{"id":14269,"date":"2012-10-15T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:21:57","slug":"felix_baumgartner_lived_my_dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/15\/felix_baumgartner_lived_my_dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Baumgartner Lived My Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: How about Felix Baumgartner? I watched this yesterday. I was one of the eight million watching it on the Internet. By the way, that is its own topic. Eight million people with no buffering and no problems whatsoever watched an event on YouTube via the Internet. That\u2019s the biggest red flag to broadcast television yet. The previous YouTube record was 500,000. One of the problems with the Internet has always been buffering, crowded, over-usage, jerky play-back. Eight million people were looking at it on high definition yesterday just as though it was on television. I\u2019ll tell you, the broadcast networks were smart. They\u2019re lucky they\u2019ve got the NFL locked up for ten years. The NFL can\u2019t go YouTube for ten years. But I\u2019m telling you, that is an amazing topic in and of itself, what it means for broadcasting. <\/p>\n

All of my life, since the space program began, I have had a recurring — and it doesn\u2019t happen often — but I\u2019ve had a recurring dream, slash nightmare. It\u2019s not so much a nightmare, but it was that I was stranded on a satellite 25,000 miles high. And the only way to get home was to jump. I was outside. I was not wearing a space suit. I was alive. None of it was possible. But I was stranded on a satellite and the only way home is to jump. And I\u2019m clinging to one of the arms, one of the wings of the satellite, one of the solar panels by my fingertips, by my hands. I\u2019m just hanging there. There\u2019s no other way to get home other than to jump, and I do. And after that, I don\u2019t know what happens. I either wake up or forget it or what have you. But I\u2019m alive to remember it, so I figure I got home. <\/p>\n

So honestly, when I\u2019m watching this yesterday, I\u2019ve seen it. I\u2019ve had a mental picture of exactly the view that we saw yesterday. I know this sounds like a made-up politician Clinton story. This is exactly the kind of lie Bill Clinton would tell, or Hillary. Yeah, I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary which could not happen because he didn\u2019t climb Mt. Everest \u2019til four years after she was born, but they tell lies like that.<\/line><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019ve had this dream, and I\u2019ve heard people, “I couldn\u2019t do it. I couldn\u2019t step out of that little capsule.” I think I could because I\u2019ve done it all my life in my dream. There are a bunch of things about this that — for example, a real quick question. If Felix Baumgartner can jump out of a capsule 24 and a half miles high, why can\u2019t people in New York buy 32-ounce sodas? <\/a><\/p>\n

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Really! I would think… I mean, weighing the dangers of jumping from a capsule 24 miles up, that the calculation would be that that\u2019s much more risky than drinking a 32-ounce Coke or Sprite or 7-Up or root beer. Take your pick. So if a guy understands the risks of a given behavior, he goes up 24 and a half miles… Five years training on this! Do you realize Red Bull paid for this? The government didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The beverage, Red Bull, paid for it, otherwise it would not have happened, not with Obama\u2019s budget priorities. If somehow Baumgartner could have convinced Obama that there was “Muslim outreach” in this jump, he might have been able to get funding for it. But I don\u2019t think he even tried. I\u2019m watching every minute of this. In fact I\u2019m watching this instead of football. I watched from the moment the balloon launched.<\/p>\n

I watched the entire assent to 127,000 feet, whatever it was. I watched the jump, and I saw the long-range camera from one of the tracking trucks on the ground where he was out of control, spinning out of control. I saw the jump, and I had made a mistake. I thought that he was going to dive head first off that capsule because of something I had read earlier that also had graphics and diagrams of how this was going to take place.<\/p>\n

I thought was gonna be head first all the way down. It wasn\u2019t. It was a bunny hop off that thing and straight down, just going straight down. This is what I\u2019m gonna have to ask some experts because I don\u2019t understand. At some point during this jump — and 800-some-odd miles an hour beats (is well past) the speed of sound. It breaks the sound barrier. Nobody knew what would happen to the human body doing that not in a vehicle.<\/p>\n