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| May 1, 2008 |
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Story #1: Democrats Plan Pro-Illegal Immigration Protests
RUSH: There are other troubles within the Democrat Party as well. Two parts of the Democrat Party coalition -- illegal immigration activists and the civil rights bunch -- are feeling ignored. They're mad that the immigration debate has fizzled as a campaign issue. Luis Gutierrez, head of a Chicago pro-illegal immigrant group, said, "[I]t's a touchy subject." So his organization and others are planning a series of public demonstrations that they hope will revive their movement. I think some of them I've seen on television today. Big mistake. Hey Luis? Your sense of timing is horrible. Rallies took place today.
In coming days, they'll take place in Miami and Houston, Los Angeles, and other cities. Representatives from the Reverend Jackson's Operation PUSH and Calypso Louie's Nation of Islam are expected to join the struggle for the first time, and they've also invited a bunch of gay activists. So the whole kitchen sink of the Democrat Party protest arm is being brought into this illegal immigration debate. You have to admit, if you look at this objectively, these guys have a point: Illegal immigration has been largely ignored during the election cycle. But you guys on the immigration side and the civil rights side -- your plan is too small! Nobody's going to care. We got the Kentucky Derby coming up this weekend. The baseball season is in full swing, the NBA playoffs. Plus we got the campaign between Hillary and Obama. Nobody's going to notice your pathetic little protests in these towns. You have to organize better than this! There's limited value here in these demonstrations, only a thousand people at best are going to show up.
Listen to me. I cannot believe how much help that I am offering the Democrat Party, and I'll tell you what this means. All of you people that think that the Democrats are invincible and that they're always a day or two or week or two ahead of us and that they're just brilliantly organized? This is the most disorganized group I've seen in a while in politics. They are in total disarray. Mr. Gutierrez and the rest of you forming this group -- the big political story this year is going to be the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Every liberal worth his or her salt is going to be there. You activists ought to be there, too. Bring Louis Farrakhan. This guy by himself can pull off a Million Man March! You need somebody that can gather a million people to protest whatever it is you're mad about, and the only place to do this is Denver in August. Bring Jesse Jackson, bring the gay activists. Bring every leftist group that you can think of. Put millions of people out. You have a presidential convention here. You're upset that illegal immigration is not part of the presidential campaign? There's one place to take this grievance: Denver, August, Democratic National Convention. Bring Reverend Wright! This guy can light up a crowd! We have seen this. I'm so disappointed in the way the Democrats are running their affairs these days, and it's really pathetic that I have to be the one to give them advice on how to do it right.
Story #2: Punky Limbaugh Makes the Shiny Sheet
RUSH: Oh, I have to tell you what I saw! My cat, Punky, made the front page of the Palm Beach Daily News on Wednesday. I was very proud.  Not only did my cat make the front page, she made the back page. Yes, pictures of Punkin. The Palm Beach Daily News is a local newspaper here. We on the island call it the Shiny Sheet because the front page used to be shiny, but they've gone cheap and they just use regular paper now. So it's no longer shiny, but it's still called the Shiny Sheet. Anyway, I ran into the woman that writes the animal stories. I mean, this is a local newspaper. You lose a cat, you can call the paper and they'll put a notice; it's quaint. It's sort of like the way it was when I was growing up in the '50s. Nevertheless, I ran into the woman who writes the animal stories every now and then in the Palm Beach Daily News at a party.
She said, "I understand you have a cat?" I said, "Yes, I do. Punky." She replied, "Well, if you'll send me a picture, I'll put a story in there, put a little picture." So I sent her a picture, and she said, "How would you describe Punkin?" Now, you've heard this line; I said, "Well, she's the greatest cat. She's just the greatest little cat. She gets fed. She is loved. She is adored. She is worshiped. She gets constant attention. She gets brushed every day, and she doesn't have to do anything for it. This cat has taught me more about women than anything in my life." And she printed it! Ha, ha! She printed that as the caption! So much for humanizing me with the cat! Ha, ha! She also threw in the joke that the cat mostly sleeps on its right side, but that the cat and I don't really argue about politics too much.
Story #3: Mrs. Clinton Can't Work Coffee Machine!
RUSH: Folks, have you seen the videotape of Mrs. Clinton trying to figure out how to get a cup of coffee at that Marathon gasoline station? Now, normally they don't show videotape like this in the Drive-By Media unless it is a Republican that they are trying to portray as out of touch, such as when George Bush 41 went to the grocery store and had never seen a scanner. I mean, he's president of the United States -- there's no grocery store he can go into, so he hadn't seen one of those scanners, but the Drive-Bys had a field day: "Oh, Bush is out of touch." And they always have these trick questions they ask Republicans, like, "What's the price of a gallon of milk?" "I don't know. My wife handles that." "You're out of touch, then!" They never do this stuff with Democrats.
But the angle on this coffee video! I mean, they got a big shot of Mrs. Clinton's rear end, as she was bending over trying to figure out how the coffee machine worked. This is unprecedented! This is unparalleled! This illustrates just how in the tank the Drive-Bys are for Barack Obama. Aside from that, I don't know too many women who do not know how to operate a coffee machine, anywhere. So not only is she out of touch on what goes on in the latest technological developments at Marathon gas stations, she's out of touch on women things, like making coffee. (Hee, hee.) And in this case, the coffee was already made! All you have to do is put the cup up there and hit the button and let it squirt out, but she couldn't figure that out. She probably said, "Where's the pot? Somebody didn't put the pot back." "No, Mrs. Clinton, there's a push button there, just a little red or green button, put the cup under there, comes streaming out. It's sort of like milking a cow. You've milked a cow before, haven't you?" Anyway, I was just surprised to see it, and they're showing it over and over again.
Story #4: Happy May Day: Snowstorm in Colorado
RUSH: What the hell is that! Look at that snowstorm moving through! What is this, May 1st? Colorado -- westbound lanes of I-70 closed just west of Denver. Global warming!
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Story #5: Obama Walks Fine Line in Search of White Vote
RUSH: Boston Globe: "Obama Walks Fine Line in Quest for White Votes; Campaign Curtails Stops in Black Communities -- The walls of Simmons' Fourth Ward restaurant [in Charlotte, North Carolina] are covered with faded clippings and autographed photos of black celebrities who squeezed into the diner for fried chicken, ribs, and smothered pork chops. R&B singer Patti LaBelle is on the wall. ... Danny Glover ... Evander Holyfield. One face is missing: Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate and man of the hour in the black community. Over the din of the lunchtime crowd, owner Torrence Simmons, 53, said he has tried to get Obama to visit before Tuesday's  North Carolina primary, but the Illinois senator's campaign told him he could not fit in a stop. Simmons said he also knows that Obama can't be too closely identified with the black community if he wants to attract white, blue-collar voters -- a constituency Obama has lost decisively in recent primaries. ... Obama has cut back on his campaigning in the African-American community in the months since his highly publicized speech at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta -- even as black voters in places like Charlotte are mobilizing on his behalf as never before."
It kind of makes sense. If you got the group wrapped up, why waste your time there? You have to spend time with the people that you're missing. But he's going to have a tough time now with the Reverend Wright stuff getting these blue-collar voters. So he's abandoning his core constituency group here in North Carolina, and Mrs. Clinton's creeping up there. She even has a two-point lead in one poll. But, see, this goes back to my brilliant first hour address to the Democrat Party superdelegates: Barack is black, yes, but he's also a Democrat -- and who's he taking for granted and casting aside and ignoring? Blacks. They're going to vote for him anyway, and he knows this. I mean, where else are they going to go? So he doesn't spend time with them. I think Barack and his dissing of the black vote in North Carolina is a microcosm of how the national Democrat Party takes for granted how blacks are always going to show up for the Dems no matter what damage they inflict on them. In this case, the damage is simply hurt feelings -- the restaurant guy would love to have Obama's picture on the wall up there next to other noted celebrities like Danny Glover, but nevertheless, Obama is going to disappoint them and not show up.
Story #6: Senator McCain Proposes Millions in Spending
RUSH: "Republican John McCain is making promises that would cost billions of taxpayer dollars, yet he is vague about how he would pay for them." I read that and said, "This is who?" This is Libby Quaid in the Associated Press. There are days this stuff doesn't bother me, but more often than not, it does. McCain's offering this and that, and Hillary's offering this and that, and Obama's offering this and that, but the question is: How are we gonna pay for it? Tax cuts! Reduced prices to consumers via tax cuts, but, "How are we gonna pay for it?" How about: "Could we all consider that the federal government acting like the rest of us?" If you don't have it, you don't spend it! Could you just do with a little less for once? What is this notion that it has to be paid for? Do you realize we're so far gone that government is the one thing that's exempt from spending restraint?
They produce nothing, and yet they are exempt. "Why, we're going to spend $3 trillion this year!" They're talking about reducing the gas tax. -- I don't care whether it's a good idea or not -- and there's abject panic: "Oh, how we going to pay for it?" How about just not spending it? Just do without it for a while, what everyone else has to do? You know, I detest this. I detest that we've gotten to this point where government cannot do with less, and so many people think that that's true because the government's doing so much for us. "And, Mr. Limbaugh, if the government has to get rid of that revenue from the gas tax, what happens if a bridge fails? Huh, Mr. Limbaugh? What happens? This is what people think. They have no idea how much money we're swimming in.
Story #7: Ocean Cooling to "Briefly Halt" Global Warming
RUSH: Global warming news, ladies and gentlemen. Get this story. This is from Bloomberg.com: "Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say." Now, stick with me on this. "Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said. Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic." Now, okay. On its surface, what does that say? It says that there are natural cooling cycles. Even when we, ostensibly, are pouring all of these pollutants into the atmosphere warming the planet to near destruction, there are natural cooling cycles, and we have nothing to do with this. I mean, I don't think we can create whitecaps. They kind of just happen out there. I don't think we can affect ocean flows or currents, either.
Besides, there's a new study in Nature magazine (reported on in the Telegraph) that basically says the same thing: "Global Warming May Stop." The positive side here is somebody's actually published that there is natural climate variability, which is my point in this other story. But there are a few questions, however, that arise from such an unexpected publication. Number one, are scientists covering themselves in case it doesn't warm up as they are predicting in the next five to ten years? That way they can say, "Well, it's not warming now, but you just wait 'til 2012." Number two, if they are or were so certain that global warming would continue steadily but now have changed their minds, how do we know that scientists won't be predicting global cooling in five years? There's a lot of buzz and e-mail going around about this Nature article, and it has this conclusion: "Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic [manmade] warming."
Now, one angle being discussed about this is very simple. If we have a climate model that produces no global warming (and that has to be what this is because they're predicting the next ten years), then there's got to be a model that's predicting no warming, right? There has to be a model that predicts no global warming, and yet it's still consistent with global warming. If they can do that, then they can do anything. They can say anything is consistent with global warming. In other words, the climate models have no skill. They're simply used to explain away whatever one wants to, depends on who is paying him or her, while still claiming that manmade warming will eventually catch up to us.
Another angle that I don't think anybody's mentioned is this: If scientists now admit that natural cooling processes like these ocean/current flows can temporarily hide or cancel or balance out manmade global warming, then natural warming is possible, too. Well, if there are natural cooling cycles, then there must be natural warming processes, not manmade. So how could we ever know that any warming we see isn't just natural? There was an example that was given, a story recently, within the past six months, a guy was talking about the need to steer hurricanes. He had this process, I don't know, sulfur dioxide, whatever he was going to do, was going to bombard hurricanes, and this was going to steer them. But he couldn't say for sure, you'd have to bombard a certain quadrant of the hurricane and then the theory is it will turn in some direction.
Well, so many questions arise. In the first place, we would have to not bombard the hurricane with these particles before we bombarded it to see where it went without us. How do we know that bombarding it actually caused the turn? We could never know, unless it actually works in every hurricane we tried. Then, how do we know how much bombardment is necessary to turn it, and what happens to the people where it ends up being turned to? The point is, with nature, we can never know if we had any effect on it or not, because after we've decided to do something, we can never know what would have happened had we not done it. So it would be impossible to come up with conclusive scientific evidence that what we did steered a hurricane. Well, it's the same thing here. If there are natural cooling cycles, there have to be natural warming cycles, and if there are natural warming cycles, then it is also entirely possible that we have nothing to do with them, by definition.
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