{"id":317698,"date":"2019-08-01T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317698"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:10:33","slug":"flashback-1992-environmentalism-is-a-tool-for-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/01\/flashback-1992-environmentalism-is-a-tool-for-socialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback 1992: Environmentalism Is a Tool for Socialists"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Climate change was a big, big deal last night. I want to go back to January 7, 1992.<\/a> This is in the days before Fox News, before cable news became something other than CNN. It\u2019s really before massive amounts of conservative talk radio existed. So this is back in the days where I used to be invited on shows like PBS Charlie Rose and so forth, \u2019cause I was the only national conservative voice they could bring on to try to expose as a kook or humiliate or what have you. Those days are over now. But the reason I want to go back to this is because the subject is climate change and global warming and all that.<\/p>\n

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I want to demonstrate my consistency to you. I want to demonstrate how old this issue is. I want to demonstrate how what happened last night in the Democrat Party or any day on the subject of climate change is something I have forecast and been predicting for the entire time I\u2019ve been hosting the EIB Network. Charlie Rose, January 7, 1992, asked me why I talk so much about radical environmentalism and if I really believed that it was a guise for socialism. I was telling people this 26 years ago — well, 30, but this interview was 26, 28 years ago. Here is the bite…<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

ROSE: Listening to your show, there are a lot of people who believe you are now begin… I\u2019m beginning to hear people call and say, “Are you as extreme as you sound?” Because you tend to say all — all environmentalists are extreme, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

ROSE: But — (sputtering)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No.<\/p>\n

ROSE: That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. They — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. This came up today.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I know. That\u2019s why I picked it up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ve obviously listened to my award-winning program today.<\/p>\n

ROSE: (chortling) Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that all environmentalists are extreme.<\/p>\n

ROSE: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that the Ted Dansons of the world who say, “We\u2019ve only got 10 years left to clean up this planet or we\u2019re not gonna be able to live, that\u2019s extreme! But I\u2019ll bet you if you had Ted Danson out here, you wouldn\u2019t ask him about his extremism.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Oh, I\u2019ll betcha I would.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019d say, “Ted, what…?”<\/p>\n

ROSE: No. No, no, no. Why are you saying that? I would say that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Well, most people media wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

ROSE: (laughing)<\/p>\n

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RUSH: He\u2019d give some flowery answer about how he cares. “Ted, you\u2019re so wonderful.” I think what you have are a bunch of… I think the militant environmental movement… I don\u2019t it\u2019s very large. The militant environmental movement is the home of the new socialists in America, and they\u2019re after the punishment of America. America\u2019s responsible for all this.<\/p>\n

ROSE: But who are they?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Earth First.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Who are these militant environmentalists? Is it the Sierra Fund?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s part of \u2019em. Part of the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n

ROSE: They\u2019re out… They\u2019re out to…<\/p>\n

RUSH: The U.S. …<\/p>\n

ROSE: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

ROSE: They\u2019re out to socialize America?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn right.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s how. Here\u2019s how. Here\u2019s how, Charlie. To socialize America, the first thing you do is you say, “America\u2019s responsible for the destruction of the planet. It\u2019s American lifestyles, hair spray. It\u2019s smokestacks.”<\/p>\n

ROSE: But are you saying that there\u2019s no damage from hair spray from fluorocarbons and all that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am saying… I am saying that the vanity of humanity is amazing to me.<\/p>\n

ROSE: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do not believe that we have the ability to destroy this marvelous creation. We can damage it.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But we make a mess by existing, and we\u2019re the ones who can fix it. And you need freedom, you need democracy, you need technological advancement. You don\u2019t need rolling back of progress in order to fix these things, and that\u2019s what these people want to do. Now, Charlie, I\u2019m not an extremist. I get up in the morning. I read the papers.<\/p>\n

\"\"ROSE: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I look at the traditions and institutions of this country that I believe have made it great under assault and defend them.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s exactly what happens here. Every day, I get up and defend the things I believe in that are under attack. But you see, this is 1992, folks. Many of you were not born then. Many of you were not listening then, and that\u2019s how long this issue has been going on, and I forecast it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, there\u2019s additional proof what I said to Charlie Rose, and I reminded everybody of this last week. The chief of staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a young trust funder Democrat by the name of Saikat Chakrabarti. That is the Anglicized pronunciation of his name. It might Saikat, might be Saikat, might be Saikat. But to me it looks like Saikat Chakrabarti. He\u2019s the chief of staff. This is a Washington Post story, and he was talking to Jay Inslee\u2019s climate director. The guy\u2019s name is Sam Ricketts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He said to Inslee\u2019s guy, “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn\u2019t originally a climate thing at all.”<\/a> It was an economic thing! So now we\u2019ve got Saikat Chakrabarti admitting it, and we\u2019ve got Inslee admitting it, who\u2019s probably parroting now Chakrabarti, \u2019cause The Squad\u2019s running everything in the Democrat Party. But, anyway, they\u2019re out there admitting that climate change is about every “progressive issue” including the economy and racism, and “environmental justice.”<\/p>\n

What the hell is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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