, I think, in 2012.
he he wanted you to vote against Barack Obama, not vote for himself, but we all need reasons to vote for something.
And right now the left's not giving us anything other than they want us to be against everything.
Not a winning formula.
It's actually kind of crazy, actually.
But then that's the left, mental illness at its best.
Welcome back, Eric Eurikson here, the phone number 800-282-2882.
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You know, related to all this PC nonsense, there's a story from some guy named Michael Schirmer.
He's the president of Skeptic Magazine and a presidential fellow at Chapman University.
And he's excited because religion is disappearing, and it's great for politics.
Well, religion's not really disappearing.
It it may be shifting outside of the Western hemisphere, but it it's not really going away.
It's just more people are now more honest than what they were in the past.
But one of the things he writes, I I just listen to this paragraph.
Imagine no religion, John Lennon.
Imagine no religion.
This is no figment of your imagination.
It's happening now.
And it may be the most important trend of the new century.
Indeed, pulling back for a big history perspective, the shedding of religious dogmas and the demolishing of ecclesiastical authoritarianism has been underway ever since the enlightenment.
Yeah, I I I think we do have nations that don't have religion.
They're they're called communists.
China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, yes.
That's a imagine a world with no religion.
We don't have to imagine a world with no religion.
We can go to China or North Korea or whatnot, and you know, I I gotta tell you.
I the left is giddy about these numbers.
First of all, evangelicals in the country according to the Pew numbers, they're actually still going up.
Uh it is the the guys who have forgotten what they used to believe or never believed it in the first place that are fading away.
Uh evangelicals aren't, but I just think the faith that became street lamps for the Roman Empire can withstand the present age.
Uh I don't think it's going anywhere.
Um but if it did, we know what it'll look like.
China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, you name it.
The political correctness run among for these people, they just want to m they want to end the discussion, like Benson and and Mary Catherham have said.
So I it just nonsense.
But that's what they're gonna do, because that's the only way they can win is if they make everybody else be quiet.
Let's go to Sherry in Memphis, Tennessee, here on the EIB network.
Sherry, welcome to the program.
Thanks for holding.
Hi, Eric.
My question is do Republicans like Bayner McConnell and others, they go along with things that President Obama wants, and they give him what he wants.
Do they have liberal ideas that are similar to or the same as President Obama, or has somehow Prim President Obama gotten to them?
Oh, I think that i by and large they agree.
Uh I think that by and large the establishment Republican Party has decided that they're indispensable.
I think the Republican establishment has decided that the problem with government is not government, but Democrats in charge of government.
And they think if you will just put the Republicans in charge, find a way to get them back in power, they will show that they can make the Leviathan work for you instead of consuming you.
Uh I think they're wrong, by the way, Sherry.
I absolutely do, but I that's it.
The Republicans in Washington.
Ronald Reagan used to say the the the problem is government.
And current Republicans, guys who, by the way, weren't Reagan supporters back in the eighties anyway.
They've decided that the problem isn't government, the problem is just Democrats running it.
They want to be the ones to run it.
Sherry, thanks very much for the phone call.
Uh let's go to Maggie in Miami, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network, Maggie.
Hi, Eric.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
I have two points to talk about.
Number one is Senator DeRubio.
I'm not surprised at the New York Times article.
It's obvious they feel that uh Senator Rubio is a threat.
I was privileged to take two classes of Florida politics and political parties in which the senator was a lecturer.
Not only is the man knowledgeable, not needing lecture notes, he is engaging, he connected with the young people, and I was actually like probably the oldest student in the class.
Um but the guy has a sense of humor.
He the Senator's a real guy.
He he used to play uh flag football with a group of guys at a at a local park.
So I again I see that the New York Times and the Liberals find him as a threat because he's just a regular guy and he could connect and he's Hispanic.
And so I it's like what they did to Sarah Palin.
They find they found her threatening so now we're gonna go after Marco.
Uh my second point is as a resident here of Miami and a boat owner, I can't tell you how many boats there are in Miami from the modest fishing boats to the super luxury yachts.
And you could just drive in the most modest neighborhoods and you'll find a boat parked on the driveway or the side of the house.
And considering right now how the interest rates are so low, guess what?
Boats you can finance for up to fifteen years.
So some people just you know what it's the it's a toy you want to have fun.
You want to enjoy and you're surrounded by water down there.
My dad's a a native of curl gables.
I I've gone down there with him for a class reunion and yeah I mean that there's you've got the water you you can go down to the Florida Keys, you got Biscayne Bay, it's beautiful area and so much access to water to go fishing.
Of course it's we we live in fun and sun and so um I l I live I actually f live by the water in a modest apartment but I have access I see the canal and down the block there's an as a marina and I see on the weekends it's like a parade of boats and you'll see all types of votes.
I mean I've seen million dollar yachts and I think for Hillary by the way excuse me.
Yeah the the multimillionaires who own the yachts they're all voting for Hillary.
The New York Times didn't want to point that out though.
Exactly and then you see like the little fishing boats and some people have older boats.
Mine's an older boat not a new boat.
Sure I'm looking at a new boat and it's in the sixty thousand dollar range but again I have to figure out my finances to see if it works for me.
Maggie don't run for president.
Don't don't run for president.
Look th thanks very much for the phone call.
You know I so I do every year I I I do an event as editor of Red State I do this Red State gathering and Marco was at the very first one back in two thousand nine February two thousand nine I think it was one of the first national pundits on the right to say that his race was a hill to die on against Charlie Christ in that primary and people needed to support him.
He was at three percent of the polls we got to know each other we got to become friends.
He's a great guy and he came to the Red State gathering that yeah and and this past year we had it and I texted Marco and I said I I really want you to come.
It's gonna be in Fort Worth, Texas this was last August and he texted me back give you a sign of the ordinariness of Marco Rubio's life and he said well I would love to but I can't that's the start of Pee Wee football.
And he he bailed on a political event when the press was going to be there it was going to be a big deal because he wanted to be home with his kid for the start of of essentially little league football.
Pee wee football.
He that's the he the guy sit and talk to him he would rather talk to you about football than talk about national politics.
He he's just he is a regular guy a very nice guy.
I realize a lot there are Tea Party groups who feel betrayed on immigration the not relevant to the conversation here today.
The the media is beating him up because they know he relates so well to ordinary people.
He will by the way be at the Red State gathering this year.
You can go to my site redstate.com if you want to come all the presidential candidates for the most part are going to be there but I I didn't invite John Kasich or Lindsay Graham.
Sorry.
Let's go back to the phones.
Eric in Evansville, Indiana welcome to the EIB network.
Hey Eric good to speak with you.
Sure.
Hey my my comment is we we know that the media uh is just in charge of everything that we hear and there's only really uh one way because we can't legislate him out of existence there's only one way that we're actually actually ever going to control the media and that is we've got to start cutting off the funding.
And that means people are going to have to start paying attention to the advertisement that's being that's being run on these television stations with in the newspaper on and sorry on the radio but and and go to these go to these uh businesses and say look I'm not buying your products because you are promoting this particular your product on this channel.
And and these people are talking about stuff that I don't agree with, and that's the only way we're gonna get them to shut up.
You gotta cut off the money.
You know, I I'm hesitant to to do boycotts.
One, I I I think the left tries.
I mean, look how the left tried to run a boycott against this very show and against Rush and and failed miserably.
I I think the the better course of action, Eric and thanks very much for the phone call.
But I I I think the better course of action is just change the channel.
I mean, that's why the media is so upset these days is they realize they're less and less useful.
You know, so the Denver Post is making cutbacks.
The Denver Post has decided they need to lay off more people, and the editor of the Aurora Sentinel out there pinned an editorial attacking the readers for laughing about the woes of the Denver Post, which is a a left of center newspaper.
They've endorsed some Republicans who obviously were gonna be the winners, but they're left to center, and and his point was that we make you better.
Your well-being is better because of what we do.
You need us, not us need you.
Well, it turns out you do need the readers, but you keep giving them the middle finger.
So they've responded not by raising their own finger, but by just canceling their subscription and changing the channel.
We don't need the the big networks as much anymore.
We don't need the print newspapers anymore.
The internet's gigging their butt and anybody can get a blog.
Anybody can be a reporter.
You know, you've got members of the press who occasionally reveal themselves in their entitlement ways, thinking that freedom of the press supplies only to them, members of the press.
It doesn't.
It applies to every single person.
Anybody can file a Freedom of Information Act request.
Anybody can go down to the courthouse and get documents.
Anybody can attend the press conference and write it up on their website or write letters to the editor.
We don't need them anymore.
They're no longer the social utility they thought that they once were, and now they're realizing it and they don't like it.
But they've decided to pick a team and they're picking the Democratic team.
They may not like Hillary Clinton, but they're so left now.
They'll do anything for her, anything she asks.
And that's their fatal flaw.
Eric Erickson Infrarush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back.
It's Eric Erikson filling in for Rush Limbaugh today.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson, E W E R I C K S O N or email me, Eric E R I C K at redstate.com.
Some lady in...
What's that?
You know, that reminds me.
I would like to thank Jim in Washington State listening out there for sending me a recipe for a pizza dough.
Uh he's list see, yes, Schnurdly thinks I should start a line of aprons.
The sarcasm.
I one day I'm just gonna talk recipes on the show.
You're not even gonna know it.
I'm gonna come in, tell you I'm talking about Hillary and Obama and we're gonna start opening opening the latest cookbook I've bought.
So I have a I've got a problem.
We might as well bring this out in the open.
I I buy cookbooks.
It's I need a twelve-step program.
I collect I collect rare bottles of bourbon and I collect cookbooks, and I've got a ton of them, and I'm running out of book space.
But they're awesome.
I mean, they're y you just find amazing things in 'em.
You do.
I it was just not the problem I think, huh?
Folks, the EPA has decided to take steps to cut emissions from planes.
Now they're not taking steps to curb the emissions of private planes.
They're not taking steps to curb the emissions of Air Force One.
But they want the American Airlines, not American Airlines, the airline company, but all American Airlines, Delta, American, United, U.S. Air, you name it.
They want them to curb emissions on planes.
Exactly how.
Somehow if if they if they don't if planes aren't so weighed down, they won't contribute to the carbon footprint.
Now, mind you, I think it was George Will who said that in the history of commercial aviation in this country, the total combined profit of all the airlines is exactly a nickel, something to that effect.
And they want to clamp down on this industry, so y you know the logical consequence here is they're going to eventually have to move back to government subsidized aviation because they're not going to be able to hold people on planes to fill the seats to capacity to to pay for anything.
It's just crazy.
Meanwhile, the president's going out and buying a new 747-800.
I don't know that I want to fly on to this, by the way.
It's like the the seven eighty-seven, the composite airline that had all the I I just want them to be in the sky for a few more years before I get on one.
I'm I I kind of like my aluminum, steel, titanium airplanes and not the composite plastic things.
Although if I ever get a chance to ride on EIB one, I I totally I I I want to get into private aviation one day.
One day.
It's the other thing Rush and I harass each other about.
He he does occasionally point out that he has a private plane and I'm flying in the back of the plane.
Delta is debuting an anti-paparazzi VIP service at LAX.
Yeah, that's right.
You people, and I I do mean you people, and I don't mean offense by saying it, but you people and me, we're gonna have to get off at the front of the plane and traips our rear ends and luggage through the awfulness that is LAX.
While the celebrities up front are going to be able to get picked up in a Porsche and driven to a private underground garage off site where they can then meet their personal drivers so that the paparazzi can't take pictures of them.
They're even setting up a special place for them to be able to check in so you can't touch them.
These are the people voting for Hillary Clinton, by the way.
These are the people who are fundraising for Hillary Clinton, the people who think they know what's best for you.
The people, I mean, that's actually, I think that's the most underreported and most galling thing about the Marco Boat story, is that the New York Times and Hillary Clinton's opposition researchers, they've deigned to decide that they know what's best for Marco Rubio.
They know how best he should spend his money.
He doesn't know the government knows.
He doesn't know Hillary Clinton knows.
The people who are more and more segmented from society, who are being catered to on the whims of of corporations.
They think that they know how to run your life better than you do.
And they're going to elect Hillary Clinton so she can dictate for you what you should eat, dictate for you.
I mean, for God's sakes, people, they they've turned food into politics.
You got uh Chipotle out there advertising the their no GMO food, and and it's it's nonsensical science.
It's anti-science.
It's as anti-science as thinking someone can pick their gender, but the left is bought into this too.
I I have no problem with GMO food.
Corn is the original GMO food.
The Indians started making of the Aztecs, started cross-breeding eons ago into corn.
I don't have a problem with it.
And by the way, Chipotle isn't getting rid of GMO because high fructose corn syrup isn't all their soft drinks, and most of that is GMO.
I uh listen, you go to your local farmers market and get your fresh produce and whatnot, but I mean, don't drive up the cost of food on the poor, who the GMO food actually sometimes is cheaper and in mass production and feeds a starving African population.
Meanwhile, California, Jerry Brown is outraged over all overpopulation.
Uh yeah, we may have time to get into that.
Eric Erickson in for Rush.
We'll be back.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Yurikson here filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
So Kurt on Twitter wants to know my favorite cookbook in Rare Bourbon.
I'll tell you, Kurt.
I won't tell Snerdley, the Saver Cookbook is awesome and Jefferson Reserve Presidential.
Fantastic stuff.
That's all I'll say about that.
Do you know Jerry Brown, uh uh Moonbeam Brown out in California?
He's worried about overpopulation in California because they're running out of water.
You know, it was his dad who was the governor back in the day when California was booming when California became the most popular state, he held a big party.
And he started a huge public works project to build dams and canals and reservoirs to hold the water.
But the environmental wackos that his son is friends with and who helped get his son elected uh went to court and demanded that the dams be torn down, the canals be filled in, and the reservoirs be diverted to save the snail darter and whatnot.
The problem that California has right now, yes, it is a terrible drought.
But Jerry Brown's father, irony of ironies, was the guy who laid the foundation for California to be able to survive droughts.
Have you been there?
A lot of it's desert.
And he was gonna build reservoirs to hold the water.
But his son's friends helped blow that all up, bulldoze them all down, and now he's worried about overpopulation.
To quote our friend Jeremiah Wright, the chickens came home to roost.
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