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RUSH: It\u2019s Michael in Delta, Colorado. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, it\u2019s a real pleasure to talk to you. It\u2019s been a while. This is the first time I ever gotten on. I thought I\u2019d make it real simple for you. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, I\u2019d like to know how you cured your golf swing. RUSH: (Laughs.) I\u2019ll be glad to answer the question. I wasn\u2019t going to say anything about it because everybody\u2019s golf swing is different, and I\u2019m certainly not a teacher. But here\u2019s the sum total of it. I was standing too far from the ball and my posture was way too bent over because I\u2019d been advised to do this. As such, I was taking the club way too far behind me — not up — and blocking everything right, and it was so bad that I wasn\u2019t even swinging with my arms. When it came to the down swing, it was just my lower body turning and the arms weren\u2019t even moving, and my hands were trailing the ball. If I\u2019d been able to play in the AT&amp;T or the Hope (I\u2019m not kidding here, Michael), I would have killed spectators. CALLER: (Laughing.) RUSH: Because I was hitting shots two feet off the ground at a 45 degree angle from where I was aimed. CALLER: Been there and done that, sir. RUSH: Yeah, but then they said, ‘Okay, here\u2019s what you\u2019re doing wrong.\u2019 Now, it\u2019s bad enough when you can\u2019t fix the swing when you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing wrong. When you do<\/emphasize> know and can\u2019t fix it… I still couldn\u2019t find a way to swing my arms. So finally this past Sunday, I went out for six hours and a guy, the pro said, ‘Well, let\u2019s try it your way,\u2019 and he was very smart, because he let me prove for three hours that my way wouldn\u2019t work. ‘Now try it my way,\u2019 he said. He had me standing two feet closer to the ball and standing what to me feels like straight up, straight up with the butt out like I\u2019m sitting on a high stool. CALLER: Oh, my goodness. RUSH: The swing is all down target line, not around me, and it\u2019s very high. I\u2019ve gone out and I\u2019ve played every day since that I could get out there, and yesterday I hit a 275-yard 3-wood into a par 5 in two. CALLER: That was going to be my next question. How far are you driving the ball? RUSH: I\u2019m driving the ball well, but you don\u2019t understand. I don\u2019t want to get into a whole lot of detail about this. I have not used my 3-wood since November because I haven\u2019t been able to hit it. CALLER: That\u2019s my favorite club.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it used to be mine, but now just everything is effortless. Finally, this taught me how to hit down on the ball rather than pick it. You know, this is stuff that people who play the game regularly know. It\u2019s just that nobody ever told me this way to do it. There are all these other newfangled ways out there. What will happen is — I\u2019m a rank amateur, and in time I\u2019ll screw this up, and think, ‘Ah, I gotta go back to my old way,\u2019 but I actually don\u2019t see that happening, because it just makes total sense. My confidence level standing over the ball has never been higher after four days since Sunday. CALLER: Sure. Right on. Well, it sounds like you\u2019re enjoying the game again. Hey, listen, just one quick comment, and I\u2019ll get off. It was about three or four days ago they were talking about the polar bear thing, and I tried to get in, and I couldn\u2019t. My thing was, sometimes in Mother Nature, you gotta eat things. I just wish the liberalists would start doing the same thing. Thanks for taking my call. I enjoy your program and have a wonderful day. RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. When you say, ‘Sometimes you just gotta eat things,\u2019 what do you mean? CALLER: Well, Mother Nature sometimes, like the mother polar bear, she decided that for some reason or another, she didn\u2019t want the cub. RUSH: No, no, no. You\u2019re talking about two different things. I was referring to this brilliant and really good show called Planet Earth that\u2019s on the Discovery Channel. It\u2019s an 11 part series and they\u2019ve aired the first three. The next two come up Sunday night, eight o\u2019clock and nine o\u2019clock Eastern Time. Seen in high definition, it\u2019s incomparable. In the case of grizzly bears and polar bears, normally one cub is the litter. Just one cub is born. But if there are two born, the mother has to choose one. She can\u2019t feed both of them, so one dies. Man has nothing to do with it. It\u2019s the way God made it. With male grizzly bears, and I think this is true with male polar bears, the mother has to keep the cubs away from the male or the male will eat \u2019em. They didn\u2019t say why, they just said that it happens. So, you cannot watch this series and come away with a conclusion that we have anything to say about how nature operates, and we can\u2019t interrupt it. You sit there and you watch this, and you say, ‘Oh, we\u2019re going to put in incandescent fluorescent compact bulbs in all of our sockets and it\u2019s going to save this?\u2019 (Laughing.) It\u2019s ridiculous. But let me ask, Michael, just to make a point here to you about eating animals. Is there any animal that the human being eats that\u2019s on the endangered species list? CALLER: Not to my knowledge. RUSH: Well, of course there isn\u2019t. And why not? CALLER: Well, it probably wouldn\u2019t taste good. RUSH: Well, no, we need to make them food. So if an animal is about to become instinct we should start eating it, and then capitalism will see to it that there are farms of these animals produced. We don\u2019t have a shortage of chicken. Chicken is not endangered. The steer isn\u2019t endangered. Cattle is not endangered. Fish aren\u2019t endangered. Veal is not endangered. (Foie gras is but not the goose.) Everything we eat is plentiful. The endangered species are the ones that we\u2019re not allowed to interact with or eat or involve ourselves with in any way. Every time I say that the animal people just go nuts. It\u2019s flat-out, straight logic, something they can\u2019t deal with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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