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RUSH: Yes siree, Bob. Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across — hang on just a second. Mix microphone. Bring up the… Good. Okay, again, three, two, one. Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, convers… Bring it down just a little bit. What the hell, hit the jingle. Let\u2019s just get started.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: Live from the Left Coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles, it\u2019s Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes siree, Bob. Here we go, folks! All ready to have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. Your host — your beloved host — is being impugned, lied about, unfairly criticized all over the Drive-By Media. It\u2019s typical, and I can\u2019t wait to play for you the examples. It\u2019s great to have you here. Open Line Friday. Whatever you want to talk about is fair game, fine and dandy. It can be anything at all. It\u2019s 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. Email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Have you ever noticed, ladies and gentlemen, how the… You know, I call them the left, the liberals, the Democrats, whatever. Have you ever noticed how they claim they love Mother Nature? They just love it! They don\u2019t like humanity much because humanity destroys Mother Nature. But they love Mother Nature. But then when Mother Nature does something nasty, like give us a drought or give us a hurricane, it\u2019s not Mother Nature\u2019s fault. No! It\u2019s our fault. It\u2019s mankind\u2019s fault because man has brought about climate change.<\/p>\n

And Mother Nature is merely another poor victim of capitalism and uncaring, unfeeling, mean-spirited, extremist human beings. I just… I look at what has been reported about this hurricane, what was reported before it hit. By the way, for those of you wonder, we dodged the bullet as I knew. Well, I didn\u2019t even any… I look at the models yesterday and the forecast, and I was telling everybody that was asking, “Look, it\u2019s gonna go enough away from us that we\u2019re not gonna get the brunt of this,” and it did. We had some damage where I live…<\/p>\n

Well, no damage. There was one down tree. This is another thing. I got an email, “There\u2019s a tree down on your property!” I said, “Oh, no, really? A tree down? Should I go home?” So somebody sent me a picture. It was the neighbor\u2019s tree and about two feet of it was in the street. So everything is fine. I\u2019m not able to get back home yet for a couple of reasons, but we should be back to normal on Monday up and running. If not, it doesn\u2019t matter, folks. We\u2019ll be here wherever we are. It doesn\u2019t matter where “here” is. We\u2019re here and I will be here.<\/p>\n

But, as of yesterday\u2019s program, we spent a lot of time talking about how there\u2019s a lot of variances in what we\u2019re being told about the high winds, various place like Nassau and Haiti, and then we had on-the-ground reports from those places that were not at all consistent with what we were being told the high and the wind gust and the sustained winds were. So I mentioned this, and at the Huffing and Puffington Post…<\/p>\n

You know, folks, you heard me on this program yesterday. You have to be a special kind of stupid to write… (interruption) What is that? Is somebody farting? What is that? (interruption) It sounds like somebody farting, or putting makeup on, whatever. (interruption) You\u2019re not hearing it? (interruption) There it is again. You didn\u2019t hear that? (interruption) All right. Well, I will try not to be distracted by it. I mean, it\u2019s not overwhelmingly loud, but it sounds like… I\u2019m telling you what it sounds like.<\/p>\n

It sounds like William Shatner\u2019s in here, okay? Well, he\u2019s known for that. On purpose. It\u2019s part of his act. You have to be a special kind of stupid, and actually you can\u2019t blame… (interruption) There it was again. You can\u2019t blame the Huffington and Puffington, \u2019cause their source here is Media Matters, which has defined a special kind of stupid. Here\u2019s how the Huffing and Puffington Post story begins<\/a>: “Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh suggested this week that the National Hurricane Center was playing games with its forecasts to cause false alarms and scare people.<\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s in the interests of the left to have destructive hurricanes so they can blame it on climate change, which they can desperately try to sell,'” they quote me as saying. “While Limbaugh admitted that Hurricane Matthew was a serious storm…” Of course, that doesn\u2019t matter. I “admit” that it\u2019s a serious storm. “…Limbaugh also claimed that it was the first of its kind in more than a decade.” It is! It\u2019s the first major hurricane — and it hasn\u2019t struck land yet, by the way, which is not good \u2019cause it\u2019s not weakening that way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s traveling up the east coast of Florida. “While he was correct that no storms in that time period were major, the so-called hurricane distraught was misleading, according to Weather Channel senior meteorologist Jonathan Erdman.” This is… Anybody honestly assessing this… Who uses the term “hurricane drought” anyway? We just haven\u2019t been hit by any major storms. It\u2019s inarguable. (interruption) Are you hearing that? Okay, somebody just started playing music.<\/p>\n

Literally, it\u2019s as loud as my voice. I don\u2019t know if they can hear this on the broadcast. (interruption) It\u2019s not going out on the air? (interruption) Okay, well, now it\u2019s… It was a guitar riff, like somebody playing some soft, cool jazz tune. (interruption) There it is again. Now it\u2019s a country tune that\u2019s playing. (interruption) Do what? (interruption) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I\u2019m being… I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re being sabotaged here or not, but the engineers cannot hear what I\u2019m hearing in my feed. (interruption) Ah, that\u2019s what… Okay, somebody… (interruption)<\/p>\n

It was not sabotage, and I didn\u2019t think it was sabotage. I just threw it out as a possibility. But somebody had a potentiometer here turned up that should not have been turned up. Volume control, for those of you in Rio Linda. Anyway, who talks in terms of hurricane droughts anyway? There just haven\u2019t been any, and I don\u2019t think that it is disputable that the left is using hurricanes… Do you realize there\u2019s not gonna ever be another normal weather event ever again? A thunderstorm, a tornado, they\u2019re gonna attach… They already do.<\/p>\n

Every standard-operating meteorological event they treat as something special now, as something unexpected, as something unprecedented, and it\u2019s exactly because they have a political agenda attached to this. You know what\u2019s really scary? I think… You know we sit here and we talk about media bias and how the media\u2019s thrown in with the Democrat Party. I think it\u2019s worse than that. I was thinking about this last night. I was looking at all this coverage, the hurricane and how people reacted to what I said yesterday, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s bias.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It is bias, but it\u2019s gone beyond that. I think now that the media exists to defend the state. The media exists to defend the Regime. The media considers itself to be part of the state, the government, whatever term you want to use. But “state” has a special connotation to it in this lingo the way I\u2019m using it. It used to be that the media was suspicious and doubtful. You remember the old phrase — what is it — “holding truth to power” or something?<\/p>\n

But what that meant was that people who are more powerful than the rest of us are gonna get special attention and special accountability, because they had so much power because we had elected them. And they have that much power, so they were gonna be watched and they were gonna be analyzed. That stopped happening. There is no watching. There is no analysis. There is nothing but pure defense of the state. That\u2019s what the media has become. And so here I am.<\/p>\n

The state, in this case, is the commerce department, which is the National Weather Service, which is the National Hurricane Center, which is the National Oceanographic and Aeronautical Association, whatever it is — oh, and NOAA — and they\u2019re out there all saying the same things, and Algore has made a point of pointing out global warming is responsible for stronger hurricanes. And after saying that, we didn\u2019t have any for 11 years. But you can\u2019t escape it — you can\u2019t — any time this hurricane was talked about.<\/p>\n

When they go to talk to a guest, some special meteorologist expert or hurricane specialist, there was always a link to climate change. We had this Ron what\u2019s-his-name from NBC who actually said that the United Nations panel on climate change, once they get the document signed, it\u2019s designed to stop these kinds of hurricanes, and the media doesn\u2019t question it. The media doesn\u2019t oppose it. They don\u2019t question it. They never even doubt it.<\/p>\n

They just report it, and when anybody comes along and does the job the media used to do — which is doubt and suspect what people in power tell us — we get attacked because we are then portrayed as enemies of the state. I think that\u2019s really what\u2019s going on with the media these days, in addition to whatever left-wing bias. But they have now grown to become one with government, one with the idea of Big Government. They consider themselves to be part of it. The fact that they\u2019re all Democrats is icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the power that goes along with being part of the state. It\u2019s the connections. It\u2019s everything. And anybody that comes along with an opposing view — anybody that does not accept whatever the government says about anything — is immediately targeted, held up for ridicule. This is what the media themselves used to do. Now, you know as well as I do that whatever we\u2019re talking about in terms of a hurricane or a major thunderstorm or high winds, nothing is “normal” anymore. Let me ask you this.<\/p>\n

Gauging how successful they\u2019ve been, this hurricane, did you need anybody to make you think about global warming when you first heard about it, or did you automatically say, “You know what? Global warming!” Why did you think it? Because they put it in your mind. They put it in your head. They talk about it so often. Major weather disasters — which used to be normal and constantly occurring — are now portrayed as dramatic, drastic, special, one-of-a-kind. Every damn one of them is one-of-a-kind, and there\u2019s always a reason.<\/p>\n

Humanity is causing it, not Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

Mother Nature has become a victim of humanity. It\u2019s absurd. The whole thing\u2019s 180 degrees out of phase. And I just think it requires a special kind of stupid to be this compliant. It doesn\u2019t take any courage; it doesn\u2019t take any guts. Can you imagine the media being compliant with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan? Can you imagine them not doubting a thing? Can you imagine them thinking they are in the same government with Reagan or Nixon or George W. Bush, take your pick?<\/p>\n

If you agreed with George W. Bush, you were the problem. You were a suspect. You were an enemy of the state. So the state is liberalism, whether it\u2019s in power or not. And anybody that takes an opposite point of view or questions it becomes an enemy of the state. And it\u2019s on that basis that you are reported on. It\u2019s on that basis they tell jokes about you. And it\u2019s all done to discredit critics because the state must never be wrong.<\/p>\n

The state must be infallible, and therefore the journalists reporting for the state — not on the state, not about the state, but reporting for the state — must also be infallible. And somebody questioned them. This no different than questioning the pope. You can\u2019t do it! Except they can. The left can \u2019cause the pope doesn\u2019t conform with the state, particularly when it comes to abortion. So the pope is also an enemy, the Catholic Church is, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t conform with the state.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an enemy of the state, because I have not bought hook, line, and sinker that every drop of rain that falls, every gust of wind over 30 miles an hour is because of climate change and therefore my fault and your fault, \u2019cause that\u2019s flat-out BS. And it takes a special kind of stupid to acquiesce, to go along, to not think in a challenging way, to not be suspicious, to not even question it. And that\u2019s how we get to a point where an NBC reporter can actually tell people that after a piece of paper is signed at the United Nations, hurricanes will be stopped.<\/p>\n

Why wait for that? If we have the ability to stop know to stop hurricanes by signing a piece of paper, why haven\u2019t we signed the piece of paper before? Why didn\u2019t we do it two weeks ago so this wouldn\u2019t have happened? And when it does happen, the hurricane, why don\u2019t we sign up the piece of paper to make it stop then? Why don\u2019t we tell that hurricane, “Stop, Dude. You have just been signed! We are relegating you to irrelevancy.<\/p>\n

“We just signed a piece of paper the United Nations, and you don\u2019t exist!” The hurricane goes away? Doesn\u2019t happen, does it? Why don\u2019t we steer it away from people? Why don\u2019t we steer it away? Why don\u2019t we go out there and make it less strong? Because we can\u2019t, and yet they have made people think that we\u2019re gonna be able to do this, and people are falling for it. Average, ordinary Americans are falling for it because it. It\u2019s reported each and every day; there\u2019s no questioning of it.<\/p>\n