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RUSH: Once they start, they never stop, and they are never happy no matter what they get. I\u2019m talking about the American left. First Mayor Doomberg comes out… well, what was first? Was it trans fats first? Was it salt first? Salt, New York City. Well, yeah, but Doomberg didn\u2019t do the smoking, did he? Was Doomberg the guy that led the smoking ban? Oh, that\u2019s right, that\u2019s right, \u2019cause Rudy smokes cigars. Rudy wouldn\u2019t do that. Okay, so Doomberg is taking the fun out of life in Fun City, in New York City. <\/p>\n

So it started with smoking, then trans fats, then salt, and then large sweetened soft drinks, and now this. “The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks <\/a>at restaurants might be looking at other targets.<\/p>\n

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The New York City Board of Health showed support for limiting sizes of sugary drinks at a Tuesday meeting in Queens. They agreed to start the process to formalize the large-drink ban by agreeing to start a six-week public comment period.” And then, after getting the ball rolling on that, “Some of the members of board said they should be considering other limits on high-calorie foods.<\/p>\n

“One member, Bruce Vladeck, thinks limiting the sizes for movie theater popcorn should be considered. ‘The popcorn isn\u2019t a whole lot better than the soda,\u2019 Vladeck said. Another board member thinks milk drinks should fall under the size limits. ‘There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories,\u2019 said board member Dr. Joel Forman.” They\u2019ve already eliminated coconut oil as the oil you can use to pop popcorn, and it\u2019s one of the healthiest oils out there and it\u2019s what always made the movie theater smell like the movie theater. No matter what you pop popcorn in, if it\u2019s not coconut oil, it doesn\u2019t smell like a movie theater. I don\u2019t care, Crisco, Wesson, Mazola, nothing is like coconut oil. And there\u2019s another reason that coconut oil was used by concessionaires, and that is it holds the popcorn much longer.<\/p>\n

I remember when I worked at the Kansas City Royals, the concessionaire at the time was an outfit named Volume Services. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re still around. They use Aramark now, and that might be the new name. Anyway, Volume Services, and part of my job was to go down and get to know these people. Their operation was underneath the parking lot between Royals Stadium, Kauffman Stadium now, and Arrowhead Stadium. I went down there and the minute I got down to this cave, all I smelled was the popcorn. I said, “Oh, my gosh, this is my opportunity. I\u2019m gonna go get some coconut oil from these guys.” So I met the head honcho, and I went down there, and he had vats and vats and vats of the coconut oil. I said, “Gee, can you give me some of this stuff?” <\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, yeah, how much?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Where do you get it?” <\/p>\n

“Well, we can only get this through a private service. You can\u2019t get it publicly. It\u2019s not available for consumers.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Why not?” <\/p>\n

I forget what he said. But he said, “The reason we use it is not just because of the smell and taste; it holds the popcorn. We can pop popcorn and two weeks later, as long as we heat it up, it\u2019ll taste just like it came out of the popper.” Well, I\u2019ve tested that, and that\u2019s true. I now have three or four coconut oil popcorn machines throughout my homestead, and I\u2019ve tested it. Popped the stuff up, and put it in Ziploc bags, whatever you don\u2019t use, heat it up a week later and it\u2019s fresh as it can be. No other oil does that, so it\u2019s economical as well. <\/p>\n

Well, the Center for Science and Public Interest took care of that. They got that banned on the basis it will clog your arteries and cause strokes, heart attacks, death, and all that. Now they\u2019re actually going to try to ban certain sizes of popcorn in movie theaters. And milk drinks. Where does this stuff stop? Now, we sit here and we laugh at it, but it doesn\u2019t stop with these people. They\u2019re not content to limit themselves. They have to limit everybody else. They have to make sure everybody else follows the same dictates. And it\u2019s none of their business. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, Doomberg was asked about this. CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose never got more publicity than he gets on this show. We are probably are making Charlie Rose\u2019s career. Nobody watches that show, but since I put a ban on MSNBC, the only place we can go to get liberal sound bites is CBS, NBC, or CNN. And, no, I\u2019m not gonna lift the ban on MSNBC. Can I tell you something? I took MSNBC off the top monitor here a month ago. It was a slow, creeping thing. It wasn\u2019t an instant, massive realization. It was just one day I realized I wasn\u2019t constantly running around ticked off, thinking I had to react to something, respond to something, listen to something asinine, insane, stupid, which is all there is on MSNBC. <\/p>\n

My life, my professional life has been enhanced profoundly by not having that network on and not listening to the stupid sound bites that come out of the people that work there. That\u2019s a tradeoff. Now we have to play Charlie Rose sound bites and Anderson Cooper sound bites, but life is made of sacrifices. And this one has been one of those that turned out to actually not be a sacrifice, but a positive. So, anyway, Doomberg is talking to Charlie Rose today. And Charlie Rose said, “You talk about education, crime, and gun control, but you attract enormous attention for what you\u2019re trying to do in health. There was smoking. There was trans fat. Now there\u2019s sugar and sugary drinks.” And he doesn\u2019t mention it, but popcorn and milk products are next. “What is it? What is it that drives you to impose this stuff on people?”<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: If government\u2019s purpose isn\u2019t to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don\u2019t know what its purpose is. We certainly have an obligation to tell them what\u2019s in the best science and best medicine says is in their interests.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do we know if that\u2019s true? One of the things we\u2019ve learned over the course of the last 20 years is what science tells us is bogus. How many scientific theories — and I\u2019m not even counting global warming in this — how many scientific theories have we heard over the years that turn out not to be true? I mean I ought to keep a list of them, because it\u2019s longer than anybody can remember. But science has been politicized, and it\u2019s dominated by people on the left, and Doomberg\u2019s a leftist, and so whatever they say is unchallengeable. It\u2019s always true. <\/p>\n

Okay, so he says, if government\u2019s purpose isn\u2019t to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don\u2019t know what its purpose is. We certainly have an obligation to tell them what\u2019s — okay, tell us. Tell us. But don\u2019t impose on us. If you want to tell us that large sugary drinks are dangerous, let us make the decision. If you want to tell us that big vats of popcorn you think are unhealthy, fine, let us make the decision. Put a label on it if you want to. You know, put a picture of a clogged artery on the popcorn bowl. We don\u2019t care. Just let us buy it if we want it. <\/p>\n

Folks, this is classic liberalism. This is classic statism. This is right in front of our eyes, the vast, rapid erosion of personal liberty and freedom. Now, you might think it\u2019s a minor thing, but these things never stop. Once they start, they never are satisfied. No improvement, no ban, no progress, as far as they define it, is ever enough. Where does this stop? It doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s the point, it doesn\u2019t stop. These people have to be limited in their access to power. It is none of their business. <\/p>\n

Go ahead. Do all the science you want, do all the research, and then tell us — and let us make the decision. But they can\u2019t do that because, as far as they\u2019re concerned, we don\u2019t have what it takes. We\u2019re not smart enough. We\u2019re not educated enough. We\u2019re not bright enough to know what\u2019s good for us and what\u2019s bad for us. It is not just with popcorn and Coke and cigarettes and all the other things. No, no, no. It everything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s health care. It\u2019s buying a house. It\u2019s getting into college. It\u2019s paying for college. We don\u2019t know diddly-squat. They want to run and control everything, and who set them up as the arbiters? They did, pure and simple. So Charlie Rose said, “Well, sugar seems to have gotten bigger attention. You talk about the size of the drink and the big newspaper pictures of you as a nanny.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: But that\u2019s just because it\u2019s the story of the week. That\u2019ll get blended into lots of other things. The average person today is much heavier than they were. Uh, this is… Obesity is becoming the single-biggest health problem in America and will kill more people than smoking in a few years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They just throw this stuff out. No backup. No proof for it. But so what? We\u2019re all going to die. See, this is where health care comes in, because what he\u2019s not saying is, “We\u2019re gonna be paying for your health care and we\u2019re gonna have to limit how much we pay for you, so you\u2019re gonna have a role. You\u2019re gonna be told what you can and can\u2019t eat, and how much of what you can\u2019t eat you can eat. Otherwise, it\u2019s gonna put cost pressures on health care.”<\/p>\n

They were wrong about salt, by the way.<\/p>\n

Was it just last week or two weeks ago we had that big story<\/a>? All of these stories about salt and high blood pressure turn out to be wrong. “Mr. Limbaugh, why do you automatically accept that story and then simply refuse 20,000 years of previous history?” That\u2019s Mr. New Castrati asking me a question. Mr. New Castrati, that\u2019s not the point. The point is, for 20,000 years “Salt = High Blood Pressure.” Last week or two weeks ago, the story says: No, it doesn\u2019t. What are we to believe? The point is, they don\u2019t know. And yet here we are making policy on this. You\u2019ve got…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Doomberg has far more important things to do than this kind of stuff, but this is… It\u2019s all about control. It\u2019s all about… (sigh) I don\u2019t know. I grow weary. It\u2019s not the only thing. Here\u2019s National Review today: “By proposing a ban on large sodas in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg made himself a competitive candidate for Chairman of the Anti-Fun Committee. But the FDA just might have him beat: They\u2019ve moved to regulate cigars as they already do cigarettes.” We knew this was coming.<\/p>\n

Just a second. My cigar happens to have gone out. (torch igniting) So I, El Rushbo, am gonna torch it up here. And I\u2019m gonna puff on this baby while I tell you what the details of this story are. (puffing) All right. “Representative Bill Posey (R., Fla.) has introduced legislation, currently before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to block the FDA\u2019s effort.” So far, so good. He\u2019s got “203 co-sponsors in the House and nine in the Senate, including Bill Nelson (R., Fla.), who has introduced a version in the [Senate].”<\/p>\n

What they want to do is regulate cigars identically to the way they regulate cigarettes: Warnings, bans, can\u2019t smoke them anywhere, can\u2019t touch them. This FDA rule would prevent people from going into a tobacco store and actually touching the merchandise! Every day, folks. When is this gonna end? It\u2019s not minor; it\u2019s not insignificant. Out of context and by itself, it\u2019s laughable. It\u2019s funny. But you throw it all in the mix with who these people are and what they\u2019re trying to do, and what you end up with is a Barack Obama and his administration.<\/p>\n

And these people represent 30% of the thinking in this country. They are not the majority. And even if they were, it wouldn\u2019t entitle them to impose every scientific belief they hold on the rest of us. Just because they believe it, doesn\u2019t mean we have to. Just because they believe something doesn\u2019t mean we must be subject to their mandates on these things. Not in the United States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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