{"id":10526,"date":"2014-01-03T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-03T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:20:53","slug":"in_1943_laguardia_asked_citizens_to_shovel_snow_in_2014_de_blasio_promises_equal_distribution_of_snow_removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/03\/in_1943_laguardia_asked_citizens_to_shovel_snow_in_2014_de_blasio_promises_equal_distribution_of_snow_removal\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1943, LaGuardia Asked Citizens to Shovel Snow — In 2014, De Blasio Promises Equal Distribution of Snow Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: What I need to know is… Folks, I\u2019m just trying to get the lay of the land here, and nobody is answering my question. Did anybody survive in New York City? That\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to find out. There are survivors in New York City? There are people alive in New York City? Okay, that\u2019s all I wanted to know. I was panicking. I\u2019m watching the news about the blizzard. Do you know you can have a blizzard with no snow now? I got a Drive-By weather babe claiming that.<\/p>\n

Who says you need snow for a blizzard? It\u2019s so bad (we\u2019re being told it\u2019s so bad), I was wondering if anybody lived through it, and I\u2019m happy to learn that people did, in New York City, in the snow. Six to 10 inches. Who woulda thought people could survive that? That\u2019s unbelievable. Six to 10 inches, and people still live and breathe in New York City. Hallelujah! God bless! Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute…<\/p>\n

“He is so snarky! He\u2019s just so mean!”<\/line><\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not mean. Folks, I\u2019m trying to hold onto a sense of sanity and reality and realism in a world literally going nuts out there. Every waking moment is a panic and a crisis. Of course, who is going to save you? You can\u2019t. You\u2019re not capable. Mayors, governors, senators, congressmen, presidents, sanitation departments, they are going to save you. They are going to tell you when to go outside and when not to go outside. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna tell you how to shovel snow (using your knees, not your back). Anyway, it\u2019s gonna be fun. It\u2019s gonna be fun chronicling this communist mayor in New York City. … The mayor of New York City, de Blasio, goes out there today and said that he was gonna make sure (laughing) that there wasn\u2019t gonna be any “unequal distribution of snow removal.” I don\u2019t know if people remember this, but Reuters notes this. Mayor Doomberg was pilloried for his own snow redistribution plan back in 2010. <\/p>\n

Mayor Doomberg was accused of this. With everything going on… I don\u2019t know. It just amazes me. In 2010, Mayor Doomberg was accused of putting too much effort into plowing the streets of Manhattan while letting the snow build up in Brooklyn and Queens, and that led to snow level inequality and snow removal inequality and snow plowing inequality, and we can\u2019t have that. No, sir. <\/p>\n

I mean, the real problem was that the sanitation union was unhappy, and they held back plowing all the streets in protest of budget cuts, and then they blamed it on Doomberg. That\u2019s what was going on. Now, if you happened to hear de Blasio today, every other word de Blasio was bowing down and thanking the good people at the sanitation union. Every other sentence he made sure to thank the people of that union.<\/p>\n

He had 15 of \u2019em standing behind him, the sanitation union. “Oh, what a terrific job they\u2019re doing! They\u2019re doing a great job of equal snow removal,” and he warned the residents of New York, “Do not go out! Don\u2019t do diddly-squat. Make it safe for the sanitation union.” He remembers what happened to Doomberg in 2010. So let\u2019s just go to the audio sound bites. This is last night in Brooklyn. This is where the new mayor lives. He lives in Brooklyn, but this is the Office of Emergency Management. He held a press conference to talk about the winter storm impacting New York that amazingly people survived. Here is a portion of his remarks.<\/p>\n

DE BLASIO: Stay indoors to the maximum extent possible. Stay out of your cars to the maximum extent possible. Don\u2019t go out. We want to make sure people are safe. We want \u2019em to be in a warm location — and, crucially, we want to keep our streets clear so the good men and women of the sanitation department can ensure that our streets are plowed and salted. It\u2019s very important people get home as soon as possible tonight. Get to a safe, warm place. Stay off the streets.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t go out! Whatever you do, do not get in the way of my sanitation union people. By the way, de Blasio also shoveled his own sidewalk today, but he put the snow on a neighbor\u2019s sidewalk. (Just an aside.) He made a point of saying, “Well, yeah, my son takes the first stretch of sidewalk, then I pick it up from that point,” but make sure you don\u2019t use salt because that could harm neighborhood pets! <\/p>\n

You have to use a pet-free snow-melt pellet or a pet-safe snow-melting pellet, and it\u2019s green. Don\u2019t dare put salt on it! It\u2019s bad for neighborhood pets. Did you know that? Yeah, well, it is. I\u2019m gonna go back to 1943, just for contrast here. We have mayor Fiorello LaGuardia speaking to citizens about the preparations for snow in 1943. Remember what you just heard. You just heard the current mayor, de Blasio, beg people, “Stay off the street! Get home! Go someplace warm! Cuddle up! Do not get in the street. Do not get in the way. Don\u2019t do anything. Just stay out of the way.”<\/p>\n

In 1943, this was the New York City mayor…<\/p>\n

LAGUARDIA: We must keep the streets of our city open for the delivery of food supplies, war materials, and readily accessible for our fire department. Therefore, I am appealing to the people of this city to volunteer in assisting us to keep open the sewer basins located at every street intersection and also to keep the crosswalks in as good condition as possible for the pedestrians. And we are also appealing to volunteers, volunteers who will be willing to do a little snow shoveling right in their own block.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So back in 1943, 71 years ago, the mayor of New York said (summarized), “Get out there. Lend a hand and help everybody. Help us. Help us in the city. Help the fire department. Help us do the crosswalks. Do your own sidewalk. Keep it safe for everybody. Let\u2019s all work together.” This mayor says, “Don\u2019t go outside. It\u2019s unsafe. You might die. Do not use salt instead of pet-safe snow melting pellets. Keep the street safe for sanitation. You do not go outside!”<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing, the contrast. It\u2019s nothing more than just a little interesting contrast. Now back to the current mayor, de Blasio, this is this morning on Channel 2 Eyeball News CBS TV, special coverage of the snowstorm of 6 to 10 inches. Again, breaking news: People survived. Correspondent Weijia Jiang interviewed de Blasio while he was outside his house shoveling snow. She said, “Before the storm even hit, you said it was very personal for you because you could feel it. You said it was personal because you could see it, and you saw mistakes in the past. So what did you learn that you\u2019re gonna apply for the rest of today and tomorrow, Mr. Mayor?”<\/p>\n

DE BLASIO: We\u2019re gonna make sure that we\u2019re very proactive when we have these situations and I\u2019m just not gonna allow, you know, certain neighborhoods to suffer while other neighborhoods are clear. We\u2019re gonna move the resources that we have where they\u2019re needed to make sure that people get served.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: We are going to have equal distribution snow removal. We are not going to have neighborhoods suffer. (interruption) What? Let me guess. Snerdley\u2019s looking at me, and he\u2019s the giving me a “be careful” expression on his face. I understand a snowstorm killed John Lindsay and so forth. I know Queens and Staten Island usually do get the shaft, and times, but Brooklyn won\u2019t now because the mayor lives there. No, I understand.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the media of New York is making a big deal of it. “Oh, no! The first day in office and a major snowstorm could kill an administration if he doesn\u2019t do it right.” So he\u2019s out there. You have to understand, though, Snerdley, with liberals anymore, it doesn\u2019t matter what they do. It\u2019s all what they say. Not one thimble of snow could be removed, as long as he\u2019s out there saying it\u2019s gonna be equal.<\/p>\n

The sanitation department could take the day off, and as long as he\u2019s on TV saying, “I\u2019m gonna make sure that there\u2019s no unequal snow removal. We\u2019re going to have an equal distribution of snow removal,” as long as he says that, the citizens of New York are gonna be hunky-dory and fine with no matter what the reality is, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t matter what the reality is. All that matters is what the politician says and saying the right thing can indicate what\u2019s in his heart. <\/p>\n

You know, liberals get credit for good intentions, and that\u2019s about it, because everything they do fails. I think the Limbaugh Theorem applies at the local level as well as it does to Obama. You just say, you just act, you just promise what you\u2019re gonna do, whether you do it or not. Let\u2019s see. This is a sound bite from the CBS 2 Eyeball News, the weather babe. Sorry. Not babe. “Caster.” (interruption) What is so funny? (interruption) Yeah, but it\u2019s not a babe. It\u2019s Lonnie Quinn. Anyway, it\u2019s a portion of the chief weathercaster, Lonnie Quinn, talking snowstorm impacting New York City. This is the bite where he says you don\u2019t even need snow falling for it to be called a blizzard now.<\/line><\/p>\n

QUINN: What makes a blizzard a blizzard? Well, for three hours you have to have at least 35-mile-per-hour winds or stronger, either sustained or gusting frequently and your visibility has gotta be down to a quarter of a mile. But notice it says nothing there about snowing. It does not have to be snowing in order have a blizzard. It\u2019s the snow that\u2019s already on the ground being picked up by the strong winds and blown everywhere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You don\u2019t need any snow falling for there to be a blizzard. You don\u2019t need snow for a blizzard. So it\u2019s a blizzard with 6 to 10 inches of snow. When I grew up, 6 to 10 inches was not a blizzard. I know. (interruption) You know what? We went to school in 6 inches of snow. As long as there wasn\u2019t any ice, we went to school with 6 inches or 10 inches. Yeah. Anyway, folks, what this is all about is how soft the culture is becoming. That\u2019s all this is about.<\/line>