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RUSH: I\u2019m going to pick up where we left off yesterday. The last half hour yesterday was one of the — well, actually the call from the nine-year-old in the first half hour, then the last half hour of that show yesterday was, I mean, crazy! It was fun-crazy, partially owing to Snerdley\u2019s choice of callers to give me. I\u2019m still marveling here that we had — you should have heard this. We had a grandmother call, the last call of the day, giving me grief because I was making it sound like it\u2019s okay to go out and eat fast food and French fries and potato chips, and she misunderstood. I just don\u2019t want the government regulating what we eat. I don\u2019t want the government regulating our behavior any more than they already do. If you don\u2019t want to eat McDonald\u2019s, fine, I don\u2019t want to force you to do anything. That\u2019s the point. I want to leave you alone. All of us will leave you alone, do what you want. You can\u2019t leave us alone. This woman calls giving me grief over the fact that I am countering and harming and damaging her efforts to get her grandson to eat the right foods. I said, ‘Well how old is your grandson?\u2019 She said 26, and it kind of zoomed by me. Then I saw on the screen that Dawn transcribes the calls, ‘Did I just hear you say your grandson is 26, and you are trying to tell him what to eat?\u2019 ‘Yes, and you\u2019re making it hard for me,\u2019 she said. I said, ‘When are you going to let him be an adult?\u2019 At any rate, we\u2019ve got countless other stories along those lines. <\/p>\n

Then we had this effete snob liberal that called from San Bernardino yesterday. You know, one of these, ‘Mr. Limbaugh, don\u2019t you think you\u2019re really a little over the top with the smoking thing? Don\u2019t you really understand that nobody\u2019s attempting to stop anyone from smoking in their homes? Isn\u2019t that just right-wing paranoia?\u2019 You know how these liberals are. The only thing he didn\u2019t do was (making strained noises) like the intellectuals on Firing Line used to do. But it\u2019s all over the place. We got a story out of Hawaii from May. Headline: ‘Homes Next Target for Smoking Ban.\u2019 We also found where San Francisco is doing the same thing. I got lots of e-mails from people who live in apartments, and that\u2019s a home, if you live in one, where you can\u2019t smoke a cigarette in your apartment, much less a cigar. So it\u2019s already happening. They\u2019re already in the house, the feds are, regulating things. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cape Coral, Florida, and Carl, it\u2019s great to have you with us. It\u2019s nice to welcome you to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (background noise) Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. Hey, Carl. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush! I didn\u2019t know I was on. I\u2019m at a shooting range about a hundred miles west of you, so it was kind of loud here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought your cell connection was going bad, but you\u2019re at a shooting range? You\u2019re shooting bullets?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Shooting real bullets. Killing bullets. We\u2019re shooting them here. We\u2019re on a break right now because we have a cold range, and we have to set up new targets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. What were you aiming at?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We are aiming at paper targets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Paper targets. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re punching holes in paper and doing it in a very expensive fashion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just checking. I wanted to make sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is not your local post office over here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) All right, Carl. Well, I\u2019m glad you took the headphones off and here we are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. (Laughs) I\u2019m a retired New York City Police Officer and I was out on vacation, I was on vacation, my family just recently. We were out in California. We were in Monterey, and having dinner in a small restaurant in Carmel and picked up the local newspapers, and they were touting how the local police, the Carmel Police Department, just signed their new contract and in their new contract it stipulates that police officers are not allowed to smoke on duty, off duty, in their own houses, in their private cars, anyplace, and they\u2019re subject to dismissal if they are caught doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we gotta draw a fine line here. The police department is an agency of government, and I understand that. There are a lot of companies, too, that have rules of behavior for their employees. I know some — I can\u2019t think of them off the top of my head — but they just told their employees, ‘In two years you can\u2019t smoke period. You can\u2019t smoke in the office now, but in two years you can\u2019t smoke at home. If you do, you\u2019re going to get fired.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s a little dicey, but that\u2019s private enterprise doing it, and when the government is telling its own employees, that\u2019s another thing. But if you want to be a cop in Carmel, then that\u2019s what the requirements are. My concern is that this going to be that this is gonna be behavior that they\u2019re going to exhibit in our own home. Well, it\u2019s already happening. I don\u2019t want to repeat myself from yesterday, but more and more people don\u2019t smoke, and so when all these penalties are announced, new policies against people who do smoke, the people who don\u2019t think it\u2019s not going to have any impact on them, and they probably hate smokers anyway. So they say, ‘Good. Good! Make \u2019em quit. Make \u2019em not smoke around me! I don\u2019t even want to see it. Raise their taxes!\u2019 Right. Well, if we\u2019re going to raise their taxes, and that raising of taxes is going to reduce the consumption and purchase of the product, and if the taxes of that product (tobacco in this case) are going to fund children\u2019s health care, then you had better — if you\u2019re a wise-guy government person, you had better — figure out that you better make it a usable product that you\u2019re taxing. But more and more you can\u2019t smoke anywhere, and that\u2019s one of the reasons for the decline, not just the taxes. So as I said yesterday, ‘When the tax revenue from tobacco and cigarettes falls short for the children\u2019s health care program, guess who\u2019s next?\u2019 All of you that were out there (applauding) cheering the tax increases on cigarette smokers, because they are not going to be enough cigarettes smoked, therefore not purchased, in order to fund anything. So they\u2019re going to come after you next. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eric in, what is this, Huntingburg, Indiana, you\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah! Rush, fellow-smoker dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m just actually calling about smoking. I worked in a bar there while I was in college, and the town I was in was a crazy liberal town, and they passed a smoking ban. The owner of the bar, he was furious. He wasn\u2019t a smoker, though. I\u2019m just wondering how the government can come in and say a private business can not allow smoking when they\u2019ll still sell \u2019em at the gas station and, you know, they\u2019ll allow the use and tax \u2019em, but you can\u2019t use them. You can sell whatever else there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, New York has done it across the board, and they do it on the basis of ‘public health.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the government\u2019s not coming in and giving the startup money for the businesses. They don\u2019t seem to have any right in that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the public doesn\u2019t have any purpose or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This came up today, a bunch of bars in New York thought, ‘My God, we\u2019re going to be put out of business. I mean, half our patrons come in there and smoke.\u2019 So the patrons still go. They just leave every ten minutes and stand outside in the weather and smoke and head back in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No one\u2019s entitled to go into those restaurants anyways. That\u2019s their personal choice to go in. They can deal with it or they don\u2019t have to deal with it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it used to be that way. There was a smoking section, and a nonsmoking section. Some places were all nonsmoking, and some places were smoking. The government says, ‘Nope. We\u2019re not going to have smoking anywhere.\u2019 It\u2019s a great point. The full force of whatever governmental body can do whatever they want, and it wouldn\u2019t have been made possible without bogus research on the death statistics associated with secondhand smoke. It wouldn\u2019t have been possible without pulling that off. So you couldn\u2019t be anywhere near it because it was harmful, you could die. Well, you got a UN body putting that information out. That\u2019s all it took. Then you had some of the anti-smoking people became activist zealots. Remember this about liberals out there, Eric. They are not content. If you want to smoke and kill yourself, they are not content to let you choose that. They are going to force their way of life on you because they are elitists. They know better than you, Eric. They know better, and it\u2019s not that they care about you. They want to exercise their power and control over you, because they\u2019ve got themselves convinced that even if you do smoke when you\u2019re nowhere near them, that somehow it\u2019s going to harm \u2019em. <\/p>\n

Their country just isn\u2019t right. Whatever. Also, none of this would be possible without an electorate that was dense and uninformed about the consequences way down the road of allowing the government in anywhere to regulate private behavior that was not of course against any existing law. This, again, is where the liberals come in because they\u2019re just content as they can be to have people\u2019s lives controlled. The whole concept of personal liberty, private property, all of these things went down the tubes with all these smoking bans and so forth. See, it only takes one. When people cave and give away their personal liberty and property rights, in one instance, well, the people are going to come take it away from you are not going to be satisfied with a little, small bite like cigarettes. So then you can\u2019t use your backyard, or you can\u2019t use portions of your farm the way you want it because there might be some endangered species. This stuff, it just keeps cycling, until someday, somebody\u2019s ox gets gored who was one of the original enablers — then they get mad and they start to see the light and you get some victories and you win back some rights or some freedoms that you lost previously, but you can\u2019t give up on this kind of stuff, in a philosophical sense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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