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Aug. 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Happy to have you with us, my friends.
Telephone number 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Does anybody Don, what would you say if I were to tell you that the male lion is the worst father in the animal kingdom.
Look, I know I'm running a risk here, folks.
I know what animals mean to people.
I was I was saddened when Cecil was shot.
I think this is crazy.
Have an animal on a game preserve and to let hunters go in there.
I think it's crazy.
And I just want to be on record as I've stated from the get-go, that I think it was totally unnecessary for this animal to be hunted, and this animal to be killed.
It's not, it's no great feat by the hunter, nothing major was accomplished here.
I also don't believe that it means the end of lions.
I don't believe it means we're on the road to extinction or that.
It was just bad form.
It was just, and to celebrate it is no big deal.
What kind of prowess did this take?
The lion can't shoot a bow and arrow back at you, and the lion can't pick up a rifle and shoot back at you.
Um, all the lion can do is try to scare you off if the lion even knows you're coming.
But there was nothing if you want to use the concept of fairness.
There was no fairness here.
No sport.
I understand that.
And I'm an animal lover like everyone else is, except I I do not think they're human.
And I I do not, you know, I have fun playing with my pets.
But a lion isn't a pet, and it never will be, neither is a tiger, neither is a giraffe.
They're not pets.
It's impossible to make them pets.
There are exceptions.
I mean, you you can take a lion, remember Clarence the Cross Eyed Lion, the old TV show way, way back in the uh 70s.
It was funny.
It was a it was a comedy show, and it was a cross-eyed lion that was the star.
His name was Clarence.
And I read how they did it.
They kept that lion so fed.
He was constantly fed.
Just all that lion did was eat.
So that he had eating and killing a human being was not on his mind.
And they also had to drug him a little bit.
It was genuinely cross-eyed, and they had it riggs this lion drove a jeep around.
It looked like the lion was driving.
It was a cute as it could be show.
And and I uh I remember the star of the show was a guy, his first name is Marshall, and I can't remember his last name, and he had a daughter, and they ran some sort of game preserve or uh not a game preserve, like a hospital area for injured animals and so forth.
And this particular lion was only usable for you know a very short time.
Chimpanzees are the same.
Chimpanzees when they're little babies or cutest.
You do not want to get anywhere near an adult chimpanzee.
No, they're nothing like when they're a kid.
They're just the story of this this crazed woman in Connecticut that had a pet, chimpanzee, and her friend came over.
I don't even want to describe to you what happened.
It's sickening what the chimpanzee did, but the chimpanzee was just doing what chimpanzees do.
You know, chimpanzees a chimpanzee, lion's a lion, tiger's a tiger.
You know, ask C. Friedman Roy.
They had this act in Las Vegas with, I think, Persians, Persian tigers.
And they, from the moment the lions in their act were born, or tigers, uh Persian, with the moment they were born, they slept with them.
They tried to raise them as pets, they were constantly with them.
They tried to get these tigers as docile and and take the predator out of them.
And one of these guys thinks Siegfried or which of the two ends up nearly killed because one of the lions gets mad at being whipped one too many times during the act.
And by the way, knew right where to go, went for this guy's carotid artery, ended up having a s well, he was wounded and had a stroke in recovery, or shortly after.
And that was the end of the act.
And I remember the tiger's name was Montecor.
And they wanted to put the animal down.
And Siegfried and Roy are the remaining, which one was still constant.
No, don't put the animal.
It wasn't the animal's fault.
They knew it wasn't the animal's fault.
The tiger's a tiger.
It does what it does.
But we, like the lion king, Gail King.
He's watching the Lion King here.
It happens to be a cartoon show.
A great cartoon show with a lot of great Elton John music in it, but it's a cartoon.
And it was not at all descriptive in any way of what lions are really like.
But kids love this stuff.
I myself, my friends, have fallen prey to this.
I have a series of children's books with a talking horse that time travels.
I mean, it works.
But here's the problem with all this.
The problem is that everything that happens on the left is political.
And you know, we're losing our country.
We are losing the culture of our country.
We are turning people into genuine skulls full of mush.
We are turning them into sentimental ignoramuses.
You know what the most powerful political force in this country is right now?
Is the low information voter.
The most powerful political force in this country is.
Whatever you want to call them, the ignorant, the low information voter, the know nothing's uh whatever.
Because there are more and more of them every year.
And they are guided by their emotions.
They haven't been taught to think.
They haven't been taught to think critically.
They have they have been propagandized and inculcated with claptrap as education.
And you might think this animal stuff is harmless, but it's not.
It's a law, it's it's all a part of the same modus and barundi.
Uh the whole animal rights movement is the same as climate change movement.
It's the same people.
It's the same thing that motivates them.
And they have the same objectives.
A bigger government regulating more and more of average, ordinary, everyday life that is predicated on the belief that human beings are the problem on the planet, and that human beings need to be regulated and controlled and policed because it's the human being that is the threat to nature.
To these people, the human being is not the highest form of life on earth.
These people are raised to believe that the human being is the most destructive form and the most dangerous and the worst.
And that is why in the environmental movement you have legitimate people, people who legitimately believe that the greatest threat to the planet is mankind.
We are not considered to be part of nature.
We are not to be, we're not considered to be highly advanced.
None of that is considered.
No goodness is attached to us.
And it's it it that kind of thinking, you think, well, what's the harm in that?
Rush, okay, so people love animals.
It's not about loving animals, folks.
It's it's about being taught that human beings and a subset really, Republican or conservative human beings, are the primary problem on this planet.
Not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, not the Iranians, not the Iranians wanting nuclear weapons.
No, no, no, no.
Guys like this dentist in Minnesota.
They're the plague.
They're the bad guys.
Guys like this, these are the people that we have really got to find and punish and put in jail to do.
These are the people we need to make examples of.
They're the absolute reprobates.
This is what these people you can see it play out.
Even I think this dentist is an idiot.
I don't.
I don't understand what's the big beat in your chest over killing a lion that has no idea you're coming.
Big deal.
You know, big whoop.
There's no manliness in that, and there's no manhood in it, and there's no great attributes in that.
All of that, you know, I agree with.
But as usual, it's about much, much more than that.
Look at this.
CNN had a story.
Headline, Empire State Building Shines Light on Endangered Species.
Well, who's endangering species?
Us, folks.
Human beings.
Cecil the lion was among a group of endangered species honored on a canvas.
1250 feet tall on the Empire State Building.
Never mind that lions are not endangered.
Lions are nowhere near being endangered.
I mean, even this animal planet large predator expert said on CBS this morning that the biggest problem with the death of Cecil is his kids are going to get killed by other male lions, exactly as I told you.
Other male lions are going to want to get rid of the Cecil bloodline.
This is instinct.
They don't know they're doing it, they just do it.
It's the way they're created.
Get rid of Cecil's cubs, and then take over Cecil's women, the female lions, and establish their own bloodline and their own pride.
So killing Cecil has put his kids at greatest greatest risk, not from other hunters, but from the other male lions.
Other male lions are going to kill Cecil's kids.
They're not good fathers.
They may be the worst example of fatherhood in the animal kingdom.
It is what it is.
I realize people are going to hate me for saying so, but they've seen the Lion King.
I know it doesn't, but that's not what the purpose of the Lion King was.
So anyway, the Empire State Building's famous light displays were used to draw attention to endangered wildlife, along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage.
A snow leopard, tigers, lemmers, various snakes, birds, and sea creatures were projected onto the canvas that was on the building.
The spectacle was staged to promote the documentary Racing Extinction.
It's a production of the Oceanic Preservation Society.
Cecil was not included in the presentation originally, but they added him to honor him after he was killed.
But lions are not threatened.
And they're not endangered.
But I just I want to read some of one of the tech blogs just to show you how this stuff works.
You know, these millennial tech blogs that I read.
I'm going to tell you which one.
The point is not to point it.
You read it one place, you read them everywhere.
See me find the relevant.
I didn't mark it.
On Saturday night, the line to get into the 235th rooftop bar wrapped around the block, but people weren't waiting for a drink.
The crowd stood shoulder to shoulder, facing the looming skyscraper to the north, the Empire State Building.
Then 40 stacked projectors on top of a nearby building switched on.
The Empire State Building became the world's largest tombstone.
The roof fell silent.
The crowd cheered.
Snow leopards, matter rays, elephants came into view.
All the animals I love, which are being wiped out.
And may soon be gone.
So, you say, so what, Rush?
So what?
Right, so here's a documentary on how human beings are wiping out every species that they saw on the side of the Empire State Building.
And it furthers this belief that humanity is indecent.
And that only a select few humans are worthy of leading others, and that would be touchy feely leftists, of course.
I mean, it's basic, it's just telling lies to young people, propagandizing them for the purposes of co-opting them politically.
And this is how it happens.
And it's subtle, and it's things people don't even pay attention to.
It's how you end up.
Why do these kids think what they think?
Well, this is an example of it.
Why, why if you're one of these people, what did the lion was killed, but why has this become a worldwide, it's because of what has been done to young minds.
Now, some might argue with me and say, hey, Rush, we're making it more sensitive.
This is actually a greater respect for life.
No, there isn't a greater.
They're all pro-choice, folks.
Every damn one of these kids and every damn one of these people that's going baddie here over what happened to Cecil.
That'll be the first to defend Planned Parenthood.
This is my point.
Anyway, enough of that.
There's other stuff.
There's Obama right now announcing.
This is you don't have another fraud.
This is how he gets away with it.
Create like this animal business.
Here's Obama announcing the most stringent controls on the coal industry ever.
And he promised ten years ago he was going to do this.
He promised seven and eight years ago he was gonna he was going to put the coal business out of business, not by actually preventing them from existing.
He was going to tax them out of business.
He's going to make sure that it was impossible to financially stay in business.
All for the purposes of saving the planet from climate change.
And in every story that accompanies Obama's new regulations here, every story, they all admit, I don't care if it's the New York Times, the Washington Post, they all admit that Obama's efforts here are not going to matter.
Because we are not the worst polluters.
The ChICOMs are the worst polluters, and then India.
And they're not adopting any of this.
And so even the people who praise Obama for what he's doing are admitting it isn't gonna matter.
So we're gonna put the coal industry out of existence for no purpose other than to advance liberalism, to advance the concept of big government which knows better than everybody, to advance the idea that you need to have more and more of your freedom removed and taken away from you.
Because left to your own devices, you might start a coal-fired nuclear plant.
We can't have that.
Never mind how they're gonna power their electric cars.
How are they gonna do it?
Wind, solar, sorry.
We're not there yet.
So the coal industry, for no reason other than Barack Obama and his so-called consensus of scientists have targeted them for blame.
Now has to be essentially put out of business.
If if they succeed, you're not the amount of progress that we have had in the advancement of the human lifestyle and standard of living is going to be rolled back to a point most people aren't going to put up with.
By then it's going to be too late.
All these coal plants are going to be out of business and replaced with something that doesn't even get close to replacing the amount of energy we are about to lose.
This is silly.
It's wrong based on lies.
But this greatest political force in the country, the low information voter, they're out there applauding this because they think it means whatever they think it means, good.
It's just silly.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's great to have you, L Rushbow on the Excellence In Broadcasting Network.
All right, where is it?
Where is it?
Grab audio sound by no, no, no.
Um it's not the one I'm looking for.
I'm looking for the one on coal.
Let me grab a call.
Mountain Hope, Arkansas.
This is Don.
Don, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I'm a fisherman.
You know, uh, fish are a bad, bad uh parents, too.
So my old bass, he spends about two weeks preparing the bed, and the temperature has to be right at 58 degrees.
At 50 at uh 60, they spawn, and when these uh fish become hatched, they're proud, we call them.
And uh they eat their young when the when the frog is big enough, they eat as many of them as they can eat.
And uh so God has programmed these things about temperature, conditions, food food availability, and so forth.
And a fish doesn't reason.
God has only made humans to reason.
No, no, this is this is I tell you what, this very provocative language to say that God is doing all this when to a lot of these people there isn't a God done.
And now you're saying that fish, and I don't reason uh that they just do what they do, they're like like like like robots and so forth.
Well, robots, but uh a lot of people have been highly offended, greatly offended by what you've said.
Eat their own that's not true.
That wouldn't happen.
That's what your average young skull full of mush is yelling at the radio.
And then if you had a chance to, oh no, that's exactly what happens.
Why?
Why did he do it?
And then you well, uh there's no answer you could give them, make them understand it because there's no doesn't make sense emotionally.
They associate parenthood with their moms and dads.
And if their moms and dads don't do it, they don't imagine anything else they like or admire doing it either.
But it's true.
They don't reason.
Do those do those um fish, Don, do they even know that they're in water?
What do they call it?
I want to go back to the um grooveyard of forgotten sound bites.
We have two from Obama, January 17th, 2008, editorial board meeting, San Francisco Chronicle, during a discussion about energy and the environment.
One of the board members at the Chronicle says, Senator, you introduced a bill promoting coal conducted fuels, and then you said you would only support them if they emitted fewer greenhouse gases than gasoline.
Now, all the scientific evidence points to coal being dirtier than pretty much anything else.
So how are you gonna square your support for coal with the need to fight global warming?
What I've said is that we would put a uh cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive than anybody's else's out there.
So if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can.
It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that uh greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
There you have it.
We played this sound.
I can't tell you how many times he played this soundbite during the 2008 presidential campaign.
The guy's gonna put the coal business out of business.
He just telegraphed it.
He just promised it for this baseless phony objective of saving the planet from climate change.
Uh i i it is stunning.
And now he's done it.
Here it is, seven years later, and he's on the way, announced it today.
And then he also added to put pressure on the states that if you states join me in this effort to wipe out the coal industry, why you can qualify for subsidies if your state emissions get below whatever my target levels are.
So in addition to Obama inflicting pain on the people of this country, he's now added an incentive for the states to do it too.
Because state governments will be subsidized in their efforts to whatever the heck they're doing in this regard.
And Obama, he had one little thing he wanted to tag on tag on to this.
I was asked earlier about uh the issue of coal.
Uh you know under my plan uh of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Electricity on purpose.
Cap and trade under my plan of cap and trade, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
This was something he was proud of.
He was excited about it.
He couldn't wait for this to happen.
I mentioned Ted Cruz Was out at the Koch Brothers event, was at Dana Point, California.
And he uh he owned this particular stage on uh this weekend from everything I've heard crew is just outdid everybody that showed up.
And here's just a quick little soundbite from Ted Cruz uh uh it was moderated by by Mike Allen of the Politico, the stage presentation, all these people showing up to impress the Koch brothers and their donors.
And if they had a political guy out there moderating this, and it was it was Mike Allen who said to Cruz, what is your position on global warming?
Facts matter.
Here are the facts.
If you look to the satellite data in the last 18 years, there's been zero recorded warming.
Senator, you're not saying that global warming isn't real.
I'm saying the data and facts don't support it.
And they don't.
Look, there is always going to be global warming and cooling.
Nothing is static.
That's not the argument.
The argument is the advanced lifestyle of Western nations like Western Europe and the United States responsible for it.
Is America responsible for climate change?
That's the absurdity.
Of course, this climate system is so complex it is beyond being able to be understood by the mortal human mind.
Just like the human mind cannot explain to you creation beyond big bang, the human mind cannot explain our climate to you.
We can study it, we can research it, we can release whatever we think we've learned, but we can't conclusively say a damn thing about the weather.
Much less the climate.
And yet here comes this consensus, which there's if there's a consensus, there's no science, by the way, science not up to a vote.
But here comes this consensus of Obama's favored scientists who've been bought and paid for, by the way, with grants, claiming that man is the dip, but did you hear the question?
You're not saying global warming isn't real.
That's how entrenched this nonsense is.
You're not saying it isn't real.
I don't know.
When I stop and think about this, I actually get depressed.
When I stop, how many otherwise intelligent people and other things have just been hoodwinked on this?
It depresses me.
Because if if we're going to lose smart educated people, gee whiz, where do we turn to?
We know the low information people have already been co-opted.
I take a break here again, folks.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Couple of soundbites from Obama today, and this is just offensive.
It just, I don't know other ways, it's it's it's enraging.
It's offensive.
We have two sound bites.
Obama at the White House announcing his attack on the coal industry in order to stop climate change.
Over the past six and a half years, we've taken on some of the toughest challenges of our time from rebuilding our economy after a devastating recession to ending our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bringing almost all of our troops home to strengthening our security through tough and principled diplomacy.
But I am convinced that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate.
And that's what brings us here today.
Just absurd.
All of that is absurd.
Women rebuilt an economy, we've torn it down and told everybody it's the new normal.
We're a nation in decline, and we're told this is a great administration, the best one to manage the decline.
We've ended the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yeah, by losing them.
Strengthening our security through tough and principled diplomacy by letting Iran get a nuclear bomb.
This is absurd.
But none of that matters because the worst thing in the world out there is climate change, which is constantly Happening.
You know, the the the vanity of humanity.
On the one hand, we think we're no different than a rat, and the next day we're so all powerful we are destroying God's creation.
It's absurd.
And the vanity of all how what in the world who are we to think?
That right now, at this point in the history of the universe, that whatever the temperatures are now, these are normal.
This is what it's always meant to be.
And anything warmer and it's disaster.
Who the hell are we?
We don't know this.
We can't change the climate.
That's the main thing wrong with this.
We cannot change it.
And then here's the next one.
2014 was the planet's warmest year on record.
It was not.
We've been setting a lot of records in terms of warmest years over the last decade.
We have not.
The year doesn't make a trend, but 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have fallen within the first 15 years of this section.
Stop it!
This is a crock.
This is an out and out falsehood.
There hasn't been any warming in 15 years.
You know, I'm falling for the trap by even debating this crap this way.
But there hasn't been any warming last year, this they're saying this year so far is the hottest year on record, and I've got it on rec.
They're doctoring and making up the data.
They're just altering the data for the hell of it.
Because it isn't warming.
10,000 years ago, New York City was under ice.
Do you know that?
10,000 years ago there wasn't a New York.
It was under ice.
It was covered by glaciers.
Thank God for global warming for crying out loud.
And we're this is just so absurd.
It just frosts me.
And we have proven that it's a hoax.
East Anglia University in England.
And here comes some idealistic little liberal coming along telling us that he's got the power to stop it, adding to his legacy, saving the world now.
That's what this legacy's Obama saved the world.
This is just And how are we gonna how are we gonna save the world?
By taking your freedom away from you?
By limiting your liberty?
Blaming you for it?
You're destroying the world with what?
The car you drive?
The air conditioning in your home in your office?
Yeah.
That's what we're doing.
You're destroying the planet, folks.
You are worse than Al Qaeda.
You are worse than Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
You, that's what he means here.
Who's responsible for this?
They're claiming that climate change is man-made.
So we're all worse than Al Qaeda just by living an advanced lifestyle.
This ought to have everybody up in arms and outraged and have this current crop run out of town.
Because at the very least, this is nothing but insulting.
It sure as hell isn't science.
And it's not even good politics.
Of course, good politics defined today as getting away with the most lies because you've dumbed down the population to a bunch of ignoramuses left and right, so all you gotta do is find a way to reach them.
It's not hard.
Man.
It's a good question.
Why do facts and results always lose to good intentions?
That is a great psychological discussion to have, maybe.
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