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RUSH: Colleen in Bergen County, New Jersey. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, longtime listener, second-time caller, Rush. I\u2019m very nervous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, don\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re the best. You are; you\u2019re the best. I just want to talk about the program Planet in Peril that I watched on CNN last night. I don\u2019t know if you watched it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope. I know what it\u2019s going to be; I know what it\u2019s going to say; I know how they\u2019re going to lie; I know how they\u2019re going to get things wrong. I know what Anderson Cooper did the other night claiming 40% of Greenland is melting, when it\u2019s not. So no, it\u2019s a propaganda series. It\u2019s no different than a Michael Moore movie.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. No, I agree. But what I came away with was that this has nothing to do with the planet melting. It has to do with the extinction of wildlife.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. It\u2019s a series. And last week, in promoting the series, Anderson Cooper said that 40% of Greenland is melting, and it\u2019s not. Forty percent of the Greenland ice shelf is melting, is how they promoted this thing. We just had a story here about how if the world warms up too much, that 95% of all species will go extinct.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no, no, no. It\u2019s man who is killing the animals. That has nothing to do with — it\u2019s got nothing to do — I\u2019m not saying this program —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. You\u2019re telling me, what you watched, Planet in Peril, has nothing to do with global warming. It has to do with how man is wiping out wildlife?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well, this is a new one. What wildlife is being wiped out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they said that there are only 5,000 tigers left in the whole entire world —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s in the zoos.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In the wild.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then there\u2019s that many in zoos, too, we got it handled.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, but they were saying how it\u2019s, you know, what is that again, when the animal feeds and the animal kills, and what the animal feeds off, and even the insects that feed off of the animal that the animal killed, and the plants that grow, if one animal is missing from the planet, what happens. And I do believe that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You asked what\u2019s that called when the animals eat each other and the insects then take over the carcass?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Pain of life or whatever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s two things. If you\u2019re watching CNN, it\u2019s called destruction of the habitat. If you don\u2019t watch CNN, if you have a brain, it\u2019s called the food chain.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The food chain.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s been around ever since there have been things to eat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, so do you believe if you take away animals from there, meaning if man goes in and starts killing off — like they showed in Yellowstone Park when they put back the wolf because they had taken the wolf away from Yellowstone Park and they put the wolf back in, and all of the plantation that flourished because the food chain of the wolf coming in and eating the elk —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is something I know something about, and it\u2019s a shame. If you\u2019re telling us what CNN did — the mistake in the first place was the hubris of a bunch of forest managers taking the wolf outta there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Talk about natural habitat. We move the wolf because the wolf was eating other animals that visitors to the park wanted to see and so we were worried that the wolves were going to wipe out the bison or buffalo, whatever it was, I don\u2019t remember — so we took \u2019em outta there. Then the animals that the wolves were eating started thriving and trampling everything, so they had to bring the wolf back in. They admitted the mistake. Now they\u2019re compounding it. The wolves are in there doing what wolves do. They\u2019re eating vegetation; they\u2019re trampling all over it. It\u2019s nature. It\u2019s nature, Colleen, and when we start trying to manage this stuff for reasons other than our own survival and thriving over the obstacles that the environment presents us, we\u2019re not capable of this. This kind of management is ludicrous, and the fact they took the wolves out of there and now have to bring \u2019em back in and are now upset they brought \u2019em back in, it ought to be so illustrative as to illustrate the folly of all this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re the best, Rush. You really are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are not wiping — look, have you heard that the polar bear population is dwindling?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I believe — no, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The polar bear population is growing to the point it\u2019s becoming a problem in certain places. It\u2019s moving, too, because of the so-called warming. The polar bears, they\u2019re not idiots, they\u2019re not just going to sit there —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and let their habitat go away. They\u2019re moving to where they can thrive. This is what every species does.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Rush, you\u2019re the best. You really are, because I was afraid when I was going to say that you were going to think I was liberal because the last phone call I made with you I think you thought I was liberal in my thinking, but it was about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s not what I think. I remember you, Colleen. I\u2019m glad you called me here for some counseling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m an animal lover.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know you\u2019re an animal lover, and that\u2019s the hook. They do this show. Man is evil. First we\u2019re destroying the planet with global warming. Now we\u2019re wiping out tigers. We\u2019re wiping out the polar bears. And if you have grandkids who saw this or kids that saw it, and they come in, ‘Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, we\u2019re wiping out the polar bears.\u2019 You don\u2019t want the kids to be unhappy, so you have to do something about saving the polar bears. It\u2019s a hook. It\u2019s the way the liberals get to your heart, because we all love animals. We think they\u2019re the cutest little things, and we don\u2019t want to harm them, other than when we need them to eat to stay alive, which, you know, we\u2019re all for that.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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