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I always say, ever since I've been guest hosting this show, and people say, well, what kind of job is it where you just work like five days a year?
You come down from the hills every couple of months and do three hours little light radio work guest hosting.
You conservatives are all supposed to be about the work ethic.
What kind of job is it that involves us working five days a year and sitting around claiming welfare the rest of it?
Well, I've always said there's absolutely no point competing with Rush on radio because he is the best.
He is the master.
He has been doing it for decades and he is unsurpassable at what he does.
And you'd have to be a chump to try and compete with him in that.
But I thought television might be a little easier.
And so I've actually started a new television show, which we've called the Mark Stein Show.
That was a bit of a shock to me because I suddenly realized, oh, it's not guest hosting anymore.
And apparently, we're doing a show this Friday.
I think that's right.
Is that right?
Because I thought we'd have a guest host in for the first show.
But apparently my TV show is going to be on air this Friday.
And I also, I'll be here on the radio this Friday, too, because Buck Sexton and I, there's so many guest hosts around at the moment that you've got the guest host guest hosting for the guest hosts.
Buck Sexton and I swapped a couple of days, so we had guest hosts covering for other guest hosts.
And as a result, I'll be here.
I'll be doing a radio show on Friday, and then I'll be guest hosting for Buck, guest hosting for Rush.
And then I'll be doing a television show a little later on Friday.
That's like the hardest I've worked since I was 15 years old and working on the farm one summer.
So that is going to be brutal for me, and we'll see how it goes.
I mentioned just before the top of the hour that Putin undoubtedly hacked into the sound system and humiliated Mariah Carey before the world in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
I mean, I really felt for her, you know, because she was supposed to be, what was she supposed to be lip-syncing to?
What was the name of the song?
I can't remember what, so it wasn't all I want for Christmas is you.
It was one of the other ones.
But whatever it was, she started lip-syncing to the wrong song because Putin had beamed, it was beaming electrons into her brain, making her mess up the lip-syncing.
And it's terrible.
And people say, oh, that's ridiculous.
You're just being ridiculous now.
You're not taking this seriously.
That's just fake news to suggest that Putin hacked into Mariah Carey's cleavage and wrecked her lip syncing.
That's completely, there's no evidence for that.
Well, this story appeared in the Washington Post on Friday.
On Friday, the Washington Post, this is a story in Forbes by Kalev Litaru.
On Friday, the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline, Russian hackers penetrated US electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.
And as you know, if you know IStation EIB, which is right on the Vermont-New Hampshire border, and the piece of wet string that we depend on to connect IStation EIB to Mike down in New York, whence it goes over to California and from there up to the satellite, all depends on this piece of wet string connecting IceStation EIB with a public utility in Vermont.
So I was shocked by this, the idea that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont.
Because as you know, in this part of the world, if a tree rustles and touches the line, the power goes out in six counties.
And the idea that that was all Putin's fault, suddenly it all makes sense.
You know, you always hear these things like Superstorm Sandy, which hits a beach down in New Jersey, and like the power is off in southern New Hampshire for a week.
And when you say, oh, that's ridiculous.
How could Superstorm Sandy possibly affect power outages in southern New Hampshire?
Well, it wasn't anything to do with the weather.
It turned out to be Putin.
The Washington Post told me.
Russian hackers, here's the headline.
Russian hackers penetrated US electricity grid through a utility in Vermont.
US officials say, while the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation's electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.
Now this was Burlington Electric.
So this is Bernie Sanders Electric Company.
So according to the Washington Post, Bernie Sanders Electric Company is working for the Russians.
It all makes sense to the Washington Post.
Burlington Electric Company.
And so I'm watching the local news and I get channel because of the way the wind blows, the only TV network I get is basically Channel 3 news from Burlington, Vermont.
And there's not a lot of stories on the news.
It's a quiet state.
So the stories are all about Ben and Jerry or Bernie and Howard.
That's it.
Ben, Jerry, Bernie, Howard.
That's it.
That's all there is to talk about.
And suddenly, the local news guy is doing all these labored puds like Burlington Electric is normally, when it comes to fighting storms, it normally means snow and rain and ice and that kind of thing.
But now the storm they're fighting is a firestorm caused by the Washington Post saying they've been hacked by Putin and Putin is controlling the entire American electrical grid through hacking into Burlington Electric Company.
It's not true.
They found some kind of malware on one laptop at this Burlington Electric Company.
The electric company says it wasn't even the laptop isn't even connected to the grid.
It's just a guy getting some email saying, you know, see foxy Ukrainian women click here.
Or, you know, yes, I am Honorable Prince Abu Jabi bin Abjabi, former oil minister of Nigeria, and I have $38 million that I urgently need to transfer into your bank account.
Please provide details.
And the guy, instead of just deleting it, clicked on it and he got this little in amongst all the other rubbish that's in everybody's laptops all the time.
Just from clicking here, clicking there, clicking there, and suddenly you've got all these little bits of the little all little bits of malware and spyware and all the rest of it all floating around.
Everybody's got it in all their computers.
The Washington Post story was nonsense from beginning to end.
Putin does not control the Burlington Electric Company.
Yes, when I said he'd hacked into Mariah Carey's cleavage and wrecked her lip sinking, you can take that to the bank because there's more evidence for that than the evidence that Putin hacked into the electric grid.
And if the Washington Post, which eventually had to sort of dial back its story, they were basically set up.
And again, you wonder how often does this have to happen to mainstream journalists?
They're played for saps and patsys and rubes by the guys you support.
So these fellas at the Washington Post, they've got some contacts in the so-called national security apparatus, which in America is like 4 million people.
So it's the population of New Zealand that can actually claim to be spooks here.
So two of these 4 million people say, oh, yeah, you know, Bernie Sanders Electric Company.
You know, Bernie just bought a vacation house in the Lake Champlain Islands.
Why do you think that was?
It's because Putin's hacked in through his electric poll and is now controlling the US electric grid via hacking into the Burlington Electric Company.
It never happened.
And amongst all the hundreds of pieces of malware and spyware in the Burlington area, one employee of the Burlington Electric Company had a piece of this particular spyware and it wasn't connected anywhere near to the grid.
Just for the record, like everywhere in New England, the electric power is controlled not by the commies, not by the Ruskies.
It's controlled by the Quebecois.
It all comes from Hydro-Quebec up by James Bay.
And if something goes funny in your electricity in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, it's because some Frenchie up in James Bay threw half his unfinished poutine into the water and it's blocked all the hydroelectric power.
And that's got more truth in it, that statement, than anything you're going to read in the Washington Post about Putin hacking into the Burlington Electric Company.
We are living under an epidemic of fake news in which the fake, fakiest fake news story of all is the idea that Putin is in the U.S. electric grid via Bernie's electric company.
And the question is, how much?
One of the interesting features of this election was that Trump demonstrated he doesn't go to the people via his tweets.
What he's doing is actually, because most of the people on Twitter, Twittering back and forth all day, and most of the people following Twitter are actually media people.
If you notice, every lame show has, and now we go to our social media feature, where we look at what's trending on Twitter.
We're going to hash it out.
We're going to hashtag it out on Twitter.
We're going to have here's our corned beef and hashtag segment in which we keep you up to speed on what's happening on Twitter.
And they're the only guys following Twitter.
And effectively, what Trump does by going to Twitter and tweeting is he's hacking into the American media's head and sending them off running around in circles, obsessing about some tweet of his someday.
That's the main reason he does it.
And then they all go bananas over some tweet of his.
And meanwhile, what else is out there just doesn't get reported.
But the American media damaged themselves.
And in faking up this story now, for which there is no evidence other than a politicized leakers in the administration attempting to plant bogus stories suggesting that a Vermont electric company, I saw that.
That was one of the late period Roger Moore Bond films when, frankly, the plots no longer made sense.
You know, you remember what was, what was that?
What was that?
The spy, was it The Spy Who Loved Me or Octopussy, where Bond has to parachute in to Bernie Sanders' Bond villain lair in the Lake Champlain Islands, and he has to crawl into the basement and get into where the power lines come into the house to prevent the Russians taking over the entire U.S. electric grid.
Faky fake news and the Washington Post got played for sats.
Mark Stein for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for Rush, behind the golden EIB microphone today, let us go to Jack in Tucson, Arizona.
Jack, you're live on the Rush Limbo Show.
Great to have you on.
Good day, Mr. Stein.
You have a great sense of humor, sir.
Well, you need it in these difficult times.
I have a story that you might find kind of humorous.
We have a very prestigious bicycle race in Tucson, Arizona.
It's called El Tour de Tucson.
It circles the city.
It's 106 miles.
We have 10,000 entries from all over the world.
Now, the guy that won, he was from South America.
He won in four hours and 30-some minutes.
And then there were two women fighting it out for the ladies' crown.
And one won it by less than three seconds.
Two days after the race, when everybody's gone, it's all over.
It comes out that the lady that won was actually a man that is a transgender, I think the word is they're using these days.
Yeah.
There were some grumblings about it, and this and that, and it went on for a while.
But then it kind of calmed down.
Like, you know, maybe today society is just accepting it.
The next Sunday, there was an article in the paper that said transgender cyclists win fairer than it seems.
And it told his story from 2012 to 2015 when he really applied himself to be a great cyclist.
Well, if you take out the stuff in the middle about the training, all of a sudden he had a revolution in his life that he was his gender was wrong.
And so he switched over to being a woman, not physically, but mentally.
And it kind of broke down to he trained for three or four years, but he couldn't cut it.
He couldn't be a winner as a man.
And then he, so he started to race as a woman.
And I got to tell you, bottom line is I think they ruined a wonderful, wonderful race they've had here for many, many years.
What's your line on that, sir?
Well, it's becoming there's an incentive as this person, and Jack, you know, you've just opened up a whole pit of hell for yourself by mispronouning this first-place ladies finisher in Tucson, because you just went he, he, he.
I'm kind of nervous all the way through.
But you're absolutely right here is that there is incentivizing people because the reason for separate men's and women's trophies in sport is because men and women have physiological differences.
The motorbike had two kickstands.
Yep.
And then the minute you say to people, well, it's not about the physiological differences.
It's whether you identify as a man or identify as a woman.
So you can have someone with the physiological strength of a man who decides they're fed up competing in Grand Slam tennis tournaments and never getting anywhere.
And so they're going to instead play in the women's tournament and they're going to become the ladies' champion.
It's becoming more and more common.
At the Rio Olympics, I think at least two of the United Kingdom's athletes were transgender persons who identified as female and so competed in the female things.
I don't even know.
If you're coming from one of these countries, like India has the worst Olympic record of anywhere on the planet because Indians per capita have the lowest number of medals in the Olympic Games.
So if you were someone from India, why couldn't you identify as an American and then just put yourself in with a much better chance of winning a medal?
I mean, once people self-define the whole point of things like the Tour de Tucson and the Olympics, they become completely pointless because they're about competitions between people who are starting from the same point.
And if you have a competitor with the physiological strength of a man competing against women, that competitor is a huge advantage, as happened in some little girls' school competition, some high school up in Alaska as well.
I can't remember what the sport was now, but again, it was won by the transgender girl.
And what's interesting to me, Jack, just as a final point on this business, is that when we talk about transgender, it's almost always female to male.
And I believe it's something like six female to male transitions for every six male to female transitions for every single female to male transitions.
In other words, there's six Caitlin Jenners for every chas bono.
And so it's part of a great net transfer.
It goes back to what we were talking earlier about the men's project at the University of Wisconsin.
It's a part of the great net transfer from men to women that is going on remorselessly.
And there is a logic to it, and there will be a lot of other people, particularly because a lot of this brainwashing starts in kindergarten and first grade.
There will be an awful lot of people who are incentivized, essentially, to embark on that process in the brave new world we're living in.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush returns live, live on, I think it's May 23rd, June the 16th, something like that.
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It comes out every month.
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And to subscribe to the Limbaugh letter, it's a great way to start the year, great way to start the year.
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I want to say something about a woman I have a tremendous respect for.
She's a lady called Judith Curry, who's a climate scientist at Georgia Tech.
And she today retired from Georgia Tech.
And the reason she gave was the quote craziness in the field of climate science, unquote.
She said that I no longer know what to say to students about how to navigate the quote craziness in the field she's worked in all her life.
She is a very eminent and distinguished climate scientist.
And she is not a so-called global warming denier or anything like that.
She was someone who more or less took the side of the consensus until the ClimateGate emails came out a few years ago between shysters at the University of East Anglia over the Atlantic and from fellows like Michael Mann at the Penn State University over at this.
I should say full declaration, Michael Mann, who's the hockey stick huckster, he's the one who came up with this very damaging cartoon climatological graph, the hockey stick, that is the single most damaging scientific graph of the 21st century.
And full disclosure, the guy has been suing me for saying his graph is a fraud for four years now.
I think we get to the we begin the fifth year in a couple of months time.
And Judith Curry was someone who broadly subscribed to the climate change consensus until she saw the emails and what they revealed about the collusion and ethical malodorousness of the most prominent self-promoters in the climate field.
And so she just opened herself up to a wider range of reading.
She felt that these people were unethical, that whatever you, whether or not what they did was criminal, whether or not what they did merited the cutting off of their grant money, it's not something decent people should do.
It's improper.
That's all.
She's not a crazy person.
She's not a big denier.
She's not anything like that.
She just realized that the so-called consensus was enforced by thuggery and faking of the peer review process and all kinds of other things.
So she started reading more widely and she has come to conclude, as the models, the climate models about global warming have been proven to be wrong, wrong, wrong, she has come to conclude that there are far more uncertainties out there than she thought.
And as a result of that, she has been demonized.
Actually, sometimes in the crudest and most sexist terms.
Michael Mann, this hockey stick huckster who's suing me, Mann, for example, linked to a piece by some lunatic, some anonymous lunatic claiming that this climate scientist, Dr. Curry, and I were actually sleeping together.
And Michael Mann, this hockey stick huckster, linked to that favorably from his Twitter account or Facebook account or whatever it was.
So she's borne up under tremendous strain.
I had the privilege of testifying with her at the United States Senate.
And I don't think I'd make the mistake of going there ever again, just over a year ago, in which, again, she was in such, she's one of the most distinguished people in her field.
One of the most distinguished people in her field.
And this Democrat senator, Ed Markey from Massachusetts, grossly insulted her during this hearing.
She was the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
She was the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmosphere and Oceans, co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee, super respectable.
But because she dissents from the big climate orthodoxy, the climate mullers smash her down in the crudest, sexist terms, like this buffoon man linking to something that claims Judith Curry and I are sleeping together.
And so we happen to be, we weren't sleeping together, but we were just testifying together at the United States Senate.
And Senator Ed Markey insults her.
You can find this on the internet.
It's on YouTube.
Insults her.
Again, this preening blowhard of a senator, a man who knows nothing about climate science unless he's reading the lines fed to him by 140 staffers sitting behind him, he puts her down and she wants to respond.
This is one of the 100 most so-called most powerful men, 100 men who are selected out of 300 million people to be senators.
And you go and testify at the United States Senate.
You're invited to testify and you go at your own expense.
It costs you several thousand dollars in airfare and hotel rooms and all the rest.
And he insults her and dismisses her.
And then she raises her hand to say she wants to respond.
And he says, no, I didn't ask you for, I didn't ask you to respond, so you're not allowed to respond.
Again, that doesn't happen in real parliaments.
It only happens in this ludicrous United States Senate where the rules of the preening blowhards is that they can urinate all over you.
And if you shake it off and say, hey, I'd like to try and return a shot, they say, no, I'm sorry.
Unless I ask you a question, you're not allowed to speak.
It doesn't happen in real parliaments.
I've spoken in the Australian Parliament and the Danish Parliament and the Canadian Parliament.
There, if you go and testify at a hearing, it's all give back and forth.
And a senator has to be, or a legislator has to be nimble on his feet.
He doesn't have the rules stacked all in his favor.
So she said, I'd like to ask a question.
And he said, I didn't ask you.
I'm not going to let you ask you.
And I pushed back.
I said, well, wait a minute.
You've just smashed her down.
What kind of guy?
What kind of man?
What kind of man, to go back to the theme of the last hour, what kind of man insults a woman?
And then he's so insecure in his own manhood, like this guy, Markey from Massachusetts, big senator, big senator who can't ask a question without 140 staffers feeding him the lines to read.
Then he doesn't, he won't even let the lady, the gentleman, the gentleman who's booted the lady in the gut won't even let the lady have a chance to respond.
So I kicked up and complained about this, and we forced him to back down, and he did let Judith Curry respond.
And she had the better of the argument there with Ed Markey, who turns out to know nothing about climate science.
She has to put up with this, this institutional thuggery that goes on at every level, where if you dissent on the subject of climate science, you are accused of everything.
In her case, you're accused of being a whore and all these other misogynist terms.
And she finally had enough and she resigned today.
And these people who enforce the big climate orthodoxy that has been wrong now, continuously wrong, since this century began.
And they're insecure about it because they got it wrong.
And the graphs they drew for us in the late 20th century never happened.
The world's climate isn't where they told us it was going to be.
And instead of saying, well, maybe that means we need to open up the conversation a bit, they instead smash down everybody who dissents from the party line and then hacks like Ed Markey in Massachusetts and these other senators actually want the power of criminal prosecution to be brought to bear.
on climate scientists who dissent from the climate orthodoxy.
It is one of the most repellent features of the world today that in science, in science, this preening twerp Markey compared the Democrat on the panel to Galileo, to Galileo.
He wasn't Galileo.
The people here who are enforcing a religion and calling it science are Senator Ed Markey and the big climate mullers like the hockey stick guy, Michael E. Mann.
And it's very sad news that a distinguished scientist like Judith Curry cannot actually make a career in climate science in the United States in the second decade of the 21st century because of the big climate thuggery enforced by the climate mullers.
Mark Stein Infra Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, let's go to Mike in the transphobic bastion of North Carolina.
Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you.
Hey, Mark, thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I just wanted to tag on to what the caller from Arizona was talking about.
You know, we've got that HB2 law in North Carolina that's raised such caused us to loser, good governor.
And I just want to comment that the NCAA thought so badly of us that they withdrew all their tournaments from North Carolina.
Right.
And the Atlantic Coast Conference did the same.
And yet my understanding is they will not allow transgender athletes to play on those other sort of teams.
I think it'd be interesting to see if Sylvia Hatchell at the University of North Carolina will recruit some training so she can win another national championship.
Yeah, so you're accusing them.
The NCAA basically want all the progressive cred of being able to express solidarity with the LGBTQ, whatever it is now, movement but they don't actually want to accept the logic of it in their own business which is what it is so in other words they're somewhat hypocritical i mean yeah Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're right, because if the question of what bathroom you use is simply a question of what you identify as, then why shouldn't the question of which athletic team, why should be equally a question of what you identify as?
Why does the National College Athletic Association not let people pick what teams they want to be on according to their identity?
The funny, one of the, I mentioned the Limbaugh letter a few moments ago, Mike, and one of the best conversations, Rush interviewed me for that a couple of years ago, and I was kind of moaning to him at one point that at Super Bowl Sunday, as an unassimilated foreigner, I know absolutely nothing about American sports.
And I was complaining to him that he always takes off the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday.
So I'm usually sitting in and filling in here, and people are asking about it.
And one of the points I made to Rush, and Rush agreed with this, is that, as Rush would say, one of the most chickified areas of American life now is sports, precisely because men value sports so much.
So they build their man caves with the big TV where you can watch all the American football and all the rest of it.
But sports, as Rush says, is one of the most chickified areas of American life because political, the whole worldview of political correctness is about not noticing the obvious.
You can't notice the obvious.
So, for example, if you talk about, for example, the transgender MMA fighter who gave her opponent concussion, and then it subsequently emerges that the MMA fighter is in fact a transgender woman, so that physiologically she's a man.
She has the strength of a male.
And so if you let her beat up women, she'll give this woman concussion.
That's perfectly obvious.
And it ought to be perfectly obvious to any sports commentator.
It ought to be perfectly obvious to any sports franchise.
But the sports, and the American sports world is way ahead of this from sports in other parts of the world.
The American, because political correctness, beyond anything else, is about not noticing the obvious and not saying the obvious, as Rush well knows after his brief period when he was on television talking about the football, you cannot talk about the obvious.
And so it's no wonder that they are actually, The NCAA becomes the biggest posturers and the biggest posers, and they're among the first to say, oh, look, there's a boycott about transgendered bathrooms.
Can we get in on that too?
Can we get in on that too?
It's ridiculous.
And it's about, and it's a useful lesson that the left teaches.
Most people didn't even think about this issue.
And then 10 minutes, 10 minutes after Judge Anthony Kennedy says that those guys in powdered wigs 200 years ago had conveniently anticipated a need for gay marriage, so it's all totally constitutional.
Instead of saying, well, let's put our feet up and let's go to the Bahamas for six weeks and celebrate our gay wedding victory, they say, boom, no, on to the next thing.
And transgendered bathrooms comes on to the next thing.
And all those appeasing Republicans and moderates who say, well, you know, gay marriage isn't the hill to die on.
And transgendered bathrooms isn't the hill to die on.
And, you know, there'll be another hill down the line and that won't be the hill to die on.
And eventually, what happens is the left will hold all the hills and you will no longer even have any ground to fight for.
Mark Stein for Rush will take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
A man in Louisiana has been fired for failing to pay his property taxes on a property he's owned for 30 years.
Well, you know, a lot of people try to get away with that kind of thing.
In this case, he was a man who worked for the Louisiana Tax Commission.
A tax collector at the Louisiana Tax Commission didn't pay taxes on his property for 30 years, and he has now lost his job.