One of the greatest smears of my career

Rush: We’re in Los Angeles today, folks. The first day is always a work in progress, have to test it on the air. Under normal circumstances, I would not mention this because the rule of thumb is, … But in this case, … I’m going through one of the greatest smears of my career, and, believe me, folks, there have been many smears.

this is all over the place that I told people there is no storm. That I told people you don’t have to run away from Florida, you do not have to evacuate, because I said the storm isn’t coming. I did not say that. I did not say the storm is not big. I didn’t say the storm is gonna go somewhere else. They did. I didn’t say anything. There is not a thing that I said about this that anybody can prove I was wrong about, not a single thing.

Now, why is this happening? I’ve had a lot of people send me emails: “Rush, I don’t understand. I heard what you said.” Let me explain this, folks, as best I can. We in the United States — and this is a recently evolved theory of mine — that we in the United States are actually living 1984, the novel by Orwell, in a number of ways. And what has taken over is the concept of groupthink.

So here comes Hurricane Irma, and when Hurricane Irma starts, I’m observing something that is phenomenal to me. The original forecast tracks of Hurricane Irma… Let me… We’ve got Dittocam here, right? Let me find this for you. I want to find the original tracks.

I want you to look at these original tracks here. (shows image) You see that? Now, if you look at the state of Florida, on your right of the state of Florida is where everybody thought this hurricane was gonna go for a week. A week! Before they changed their minds. See, all of those models taking this hurricane, Hurricane Irma, out to the Atlantic Ocean, maybe up to North Carolina and South Carolina? Those are the original tracks, and it was during those forecasts that, in south Florida, wa run on bottled water began to the point that there was no bottled water in south Florida while the forecast track looks as you see to the right or east of Florida there.

Well, now, I’m a social commentator as well as a political commentator and I found that fascinating. “How can there be a run on water with a hurricane forecast that’s not even expected to hit us?” Now, granted, these are long range, but there’s a lot of them. The vast majority of… Look at it again. The vast majority of those models — and included in there is the NHC, the real track. You can dig it out there. I can’t get close here, but you can dig it out, the real track that went up the west coast of Florida. By the way, it didn’t hit Tampa.

All night last night it was gonna wreck Tampa, was gonna ruin Tampa. I was watching it. It wasn’t gonna go to Tampa. It did go to Marco Island and Naples.

Anyway, during all of this, there’s a run on bottled water to the point that in West Palm Beach a semitrailer delivery of bottled water to a grocery store had to be protected by local police for fear that people would show up and try to rob or steal. I’m saying, “Why is this happening when this hurricane isn’t even gonna hit here, at least according to these forecasts?”

So I explained how the world works. I explained how local media seeks to hype these storms ’cause it’s good for ratings, and it’s also good for grocery stores and advertisers that sell things you need during a hurricane. Meanwhile, the forecast tracks don’t have it anywhere near. They got closer and closer and closer during the 10 days, or maybe it was a week, and then I suggested, “Folks, there’s no reason to panic. You have water in your house right now. It’s called a faucet. All you have to do is go get some empty bottles and fill ’em up, and there’s your water.

Nothing that is out there that I supposed said on social media is true — and I defy any of you SJWs to call here and run by anything you’ve heard that I said, and let me explain the truth to you. 800-282-2882. This is a series of lies and misstatements, and this is because I do not heel. I do not join everybody in the conventional wisdom, the consensus and the groupthink. I did not join in the panic. I did not join in helpless wailing and, “Oh, woe is me!” I did not join in any of the things — and I specifically didn’t join the idea that global warming or climate change was causing this.

I also pointed out that whenever a storm like this happens, you can’t avoid it; in the media people are gonna say it’s happening because of climate change. It’s stronger than ever because of climate change. This is the seventh largest hurricane to hit Florida. The hurricane in 1935, Labor Day, was much stronger than Hurricane Irma. That’s before anybody knew about CO2 and the greenhouse effect and climate change.

Shouldn’t the hurricanes today be far worse than ever if what they’re saying is true? You’re not supposed to think this way, folks, and you’re not supposed to ask that question. You’re not supposed to give people an alternative way of looking at something outside the groupthink. If you do, they’re gonna come after you and try to destroy your credibility and smear you, because they have an agenda that they seek to advance using every public event they can.

[More environmental news that doesn’t fit the narrative: Net Increase in Greenland Ice Mass.]

Now, ladies and gentlemen, this smear (chuckles) of me… This smear is unlike most of the previous attempts that the left has made, because there isn’t even a misunderstood joke to base this on. There’s no insult to anybody to base this on. This has been based on a complete fabrication and intentional misrepresentation of what I said. I never said the hurricane was fake news. I never said it wasn’t gonna be big. I never said to ignore the forecast.

I never said anything that you have heard Al Roker or anybody else in the Drive-By Media saying. But because I don’t subscribe to the groupthink, because I don’t subscribe to the consensus, they think I don’t care — and when you don’t care, why, that’s the greatest sin of all, and that’s what they think is going on, which gives them the justification. But I wanted to deal with this, folks, because this is the worth example of a smear that I have experienced yet.

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