{"id":6388,"date":"2015-05-11T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-11T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:23:04","slug":"the_left_s_next_target_cut_flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/05\/11\/the_left_s_next_target_cut_flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Next Target: Cut Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, the tradition and institution, the next one under assault…<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019re gonna laugh, but don\u2019t because it\u2019s in the Washington Post<\/a>. Here\u2019s the headline: “Flowers May Be Nice for Mom, But They\u2019re Terrible for Mother Earth.” “Jennifer Grayson, an environmental journalist, is writing ‘Unlatched,\u2019 a book about the breastfeeding controversy,” and has a piece in the Washington Post saying we need to get rid of the entire industry of flowers on Valentine\u2019s Day and for Mother\u2019s Day or any other occasion because flowers are contributing to climate change. <\/p>\n

“How\u2019s this as a gesture of love for the woman who bore you?” This is how the story begins — and, for those of you in Rio Linda, it doesn\u2019t mean “bored.” This is… Let me reread this: “How\u2019s this as a gesture of love for the woman who [gave birth to] you? Chop off the reproductive organ of a plant and send it to her in a box tied up with a pretty bow,” because that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing. You\u2019re mutilating a flower!<\/p>\n

\"original\"You are chopping off its reproductive organ — imagine if that happened to you — and then you are wrapping that in a bow and putting it in a box and sending it to your mom? “No, it\u2019s not a weird botanical twist on the van Gogh woo-a-girl-with-a-severed-ear legend. It is what millions of us … will compulsorily do to mark Mother\u2019s Day.” This ran last week. “This year, we will spend a collective $2.4 billion to buy Mom flowers. I understand the appeal.<\/line><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a mom of two little girls, and my heart melts anytime they surprise me with a handful of dirt-clumped dandelions from our backyard. But while giving flowers may seem like a good way to show how much you love your mom, it\u2019s a terrible idea if you care about Mother Earth.” Now, you might think, “Come on, Rush! This is never gonna get any traction.” That\u2019s what everybody said about everything the left is succeeding in changing, altering, our destroying. <\/p>\n

How many of you, ten years ago…? Let\u2019s go back three years, when Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, every prominent Democrat was opposed to gay marriage. Go back 10 years. How many of you ever thought that marriage would someday successfully be defined — and be considered cool and hip — as between two people of the same sex? When did you think that the majority of the American people, at least in certain polling data produced, supports that?<\/p>\n

Do you remember the efforts that the Sierra Club made to go after SUVs? And those efforts are still underway. Some of the most crackpot, cockamamie things — that when the left makes a move on \u2019em, everybody laughs and thinks they\u2019re kooks and wackos and extremists. — they stick with it, time passes, and all of a sudden it becomes reality. And here\u2019s the first marker thrown down on flowers. Look, they\u2019re going after beef!<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been going after beef and McDonald\u2019s for I don\u2019t know how long, on the premise of global warming, and they keep inching closer, folks. They are stigmatizing beef eating, stigmatizing beef production, and there\u2019s no push-back. Nobody stands up and tells me them to shut up. Nobody tells them to mind their own business. They just keep inching forward. They don\u2019t do so with any timeframe or time-demand limit. <\/p>\n

If it takes \u2019em 15 years to get it done, so be it. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t ever consider failure. If they haven\u2019t succeeded in two years, they never drop it and move on to something else. They keep plugging away. “This year, we will spend a collective $2.4 billion to buy mom flowers. I understand the appeal. … But … it\u2019s a terrible idea if you care about Mother Earth. … The truth is that most flowers are organic only in the truest sense of that word: highly perishable and thus susceptible to decay, as well as vermin and disease.<\/p>\n

“Up to 80% of the 5.6 billion stems of flowers sold in the United States each year are imported. Of those, 93% are grown thousands of miles away in production greenhouses in Colombia or Ecuador. And it takes an awful lot of energy and artificial tinkering to keep those flowers fresh. First, they are saturated with a toxic cocktail of chemicals, many of which have been restricted or banned outright in the United States and Europe… <\/line><\/p>\n

“To preserve the blooms once they\u2019re cut, they\u2019re stored in an energy-guzzling refrigerated warehouse, flown via cargo plane to the United States, brought to yet another refrigerated warehouse to await distribution, and — just to tack on a bit more to the carbon footprint — shipped via refrigerated truck to your mom or to the refrigerated display case at the supermarket or florist. …<\/p>\n

“Add in the cellophane wrap, those annoying little plastic stem tubes and the bouquet\u2019s fate a week later, emitting methane in a landfill, and you may have gotten a gift with a bigger carbon footprint than if you\u2019d driven four hours in a Hummer to visit Mom in person.” So there you have it, the first marker thrown down, in the Washington Post. Flowers for Mother\u2019s Day is a waste; it is damaging. It\u2019s leading to climate change and global warming.<\/p>\n

I know everybody\u2019s just gonna laugh. “What a bunch of crackpots! What a bunch of kooks! They\u2019re never gonna do anything on this.” And you might not hear anything about this \u2019til next Mother\u2019s Day. You might not hear about this for two years. But I guarantee you: The marker\u2019s been thrown down. This will become part of the mix to persuade you and anybody else they can persuade to support their idiocy in global warming, climate change, and get you to abandon it. <\/p>\n

The real root of this: Anti-capitalism, folks.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just too much money being made, too much money being spent, blah, blah. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, there\u2019s all kinds of stuff out there. I just wanted to get to this rose business, this flowers business, because, folks, it\u2019s typical. You may not think it\u2019s the most important thing happening out there. But over 27 years, it\u2019s little things like this that people ignore and pay no attention to that allows the leftists to creep and creep and creep and then one day we wake up, and they have destroyed something, in the process of taking it over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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