{"id":36045,"date":"2010-08-04T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:09","slug":"classic_rush_see_i_told_you_so_there_was_no_bp_oil_spill_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/04\/classic_rush_see_i_told_you_so_there_was_no_bp_oil_spill_crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rush See, I Told You So: There was No BP Oil Spill Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: The New York Times today: ‘U.S. Finds Most Oil from Spill Poses Little Additional Risk.\u2019 On day 105, on day one, I, El Rushbo, reported that this would not be a major problem, that we weren\u2019t talking about enough oil here compared to the full volume of water in the Gulf of Mexico. And here it is in the New York Times. See, you knew about it. You knew the truth on day one. If you read the New York Times, you don\u2019t know about it until 105 days, if ever. ‘The government is expected to announce on Wednesday –‘ and they have done so with Carol Browner ‘– that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.\u2019 I told you all this on day one and certainly the first week I pointed out this is light crude, it will evaporate quickly, that it will be dispersed.<\/p>\n

Day two I got slammed by Anderson Cooper 210. I got slammed by everybody else in the partisan political media. I got slammed by pretend environmentalists on our side, pseudointellectual greenies on the Republican side, and everybody else says, ‘Oh, my god, Limbaugh\u2019s going to kill us, Limbaugh\u2019s going to kill us on the environmental movement! Doesn\u2019t he realize everybody wants to be green? Limbaugh is embarrassing!\u2019 No, I was only right. We weren\u2019t talking about enough oil to cause any long-term damage, yet mind you this was the worst oil spill in our nation\u2019s history. Remember the regime did nothing for 50 days. They didn\u2019t do a thing other than send some SWAT teams down there to investigate. Oh, and they suspended all drilling, put a moratorium on drilling. A judge twice overruled them, and they still, in defiance of the law, have a moratorium on drilling.<\/p>\n

I told you it was not going to be a problem, that it was not going to be a disaster and yet for 50 days the regime sought to use this spill as a crisis to advance their political agenda. There are too many people on our side of the aisle. I mean, we know who the left is. We know, we know what liberalism is. There are too many people on our side of the aisle who still don\u2019t get what liberalism is, progressivism, the left, whatever you want to call them, that environmental wackoism, that militant environmentalism is simply a new home for displaced communists and Marxists, statists, totalitarians. Here you have the Obama administration, did nothing for 50 days, all the while blaming British Petroleum, or BP. They created an incited panic. There were all kinds of news stories. Remember the oil that was supposed to reach the East Coast of Florida if we didn\u2019t do something about it? They kept media teams on the beaches looking for tar balls, which you can find every day of the year on a Florida beach. There are tar balls every day.<\/p>\n

So here finally the New York Times reports: ‘Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk — A government report finds that about 26 percent of the oil released from BP\u2019s runaway well is still in the water or onshore in a form that could, in principle, cause new problems,\u2019 but it also could in principle not cause problems. The fact is they can\u2019t find the oil. This has been hilarious. This is a teachable moment and it is classic. Most of the oil, as I told you on day one, is a light sheen the ocean\u2019s surface or in a dispersed form below the surface. Federal scientists believe it\u2019s breaking down rapidly in both places and as usual they are shocked and surprised. Nature always cleans itself up eventually. The problems occur when we humans, in a hurry, try to help, think that we\u2019re bigger than nature or, more appropriate, that we are harming nature by virtue of our existence. Was the media played with the oil spill? I mean, were they taken for a ride or were they willing accomplices? I suggest they are willing accomplices. They\u2019re also dunces and they\u2019re predictable. They are uninformed and they\u2019re ignorant and they live in a small little world. It wouldn\u2019t have taken much to play them, but they were right on board for this anyway. Everybody on the left wanted this disaster, wanted this crisis in order to advance their anti-capitalist agenda. And I think it\u2019s very interesting to note, folks, that the environmentalist wackos, in order to advance their agenda, are anti-capitalist. And there are way too many pseudointellectuals on our side of the aisle who do not get it and do not understand it.<\/p>\n

All that talk of plumes, remember this? All the talk of the plumes stretching for hundreds of miles underneath the surface of the Gulf, creating pictures of disaster, Flipper and other fishies swimming into the oil and dying and yet they can\u2019t find the dead fish and they can\u2019t find all the damaged pelicans. There are some, but not disastrous levels. Fish have a sense of smell just like we do. Now, fish do not know that they\u2019re in water, but they can smell oil, and they\u2019re not just idiots that swim right into it. They smell it and they go away from it. We\u2019re not seeing dead fish ‘carci\u2019 float to the surface and float ashore, are we? We can\u2019t find evidence of a disaster. In other words, the New York Times and the rest of the partisan political operative media are saying, ‘Never mind. No big deal.\u2019 Wasn\u2019t all of this just another prime example of leftist distortion, media malpractice, journalistic malpractice? We often hear about the fog of war, but it would seem that the fog of media hysteria is even more dense and more prevalent.<\/p>\n

Whatever happened to Obama\u2019s blue ribbon panel of nonoil experts? Remember this? A blue ribbon panel to look into the damage, to look into the cause, make sure it didn\u2019t happen again, to look into the cleanup. It cost $50 million, this blue ribbon panel. Not one solution ever came out of them. A real leader would have assured us that everything\u2019s going to work out, that everything\u2019s going to be okay, that we\u2019re going to focus on making sure that the oil does not reach shore. That\u2019s where it can cause problems. But we don\u2019t have a real leader. We have an agenda that\u2019s being pushed by a pseudoleader. We have somebody who creates crisis and panic and lives off of it, wants the country roiled, filled with anxiety. I would say here that Mother Earth, ladies and gentlemen, just beach-slapped, the Democrats just beach-slapped the leftists and just beach-slapped the media. <\/p>\n

How can they write these stories and not be at all embarrassed? ”There\u2019s absolutely no evidence that there\u2019s any significant concentration of oil that\u2019s out there that we haven\u2019t accounted for,\u2019 said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the lead agency in producing the new report.\u2019 She was part of the gang predicting disaster at the outset of this but now, quote: ‘There\u2019s absolutely no evidence that there\u2019s any significant concentration of oil that\u2019s out there that we haven\u2019t accounted for.\u2019 They are still looking for it. They can\u2019t find it. ‘She emphasized, however, that the government remained concerned about the ecological damage that has already occurred and the potential for more, and said it would continue monitoring the Gulf.\u2019 Good, they\u2019re going to sit there and look at the Gulf. Keep an eye out for hurricanes while you\u2019re at it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Remember the White House was keeping the media away from the Gulf. Remember Anderson Cooper 94 complaining they couldn\u2019t get down there to cover it. Now we know why. There was nothing to cover. There was no disaster. They couldn\u2019t find any oil. It wasn\u2019t there. But all of you environmentalist wackos, don\u2019t give up hope. There are still grants to be had. From the New York Times: ‘Among the biggest unanswered questions, [Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] said, is how much damage the oil has done to the eggs and larvae of organisms like fish, crabs and shrimp. That may not become clear for a year or longer, as new generations of those creatures come to maturity.\u2019 See? Plenty of grant opportunities. Just ask the federal government for money to study what has become of all the fish in this non-disaster. That\u2019s coded lingo for all the environmentalist wackos to come get their take from the federal government. Your taxpayer dollars at work: Funding all of these wacko environmentalists to do research on a non-disaster.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: What if they gave an environmental disaster and nobody came? That\u2019s what has happened to the BP Deepwater Horizon, the ‘worst environmental disaster in our history.\u2019 They gave an environmental disaster and no one came, and in the New York Times today… This is from their ‘Economix,\u2019 with an X on the end of it, blog site, which claims to be ‘dedicated to explaining the science of everyday life.\u2019 Catherine Rampell is the authorette here. ‘Is Environmentalism a Luxury Good? — Add environmentalism to the long list of things the Great Recession may have successfully pulverized. That is one implication of a new working paper titled ‘Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effect of Recession,\u2019 by Matthew E. Kahn at UCLA and Matthew J. Kotchen at Yale. <\/p>\n

‘Using survey data, it finds that high unemployment rates are associated with less concern for the environment and greater skepticism about global warming.\u2019 I don\u2019t think unemployment has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the fact that we have now learned that man-made global warming is a hoax that has been perpetrated by a bunch of leftists, and the guys participating in it at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the University of East Anglia have been found out. And even though the partisan political operative media has yet to report on this, we have — and more and more people are understanding now what a fraud this whole thing has been, like much of liberalism is. ‘The Chilling Effect of Recession.\u2019<\/p>\n

So now you, you selfish people, are so concerned about finding a job while you\u2019re unemployed that you are forgetting about global warming. You are forgetting about environmentalism. ‘From the study\u2019s abstract: ‘[W]e find that an increase in a state\u2019s unemployment rate decreases Google searches for ‘global warming\u2019 and increases searches for ‘unemployment,\u2019 and that the effect differs according to a state\u2019s political ideology.” So this scientific survey is using Google searches for their data? This is hilarious. This is actually from the study by these two university professors: ‘We find that an increase in a state\u2019s unemployment rate decreases Google searches for ‘global warming\u2019…\u2019 They\u2019re actually judging public interest in global warming by examining Google searches, and they\u2019re ticked off more of you people are entering the search term ‘unemployment\u2019 than you are ‘global warming.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Despite all their efforts over the last 20 to 30 years to make you feel guilty for causing all this destruction, now we have a recession that\u2019s come along and, damn it, you are being so selfish that you\u2019ve given up the notion that you have to save the planet. Now you want a job instead, and these ruling class professors are distressed. By the way, as we have previously noted on this program, Google searches themselves cause global warming. ‘From national surveys…\u2019 This is from the abstract: ‘From national surveys, we find that an increase in a state\u2019s unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in the probability that residents think global warming is happening and reduced support for the US to target policies intended to mitigate global warming. Finally, in California, we find that an increase in a county\u2019s unemployment rate is associated with a significant decrease in county residents choosing the environment as the most important policy issue.\u2019<\/p>\n

I am not making this up. These are learned, high-education, ruling class members — the best and the brightest, the smartest — and they\u2019re out there researching why it is that you don\u2019t care about global warming. It\u2019s because you\u2019re unemployed and they find this out by studying Google searches — and they\u2019re ticked off about it! I\u2019ll tell you what this shows. What this illustrates is that the belief in man-made global warming really is just that: It\u2019s a belief and one that can be easily cast off when confronted with hard, cold reality. It\u2019s a belief. It\u2019s a theory. It is an article of faith. It\u2019s almost a religion. We can understand leftists falling prey to this. They have no other god — and if you have no god, if you don\u2019t believe in God, you will believe anything. <\/p>\n

But we have pseudo-intellectuals on our side, on the right, who also fall for this notion. ‘No wonder the BP spill hasn\u2019t galvanized as much support for a climate bill as many advocates had initially hoped,\u2019 because people are worried about jobs. They\u2019re worried about disposable income. Those selfish people. How dare you! How dare you forget global warming? How dare you forget the ‘fact\u2019 that you are destroying the planet? How dare you. Why, you\u2019re searching Google for jobs more than you are trying to learn about how you are destroying the planet. Never mind that the BP spill has not been anywhere near the ecological holocaust or Armageddon that the environmentalist wackos had hoped for — and believe me, they did hope for it.<\/p>\n

Maybe… Are we to believe here the public reaction would have been different if the oil spill had occurred when the economy was booming? If the economy was booming and we\u2019d had the spill, and less attention was focused on finding work, more people would now believe in global warming and be concerned about it? See, this is how these people think. It\u2019s a belief, and they\u2019re actually trying to figure out how it is they can massage and manipulate public opinion to keep alive their hoax of man-made global warming. ‘Rush, are you for dirty water and dirty air?\u2019 No! I\u2019m not for dirty water and dirty air. I\u2019m for freedom. I\u2019m for common sense. I am for people not falling prey to hoaxes of disasters and man-made hoaxes. You know, we don\u2019t hear much talk about climate change out of Europe lately. Have you noticed that we haven\u2019t? We haven\u2019t heard much talk about that. Economic growth and the environment can coexist. Economic growth is taking place in parts of Europe and yet we\u2019re still not hearing about global warming and panics and so forth. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is President Obama this morning, AFL-CIO Executive Council Meeting. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: We learned overnight that efforts to stop the well, uhh, through what\u2019s called a ‘static kill,\u2019 appear to be working and that a report out today by our scientists show that the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water. So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. <\/p>\n

RUSH: He does not sound happy. He does not sound as though he\u2019s accomplished something. I mean, if he\u2019s really happy about this, he should have gone before the AFL-CIO and said, ‘You know what? I was shaving today and before my daughter left for Spain with my wife on my birthday, she said, ‘Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?\u2019 and I could have said, ‘Yes, I plugged the hole.” Instead he goes to the AFL-CIO and he doesn\u2019t say ‘I plugged the hole.\u2019 He mumbles through in a dispassionate way, ‘We learned overnight that efforts to stop the well, [damn it], through what\u2019s called a ‘static kill,\u2019 appear to be working and that a report out today by our scientists show that the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water.\u2019 So the long battle to contain the oil is finally coming to an end, [damn it].\u2019 He didn\u2019t sound enthusiastic to me. Now let\u2019s go back May 27th of this year at the White House, President Obama. <\/p>\n

OBAMA MAY 27, 2010: When I woke up this morning, uhhh, and I\u2019m shavin\u2019 and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and she says, uh, uhhh, ‘Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?\u2019 Because I think everybody understands that when — when we are fouling the earth like this, it has concrete implications not just for this generation but for future generations. I grew up in Hawaii where the ocean is sacred. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Right. It\u2019s sacred here, too. It\u2019s sacred in Florida. New York Times today on Day 105: ‘US Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk.\u2019 On Day One, EIB reported that most oil from the spill would pose little risk. So here\u2019s the president. They plugged the hole today, but he doesn\u2019t sound happy about it. Most of that ‘oil has been dispersed or removed.\u2019 Remember this was the worst environmental disaster in our history. So remember last week. There were no concrete implications, by the way. There was no reason for a drilling moratorium. There was no reason for any panic whatsoever. And note it was BP that plugged the hole for Obama\u2019s birthday. Obama didn\u2019t. BP plugged the hole. BP thought they were giving him a present. BP was shaken down for $20 billion. Turns out there weren\u2019t any ‘concrete implications\u2019 whatsoever. <\/p>\n

Remember last week we pointed out to you that the partisan political operative media, now that the truth was known that the oil was not a disaster — that the leak (the spill, whatever you want to call it) had not fouled anything, that it was not Armageddon — said, ‘Well, we can\u2019t let go of the story. We need the disaster! We need to move cap and trade forward. We need to move the Obama, anti-capitalist agenda forward.\u2019 So what did they do? They came out and said, ‘The dispersants! (heavy breathing) BP used more dispersants than they should have and they fouled the water with dispersants,\u2019 and even the EPA said, ‘Well, not really. They didn\u2019t use all that much more than what we had suggested.\u2019 But the media tried to keep it alive. ‘Dispersants now! What the oil didn\u2019t kill the dispersants were going to kill,\u2019 and the dispersants are not poison. They\u2019re not toxic. They are found in our laundry detergent. Nevertheless, this morning in Washington on Capitol Hill at a Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works hearing, Senator Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey, said this… <\/p>\n

LAUTENBERG: The EPA administrator also has stated the law needs to be changed to provide more information on the safety of disbursements (sic). Almost everyone agrees that current law is inadequate. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

LAUTENBERG: That is everyone except Rush Limbow (sic). Earlier this week we heard him say that Mother Nature can handle the dispersants. It\u2019s callous, irresponsible, and I doubt that families in the area are willing to wait and see to find out whether or not there\u2019s any risk in the distribution of these dispersants. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Senator Lautenberg is mentioning my name at a Senate committee hearing, calling it ‘callous\u2019 for me to point out that Mother Nature can handle the dispersants, when Mother Nature has handled the oil and the oil is worse than the dispersants. It\u2019s callous? Callous? No, it\u2019s truthful. On MSNBC this morning, Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, said this about the oil in the Gulf of Mexico…<\/p>\n

BROWNER: There\u2019s some good news today: The fact that the vast majority of the oil is gone. It was cleaned up, it was burned, it was skimmed, it was contained. Uh, Mother Nature did its part. Really is good news. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, never mind. No big deal. The hole is plugged. BP cleaned it up. Can\u2019t find the oil. No big deal. But Limbaugh is still ‘callous,\u2019 still callous for saying that Mother Nature would take care of the dispersants. June 15th live from the Oval Office. This leak warranted a national address from the Oval Office. <\/p>\n

OBAMA JUNE 15, 2010: This oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced, and unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it\u2019s not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days. The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And yet today Carol Browner says they can\u2019t find the oil. The New York Times says no big deal; it\u2019s over with, no disaster. <\/p>\n

You were lied to. This is teachable moment. Classic leftist behavior: Wanting a disaster, exaggerating it, creating panic, all for the advancement of their political agenda. How many thousands of ships were sunk during World War II, World War I? A lot of historians say that World War II was a war about oil. How many oil tankers were targeted? (Now remember, the EPA wasn\u2019t around to clean up these spills.) How many battleships, how many carriers, how many ships filled with oil sank into the sea and dispersed all of their oil and poisonous fluids throughout the oceans? Yet we still have Flipper, still have great whites. It\u2019s all nature alone.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go to Jacksonville, Florida. This is Brian.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, and I want to say congratulations on your life success, mega dittos, and the lame-stream media keeps building this up as the worst environmental disaster ever, as you\u2019ve explained it, that the Gulf is going to be ruined. And as you said before, history starts when we\u2019re born for most people. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But have they forgotten about places like Pompeii where entire villages and populations were wiped out in a single moment. Krakatoa, the largest volcanic eruption in history that\u2019s ever been measured. The tsunami that just happened over there in Indonesia that wiped out thousands of lives. These are not environmental disasters? And this little spill, this leak that we\u2019ve had. <\/p>\n

RUSH: All true, and what it continues to illustrate is that the leftist agenda is primary, and any lie, any distortion is fine and dandy in order to perpetuate it and move it forward. And it all hinges on creating panic in people and guilt, making them think that they are responsible for it.<\/p>\n

Jackie in Mount Vernon, Illinois, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I want to know what we\u2019re going to do with all those millions of dollars that BP paid us to clean up the spill. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the slush fund that\u2019s supposed to pay people that were damaged because of this? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, in the coastal areas where oil did hit shore, there were some businesses that were damaged and they will be made whole but it is curious. The slush fund is certainly more than was necessary to handle all of this. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to become of it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Maybe they could divide it up among us. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, I think what\u2019s going to happen — <\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just kidding. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, no, but it\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s a good question. Here\u2019s another slush fund just like the stimulus was a slush fund, and what\u2019s unspent will go into Democrat reelection efforts. That\u2019s how it\u2019s going to be used anyway. That\u2019s the whole point of it: The government taking care of you, whether you\u2019ve been damaged by the oil spill or not, and, of course, guess who\u2019s in charge of it? Feinberg, the pay czar who is ostensibly independent. I\u2019m going to tell you, the slush fund money… this is a great call. You wait, this $20 billion and the way it\u2019s going to be spent is going to be harder to find than all that oil was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some of the e-mails during the break: ‘Rush, in that first hour talking about the environment you really sounded ticked off.\u2019 And I didn\u2019t mean to sound ticked off. It was just passion, folks. It\u2019s one of the biggest hoaxes that\u2019s ever been perpetrated on the people of this country, and this oil spill is classic. Every time something like this happens and I put it in perspective early on, ‘Folks, there\u2019s not that much oil compared to the Gulf.\u2019 I remember my words: ‘The ocean, the gulf is going to eat this oil alive, the oil doesn\u2019t stand a chance.\u2019 And you get all these media people going on television saying I\u2019m callous, I\u2019m insensitive, I\u2019m this and that. All I am is right. But I\u2019m right because I have a healthy respect for God and for the creation of this planet. I understand the way these things work, as best as any human can. I mean, we all have questions as human beings that we will never as human beings be able to answer. I also have the humility to understand that, that we will not as human beings ever be able to answer all the questions we ask. We\u2019ll get them but not on this Earth, I firmly believe that.<\/p>\n

I also understand liberals. I understand leftists. I know who they are. I know they lie. I know how they advance their agenda. I know how they use people. I know how they frighten and scare and create panics and so forth. And I also am aware that we have a bunch of nimrods on our side of the aisle who are of the belief that if the Republicans don\u2019t get in the right way on this environment stuff we\u2019re going to lose votes to the left. We\u2019ve gotta have our own green movement. It\u2019s extremely frustrating to me. We have all these pseudointellectuals who nobody\u2019s ever heard of and who can\u2019t relate to average people telling everybody else how to approach issues, how to accomplish things, so forth and so on. So yeah, I was a little bit ticked off in the first segment. Here you have after 105 days, ‘No big deal, can\u2019t find the oil; it\u2019s over.\u2019 Go back and look at the way this was covered and perpetrated throughout these whole 105 days. The administration wouldn\u2019t do a thing for 50 days, didn\u2019t get involved. Then they wouldn\u2019t let the media in there to cover it because there was nothing to cover. We know that now. It was only the last couple of weeks we\u2019ve had stories they\u2019re looking for the oil and they can\u2019t find it. Well, we\u2019ve steered them. You\u2019ll find the oil where you\u2019ll find the 3.6 million jobs Obama\u2019s saved. That\u2019s where you\u2019ll find the oil. <\/p>\n

My patience sometimes, it\u2019s difficult to suffer fools. As I get older it is difficult to suffer fools. You know, I\u2019m no different than anybody else. I\u2019m not that smart. But when things are perfectly clear to me, and I think they ought to be perfectly clear to everybody else and they\u2019re not, yes, I admit I get a little frustrated. With all the failures that liberalism has shown us around the world and in this country, we ought not be going through this, we ought not have elected this guy. We ought not have to sit here and watch the attack on the American capitalist system, on our way of life, on the prosperity and the opportunity that this country alone has created for humanity. We have to sit here and watch this all because we have corrupt political people and corrupt people in the media who are perpetrating lies, falsehoods and so forth, creating false images and impressions of unqualified people as the greatest political person to ever trod the Earth. And to sit through and watch Bush end up being destroyed while the administration didn\u2019t do anything to defend themselves while all that was happening. All of this for the advancement of liberalism? Liberalism doesn\u2019t deserve to advance. It deserves to end. Liberalism has failed. It fails every time it\u2019s tried and yet for some reason people keep giving it another chance.<\/p>\n

Try this story. It\u2019s from the Associated Press: ‘The Obama administration hopes to lift a freeze on deepwater drilling well before its scheduled Nov. 30 expiration date.\u2019 This is the illegal moratorium. A judge has already said there\u2019s no basis for it, but they\u2019ve still kept it in place, a six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf. Do you realize we\u2019ve got oil rigs leaving the Gulf and going to other parts of the world because there\u2019s a drilling moratorium. We are losing on purpose American jobs in the oil business on rigs in the Gulf. And now after 105 days we can\u2019t find the oil, it wasn\u2019t a disaster, meaning there was no reason to shut down these rigs in the first place, there\u2019s no reason for them to be leaving the Gulf and going to Egypt or wherever they are going, Venezuela. And even with all this, we get a story saying the regime is thinking about lifting the moratorium earlier than planned.<\/p>\n

November 30th is the expiration date. ‘Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, said he and Interior Secretary Ken [‘Cowboy Hat\u2019] Salazar were gathering information to decide whether to revise or even lift the ban, which has shut down drilling at 33 ocean wells in the wake of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.\u2019 Michael Bromwich said yesterday officials hope to feel comfortable enough with safety improvements so ‘the moratorium can be lifted significantly in advance of Nov. 30.\u2019 Like when? A couple of days before the election? Is that when you are going to lift the moratorium, a week before the election in November? Is that when you are going to lift it? In the meantime we\u2019re going to lose American jobs. Apparently the moratorium\u2019s not polling too well. That\u2019s why they\u2019re talking about lifting it now. They had better call it off before the November elections, and they will. You watch. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Columbus, Ohio. Brett, great to have you on the program. Welcome. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, truly an honor. If you don\u2019t mind, I want to steal a quote from the Outlaw Josey Wales referring to you and the media: ‘Whoop them again,\u2019 Rushbo. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. El correcto. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like to talk to this response BP had to the oil spill, the supposed worst environmental disaster in our history. In a short 105 days for something this bad, they\u2019ve completely — not completely but they\u2019ve cleaned it up. They\u2019ve contained it. They have wasted no resources, no amount of money. They paid the government shakedown money. Do you think they are going to get any accolades for ‘good corporate citizenship\u2019? <\/p>\n

RUSH: No! No, of course not. They are going to be tarred and feathered for having taken so long. They are going to be tarred and feathered for it happening in the first place. We\u2019ve already dispatched the CEO to Siberia and that CEO, that Hayward guy — who may not be the best image-wise on television representing the company. But remember it was the regime that wouldn\u2019t allow other nations in to help out because they wouldn\u2019t waive the Jones Act. It was the regime that wouldn\u2019t let all the boomers and skimmers from all over the rest of the country in because they were worried about a disaster happening where they were. It was the regime that delayed the recovery. By the way, the new CEO of BP is a US citizen, and he is over in Russia trying to ‘reset\u2019 the company\u2019s relationship with the Russians. At least the Russians won\u2019t try to shake them down for $20 billion. Probably. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Eric in Margate, New Jersey. Welcome, sir, to the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Hi. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk with you, sir. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Congratulations on your wedding and your anniversary. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. <\/p>\n

CALLER: A little nervous here. You were talking about dispersants earlier. What about when all the gardeners put the fertilizers down or their lawns and the pesticides and all the people washing their cars around the nation, and everything that gets spilled on the ground from leaking oil, from gasoline from cars. I bet you every time there\u2019s a rainfall in the Hudson River, all the stuff that\u2019s… There\u2019s more dispersants up there by New York that just compares to the Gulf as a thimble. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, all of that\u2019s a good point, and it serves to illustrate that when the oil was no longer a disaster and the disaster thus wasn\u2019t a disaster — the disaster came to a screeching halt — we can\u2019t have that. We need a disaster. The left needs a disaster. So the dispersants. BP. BP again soiling the Gulf, polluting the Gulf with too many dispersants, too much. It\u2019s all tommyrot. It\u2019s all an attempt to keep an issue alive for the sake of advancing the Obama agenda. There\u2019s nothing that the Democrat Party is doing, not one thing that they are doing to build the country, to advance the country. There\u2019s not one. They are tearing it down for the express purpose of advancing themselves. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: To Rogers, Arkansas. Mike, welcome, sir. Nice to have you with us. <\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you doing, Rush? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good, thank you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from Arkansas. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: First, I wanted to say Bo is doing an exceptional job today. He was very courteous on the phone and it was a joy to talk to him. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, good. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But my point is that this whole BP spill has really illustrated something to me that I think most Americans just don\u2019t see every day and that\u2019s the tremendous amount of technology and capitalist innovation that makes possible the way of life that we live every day. You know, the idea that they can drill three miles down and hit oil takes a lot of equipment, and people don\u2019t appreciate the local price of gas, and I think that this whole process has illustrated the fact that capitalism is what makes all that possible. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s an excellent point. I myself have looked at this. I have marveled at the fact that we are 5,000 feet down. That\u2019s a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico. No human being can go that deep. We have to use robotic submarines to use all this equipment, not just the equipment to repair and deal with the leak but to build the well in the first place. But we\u2019re even deeper than a mile because once we\u2019ve reached the ocean floor, we have to go another mile or two to get to the oil, and the technological advancement, the abilities that we have here, you\u2019re absolutely right, it is outstanding. It is incredible the abilities that we have.<\/p>\n

You could also say that it\u2019s a damn shame we have to go out that far and that deep to get oil. The reason we do is because the environmentalist nutcases have forced us out there under the notion that oil is destructive, that oil is killing the planet, that oil will wipe out everything it touches, it\u2019s horrible, it\u2019s rotten, blah-blah. And now we\u2019ve just seen — and you know how much oil was spilled. It was a bunch. They were talking millions of gallons and yet they can\u2019t find it because it\u2019s been eaten alive, it\u2019s evaporated, it\u2019s dispersed or what have you. I think you\u2019re right. I think people, laymen, just really do not understand what\u2019s involved in doing this. Until you\u2019ve got an oil well leaking and they see the picture, ‘We\u2019ll just put a plug on it. We\u2019ll go down there and put a plug on this.\u2019 Like Obama\u2019s daughter: ‘Daddy, did you plug the hole today?\u2019 Yeah, just go put a cork in it. Just have a machine put a cork in it and stop it. It\u2019s not that simple. It really has been a technological marvel to watch this, to watch our capabilities. I don\u2019t know how many people have had that thought. I don\u2019t know how many people, if they\u2019ve been struck by this. <\/p>\n

A lot of people have been told that Big Oil is evil and they\u2019re raping the planet and they\u2019re raping customers and so forth and so on. I\u2019ve always said the Big Oil people have just got to be angry as they can be at the Big Water people. A gallon of gasoline is cheaper than a gallon of bottled water. A gallon of bottled water will cost you more than a gallon of gasoline and yet the Big Water guys we\u2019ve now learned half the time just put their bottles underneath somebody\u2019s faucet, turn on the tap, put a good looking label on it and put it in the grocery store or at a Quik Stop. Some of them actually get their water from these deep Artesian wells or what have you, but others are just turning on the spigot. What did we learn? I don\u2019t want to be wrong by mistakenly mentioning a brand name, but some of them have even admitted that their clean and pure Artesian well water has actually been mixed with the tap water from the city where they happen to be bottling the stuff. And, of course, they don\u2019t have to do anything. The Big Water guys don\u2019t have to do a damn thing. All they\u2019ve got to do is prey on the notion that this stuff is much healthier for you because the crap coming out of your faucet\u2019s going to kill you, there\u2019s all kinds of larvae in there and scum and whatever. You don\u2019t even want to know what\u2019s in there, but our water is clean and pure as any water ever. And plus, our water doesn\u2019t have fluoride in it, you\u2019re guaranteed to get more cavities, your kids\u2019 teeth are going to fall out if you drink our water because we don\u2019t bother to put the fluoride in it. We save money even that way. <\/p>\n

The Big Oil guys, look how much it costs just to find where the oil is and then look at the nimrods standing in their way when they want to go get it. And the biggest problem the Big Water guys have are these locoweeds in San Francisco now saying that the bottles are causing pollution. (laughing) I\u2019ve always wondered what Big Oil people think of Big Water people. And, of course, if you build a desalinization plant like the Saudis have to do because they\u2019re landlocked by saltwater, that\u2019s the only way you can turn seawater into drinkable water. You need a nuclear reactor to do that in a submarine, but imagine if the Big Water guys actually invested in desalinization plants to turn seawater into drinkable water, they could charge for that and then we would never, ever be threatened with running out of water. But those plants are very expensive to build and invest, and I\u2019m sure that the environmentalist wackos would stand in the way of the permit process if anybody wanted to be serious about building a sizable one here.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Jenny in Bakersville, North Carolina. Great to have you on the program. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I want you to know how much we appreciate you and thank you for being a voice for us. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. <\/p>\n

CALLER: My dad was a 30-year employee with American Oil Company, Amoco and, of course, BP bought them out years ago. And all of my dad\u2019s savings was put into stock with BP, and he\u2019s been getting dividends for the last few years. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I know where you\u2019re going. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, which enables him to make — you know, he\u2019s 88 years old. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: So it enables his life. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, no more dividends. Obama\u2019s slush fund\u2019s taken the dividends away, right? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. So I wonder, where do we get in line for some of the suffering that\u2019s gone on as a result of the oil spill and the problems that it has since, you know, happened because — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now you\u2019re asking the wrong question. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah? <\/p>\n

RUSH: The way you need to look at this is you and your dad as a shareholder. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And therefore investor, somebody propping up and enabling Big Oil to rape the earth, rape the planet, rape customers, you deserve to lose what you\u2019re losing! Obama deserves to have that money. He deserves it. The government deserves it far more than the oil companies do. It\u2019s just Obama getting even. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we have that feeling, yes, and I mean, there is a fear from my dad especially that, you know, all of these years — I mean, he worked his way up with the company. He worked from the bottom up and, you know, there\u2019s that fear that all of this will be lost because the government\u2019s going to break the back of BP. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Join the club. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: The government\u2019s going to break the back of everything, this government will, if they have their way and if they have enough time to do it. I totally understand how you feel. Yeah, the dividends are gone. Obama took them. The government took the dividends in the BP slush fund. Thank you for calling, Jenny. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You\u2019ve got to hear this next sound bite, folks. You have to hear this. It\u2019s this doofus Gibbs, White House press secretary. Everything\u2019s all fine now. Oil spill? What oil spill? It may as well not have spilled! It may as well not have leaked. There wasn\u2019t any. We can\u2019t find it. No damage. No big deal. After the NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco and Thad Allen had updated the press on the disappearing oil from the spill, during the Q&amp;A a reporter said to Gibbs, ‘Well, what do you think NOAA\u2019s level of credibility ought to be on a conclusion this dramatic and pivotal when there were points in the process where NOAA was insisting the amount of oil that was leaking was disastrous. This was ‘the worst environmental disaster in history\u2019 and now they can\u2019t find it and it isn\u2019t any big deal? I mean, what, [Gibbs], do you think the credibility\u2019s going to be?\u2019 Get this. <\/p>\n

GIBBS: It is important to understand that this event happened 5,000 feet below the surface at a well that was several miles below that 5,000 foot point. We were measuring the flow rate basically of an opened Coke can 5,000 feet below the ocean, using the best available technology we had at the time without the benefit of knowing how big the Coke can was. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, now they\u2019re quoting me. The New York Times, after 105 days (doing Gilda Radner impression), ‘Oh. Never mind.\u2019 No big deal. Can\u2019t find the oil. Now Gibbs says, look, credibility? You\u2019ve got to keep in mind we weren\u2019t talking that much oil in the first place. A Coke can 5,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico. Gibbs, the analogy is the amount of oil that leaked was equivalent to a 24-ounce can of beer (or soda or what have you) inside the Superdome if it was filled with water. That\u2019s how insignificant an amount we\u2019re talking about in terms of oil. So Gibbs… Now, this is the regime! This is the regime which for 50 days tried to make hay off ‘the worst environmental disaster ever,\u2019 and so some reporters say: ‘What about your credibility here? I mean, you guys were talking about all this disaster and oil and now you can\u2019t find it?\u2019 ‘Well, you\u2019ve got to remember, it\u2019s 5,000 feet down. It\u2019s a Coke can.\u2019 Now the regime quotes me. (interruption) Well, I mean, there\u2019s still… (interruption) I know, but they don\u2019t quote me. I mean, they quote me without mentioning me. I mean, I am the authority on this. This is just stunning. I mean, look at the 180 turnaround. They did everything they could to make this a disaster to advance their agenda, and now it\u2019s just a Coke can. It\u2019s just a Coke can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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