BEGIN TRANSCRIPTRUSH: This is Jo in Boca Raton, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I have a premise before I make my comment.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: I belong to the Church of Scientology, and this weekend we're gathering together at the church and we're going to go to the beach with bags, rakes, and shovels and we're going to collect all the oil that washes up on the shore. My question is what have you done to help protect the environment?RUSH: What have I done to help protect the environment? I'm alive. I live a lifestyle that uses the resources of the earth as God intended them to be used. You know what? I save turtles. I turn off my lights at night. I've been picking up tarballs off my beach on Palm Beach since 1997, before there was an oil spill. Tarballs wash up on my beach all the time because there's always oil in the ocean. I also have my air-conditioning in my large house set at 68 degrees so that everybody working in there is productive and they are comfortable. Inside my house at night, I have all the lights turned on, and outside in front I have all the lights turned on. I have security cameras and security beams. I'm using electricity that is plentiful; I am paying for it, for the security of myself and my family. I am paying my taxes. I am paying the full retail price for every service I acquire. That's what I'm doing. I also employ about 150 people. I bonus them all at holidays. I have not fired anybody and I have not sent anybody to a beach to pick up tarballs to make them think they're doing something for the environment. My people are productive and work, and my company has not had a down year in 21 years, despite the economic cycles of our country and despite the abominable leadership that we have in the Oval Office right now. That's what I'm doing. What are you doing? You're gonna go out there and pick up tarballs. What are you going to do with them? I also, ladies and gentlemen, saved you from the global warming hoax. I, the largest voice in the world exposing the hoax, saving millions of people millions of dollars and saving them from reducing their lifestyle over a full-fledged lying hoax. I speak up for liberty and freedom on a daily basis. I am about optimism, achievement, good cheer, happiness and contentment and the pursuit of all of it. What are you doing? I also take a lot of vacation time every year, and I enjoy it. But I don't overdo it. Sometimes I talk too much about golf on the program. But aside from that, you have just called Mr. Perfection compared to you and what you think you're doing to save what you cannot save in the first place. BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: By the way, just so you know, that woman was on hold since the beginning of the program, and she said she wanted to talk about my press release today from Janet Napolitano ordering no longer is it the Gulf oil spill, it's a BP-caused disaster. That's what she said she wanted to talk about, so that woman, in addition to being a sophist was also a liar, attempting to trick the host. But you can't do that. I've seen every trick tried. I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist. She said she's a Scientologist, I don't know what that has to do with anything. She's going to go pick up tarballs, (imitating woman) "and what are you doing? What are you doing to help people?" Well, I would say, Jo, what are you doing to contribute to this economy? What are you doing to grow the economy? What are you doing to ensure that we have the resources, the wealth, and the material available to help other people? You seem so devoted to helping other people, it takes resources to help other people, what are you doing to help produce them, Jo? What are you doing to produce these resources? I don't know what you're producing by going out and picking up tarballs, which are there every day of the week for the last gazillion years. I don't know what in Sam Hill -- and there is a Sam Hill -- you are doing to help anybody by picking up tarballs. Why don't you go get an oil soaked pelican and clean it up? See, these people, "What are you doing to help people?" Class and dignity prevent me from detailing it, but it's a hell of a lot. We're outta time. It's a good thing, too.
I don't know who to be more annoyed with. I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a dumber rock.