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RUSH: According to Obama, additionally, as he said recently last week, maybe the week before — and certainly in weeks prior — he said something in addition to what I\u2019m going to mention here. He said, ladies and gentlemen, that we are 3% of the world\u2019s population but that we use 25% of the world\u2019s resources. Now, I first heard this articulated by the certifiable nutcase Paul Ehrlich in his book, The Population Bomb, back in the seventies, I think it was. It became a left-wing environmentalist wacko bible. <\/p>\n

Nothing in it was ever proved correct, but they still stand by it. ‘Three percent of the world\u2019s population, 25% of the world\u2019s resources,\u2019 period. They never talk about what we do — and I don\u2019t accept the numbers, by the way, but for the sake of the discussion, we\u2019ll accept the numbers. I think it\u2019s all BS like the numbers of homeless were supposedly three million when it never was that high. So let\u2019s just accept it for the sake of this discussion. What do we do with the 25% of the world\u2019s resources? Are we not the most successful, the most giving, the most productive nation in the history of humanity? What do we do? We feed the world. We clothe the world. We rescue the world. What do we do with it all? The impression is that we\u2019re stealing it. Obama also some weeks ago said that because people around the world know this about us that the day is gonna come we\u2019re not going to be able to eat what we want. Remember when he said that, Dawn? <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not going to be able to eat what we want, and we\u2019re not going to be able to drive what we want, and we\u2019re not going to be able to keep our thermostats where we want because that\u2019s not right! The rest of the world isn\u2019t going to put up with it. That\u2019s not how you get ‘change\u2019 and future and ‘hope\u2019 and respect and all that. Well, in that regard, ladies and gentlemen, I must call your attention, the dark side of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps to you. Michael Phelps (while looking like an alien) nevertheless has set the record for the most gold medals in the Olympics. And he is looked upon here as a great inspiration, a source of great American pride. The world is dazzled by this man. But that\u2019s not the Michael Phelps that truly exists. Michael Phelps is the epitome, ladies and gentlemen, of The Ugly American. I found out today what he eats on a daily basis. I know he swims five hours a day and needs a lot of energy. Big producers do.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s produced a lot of medals, a lot of records. Big producers do need a lot of energy. But according to Obama and many on the left, Michael Phelps is just a glutton who cares not for the rest of the world. Twelve thousand calories a day Michael Phelps eats! Can I describe a typical day\u2019s diet for Michael Phelps? His breakfast starts with three fried egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise. He follows that up, still at breakfast, with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar, and three chocolate chip pancakes. At lunch, this glutton, who cares not for how much of the world\u2019s resources he is using as a single American… Look, folks, you\u2019ve seen the little ChiCom gymnasts. What do they weigh, 38 pounds? <\/p>\n

A couple of rice cakes, and they\u2019re winning medals, too, and they\u2019re not destroying. They\u2019re not making a big carbon footprint with their rice cakes! They are behaving responsibly, according to Obama, the Lord Messiah. They\u2019re still winning. They don\u2019t have these big people out there. You know, the ChiComs in terms of stature, they\u2019re small. They don\u2019t require much, just a little rice and rice cakes, and that\u2019s it. Look at what our guy is doing. No wonder we\u2019re hated. And I just described breakfast. Let\u2019s go to lunch. At lunch, Michael Phelps ‘gobbles up a pound of pasta, two large ham-and-cheese sandwiches slathered with mayonnaise on white bread.\u2019 I mean not only is this stealing from the rest of the world, it\u2019s not even healthy, correct? He should be eating whole wheat bread and low-fat mayonnaise. But no, no, no, no! He\u2019s going hog wild. <\/p>\n

White bread? Typical American! Mayonnaise? Do you know how many eggs it takes to make mayonnaise? This guy is not only eating eggs and omelets, but do you know how many eggs it takes to make a jar of mayonnaise? You gotta break a lot of eggs to make a jar of mayo. This guy is an egg thief. I\u2019m surprised the ChiComs had this kind of food to supply this guy. Well, let\u2019s stick with lunch. ‘A pound of enriched pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread, capping off the meal by chugging a thousand calories\u2019 worth of energy drinks. Then at dinner, Michael Phelps really loads up on the carbs. That\u2019s what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen: a pound of pasta with Bolognese sauce and an entire pizza. He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.\u2019 This will not sit well with the Lord Messiah, Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

I know, ladies and gentlemen. Achievers use more energy. High achievers, high producers use a lot of energy — and I have said so with pride. But now we read that Michael Phelps is burning and using 12,000 calories a day, while the Democrats are trying to alert everybody to the dangers posed by energy. The Democrats and left are now demonizing oil, they\u2019re demonizing our own ability to be energy independent. They don\u2019t want us to be able to get our own independent sources of oil or natural gas. Yet, look at Michael Phelps. No citizen of the world, he! He couldn\u2019t care less that those little Chinese gymnasts are eating rice cakes. He\u2019s out there taking up more than his fair share, more than he needs. This is pure gluttony! This is typical, in the world of Obama, of what United States has become. (interruption) He is the all-time leader in Olympic medals, but that\u2019s on the surface. That\u2019s what I said in the beginning. That\u2019s the Michael Phelps the world knows. But the real Michael Phelps that people like Obama know and the American left knows it. (interruption) It doesn\u2019t matter. See, you\u2019re missing the point, Snerdley. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re missing the point. A lot of you people say, ‘Rush, what are you talking about? He\u2019s winning all these medals. He\u2019s out-producing everybody, just like America does.\u2019 Right, but America is wrong, don\u2019t you understand, for doing this! America is wrong for producing so much. America is wrong for using so much energy. America is wrong for being the best. America is wrong for being the strongest. Don\u2019t you understand it? Have you not gotten it through your heads yet where Obama and the left are coming from — and I am using an example here of Michael Phelps as an illustration of one man representing a nation and if Obama and the Democrats were consistent, they would apologize to the world for all these medals. They would apologize \u2019cause he\u2019s cheating \u2019cause he\u2019s using more than his fair share, more than he needs — and I don\u2019t see him helping the Chinese win any more medals. I don\u2019t see him concerned about the future of anybody except himself. Michael Phelps — as far as the American left is concerned and the Democrat Party, led by Barack Obama — is the epitome of what is wrong with the United States of America today. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Do not tell me that Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time. Don\u2019t go there with me. We shouldn\u2019t be draping gold medals around his neck and glorifying an American embarrassment. We should all be embarrassed; we should all be angry about this. No, Snerdley, listen to me, look at me on this. Energy is to be conserved; it is not to be burned. Can\u2019t we agree on that? We have to seek a small energy footprint if we are to make life fair and to protect this planet. If we can\u2019t win gold medals without burning thousands of excess calories, then so be it. But if we have to go out and burn all these excess calories, create the carbon footprint to produce those calories, then burn \u2019em, in wanton disregard — do you realize what he eats for breakfast is more than the whole nation of Korea has in a week? What about the starving in Africa, ladies and gentlemen? This is individual greed, as I am learning it, as it\u2019s being taught me by the American left and Barack Obama, the Most Merciful Lord Messiah. The Olympic ideal is not using more than your fair share. The Olympic ideal is sameness. That is why there ought to be no winners. The opening ceremony taught us this, nothing but regimented sameness, nothing individual is to be celebrated, and yet look at what\u2019s happening, the home of rugged individualism once again running away with all the medals in the swimming pools because of greed, sloth, and selfish consumption of energy that is not renewable, by the way. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, folks, it gets even worse. I just found out from a good source that Michael Phelps also drives an SUV, a hog SUV. Not surprised. So you see, ladies and gentlemen, American consumption, when it results in exceptionalism in athletics, why, that\u2019s perfectly fine, why, we celebrate that kind of consumption. American consumption for the greatest production and the greatest rewards, why, that is fine if we do this in sports. However, if we consume and produce exceptionalism in goods and services for others, including ourselves, then somehow we are committing a sin. I just told Snerdley, I want to prepare you people for this, it won\u2019t be long before the Media Matters website headline says, ‘Rush: Michael Phelps is Ugly American.\u2019 They\u2019re the left, we can predict what they\u2019re going to do before they do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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