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Nov. 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, and welcome back.
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Before I get to the story, and this story comes, by the way, from the Washington Post.
The headline is a group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate.
Before getting to that, there is a companion story that I want to share with you about the American people supposed Reuters story, Americans becoming less religious, especially young adults.
Now, this is according to a poll.
Americans are becoming less religious, judging by such markers as church attendance, prayer, and belief in God.
And the trend is more pronounced among young adults, according to the poll released today, the share of U.S. adults who say they believe in God, while still high compared with other advanced industrial countries, slipped to 89% in 2014.
It was 92% in 2007.
So we've dropped 3%.
You 3%, you probably know who you are, who have become less religious and maybe stop believing in God.
This is according to the Pew Research Center's religious landscape study.
The proportion of Americans who say they are absolutely certain God exists fell even more to 63% in 2014 from 71% eight years ago.
The percentage of Americans who pray every day attend religious services regularly and consider religion important in their lives, also down by small, but it says here statistically significant measures.
The trend is most pronounced among young adults.
Only half of those born from 1990 to 1996, absolutely certain of their belief in God.
71% of the silent generation are those born from 1928 to 1945.
Younger people are also less likely to pray daily at 39%, compared to silent generation adults at 67%.
Young adults also much less likely to go to church, the survey found.
On the other hand, 77% of Americans continue to identify with some religious faith, and those who do are just as committed now as they were in 2007.
Two-thirds of religiously affiliated adults say they pray every day, and that religion is very important to them.
The survey also found religious divides among the political parties.
Those who are not religiously affiliated more likely to be Democrats.
Compared to 14% who are not religiously affiliated who are Republican.
About 38% of Republicans identify as evangelical Protestants, the largest religious group in the party.
Catholics make up 21% of each major political party.
Now get this.
Orianna O'Neill, 21, a student at Beloit College in Wisconsin, who comes from a non-religious household that sometimes prays, Said that she thinks the anti-science, anti-gay rhetoric of some politicians may be turning some young people away from religion.
The idea, like you know, of Republicans not believing in global warming is contributing to the notion that religious people are not intelligent, O'Neill said.
May I get a little personal here for just a brief moment, folks.
I've had many people ask me.
You talk about climate change, global warming a lot, and you make it clear you don't agree, you think it's all a hoax, and you're so certain.
And it makes us uncomfortable, some people, but nobody's that certain.
I mean, how can you know this?
I mean, there are people out there claiming they're scientists to say it's happening, and that we're causing it, and you tell us, I mean, who are you?
You're the scientist, and you're telling us to disbelieve them all because it's political?
Yep.
And a lot of people, you just can't, you nobody can be that sure of themselves.
You just you just can't sit there and just automatically reject what scientists say, damn, I can if I want to.
If they're if they're Democrats, liberal Democrats funded by liberal democrats, you are you are bound to reject it.
Your own sanity requires that you reject it if it comes from the funding of that group by the liberal Democrats or a big liberal Democrat donor to Democrat Party, doesn't matter, because it's a political issue that's designed to get you believing you're responsible, you must pay penance, you must acknowledge that you're responsible, you must turn over all of this to big government to fix it.
You must agree to raising taxes, carbon tax, or whatever, because the premise is you and the way you're living your life are causing this destruction, and I'm sorry, but I don't believe that.
And then I floor them, and I wish I didn't floor them.
I wish what comes next did not shock people.
But I tell them it is my devout belief in God that gives me every bit of confidence that man is not, and furthermore, cannot destroy the climate.
Then I go through all of what I consider the commonsensical ways of rejecting the premise, such as have you ever noticed that the predictions are all for 30 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now, when people life today will not be here to know whether they were right or wrong.
Have you ever noticed that a global warming catastrophe is never predicted for next year or next month?
Have you noticed that ever since Hurricane Katrina they've been hoping for more of them so that they can use that to prove?
And there hasn't been any more.
We haven't had a major hurricane strike the country 10 years, and yet they claim that Katrina was evidence, the lore of global warming.
I go through all of these things that you've you've heard for years.
Just the commonsensical ways of rejecting this premise that I mean, I acknowledge that climate changes.
Hell, everything changes.
Nothing is static, everything's dynamic.
The argument is, is Western civilization responsible for it?
That's what the allegation is.
That prosperous people, high standards of living, are responsible for destroying the climate?
Have you ever stopped to consider that charge?
If you wanted to destroy the climate, what would you do?
I asked them.
Would you go out and buy a fleet of SUVs?
What else would you do?
Keep your thermostat at 60?
What else would you do?
What would you do if you really wanted just like if you wanted to destroy the ozone layer?
What would you do?
I mean, they're claiming that you're doing it, so what are you doing?
What about your lifestyle is destroying the world when you go outside.
They never have an answer for it.
They just are afraid to reject it.
They want to believe.
I mean, even some friends of mine, they want to believe in source authorities.
They want to believe people are not lying to them.
That's one of the toughest things about dealing with liberalism that you run up against is that people want to believe people in position.
They want to believe the president of all people they want to believe the president.
They don't want to consider the president may be phony, a liar, um, a saboteur.
I don't even want to contemplate it.
But when I when I get into my religious belief, that is what informs me in my opposition to global global warming.
That's that's that's where I learn how I don't know what's the word irreligious people are.
See, I if I could go through this very briefly, I believe in a loving God, I believe in the God of creation.
I believe the story of creation as a story, an allegorical story, but I do not believe put very simply that God could create human beings and provide for them mechanisms whereby they can strive to live longer,
to live happier, to live healthier.
I believe in the loving God of creation, it provides all of these things of beauty and substance and opportunity which permit one species, the human race, to harness as much as we can, and we are forever trying to harness more.
We were created to do so.
We are as much a part of nature as any other living organism or species.
We are not violating nature by using what God created in us to improve our lives, to improve the lives of as many others as we can.
We have definitions of how we improve life, standard of living, prosperity, contentment, happiness, pursuit of happiness.
All of this, I believe, is the product of creation of a loving God, and I just can't intellectually believe that a loving God would create such beauty and substance and opportunity that if exploiting it,
and I don't mean in a negative sense, but by examination, experimentation, by living our lives and trying to improve them that we destroy what has been created for us.
just doesn't make any sense to me.
I can't come to grips intellectually with the idea that the way we live our life, and I don't have any doubt that the Western civilization lifestyle provides the best opportunity, the best chance for humanity on this entire planet.
And yet every day I'm pummeled with the charge, with the allegation that all of us who are simply trying to provide for ourselves and our families, we're trying to better our communities.
We are trying to improve the future for our children.
I just can't accept that the process of doing all of that leads to the destruction of all that has been created for us.
I don't think we have the power.
I don't think we have the power to destroy this.
Even if we nuked it, it's still here.
We are gone.
Life is still here in some shape, manner, or form, and the whole process will start all over again.
But we're not talking about nukes.
Nobody in the global warming movement is accusing us of global warming by by using nuclear weapons.
I'm using the most extreme example I can.
If you really want to destroy the planet, that's the best we could do.
We don't know how to do anything else other than nuke everything.
That's the that's the furthest advanced weaponry we've got.
They have been used a couple of times, and the places they have been used are in fine shape.
They were not ultimately forever destroyed.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl was a plant accident.
But to me, the evidence is all around us and is abundant that despite our efforts, in many cases, standards of living improve.
But the I I just have never been able to come to grips.
Throw the religion out if it makes you uncomfortable.
I just can't come to grips with the idea that the only people responsible for climate change happen to be capitalistic related Western civilization, industrialized countries,
especially when you look at pollution and the messes that we make here and how far advanced we are in cleaning them up than in poverty stricken, poverty-ridden areas, depressed areas of the world where there is poverty, there is pestilence and pollution and filth and misery.
And where there is poverty, there is usually dictatorship or tyranny of some kind.
There is socialism, communism, some sort of ism that denies the individual liberty and freedom that we in this country have.
I believe in the basic goodness of most human beings and the goodness of most human beings leads to the betterment of life for everybody, and I just can't come to grips with doing that, destroying the planet.
And yet that's what they tell us every day.
Frankly, I resent it.
I intellectually resent the idea that people trying to improve every aspect.
We have people trying to clean up messes, commit as uh emit as little pollution as we can.
And in a capitalistic society, people are going to do that on their own, contrary to what critics will say.
They will say that the free people living in a capitalistic system are selfish and greedy and don't care about the messes they make.
Because they don't care about other people.
It takes a governing authority somewhere in a distant capital, where the only the people there have the correct answers of compassion and so on.
And yet, when you take a look at what those people do in that distant capital, you see mess after mess after mess.
It gets worse and worse and worse.
And they continue to be the ones called on to clean up each mess that they make, and it progressively gets worse and worse and worse, and we have a cycle.
Create the mess, fix the mess.
Mess gets bigger, come in, create it, because some reason they are judged to be the only ones who can fix it.
Yet people not involved in that bureaucracy, not involved in that distant capital, people living among themselves who have the authority and the power, have clean neighborhoods, have clean cities, because it's what they want, and they have the freedom and the means and the prosperity to do it.
You run around the world where there's poverty, pestilence, disease.
What's missing is the ability to clean up any of those messes because there isn't the means, there isn't the prosperity, there isn't the freedom, there isn't the education, there isn't the know-how.
All there is in those places is a desire to get out, and where do they want to go?
Right here.
They somehow, some way, some reason they want to come here to the home of climate destruction.
Really, the car you drive, the air that you exhale, the soft drinks that you drink, whatever you eat and consume, cars, cows farting and belching is causing climate destruction.
We're supposed to intellectually just accept, I'm sorry, I can't, folks.
It just is.
So you're gonna destroy the climate, huh?
How you're gonna do it.
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna tell other people to join you in doing if you want to succeed in destroying the climate?
Rest nobody's talking about this drawing.
Okay, change it.
Because they're saying change equals destruction.
Have you ever noticed it used to be global warming, then it stopped warming, so now it's climate change.
You ever notice that any normal weather pattern that doesn't happen very much?
It's considered an example of extreme.
It's all absurd.
It just it none of it holds up to common sense.
But this quote got me.
This 21-year-old student of Beloit College.
The idea of Republicans not believing in global warming, it's contributing to the notion that religious people are not intelligent.
It's the exact opposite.
She's the nitwit, but she has an excuse.
She's only 21.
Her mind has been polluted and poisoned by a bunch of professors and teachers and so forth.
Here's a difference, folks.
And it's just it's just one of many.
One of the differences between God and global warming, or difference between God and climate change.
You don't have to believe in God in order for him to exist.
But you have to believe in climate change in order for it to exist, because it doesn't unless you believe it.
It is an article of faith that you can't prove.
And I again, I'm just gonna open it up.
Anybody out there that let me put it a different way.
I'm not gonna even issue it as a challenge.
I'll make it even easier.
Those of you who think you or we are changing the climate for the worst.
That's what it's all about.
Tell me what it is you're doing.
Tell me what it is I'm doing.
Tell it tell me what it is, what we're all doing that's making this happen.
I'll see what you come up with.
I'm serious.
Dead seriously.
By the way, Trump's appearance today was ostensibly built around the uh the release of his uh new book, Crippled America, How to Make America Great Again.
And he said in the press conference, his publisher has told him it's already selling like hot cake.
Well, guess what?
I just got an email from my publisher.
You know, in my book is selling like hot cakes, too.
My publisher just told me the details here of the first week.
Well, I mean, what do you think?
It's number one in the categories that it's in, Barnes and Noble, these other places out there.
And I the thing is I know it's all you, and I can't uh I've run out of ways of saying thank you, and I've run out of ways to try to uh impress upon you how appreciative we all are.
All I can do is tell you how much we believe in these books and their purpose and the feedback that we continue to get from people that the dyslexic people that love reading these books, kids that hate reading love reading these books, and I know why.
It's because they're immersive.
These books are stories that actually capture a young person's imagination and hook them in.
It's not even reading for them.
I mean, it is, but it's learning, it's it's exploring, it's having their imaginations run wild, which is ideal.
That's that's when your imagination does run well.
You don't know limits or boundaries yet.
Same thing with your dreams when you're a young kid.
Uh that's why I sometimes think we make kids grow up too fast and we pummel them with no little Johnny, you can't do that.
No, little Johnny, that's so unrealistic.
No, no, no, no.
Little Johnny, if you can dream it, go for it.
Little Johnny, if you can sit out there and imagine it, go ahead and dream it.
That's what's in these books.
All based around the truth of the American founding.
The truth of American history, this Rush Limbaugh, or Rush Revere.
Of course, I am Rush Revere, but Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
And I have to tell you, every time this is so cool.
We watched these World Series games, and we made sure to tune in early to catch the national anthem before everyone.
I'm sitting there, I'm watching the anthem, and I'm I'm wondering how many people at home, how many young people who've already got the book and are reading it, and we've got some illustrations of pictures of the book that that are exactly portrayed in these pregame certainly giant flag throughout the whole outfield teams lined up at first base, the third baselines, the anthem being sung, and I wonder how many of them are listening to the anthem being sung, and now maybe for the first time in their lives know.
What those words mean, why those words were written, where those words were written, what was the inspiration for those words.
I mean, everybody knows the anthem.
Star Spangled Banner.
But the story of how it came to be is fascinating.
Like everything else in uh in American history.
So thank you again, folks.
Always know that it is overwhelmingly appreciated.
Here's Lee and Queens as we head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Um I'm a crew supporter.
You know, thinking ahead, it's not I always think ahead, but doesn't always serve the purpose because you should be in the present.
But if Trump got the nomination, the enticing thing about him getting it would be the way he fights back.
I mean, in politics, the left's the left are bullies.
They play dirty.
And they never went against a guy like this enigma.
And how do you think they would go against a Trump?
It's everything, nothing's worked against him.
He fights back.
And I think the uh Democrat strategists view this.
I think the uh it you you mean you're we're pretending here Trump has a nomination and he's going ahead.
Like how the strategists against Trump, he fights back.
Oh, well, establishment never has.
They they cower.
So they got uh person that's gonna fight back dirty, and I don't know how they're gonna deal with that.
Well, no, wait, wait, wait.
How who would deal with it?
We're we're pretending he's got the how the Hillary camp, how the well, the whole thing.
Oh, okay, very simple.
Very very, very, very simple.
I was hoping that that's what you were asking.
I assumed that's what you were asking, but I didn't want to assume too much.
I wanted to actually hear from you that's what you're asking.
Okay.
It's very simple what they'll say.
Trump's nuts.
Trump's crazy.
Trump's unqualified.
Trump's a loose canon.
Trump's inexperienced.
Trump's vulgar.
They'll do I mean, I I can predict what they're going to do.
Trump's mean.
They'll try it all.
Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobic.
That's all they have in their ammo.
And they'll roll it all out.
And they'll do opposite.
Don't forget now, these are the people that make things up.
Harry Reid on the Senate floor.
I have a friend.
Told me Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes in ten years.
What do you think this is going to go on and on with a Senate floor speech about how unpatriotic it is and how near criminal it is and so forth?
I mean, they just made it up out of whole clothes.
Look at these are people to whom power is an entitlement.
The presidency is an whenever they are not elected president, something is drastically wrong.
It is abnormal.
They think it is theirs.
They will go after him like the mainstream media is going.
I wouldn't be surprised even if they said if he gets elected, he'll quit a year in when he gets tired of it.
The celebrity apprentice.
I mean, the left and the mainstream media Democrat Party, they're one and the same, so if you want to know how they're going to treat Trump, take a look at how they're treating him now.
They'll say he changes position, they'll say uh we used to love Hillary, now he hates her.
You really can't, but he's not really a Republican.
We'll try everything.
He's not really a conservative.
They'll try to uh do everything they can to make a Republican stay home and not vote for him.
Uh they'll say the same things they said about Reagan, that he's not smart enough in this regard, that he's uh shoots in the hip.
They'll say we don't want Trump's finger near the nuclear button.
They'll try it all.
This is uh it's a easy it's an easy prediction to make.
Thanks for the call.
Back after this, folks.
I'll tell you one of the things that you need to think about.
If you're if if you're gonna think ahead and you're gonna imagine Trump is a nominee and and how he's gonna be treated, you better also factor how the Republican media is gonna deal with that.
I mean, there's an establishment Republican media, too, sometimes called conservative media, but I'm telling the inside the belt way times.
I mean, they they're not gonna be happy.
The donors are not going to be happy.
And they're not gonna want Trump to win.
And they're not gonna want Ted Cruz to win if he gets nomination.
Some of these people would vastly prefer Hillary Clinton to Trump or Ted Cruz.
Especially Cruz, because Hillary will keep the gravy trainer.
She'll keep the government expanding.
She'll keep spending.
She'll keep using Washington money and K Street lobbyists as special interests will make out like bandits.
Trump, probably less so, but but they still are not going to be happy that they don't have anybody in office with their hooks into.
And that's going to make them very mad.
Very, very mad.
And that could lead to them doing very mean things to undermine.
I mean, they didn't like Reagan.
It was the one thing that kept them at bay with Reagan was that 49 states in landslide proportions loved Ronald Reagan.
They had to bite their lips and bite the bullet and deal with it.
Here is Ray in Plant City, Florida.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm going back to the research, the research that was done about uh eating.
And uh every four years, winter or summer, we set more records in Olympics.
We're bigger, we're faster, we're stronger.
Uh I don't know where they get these these studies.
Of course, I asked the circle of people I live live around.
Have you ever called or looked for the number of a uh a research scientist?
I mean, nobody ever, if they didn't work for the government, I guess they wouldn't have a job.
Maybe we should go ahead and not delay Social Security with everybody dying eating all this stuff.
Go ahead and take it early.
Well, you know, look, the the point that he's making out there is something that I am briefly landed on mere moments ago.
And it's he's bouncing off the story that two diet cokes a day could kill you.
Yes, study of 42,000 human beings, a bunch of Swedish researchers.
They found that two soft drinks, fizzy, has to be fizzy, can't be orange juice, because they say that's good for you.
See the apple juice.
It's got to be fizzy, carbonated.
Um with sugar, naturally sweetened, whatever they put in there, sugar, it can cause heart disease.
Yes, just two a day.
Just two.
Then the last sentence of the story, researchers are unclear if it's actually the beverages contributing to this or the lifestyle associated with it.
Researchers are unclear means researchers don't know, which means everything that came before it is caca.
So how can it be that the lifespan is growing?
How can it be that athletic performance continues to set records for speed, endurance, strength, power?
How does this happen?
We know that Olympic athletes drink Coke and Pepsi.
We know that all kinds of athletes do.
Uh, these are some of the most popular beverages in the world.
How in the world is this is this explained?
It's a crisis industry.
And the purpose of the crisis, it's this is this is an example of how everything is political, even the things that you think would not be.
This is totally political.
It's political in the sense that in order to fix this problem, we need to empower government to regulate the diet and what is permissible to eat and drink.
And if you doubt me, don't forget that Looney Mayor of New York, who wanted to limit the size of soft drinks, because you didn't have the intelligence yourself to know when too much was too much.
You give them one step inside your door, and you're done.
They'll be controlling every aspect of your life.
They will let you.
You will let them, and they'll be blaming you for everything that goes wrong everywhere.
Just enough time to say we have to go, folks, and thank you once again so much for joining us today.
I know a bunch of great things are gonna be happening between now and tomorrow, so whatever it is, we'll be here and on top of all of it.
Or underneath it, whichever's called for.
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