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RUSH: People ask me all the time, ‘Rush, what\u2019s the favorite part of your job?\u2019<\/p>\n

I say, ‘Well, it\u2019s hard to say. I like it all. I love the prep. I love actually doing of the show, the execution and performance of the show.\u2019 But the thing that I guess is the most fun is how I irritate these liberals and Democrats — and Republicans, too, in certain circumstances. I can\u2019t describe the pleasure I get when I hear something like this, which was said by Robert Kennedy, Jr. at Giants Stadium during Live Earth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: I\u2019m going to tell you this, that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity — these flat-earthers, these corporate toadies — lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn\u2019t exist you send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them you\u2019re not going to buy their products anymore!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Bob? It\u2019s time for a new strategy. You guys have been doing that for 19 years. It hasn\u2019t worked. It\u2019s not going to work, because we get results. You don\u2019t get away with calling America\u2019s Truth Detector a liar. The liars — and they know it, folks — are on this global warming hoax side. They know they\u2019re making it all up. They know that they are making a bunch of irrelevant data into something that\u2019s relevant, when it isn\u2019t. I love it. I love irritating them. I love getting these guys\u2019 skin to crawl. He\u2019s even more frustrated with politicians. Here\u2019s something else he had to say.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: It is more important than buying compact fluorescent lightbulbs or than buying a fuel-efficient automobile. The most important thing you can do is to get involved in the political process —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second! Stop the tape! Did I not tell you, this is all about politics? It\u2019s not about saving the planet. It\u2019s not about compact fluorescents. It\u2019s not about all these things that they make you think. Actually, they\u2019re not trying to make you ‘think;\u2019 they\u2019re trying to make you ‘feel.\u2019 It\u2019s about politics! It\u2019s about advancing liberalism. Please, Mr. Kennedy, Jr., tell us more.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: — of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, DC, who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company, these villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interests ahead of American interests and ahead of the interests of all humanity. This is treason, and we need to start treating them now as traitors, and they have their — their slick public relations firms and their phony think tanks in Washington, DC, and their crooked scientists who are lying to the American people day after day after day, and we have a press that has completely let done American democracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you, that\u2019s the most amazing thing. This guy has got more supportive press in the Drive-By Media than any political party has ever had and he\u2019s rejecting it. He doesn\u2019t understand it. But what you just heard there was pure, undiluted socialism, 100%. If you will notice, these companies ‘Exxon, and Southern Company, these villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interests ahead of American interests and ahead of interests of all of humanity.\u2019 Yeah, that\u2019s how a company survives, isn\u2019t it? A company survives by destroying its customers, by destroying the environment in which it works, by destroying the customer base. The idea in a socialist world is that corporations are indeed the evil of humanity, the evil of society, that they are totally working against American interests — and, of course, nothing could be further from the truth in most cases. Yeah, of course we know what treason is to a liberal. Treason to a liberal is not supporting the enemy trying to kill us. Treason is not doing what you can to encourage the defeat of the United States militarily. No! Treason is not supporting liberals and their liberal policies, in this case global warming. So you just heard it. You just heard from horse\u2019s mouth, a full-throated definition of socialism. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John in Churchill, Tennessee. I\u2019m gad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: What\u2019s the chances of RFK, Jr., going through all of his grandfather\u2019s trusts and doing all the divestiture of all those crummy capitalist companies that have been providing income to his family for the past few generations?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that is an excellent point. I had not thought of that \u2019til I saw your call up on the board here, because here little RFK on Live Earth on Saturday — I played the audio sound bites of this here in the first hour — basically calling American corporations treasonous because they are not supporting America, that they\u2019re not supporting global warming, that they\u2019re raping country. He named ExxonMobil and the Southern Company, and a couple of others, and that would be an excellent thing to do. Find out what\u2019s in the Kennedy trust, all the investments in all these companies and so forth, and they own a bunch of things as well in addition to just having investments in them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s generations of income.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, how many generations of Kennedy kids has the Kennedy trust supporting?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Tell me, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have access to the Kennedy trust.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just like Bill and Hillary complaining about ExxonMobil and it turns up in their stock portfolio. Hypocrites.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Well, they all are. How about all the pharmaceutical stocks Bill and Hillary owned?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, they\u2019re getting in on the rush before they all lose value. They\u2019re selling short.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s speculation, now. I understand that. In a trust, though, they don\u2019t have access to it. They don\u2019t control the activity there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Whoever is running it for them knows what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Perhaps true. What you\u2019re saying is if Hillary and Bill start trashing the drug industry, then somebody running their trust could go out and sell the stock short because they figure the Clintons are going to run the price down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What would be any slicker Willie than that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m amazed, sir, at your level of suspicion involving these two great Americans.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know, but I\u2019ve been around the block. You know, I was born at night but it wasn\u2019t last night, Rush, and I\u2019m from Chicago originally, so I understand how some of these Democrats work when it comes to dealing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not sure, but I think one time the Kennedy family got the import duty on almost every bottle of scotch that was brought into it country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Legally and illegally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know the old bootlegging days back from the patriarch of the family. That\u2019s an excellent point. Excellent point. Robert Kennedy Jr. should divest some of the stuff in the trust, and he might have to rely on a few more donations to his public policy think tank.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Janet. This is Smithfield, Utah. Hi, Janet, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, it\u2019s Janice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Janice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Janice or Janet, what difference does it make?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, as long as I get to talk to you, I\u2019ll be male. I don\u2019t care. As far as this rhetoric of Bobby Kennedy\u2019s accusing everybody that disagrees with him of being treasonous. I thought dissent made you patriotic? I thought we\u2019re patriots because we are dissenting?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back and play these sound bites, because people are still talking about this, and we played these at the top of the hour. Let\u2019s play both of them, because people are reacting, and hang on out there, Janice, and we\u2019ll talk about this after we listen to both of them. This is a Giants Stadium Saturday during Live Earth. <\/p>\n

KENNEDY: I\u2019m going to tell you this, that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity — these flat-earthers, these corporate toadies — lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn\u2019t exist you send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them you\u2019re not going to buy their products anymore!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right. So here\u2019s Robert Kennedy, Jr., all hopped up on the global warming Kool-Aid calling America\u2019s Truth Detector a liar! That doesn\u2019t fly, nor does his technique of sponsoring boycotts. His crowd\u2019s been trying that for 19 years, and it hasn\u2019t worked because our advertisers get results — and they also know that these campaigns are just five or six little malcontents trying to make themselves sound like millions. It doesn\u2019t fly anymore. Here\u2019s the second thing that he said that we culled from his raspy remarks.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: It is more important than buying compact fluorescent lightbulbs or than buying a fuel-efficient automobile. The most important thing you can do is to get involved in the political process and get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, DC —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, stop the tape there, because I\u2019m going to make this observation just as I did in the first hour. I thought global warming was a ‘science\u2019 issue. I thought it was all about science! I thought the science, the consensus was there. No, of course it\u2019s not! It\u2019s about politics; it\u2019s about socialism, big government, liberalism, whatever — and Bobby Kennedy doesn\u2019t like the fact he can\u2019t control all these people and make them see the world the way he wants them to see it because they see through his hoax —<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: — — who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company, these villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interests ahead of American interests and ahead of the interests of all humanity. This is treason, and we need to start treating them now as traitors, and they have their — their slick public relations firms and their phony think tanks in Washington, DC, and their crooked scientists who are lying to the American people day after day after day, and we have a press that has completely let done American democracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so what you hear here is a full-fledged admission and definition of socialism. Companies are villainous — companies that his family trust is invested in that he\u2019s living off of — and now anybody who dissents from the stated science, the consensus science on global warming, is a traitor. Remember, Mrs. Clinton, when her patriotism was challenged — or she thought it was because she was dissenting against the Iraq war — she started screaming bloody murder! We play that bite over and over again, where she tries to redefine patriotism as dissent and as disagreeing with the president. I\u2019m glad you pointed this out, Janice, because liberalism is about thought control, mind control, and behavioral control, and if you don\u2019t follow suit, if you don\u2019t snap to, they\u2019re going to come find a way to tar and feather you and do even worse if they ever could.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dissent is only patriotic if you\u2019re liberal, I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. It\u2019s only patriotic if you are liberal when you are dissenting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I take umbrage with this Flat-Earth Society, as they keep calling these people who disagree with them. I think they\u2019re The Chicken Little society.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true. They\u2019re worse than that. We sit here and laugh at them, and I think that\u2019s an effective way of dealing with them. These people, you gotta understand when their objectives are. It is about control. It\u2019s about managing outcomes, managing events. These are people, they don\u2019t really like dissent. They don\u2019t like alternative points of view. There aren\u2019t any alternative points of view. They are that superiorist! They are not going to deal with anybody that doesn\u2019t agree with them — and if those people that disagree with them happen to give them problems, provide real objectives, well, then it\u2019s potentially dangerous, then they\u2019ll try to shut you up in any way, shape, manner, or form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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