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RUSH: Grant, Tulsa Oklahoma. Hi, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Hey, thanks for having me on. If I sound provocative, I want to apologize ahead of time, but I have two questions that I\u2019d like to ask you. First is, I heard you last Friday when you were talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I\u2019ve heard him on his radio program since I drive a truck and work out here on the road, and you were making fun of him and saying that he doesn\u2019t have any correct information and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. And I\u2019m just wondering what your credentials and my know-nothing, do-nothing Senator Inhofe from Oklahoma, what does he know? <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, you know, William Shatner asked me, how do I know what I know is right, and I said, ‘It\u2019s my job to know what\u2019s right.\u2019 But see, you\u2019re doing a double negative. I question — where are RFK Jr.\u2019s credentials? His number one credential is his last name, and number two, his credential is he\u2019s got an approved cause, and that is, world peace, world whatever, save the world with environmentalism or what have you. And my point is, he doesn\u2019t need qualifications. All he needs is a fax machine and a logo and a phone number to ABC, CBS, NBC, and they will anoint him with expert status. <\/line> <\/line>Now, you\u2019re calling to say, well, what are my credentials? Well, I\u2019ve never offered myself as a full-fledged, scientific expert on this stuff — precisely the opposite. I have given my reasons for believing this in nonscientific ways because I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re being told in pure scientific ways because they can\u2019t prove their case, either. They\u2019re relying on faith. And they\u2019re ginning people up and creating fear and panic, and they\u2019re leading people to give up their income, pay higher taxes, reorder their lives, all for a fraud. I totally believe it\u2019s fraud. So I\u2019m simply saying, you know, okay, we got, ‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says….\u2019 So? What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says — why is that more important than what Robert Smith says?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: So I\u2019m asking.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I — I — I don\u2019t — well, I guess, with him being in the government stuff, I guess people report to him —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: He\u2019s not in the government. He\u2019s not. He\u2019s an activist. He\u2019s not in the government.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Oh, I thought that he was a representative or something at one time.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, no, no, no. There are a lot of these Kennedys out there, and it\u2019s easy to confuse \u2019em.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: No, he set himself up as an environmental lawyer, I think is what he is.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Okay, well, you know, forgive me for that. I thought that he was a representative or something —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, but even so, what makes them experts? You know, what makes… You just said that your senator\u2019s a know-nothing, so you\u2019re not automatically accepting that that elected official is an expert. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Why would you accept Kennedy, if he were a member of Congress, why would that automatically make him an expert when it doesn\u2019t make your senator one?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, I — I just see the — the news reports of, you know, and I know that you\u2019ve made fun of this in the past, but like ice floes and, you know, the polar bears and now National Geographic has a thing about the migrations and the walruses on there, saying that they\u2019re — the female walruses were not able to get up on the ice floes with their cubs and they had to inhabitate the same place as the males —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: And then where did they ask you to send your money after that report?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I don\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t see it. I just saw the advertisement for it.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah, but —<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I can\u2019t get anything on —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m sure somebody sent a donation to save the walruses after this report, or to support some think tank or some organization that\u2019s gonna save the walruses.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, that may be true. I didn\u2019t actually see it. I just saw the advertisement for it, \u2019cause I can\u2019t get anything like that out here on the road.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: You know, I —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re in Oklahoma. Walruses are not an endangered species there, they don\u2019t even live there.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Out at the zoo, maybe.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: (laughing) All right. Grant, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. <\/line> <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Okay, folks, here it is, love it or not. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into the environmentalism business because he was sentenced to it. ‘In 1984, Kennedy joined the Riverkeeper organization to satisfy the 1,500 hours community service to which he was sentenced.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what the offense was. So he became an environmentalist as community service, 1,500 hours. ‘After his 1,500 hours of community service were complete, the group hired Kennedy as its chief attorney.\u2019 So it would be safe to say that Robert Kennedy Jr. was sentenced to environmentalism and then took it up as his life\u2019s calling. That\u2019s his qualification. I love the guy. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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