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July 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Of course I'm going to finish it.
They just a paragraph to go and I'm going to move on.
You know, there are still people who don't think I know what I'm doing here.
Let that be a lesson to all of you climbing the ladder of success.
When you reach the top rung, there's going to be all kinds of people who think you don't know what to do there.
Greetings.
It's funny.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program and the email address, lrushpo at EIBnet.com.
So Camille Paglia finishes here with her piece on similarities, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, the impact on Hillary.
So have the times and standards changed enough that Clinton would be seen as Cosby if he was president today?
Oh, yes, she writes.
Paglia says there's absolutely no doubt, especially in this age of instant social media.
So I say there is a big parallel between Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton, aside from their initials.
And she writes that young feminists need to understand that this abusive behavior by powerful men signifies their sense that female power is much bigger than they are.
These two people, Clinton and Cosby, are emotionally infantile, and they are engaged in a war with female power.
It has something to do with their early sense of being smothered by female power.
And this pathetic, abusive, and criminal behavior is the result of their sense of inadequacy.
I think I need to translate that for people.
This is the therapy culture.
People probably get that.
But it's what she's saying here.
And we know that Bill Clinton, I don't know about Cosby's mother, but Clinton's mother, what was her name?
What was her name?
Virginia Kelly.
No.
That might have been her last maiden, Virginia Blythe.
Anyway, she was a domineering woman, supposedly, when Clinton was a kid.
So what Pagan, that's why I knew it.
See, even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
That's how right I am.
Virginia Kelly.
Anyway, Paglia is saying here that Bill Clinton was smothered by female power, and his resulting adult behavior is pathetic, abusive, and criminal is the result of being inadequate.
In other words, the inadequacy is rooted in the fact that a woman had to run its life.
A woman had to make this.
A real woman had to control him because he was not capable of doing it himself.
I mean, that's the modern interpretation of this kind of stuff.
I just wanted to finish the story.
Now, as to Hillary, you know, she's out there answering questions.
Well, she's not answering questions.
The Hill.com headline, Clinton ducks on Keystone for second day.
But this is incredible the way she's in.
Now, this woman is running for president, and she's telling people on these controversial questions, no, no, no, no, you have to elect me before finding out what I think about these issues.
She's pulling a Pelosi.
We have to pass this health care bill to find out what's in it.
And Hillary, with her answers, is essentially saying, you have to elect me to find out what I think.
For the second day in a row, Hillary Clinton refused to say whether she supports the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
At a Tuesday event in Des Moines, an attendee directly asked her about it, but she said that she would only weigh in if the application is still pending when she takes orifice in 2017.
She said, this is President Obama's decision, and I'm not going to second-guess him because I was in a position to set this in motion, and I don't think that would be the right thing to do.
So I want to wait.
I want to see what he and Secretary Kerry decide.
If it's undecided when I become president, then I will answer your question then.
And this is similar to how she dodged the question on Monday.
Now, do you think if there were a Republican president, she would refrain from explaining what she thinks about, say, the Keystone XL pipeline or any issue?
I mean, this is one of the biggest ducks of a question I have ever seen.
So I guess if planned butcherhood, immigration, and Iran are still unsettled, she will have an opinion on all those things after she's elected.
We have to elect her to find out what she thinks.
We have to elect her to find out what she will do.
Does she even know this is how she?
I think she thinks she's coming off as worldly and august and elevated and loyal to Obama.
Well, I'm not going to undercut Obama.
It's a Keystone XL pipeline right now.
That's him and Kerry.
I'm not going to undercut them.
Well, could that be interpreted as she supports it and they don't, but she doesn't want to say so because, well, it's up for grabs.
Okay, folks, is air conditioning killing the planet?
Discovery.com.
Do you know there's a lie that has just been reported and been accepted by, well, I don't know how many, but it's, I mean, everybody on the left has accepted it without question, and that is that the first six months of this year are the hottest on record.
Not the hottest ever because we don't know.
We haven't, we're keeping records back when the meteors destroyed the dinosaurs.
But so far, 2015, the hottest year ever.
And it's just been blindly accepted.
And so we have accompanying, I saw last night somebody, some environmentalist wacko, some website somewhere, put together a graphic of what the United States will look like in 50 years, of course, in 50 years, when the entirety of the Northern Hemisphere North Pole melts.
The entirety.
Oh, I know.
It was one of my tech blogs.
They buy this stuff hook line and thinker.
It's just incredible.
And of course, there was no New York.
There was no Washington.
There was no Boston.
Florida was in the Bahamas as its own island.
And they just eat this up.
Regurgitate it, believe it, without even questioning it.
Hottest year on record.
Never mind all the frigid temperatures.
It's past winter even in 2014.
Anyway, it starts out here.
Americans are sweltering this week, and midsummer temperature maps are covered in big belts of red and dark red.
In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says the typical U.S. home will use an average of 1,044 kilowatt hours per month this summer, 3.7% higher than the same period last year because there are more summer cooling degree days.
But the solution to staying cool by cranking up the air conditioning has a dark side.
The energy it uses also happens to be a big contributor to climate change.
Now, a couple of pull quotes, but hang on because I'm going to just nuke this.
I'm just going to blow this sky high with two different examples, two different points.
But first, Stan Cox, an analyst at the Land Institute of Salina, Kansas, and author of the book Losing Our Cool, Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air Conditioned World, says: if we are going to have to decide that there are some technologies that are not necessities, maybe then we can do without some of them.
Until a half century ago, air conditioning was not a necessity.
Maybe we should think about that again.
You notice all of these global warming people want to roll back progress in the name of progress.
Have you ever stopped to think about if these people ever do win the day, the amount of progress that gets canceled out and rolled back?
As global temperatures rise over the next few decades, no question about it, you see, the demand for cooler buildings will only get worse, according to a study published by Davis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that looked at the rise in air conditioning in Mayco.
We describe both how electricity consumption increases with temperature given current levels of air conditioning and how climate and income drive air conditioning adoption decisions.
The study concluded.
And we then combine these estimates with predicted end-of-century temperature changes to forecast future energy consumption.
And overall, our results point to air conditioning impacts being considerably larger than previously believed.
Now, air conditioning was invented by a man named Carrier.
He's got a dome named after him at Syracuse, the Carrier Dome.
And I don't know if you ever stop to, I do think about these things because I can't imagine life without it.
Only a short portion of my life did our family not have it.
But I'll tell you what it creeps into my mind is strangely enough, during baseball season, I think of these guys that played Major League Baseball back in the years prior to air conditioning, and they wore these flannel uniforms and they traveled on unair-conditioned trains and buses.
The locker rooms were not air conditioned.
Nothing was.
And I can't imagine it.
I can't imagine it.
I mean, I'm so far into this, I wonder what people did in biblical times before there was ice.
And here they're in the Middle East.
Where do you go to get a cold bottle of water or drink of water?
What do you do?
But they didn't know any different, as were the people in the 1930s and 40s, and this didn't know any different, so it Was what it was.
And you can find pictures of corporate execs back in the 30s and 40s wearing vests and long-sleeved shirts with ties and suit jackets and so forth in the middle of summer during the middle of business day in an office building on the 12th floor.
They just did it.
But air conditioning revolutionized, I mean, it made parts of the country that were uninhabitable during summer habitable.
I mean, with a productive sense behind it.
The productivity, the economic growth, the longevity, the health advances that were all a product of air conditioning.
It's unfathomable the technological advancement air conditioning is or was because people today who've never lived without it cannot imagine what life without it was.
Go back a little further to when there was no real refrigeration.
Refrigeration and air conditioning, particularly central air conditioning, made so much incalculable differences in economic advancement and growth.
And I look at these clowns wanting to roll it back, get rid of it and blame it.
Now, let me tell you something, folks.
And listen, this is irrefutable.
If you want to reduce energy use, if you are a dunderhead that thinks your thermostat is largely to blame for global warming or climate change or whatever current nomenclature they attach for this so-called issue.
But if you think you are one who needs to cut back on energy in order to save the planet, you know where you'd better cut back.
It's not air conditioning.
Not by a long shot.
If we really want to save energy in a whole bunch of ways, we've got to stop heating our homes.
The amount of energy that it takes to heat homes all over the world, this country included, in winter, dwarfs the amount of energy that is required to cool buildings, rooms, what have you.
And the secret of that is all found in the temperature differential.
When it is 95 outside or 85 outside, it takes a certain amount of energy to make it 72 inside.
When it's 10 degrees outside, 15 degrees, 20, 30 degrees outside, and you want the room to be 72, you realize how much more energy it takes to keep a room at 72 degrees when it's 30 outside than it is when it's 85 outside.
It's a big difference heating a home from 30 degrees to 72 than cooling one from 85 to 72.
It's not even close.
Then you add that to that fact.
Not everybody has air conditioning.
There are a lot of people in America do not have it.
There are a lot of climates where it's not installed, central air conditioning.
There are a lot of places where people still can't afford it.
They might have a room or two central air conditioning they don't have.
But everybody has to heat their house or you're going to die in the winter.
Everybody has to have heat.
And everybody that has it uses it.
It's not even close.
So what is this attack on air conditioning?
Well, it's as always the case.
It's not about climate change.
That's just the vehicle.
It's about control.
It's about punishment.
It's about suffering.
There's so much garbage wrapped up in this.
It's about the rejection of technological advancement.
It's about the rejection of progress.
Not just the rejection, it's about blaming progress, blaming technology, blaming these things, and ultimately blaming an advanced lifestyle.
You know what this is really about?
It isn't fair.
It isn't fair the United States has all this.
It isn't fair that we have it and that we use so much more than our share of the world's energy to make ourselves comfortable.
There are so many people in the world that don't have enough food and don't have enough heat, don't have enough air conditioning, don't have enough water.
We are selfish and we are mean and we are thieves and everything we have we have stolen from the poor people of the world and it's time we understood what a hard life is really like because we've stolen everybody else's good life.
That's the way the corrupt, perverted liberal mind works, that this business is about air conditioning being blamed for climate change.
It's the.
The amount of energy used in air conditioning doesn't come close to the amount of energy used heating, and no matter how you slice it, you ever heard of the government giving subsidies for air conditioning use?
They give subsidies for heating, don't they?
I mean, every winter we have people we get.
We get the sob stories, people in Boston gonna starve, don't have enough heating oil, can't afford it.
What have you?
Because you need it, you die without it, but nobody gets air conditioning subsidies.
I'm sure there's some welfare recipients that do, but I mean not to the extent that we subsidize home heating.
Got to take a break, be right back, don't go away.
Okay, I'm going to get back to the phones here in a second look.
I'm watching something on FOX.
I meant to mention this earlier.
What they're doing right now is, you know, Hillary comes out with this massive anti or pro-climate change position anti-this anti-that, pro-global warming.
And then she gets on a private jet and flies somewhere and now they're calculating how much the fuel costs and how much energy she used.
You're never going to defeat the global warming crowd by calling them hypocrites.
I mean that they've gotten away with it too long.
It's never gonna.
You're never gonna convince a Hillary supporter not to support her because she wants to save the planet and gets on a private jet.
The Democrats are going to be excused.
All they have to do to their voters is express concern and that's it.
Like the Kennedys did, just express concern about the suffering in the poor, the whatever, and then go, do what you want to do and you get away with it.
Warren Buffett gets away with being rich and not being targeted for it by calling for tax increases on himself and others.
It's a waste of time to get these people on the hypocrisy of getting on corporate jets after telling everybody else how they ought to cut back.
It's never going to work.
That's not how you go about defeating this.
And let me go to the phones.
Austin Texas, Joey Joey's waited A while.
I appreciate your patience, Joey.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you for having me, South Austin Barbecue Society's man on the street ditto's rush.
It's great to have you here, Joey.
I was listening yesterday and was very intrigued to hear what you hoping to get back to the topic today about this barbecue situation in Austin.
And I would have to say that I have to agree with everything that you've already said about it, but there is, of course, more to the story.
And I think it's important what that more to the story is because it further illustrates how inept and dangerous liberal government can be.
Okay.
So if I may.
Sure.
Specifically, it's not that they're trying to ban barbecue.
It's that there's three restaurants, they're brand new restaurants, were permitted by the city.
Out of the hundreds of barbecue restaurants that have been in the city for a long time, these are the three that are generating complaints.
And to not have to go too far unless you want me to, the complaint about the smoke is fairly legitimate.
It has to do with the geography of Austin.
The houses are literally right next to these 15-foot-tall chimneys, and the ceilings are about five feet from the door.
Joey, hold your thought there.
I have to take a timeout.
That's an interesting place to break that the complaints about the smoke is legitimate.
Joey could be a seminar caller.
We'll find out here in not too long.
No, it isn't going to matter about Hillary's airplane.
Hillary, if you want to know, she used the same private jet yesterday after, you know, she makes this big global warming speech and gets on a private jet, big whoop.
Same jet, the Falcon, I think, 900.
It's a French, it's a default Falcon jet.
I don't know the model, but I think it was a 900.
It doesn't matter.
If it had three engines, it was a 900.
Doesn't matter.
She, same jet, same airplane that she took to an event sponsored by the biggest investors in the Keystone pipeline.
So you're never going to beat Leonardo DiCaprio or Larry David's wife, whatever her name is, Lori David, these hypocrites that drive their 12-cylinder behemoth cars to the airport to get on their private jets to go make a speech about how we're wasting.
You're never going to get them on that hypocrisy.
The libs never get tripped up on hypocrisy by their own voters.
I mean, you're not going to get their own voters to abandon them on this.
They care too much.
And because they care too much, they are exempted.
They get to fly around because they are raising consciousness.
They get to use their private jets in their big cars because they are trying to save the planet.
It's just convoluted, but it's the way it works.
It's all about good intentions.
They're nice people, and we're not.
We're mean, and they're nice, and so they get to do whatever they want to do.
Good intentions.
It's all a crock.
Ticks me off like everybody else does, but I just, I finally have adjusted to it.
There are other ways to go.
It's like beating the Iran nuke deal is not going to happen, going page by page, showing how it's a bunch of BS.
There are going to be other ways to beat the Iran deal.
I got a couple ideas.
Anyway, back to Joey in Austin.
Okay, three new restaurants, and there might be a legitimate complaint here about their smokestacks and the amount of smoke that they're emitting.
That's where we left off.
That is where we left off.
Okay.
Hear me, I assume.
So you pick it up from there.
Yeah, I hear you fine.
Okay, to illustrate further the abject failure of liberal government, these permits for these restaurants never should have been issued in the first place.
But rather than the city council saying, I'm sorry, and the city staff saying, we're sorry we issued the permits, let's fix this, they wrote a whole new piece of legislation requiring every restaurant to install the smoke scrubber.
And somebody said, wait, we've been here for 50 years and no one's complained.
Why do I have to pay $100,000?
So rather than say we're wrong, they assume they're right and add more legislation on top of the write a law to fix it, write a regulation to fix it.
So I have to agree with everything you said on this subject and point out that it gets even worse from there.
Just the ego and pride of these liberals to not be able to say, we're sorry, we're wrong for issuing the permit to put this smokestack five.
Now, Joey, at that point, I got to step in.
I don't think it's ego and pride that prevents liberals from admitting they made a mistake.
I think they see an opportunity here.
Okay, so maybe they made a mistake in extending the permits to these three restaurants, building smokestacks 15 feet high, barbecue restaurants, and you say the smoke in the neighborhood is a problem and they should have never been granted permits.
And then they saw the opportunity is, okay, what do these three have to do to be in compliance?
And then some bright-eyed liberal saw the amount of money and power and control that could be available to them if they mandated every barbecue restaurant to have these smoke suppressors.
That's power, man.
That is control.
And don't think there isn't money changing hands on the extending of these permits and what have you.
I mean, this is this, the regulation, the local regulation, zoning and all that of American society by the American left is one of the greatest economic engine killers that has ever been invented.
And there is so much graft going on with this stuff.
There's no, as you describe it, there's no logical reason to force these other restaurants that have been there forever to have these suppressors when there's never been a problem lodged.
But if they needed one lodged, they could take care of that too.
But this is classic.
It's not about them not wanting to admit a mistake, although they don't want to do that.
This is rather, I think they saw an opportunity.
Well, I am humbled, of course, by the teacher.
I definitely can see that angle.
After all, this is a city council that, like mentioned yesterday, did attempt to ban Uber.
And even though we are the live music capital of the world, have put in some very restrictive noise ordinances in town.
So I didn't see that angle.
I'm going to have to admit my humility and take the lesson greatly from the master.
Right there you go.
Ban Uber.
We're talking about that just yesterday.
Ban Uber.
Why ban Uber?
What in the world is Uber doing to Austin?
I don't know.
I think as the second Silicon Valley now, and I believe portions of that program are rolled out by South Bay Southwest, it was only made sense for the, well, it's the exact reasons you stated yesterday is because they're in a cabal with the three taxi companies taxi companies who are complaining.
That's right.
They don't control Uber.
And there's, of course, more to it than that, too.
But nevertheless, this what is going?
Yeah, this Uber thing is, well, the reason Uber is bad for these liberals is because the original mistake that people have made is, and I'm talking about the millennials in the past, the Uber passengers, the customers, automatically think they're a great liberal outfit just because they're young and hip and cool and you use your smartphone to interact with them.
So they've got to be lifted.
Progressive.
Okay, progressive.
And then all of a sudden, here come these big city liberal Democrats, these people all support, wanting to put their favorite company out of business.
And it doesn't make any sense because they think they're all big one happy family.
And that's why it's a teachable moment.
They're learning about what it's like when the city's in business with a cartel that keeps prices up and extinguishes competition and so forth.
It's a great teachable moment.
Because I guarantee you, most of these millennial kids are not learning this kind of economics lesson in a classroom.
But it's tremendous, teachable moment.
Now, I'm looking, I need you to grab soundbites 15 and 16 and then have seven and eight standing.
I got a lot of here.
Excuse me.
I have a lot of stuff I have left to do here that I want to cram in.
I've already decided I'm going to have to not do 13 things mentally strong people don't do.
I'm going to have to move that to tomorrow.
But grab soundbites 15 and 16.
I talked about this earlier.
Jeb Bush actually said sometime in the last 24 hours that his kids have been made to feel uncomfortable, discriminated against because their skin is darker than you remember.
I read a piece yesterday from Angelo Codeville.
He makes the point: the American people are tired of being told to support losers.
And we've made great heroes out of people in the losing cause, like McCain and the Vietnam War.
And he said the American people want winners.
And who are you aiming at when you talk at your Bush about your kids being discriminated because they're skin color?
Who are you aiming at there?
Well, I know he's aiming at the Latino black vote, but what kind of vote is that?
That's a well, it's liberal, but it's not uplifting.
It's this identity politics.
It's focused on what's wrong with America.
People are fed up with this.
That's why Trump and others like Fi Arena are starting to rise.
They're talking about optimistic things, possibilities, the future, and so forth, how to save it, how to reverse things, rather than identify with the negatives.
And then Jeb, this was in Maitland, Florida, at a community center, said this.
I don't have anger in my heart.
I'm frustrated like you, but I'm not angry.
We're on the verge of the greatest time to be alive.
We should campaign with joy in our heart.
We shouldn't campaign like this.
We shouldn't be scolding people.
We shouldn't say outrageous things that turn people off to the conservative message.
We have to campaign all across this country with joy in our heart rather than anger.
So he spent much of the time yesterday trying to separate himself from all the other angry conservatives, and I guess that means Trump and others making he's not an angry conservative.
And here's the here's the here's the next bite.
I'm a conservative.
I'm a committed conservative, but I'm not angry.
I believe we're on the verge of the greatest time to be alive.
Where is this assumption?
I think what bothers me about this, and this is not easy, folks.
I mean, but what bothers me about this, where is this assumption that conservatism is angry?
Why does that have to be denied?
I know it's media stereotype, but it's also rhinos who think that conservatism is made up of the angry white man and all that kind of thing.
It's not.
And it's like I'm a severe conservative.
I am not an angry conservative.
It's just all too frustrating.
We'll be back in a second.
Don't go away.
Holy smokes, folks.
The NFL has upheld its four-game suspension at Tom Brady.
Commissioner Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension.
I thought they'd reduce it to two and everybody go away happy.
But, but that's not the big deal.
Well, it is a big deal.
The NFL has announced that Tom Brady destroyed his cell phone before they had the meeting with the commissioner and everybody at the NFL not long ago.
And that goes to the charge that Brady was not cooperative from the outset with the investigation.
They wanted to see his text messages.
And the NFL even said, look, your lawyers can go through and withhold anything personal.
Don't have to release that.
Just the relevant texts to those two equipment guys and anything else that has to do with this.
And they said no to that.
The NFL is now saying that Brady destroyed that phone.
But there's a problem with that.
The messages are not on the phone.
Depending on the app he's using, the messages are on a server somewhere.
You can destroy the phone.
That's the beauty of cell phones today is that you lose a device.
You haven't lost your data.
But just the fact that he destroyed the phone, the NFL released that information, that is meant to be not helpful to Brady.
The NFL Players Association and Brady have long promised a lawsuit if this suspension is not totally done away with.
So we'll see if that happens.
So the NFL is anticipating it.
I'm sure.
That's why they've announced that Brady destroyed his phone.
And by the way, NFL says 10,000 text messages were part of the phone destroyed.
But again, I don't know of a message app that actually collects the messages on the phone itself.
But maybe there is one, and Brady was using it.
Yeah, the Lois Lerner app, where when you destroy the device, you destroy everything else.
It's gone forever.
Anyway, that's big news.
This may push Trump off the front page here for a couple of hours until Trump comments.
I hate to ask us.
Sid, Tom Brady, go to the Hillary Clinton school.
Destroy the server too?
I mean, or maybe hire Lois Lerner's lawyer.
I'm sorry to joke about it, folks.
I know it's a big deal.
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