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I'm not kidding.
I just watching on television here on the Fox News channel, they've got this show at noon with all these, they've got four women and some guy in there, and it's called One Lucky Guy.
I don't know what they call the show.
Anyway, they were talking about two baseball players who started crying at news they had been traded.
One of them, a player for the Mets, later learned that he had not been traded.
But they were discussing what it means, adult men crying over bad news.
It's fascinating to me to watch this stuff.
Only one of these women seemed to have a problem with it.
The others thought it was great to see such a wonderfully, emotionally bonded man so upset over bad news in his career that he was crying about it.
The Lone Holdout said, I only want to see one man in my life cry, and that's my six-year-old baby boy.
Meaning, it's understandable at age six.
But it is big news, regardless what you think of it.
It made news that two athletes started crying over news they had been traded.
It is a different era out there, folks.
And if we have time, we'll get into it.
But obviously, that's not top drawer.
But I did want to close the loop since I had briefly mentioned that at the conclusion of the previous hour.
Now, before one more thing on this lion, actually, not just one more thing.
A lot of people lined up to talk about this.
We have, what happened to the guy that's, yeah, make sure this guy in line three doesn't go away.
Get his number summoned Kiff.
He's on a cell phone if we lose his connection.
He was at the protest yesterday for the patient, Walter Palmer.
It's at times like this where if you do anything or are perceived to be doing anything that constitutes going against the grain of the narrative, then you can easily end up being called a reprobate or heartless or cold or mean-spirited or what have you.
And like I said yesterday, when I saw that this lion had been killed, when I found out how and how needless it was, you know, I love animals.
I love everything about them.
And I hate the needless killing of them for sport like this.
This was senseless.
But at the same time, I'm a realist here.
And I know how the whole animal rights movement has been elevated and used to advance the leftist agenda.
And I realize if you're new to this show and you hear something like that, you think it's crazy.
Are you kidding me?
You really believe animal rights are part of a politic?
Yes, I do.
And, you know, the quicker you people who have that kind of reaction to me learn that I'm right about this, the much faster you're going to learn the truth of things.
Because everything the left does, everything that, if you know what the left is, Democrat Party, everything they do is political.
Every movement, every cause they have is a political cause designed to advance their agenda and eliminate opposition.
The whole animal rights thing has been along since it's around as long as I've been alive, and it has as its objective the same thing global warming has.
And that is to establish the need for a growing and bigger government that controls more and more people because the premise is people can't be left to run their own lives because they're irresponsible.
Look what happens if we don't regulate them.
They'll run out and they'll kill innocent animals.
We must have a government with a series of regulations and laws and appropriate punishment for when this happens.
And then people, yay, yay, and they applaud their freedom away.
They applaud their liberty away.
And that's what the leftist agenda is all about.
It is predicated on the belief that you as a human being are incompetent to live your life in a way that the left, the Democrat Party, would judge to be responsible and caring and compassionate and giving.
The animal rights movement is ideal for this because there isn't anybody that hates animals that is going to have any kind of a following.
Just like the environmental movement, nobody wants dirty air.
Nobody wants dirty water.
But the way they set it up, if you oppose them, oh, you must be for dirty air.
Oh, you must not have a problem with dirty water.
No, I don't like those at all.
So it's brilliant the way they set these things up.
And they get – remember I said yesterday, liberalism is the pursuit of the emotional.
It is much easier to build a movement and attract followers, connecting to them emotionally than it is intellectually.
And conservatism, for everything else it is, is an intellectual pursuit in addition to whatever else it is.
And there's nothing intellectual, pursuit or otherwise, about liberalism.
It's all emotion.
And it's all feeling and wanting to feel good and not wanting to feel guilty.
And so all that's capitalized on.
So if you come along, now we've got the circumstance for Cecil, Cecil, we named a lion.
And by the way, I, ladies and gentlemen, and as guilty as anybody else of something, I, years ago, 25 years ago, on this program, explained one of the most brilliant techniques of the animal rights movement and the left.
And that is, and by the way, they didn't need a whole lot of help because we humans do this ourselves anyway, when left to our own devices.
But we humanize, particularly our pets.
We treat them and think of them much as we do other people.
We assign them human feelings.
We assign to them human emotions and human instinct, and we treat them as such.
And then when we were children, what did we do?
We read books about animals cute and cuddly that talked and had normal human lives.
We saw cartoons of the same thing.
And so all animals, including the vicious predator animals that will kill you just for looking at you, are made warm and cuddly and innocent and untouchable, unapproachable.
And as I say, I myself am as guilty as anybody because I'm writing children's books with a talking horse that time travels.
So I'm, you know, it's something that is a time-honored technique.
So anytime you come up with information, it goes against the grain of a popular narrative.
Do you remember, Snerdley, this had to be very early on in the program?
Remember, a couple of, I think it was dolphin or porpoise, some couple of fish were caught in Canada in an ice flow and they couldn't get out.
And it became a big story about how we were trying to help these two fish, whatever they were, get out of the trap they were in.
There might have been baby whales.
I forget what it was.
And I remember back then, people call it, well, it's just a couple of fish for crying out loud.
Why are we covering this wall to wall?
I mean, callers are asking me, angry, why is this all over TV?
And I tell you why.
It's because those two fish.
So this is exactly what I said yesterday about Cecil the lion.
By the way, you think Cecil knew his name was Cecil?
Do you think Cecil knew he was a lion?
No way.
Does a fish know it's in water?
No.
Cecil didn't know he's a lion, and he doesn't know that he had a name or didn't know.
And by the way, his sidekick, as he's been referred to today, Jericho, he doesn't know that his name is Jericho.
Well, he might react to the name, but he doesn't know he's a lion.
All he knows is he's got to kill something today to stay alive.
Which is what, I mean, if an animal kept a calendar, every day would say, kill something and eat it.
Next day, kill something and eat it in the wild.
Now, see, I'm creating enemies.
I'm making it by, that's showing fear.
Showing fear.
And then you start trying to explain that there is no equality in the animal world.
And you want to talk about animal rights when you watch.
Did you see the video of a what kind of, it was a.
Folks, I'm not kidding about this.
It's going to make you sick.
I actually saw the video of some kind of snake actually devour a whole crocodile.
Was it a boa constrictor?
This, it, it, it, it, but it took a month to digest.
And they had pictures of the whole alligator being digested.
Now, you could bring a little kid to the video.
Say, you want to talk the rights of the alligator here?
No.
Mean snake.
Why wouldn't the snake do?
A snake has to eat.
Okay, so here's the news.
And this is from an op-ed, March 17th, 2013, New York Times.
Are you ready?
Wait for it.
Saving lions by killing them.
See, I'm going to be hated here.
I didn't write the story.
All I did was find it.
It's in the New York Times two years ago, a little over two years ago.
It was written by Alexander Sangowa, who is the director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.
From the op-ed, odd as it may sound, American trophy hunters play a critical role in protecting wildlife in Tanzania.
The millions of dollars that hunters spend to go on safari here every year help finance the game preserves, wildlife management areas, and conservation efforts in our rapidly growing country.
That is why we are alarmed that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing the African lion as endangered.
Doing that would make it illegal for American hunters to bring their trophies home.
Those hunters constitute 60% of our trophy hunting market, and losing those hunters would be disastrous to our conservation efforts.
He didn't say disastrous to our economy.
Disastrous to our conservation efforts.
So here's an op-ed from a game preserve warden in the New York Times two years ago, saving lions by killing them.
Now, do you think anybody seeing that headline is going to care to understand what they're just going to write that off as some lunatic oddball weirdo?
I've always said, if you have a species that's endangered and you want to save it, eat it.
How can you say that?
That's so mean.
That's so, oh my God, do you really mean that you can't possibly mean that, Mr. Wimbaugh?
Let me ask you, little Johnny, are cows on the endangered species list?
Are chickens on the endangered species list?
No, no.
Why is that, little Johnny?
Well, because there's a whole bunch of gobs of them.
There's a lot.
That's right.
Why are there gobs of them?
Well, just because God made it that.
No, there's gobs of them because they are produced so that we can survive ourselves.
We consume them.
We eat them.
It's just so mean.
It's just so mean.
So if there is an animal that's on the endangered species list, and if it's edible, turn it loose.
Make it part of the human diet, and there'll be more of those animals.
Some free market entrepreneur farmer will come in and start raising those animals to supply the need.
Now, I realize talk like this, this is blasphemy in the era here of Cecil the lion.
But that's what I like to do.
Inject.
No, I'm not talking about eating Cecil.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
That's not, this guy's not talking about eating lions.
He's hunting them creates more of them because the game preserve needs to attract the hunters.
So the conservation people take steps to make sure that the lions in their preserve have circumstances where reproduction happens and takes place.
They encourage it.
There are more lions because there are hunters than there otherwise be.
This was the guy's point writing the op-ed in the New York Times.
This is not to excuse this dentist.
This is a whole different thing.
What this dentist did, what he was led to doing, whatever the nature of the truth here is, this lion was not some place where hunting should have been taking place.
That's not the purpose this lion served.
So I'm not conflating the two, but I'm just trying to be the mayor of Rielville here.
Okay, time to take a break.
We'll do that.
And the Planned Parenthood videos are coming.
The ones, even though they got a TRO out in California, the group still released the fourth series.
And it's just gets sicker, folks.
I mean, it's so sick, I kind of keep avoiding this and putting it off, having to face this, because it's just talking about inhumanity or inhumane.
This is just not who we are.
That's what this.
This is not who we are.
You know, Obama loves to say, that's not who we are.
As a world, as a nation, that's not who we are.
Well, sadly, we're damn close to this being who we are.
That's what's wrong with this.
So I've been putting it off and putting it off, but we'll have to get.
Even Mrs. Clinton's been caught up in this.
She says it's disturbing.
Do you realize that's amazing to get Hillary Clinton to say something negative about this?
That's just and she has to for political purposes.
So sit tight.
We're going to get the phone calls on this stuff, too, after we get back here.
So back before you know it, folks.
Do not go away.
By the way, I stand corrected.
I have been told that the lion's name is indeed pronounced Cecil, named after Cecil Rhodes of Rhodes Scholarship fame and also of the country Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe.
And here's Greg in Richfield, Minnesota.
Greg, you're up first.
It's great to have you here.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Glad to talk to you.
Thank you.
Well, I was at the protest yesterday, and Dr. Walter Palmer is my dentist, who is a very decent individual who I believe to not have violated any law knowingly.
What I witnessed out there was what you've often talked about is mind-numbed robots.
These people were out there screaming for his death, for his extradition, for his hanging, for his murder with signs that there's a deep place for you in hell.
There's a cavity waiting for you to be buried in.
And little stuffed animals were placed up against the front door with signs.
Well, I saw that.
I saw that.
These people must have taken a day off from Twitter to show up.
Probably so.
Well, what I did is I walked around feigning like I was taking people's pictures with my less than smart phone, aka foot phone, and after I pretended to take their pictures, I'd say, post this, post this.
And I probably saw at least half a dozen, eight people walk away after I did that.
And I just did that just to, you know, put it in their face.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I don't understand.
After they thought you took their picture, they left?
Yes.
What are you saying?
They only just wanted to be shown as being there, then they left.
They just wanted to be there, but they didn't want to be known for being there.
Oh.
So I asked the police if I could take down the signs on his front door that were calling for his, you know, his extradition and the fact that he deserves a place in hell.
And they said, well, no, no, not really.
You know, it's kind of like a freedom of speech issue.
And I said, well, all right.
And I got engaged in a conversation with a couple of individuals that actually had a good point to make from their perspective.
And we had a respectable dialogue.
But, you know, the thing of it is, I cannot believe how these people bring their little kids there and get the little kids to chant and chant and chant.
You know, Cecil, Cecil, Cecil.
It just went on and on.
It just made me laugh.
What do you mean you can't believe that?
Pardon me?
What do you mean you can't believe that?
That's the essence of this kind of stuff.
Well, you know, I never watched it.
That's where these little skulls full of mush are trained and inculcated.
Yes, I had never seen it for myself.
I've heard it talked about, but it was unbelievable.
Yeah, now that is a big, you see this stuff happen on TV or you hear it reported about when you see one of these mobs and you are within close proximity, maybe even in the middle of it, you find out exactly who these people are and how dangerously manipulable and mindless they are.
And then you realize they all vote Democrat, and then you get depressed.
And we stay with the phones for a couple minutes here.
Eric in Latham, New York.
Hello, sir.
Rush.
Yes.
Mega Dittos Squared.
Appreciate that.
Thank you very much, sir.
I don't know if you were watching this morning.
I had CNBC on, and the government now has a new formula for calculating the GDP.
Yes, we predicted this.
What a prediction.
We told you that they were going to revise the way they calculated GDP so as not to have to report how bad it is.
This is some months ago.
What has happened is typically what happens is they report the number, and then there's two or three revisions.
Well, the final revision had been done on the first quarter, and it was negative.
It was negative 0.2.
Well, with the new formula, they've been able to revise that because there's a new formula.
Now it's positive.
Yes, I have that story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
I anticipated somebody calling about this today.
And right here it is.
I have it from Bloomberg, but CNBC, it's 6 and 1, a half dozen the other.
The headline is, don't go away here, Eric.
GDP rises 2.3% second quarter.
First quarter revised upwards.
Now, he's right.
The first quarter was negative, 0.9%.
But now there have been revisions.
And what is the new number?
It's like 2.
2.3.
That's second quarter growth.
They're reporting 2.3 in a second.
The first quarter has been revised up to – that's from last year.
Well, no, the 2.1 percent GDP for the first quarter of last year has been revised to a negative 0.9 and new adjustments.
Now I'm confused what it is, but you're right.
They've changed the whole formula.
They announced they were going to so that the GDP is calculated a different way so that it never is portrayed to be as bad as it really is.
And that's part of managing the decline and establishing the new normal, like the unemployment number.
The same thing is happening there.
They're revising that over and over again.
There's no way, for example, we're 5.7% unemployment right now.
It's not possible.
But it's also spun as if 2.3% is good.
Yeah.
That's the current number.
Now, wait a minute.
I thought the weather's been good here in the second quarter.
That's right.
They gave the weather as the excuse for the 0.9% in the first quarter.
6%?
Shouldn't it be 5%?
Because we've had pretty good weather.
It should be 5% if we had real recovery economic growth going on here.
You're exactly right.
But this is part of defining the new normal.
Here's the Wall Street Journal story.
The worst expansion since World War II was even weaker.
The economic expansion, already the worst on record since World War II, is weaker than previously thought.
According to newly revised data from 2012 to 2014, the economy grew at an all-too-familiar rate of 2% annually, according to three years of revised data released by the Commerce Department today.
That is a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from prior estimates.
And it'll probably be downgraded, revised down again in the coming years.
But no, you're exactly right.
The regime today is reporting a GDP at 2.3% as though it is glorious news.
I think we're going to look back on this era as the era of false numbers.
Because it's got to come out someday.
I mean, numbers don't lie.
Well, numbers lie all the time.
Numbers can be made.
If you write the numbers, if you control the calculation, you can make the numbers whatever you want them to be, which is what is happening here.
But I agree with you.
And you're kind of echoing a point that I made yesterday.
And that is 100 years from now, Americans are going to be looking back at this era with utter shock.
They're going to learn what was discovered going on at Planned Parenthood.
They are going to read how the people in charge made excuses for what they were doing, killing babies in the womb and harvesting the organs supposedly for research.
100 years from now, this is going to be looked.
People are not going to believe that that kind of thing, this kind of thing that is routine, actually happened in this country.
And if I'm wrong about that, if 100 years from now that kind of news does not shock people, then this isn't going to be the kind of country we want to contemplate anyway.
But I think it's going to be.
We always have cyclical valleys and hills and peaks, and we're definitely in a down valley right now, culturally, generationally.
We're going to recover from this.
That's the history of the country.
We always do.
We always have.
And at some point down the road in the future, when the people writing history today are no longer around to write it, and there's an opportunity for a more objective look back, because the facts here will not be able to be erased.
There's now an alternative media, alternative history writers.
So the facts of what's being learned today, what's happening, will always survive.
And I'm telling you, people are going to look back, and like you say, look back at the economy.
And they're going to look back at with an objective look back at just how stagnant, unproductive, flat, or worse this economy was.
And they're then going to read the American people were gloriously in support of the administration responsible for it, and they're going to scratch their heads and they're not going to understand it.
And hopefully it would be a learning experience that never again would people responsible for what's happening in our country today be elected and given positions of power.
Sadly, that's the thing that hasn't been learned.
Okay, to the Planned Parenthood audio soundbites, I finally worked up the courage to get to this.
This is the, we just have two of these.
This morning on the Center for Medical Progress website, they released undercover video of Vice President and Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Dr. Savita Gind or Gind.
I'm not sure how it looks like Gendi, G-H, or G-I-N-D-E.
I'll just say Gindy.
Savita Gindi and an unidentified actor posing as a buyer, discussing a potential partnership to harvest baby body parts.
You're talking about an intact specimen.
How many of those do you see?
Anywhere as low as three up to seven.
Intact?
Intact is probably less than 10%.
Sometimes, you know, if we get, if someone delivers before we are able to see them for procedure, then we are intact.
Do you know what intact is here?
What is an intact fetus?
Does somebody want to take a stab here?
No, no.
An intact fetus is a baby.
That's what's being discussed here.
Well, this is the buyer.
This is a person participating in the sting, if you will.
So when you're talking about intact specimens, how many of those do you see?
Planned parenthood.
Well, anywhere as low as three up to seven.
Intact?
Intact is probably less than 10%.
Sometimes, you know, if we get, if someone delivers before we're able to see them for procedure, then we are intact.
You know what they're talking about here?
They're talking about birth.
They're talking about live fetuses being born.
That's intact.
If someone delivers, what is that?
You deliver a baby.
That's what happens in the hospital.
So if someone delivers before we're able to see them for procedures, if they deliver before we get to them to abort, then we're intact.
Then we're dealing with a baby.
Planned Parenthood is telling this sting operator here in the video how they plot the sale of legally alive fetuses, which makes it a baby.
And then they admit, oh, yeah, we'll probably get caught in anti-states that are opposed to this.
We'll probably get caught.
But there are certain places that will be permitted to do it.
So after having said, well, sometimes it's probably less than 10%.
They're admitting it, less than 10% of the organs harvested are taken from intact fetus, from babies.
And they're talking about it as though it's just, I don't know.
It's clear that these people at Planned Parenthood have something other than a soul.
They're operating on something clearly foreign to most of us to be able to clinically discuss the harvesting of organs from newborn babies.
The way they're talking about it here in a detached way.
I don't know how you do that.
And here's the next little section of it.
Is there a stomach and heart and kidney and adrenal?
I don't know what else is in there.
Arms.
You see the legs.
Did you see any legs?
Another boy.
You know what you just heard there?
Sifting through a dish of baby parts.
And there was enough to know that it was a boy.
And if you watch the video, you see what they're doing here.
What you just heard is the audio.
Sifting through a dish of baby parts.
And they determine it's a boy.
Now, now that you know what that is, I want you to listen to this again because it goes by fast.
It's just 11 seconds.
But here it is again.
Is there a stomach and a heart and a kidney and adrenal?
I don't know what else is in there.
Arms.
You see the legs.
Did you see any legs?
Another boy.
Here's a stomach and a heart and a kidney and adrenal.
I don't know what else is in there.
Arms.
I don't see the legs.
Do you see the legs?
Another boy.
Note that it took me nearly two hours to get up the whatever, mustard or whatever, to play this.
Whatever this is.
I'm out of words here.
Okay, I want to try something here, folks.
It's going to be tough to pull off because I don't have eye contact with the broadcast engineer.
So we're going to have to do this digitally and electronically.
But you remember the piece we produced with Bob Torricelli denying that he had done anything wrong on the floor of the Senate.
And we mixed that with his lawyer admitting what had been found in his home.
Three Rolex watches, $75,000.
I have done nothing.
15 fake passports.
I'm going to try to do this here.
I'm going to read from Planned Parenthood's press release written for Ma Richards' daughter, Cecile.
Interspersed with clips from Soundbite No. 2 here, Dr. Savita Gindy sifting through a dish of baby parts and being all excited about it.
We have not had a chance to rehearse this, so we may have to take two or three stabs of this, but you will get the idea.
I'll start by reading the Planned Parenthood press release written for Ma Richards' daughter.
Planned Parenthood has been a trusted nonprofit provider of women's health care for nearly 100 years.
Each year, 2.7 million people come to our health centers for high-quality, non-judgmental, compassionate care.
Is there a stomach?
Heart?
A new kidney and adrenal.
Since our very beginning, our health centers, providers, and patients have come under outrageous attacks, political and otherwise.
I don't know what else is in there.
These attacks are not about us.
They are about the ability of women across the country to access health care, period.
The most recent attacks in this decades-long campaign against us at Planned Parenthood represent a new low.
You see the legs.
Did you see any legs?
Another boy.
We did it on the first day.
We did it on the first day.
So that's one of the great ways of illustrating here, just in their own words, them defending themselves up against the words on the video, the excitement on the words from Dr. Savita Gindy or Gind or Gind or what have I don't know how she pronounces it.
It's just sick.
And here's Joni Ernst, by the way.
This is from this morning on CNN.
And this is the only place you're seeing any pushback in Washington is with some of the new senators, Joni Ernst, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz.
Allison Cambarata is interviewing Joni Ernst, Republican senator from Iowa.
You have sponsored a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
The argument against that is they provide a whole host of services beyond abortion services.
They provide birth control.
They provide cancer screenings that tens of thousands of women and men rely on.
So what is your answer to that, huh?
My answer to that is yes, we are planning on defunding Planned Parenthood through this legislation, but we are not decreasing the dollars that are available for those very important screenings and other services offered to women and to men, as you mentioned.
That money can be applied for by other facilities such as hospitals and community health centers.
Those dollars are still going to be there, just not available for Planned Parenthood.
The videos that have been released are extremely disturbing.
We want Americans to speak out against this.
Ben Carson up next and his reaction to all this and Mrs. Clinton.
Maybe Mrs. Clinton would go back and look at their history and look at the history of the person who was the major founder, Margaret Sanger, who she says she admires, who was a racist and believed in eugenics.
And go back and look at many of her quotations.
It's really quite disturbing that anybody would find someone like that a heroic figure.
We as a society have allowed our sensitivities to gradually be dulled to the point where it takes something of this magnitude to begin to shock us when all along babies were being slaughtered.
That's last night on Brett Baer's show and Fox Dr. Benjamin Carson talking about Margaret Sanger, who was the founder of Planned Parenthood, who had an objective and that was to rid the world of the lesser classes.
Just rid the world of them, not provide them health care or reproductive care, but to wipe them out.
That was her objective.
Okay, we got to take a brief time out here at the top of the hour.