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June 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Thank you, Johnny.
Rush Limbaugh back with you tomorrow.
And that'll make everybody happy.
I've been thoroughly happy to be with you, and I so appreciate it.
And we're about to head back to some more of your calls at 1-800-282-2882 again.
Hi, I am Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth.
Good looking out the window here.
Good 102 or so steaming degrees down here.
Hope all's well.
Oh, since we last spoke, which was Friday, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the multiple gigage here.
Appreciate that.
And in between there, Mark Stein yesterday.
Really enjoy when Mr. Stein fills in.
But you know, we had just about a mile behind my head here.
Yes, sir.
Kicked off the Jonas Brothers tour at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
Big stuff.
Actually, it was huge stuff.
Pretty great.
And you know what?
Just across America, can you join with me on this?
Isn't it great that that's the name of the stadium?
I mean, no matter where it happens.
And listen, I am a pro-business capitalist conservative.
So I'm all about stadium naming rights.
I never have any trouble whatsoever with any of the corporate names that adorn our stadiums.
That's always fine by me.
It's the marketplace in action.
That having been said, isn't there something great?
I don't ever want it to happen to Fenway.
I don't ever want it to happen to Lambeau Field.
I'm fine with it.
But it's Jerry Jones for crying out loud.
You knew there was going to be a corporate name slapped on this thing almost before groundbreaking.
Well, groundbreaking happened and this enormous thing arose on the skyline of Arlington, Texas.
Actually, there was not actually a skyline of Arlington, Texas before this.
Oh, and by the way, please, for them, just can I just reach out to the homies here for just a minute?
The stadium is in Arlington.
It's not in Dallas.
Cowboys haven't played in Dallas almost since their birth because Texas Stadium was at Irving.
New stadium's at Arlington.
And why does this keep coming up?
Why does anyone care?
Well, American Idol has tryouts.
In fact, if you're listening anywhere within, have you ever noticed that people will drive 900 miles for idol tryouts?
I mean, whatever, man, whatever.
So if you want to come down and just roast like a pig on a spit in the Texas heat before being allowed into the stadium, knock yourself out.
It's the next couple of days, I believe.
American Idol tryouts at the Cowboy Stadium.
Now, the American Idol website or the Fox website or something like that has annoyed the locals by referring to just Dallas, this, Dallas, Dallas.
Now, if it's the Mavericks or the Stars or something like that, that's in Dallas.
But the Rangers and the Cowboys play in Arlington, the town in which I sit right now.
So that's my Chamber of Commerce duty.
Very good.
Thanks a lot.
And with that, let's go to some more topicality.
I want to get to your calls here in a sec.
Let me do this first because, again, being me is with my attention span.
If I don't do it now, I won't.
And this just takes a minute.
Let's share some love for Chuck Todd, White House correspondent of NBC.
And it's funny.
What a weird corporate umbrella that is.
Big network talk this hour, if you want to, because ABC, as you know, is about to whore itself out for the Obama Infomercial tomorrow night.
And this hurts me.
These are folks I know.
A lot of us working at stations that are some of the longtime legendary Limbaugh affiliates, WBAP here in Dallas, Fort Worth, WABC, KABC, WJR in Detroit, WLS.
I mean, these are not all Limbaugh affiliates, but the enormous ABC stations were a huge part of the beginnings of the Limbaugh show.
And all of us in talk radio who have been lucky enough to work on these stations have had, as I particularly have had, a really long time to have the opportunity to hang out with the really good people of ABC radio news, the Jim Hickey, Vic Ratner.
These are legendary reporters and wonderful, wonderful folks.
And that means that every once in a while, the TV, the TV folks.
And obviously, ABC's television news has made my teeth itch about as often as NBCs or CBSs or CNNs and all of that.
And really to their credit, when they owned us, when Disney owns ABC and ABC used to own this station I'm on right now and a bunch of stations before a purchase by a company called Citadel.
But when we were owned by ABC, I always felt like I had the freedom to praise or slap around any ABC product, news entertainment, or whatever.
Nobody ever came to me and said, dude, you want to go easy on Peter Jennings, please?
Could you please do that?
Nobody ever did that.
And if there is anybody who I've always found to be really gracious and who I've really enjoyed the company of, it's Charlie Gibson.
I did not enjoy Charlie's moment last year in the absolute trap question on the Bush doctrine for Sarah Palin.
That was not a good day for Charlie.
But it's in the midst of a career that has had almost nothing but good days.
And at the end of the newscast, does he still do it?
I hope you had a good day today.
That's wonderful.
And he's a prince of a man, just a prince of a man.
Yet he and Diane Sawyer, whom I don't give a flip about, personally or professionally, are going to be a part of this sucrose pro-Obama infomercial.
Have you heard the promo for this thing?
What's more important than healthcare?
Nothing.
What?
What?
Excuse me.
Oh, I don't know.
Maybe fending off the next 9-11.
Silly me.
You know, healthcare is important.
It's definitely top five.
And listen, if you're about to die of something, it's really important.
It might be number one.
But for just, I mean, there are people for whom healthcare is not important enough to even have it willfully.
They don't have it.
I'm 25.
I'm healthy.
Guess what?
I got, you know, I need beer money.
Whatever logic leads you to that.
What's more important than your healthcare?
Nothing.
That's why we're, and I love the ABC promo for this.
You'll probably see it tonight 14 times.
That's why we're going inside his house, the White House.
What?
His house?
Again, excuse me, you know, for channeling ninth grade civics.
I thought it was our house.
I know he lives there by the gracious auspices of a misguided electorate, but he won fair and square and he lives there.
We're going inside his house.
All your questions on healthcare, all your, oh, excuse me, all your tough questions on healthcare.
Oh, really?
Now, will there be a challenging question or two or three or four?
I'm sure there will be.
I'm sure there will.
It won't be such softballs that it's like, you know, halfway through the thing.
Yeah, Mr. President, could you tell us how your healthcare plan will make everything better for everyone's life here and even on other planets, please?
There will be challenging questions of a sort.
It will be like this.
Mr. President, people have said that this just involves too much spending.
Or, you know, people have been claiming that we can't afford this or that the countries that have the style of healthcare that you seem to advocate undergo certain slings and arrows of rationing and long waits.
How do you respond to that?
And he will then, I'm sure, glibly respond.
And that will be it.
There will be no Republican voice there to say, yeah, Mr. President, lovely answer, except here's why socialized medicine is bad.
Yeah, Mr. President, lovely glib answer, but here's why the ridiculous amount of spending to do this is reckless and irresponsible.
No one, no one will be there to say that, because this is ABC whoring itself out to this White House.
It is as disgusting as anything.
I mean, the Brian Williams inside the White House thing, I didn't care so much about that.
President even joked about that.
He woke up, troubled about something, rolled over and asked Brian Williams a question.
That's funny.
If you're going to have access to the White House and the minutiae of what's going on, whatever, whatever, whatever.
Whatever.
But this on a key issue, for it to banish the opposing view, not just in the content of the show, but in advertising, wouldn't even take ads from a group that wanted to run commercial spots that said, hey, here you are watching the Obama view of healthcare.
You might want to think about these three or four things.
Nope, wouldn't take it.
So anyway, pardon that little tributary off into the world of ABC.
In the world of NBC, this is kind of wild because you have, I mean, you had the legacy of Russert, an equal opportunity tormentor, been gone just a little over a year.
I still miss him.
David Gregory, got to tell you, might be doing okay.
He was sitting with Chuck Todd and Nina Easton, who I guess has gravitated over from the Fox News power round table.
She's the Washington Bureau Chief of Fortune magazine, right?
And David Gregory had asked a question.
He said about healthcare, Iran, North Korea, GM owning this, owning that, TARP, blah, blah, blah, about whether it was just too much.
Isn't it all just too much?
And Chuck and Nina started to answer David Gregory and say, well, you know, there are those who say that the president's plate is too full.
And David Gregory said, no, I'm just talking about too much money.
Isn't it just too much spending?
I said, wow, is this the moderator for Meet the Press saying that?
And then at the end of the show, at the end of the show, Chuck Todd had a point about the claim by many that President Bush, in his eerie Pennsylvania remarks of a few days ago, was somehow kicking Obama in the crotch by standing up for his own views.
And God bless Matt Drudge, but he even went with that narrative.
Rodeo's on.
Bush slams.
Oh, Matt, please.
Come on.
Come on.
Decaf, Matt.
Decaf.
Chuck Todd stepped up and said, you know, this is at the end of Meet the Press.
If you still get it, TiVo, go look.
Said, you know what President Bush can be accused of?
Being a Republican, standing up for things he actually believes in.
There's no attack on President Obama.
And I'm kind of surprised that the White House took that bait.
Hey, thumbs up, Chuck Todd.
I'm not looking for any of these reporters to become conservative shills.
Not at all.
Come on.
Objectivity.
Objectivity.
And so Chuck Todd, in an excerpt you're going to hear in just a moment, here's a tease for you.
Chuck Todd's asking the president about the fact that he has said there would be consequences, that the international community, America and the international community, would not stand idly by and let all these outrages take place, blah, blah, blah.
And Chuck Todd properly points out: why not detail what you might, you know, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
What might happen here?
And the president doesn't answer it.
And so Chuck kind of asks again, and the president doesn't answer it.
And Chuck kind of asks again.
And then the president makes it clear that he does not appreciate the insubordination of Chuck Todd.
The golden audio.
Next.
I'm Mark Davison for Rush Limbaugh, 1-800-282-2882.
Rush back tomorrow.
You and I have 42 minutes left together.
Let's see what we make of it.
And we'll resume here in just a moment on the EIB network.
Richard Marks with the official Obama news conference theme.
It don't mean nothing.
Very good.
Very good.
I'm noticing.
I'm noticing.
All righty.
As we get to your calls here, only one thing lies between right now and that, and that's this is about 47 seconds here.
Notice as Chuck Todd asks a thoroughly good question, president don't want to answer it.
So Chuck kind of asks it again.
President don't want to answer it.
Chuck follows up and then feels the sting of President Obama's ire.
Here we go.
Mr. President, I want to follow up on Iran.
You have avoided twice spelling out consequences.
You hinted that there would be from the international community if they continue to violate.
You said violate these norms.
You seem to hint that there are human rights violations taking place.
I'm not hinting.
I think that when a young woman gets shot on the street when she gets out of her car, that's a problem.
Then why won't you spell out the consequences that the Iranian region?
Because I think, Chuck, that we don't know yet how this thing is going to play out.
I know everybody here is on a 24-hour news cycle.
I'm not.
I mean, it shouldn't the world's regime.
No.
I said I answered the question, Chuck, which is that we don't yet know how this is going to play out.
No recess for Mr. Todd today.
Good for you, Chuck.
You know, we don't know how this is going to play out.
What a wonderful blanket thing to say about absolutely anything.
Boy, I guess we didn't know how that whole Soviet Union thing was going to work out.
I know that's not apples and apples.
I know, I know, I know.
But things would arise.
There would be outrages.
I mean, tanks rolling into Hungary, tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia.
You know, well, hang on a minute.
Let's see how this is going to play out.
You know, Saddam rapes Kuwait.
Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Let's see how.
Let's see how this is going to play out.
9-11.
Hey, hey, let's see how this plays out.
You know, I have a wacky idea.
Let's not.
I would suggest that by the time planes are flying into the World Trade Center, by the time, going back a few decades, the Soviets are expanding their oppressive regime, by the time people are being bludgeoned and shot to death in the streets of Tehran, by then you already know how it has played out.
By then, it has played out to a sufficient degree that it's time to do something.
Now, I'm not talking about deploying troops to drop into the skies of Tehran, but sometimes saying something is doing something.
We've talked about this.
Well, it's only rhetoric.
Well, rhetoric from an American president really means something.
Now, you know, these next few days are going to be interesting.
The president seems to be in the mood to toss out a few somewhat more forceful words.
I wonder will that rekindle the fire that is close to being extinguished by the batons and bullets of the Iranian police?
I don't know.
I don't know.
And what would have happened if America had had a strong voice in support of these protesters seven to nine days ago?
How might this have played out?
differently.
All righty, let's see here.
Let's grab some calls.
Thanks for hanging on, everybody.
Why don't we head to Durham, North Carolina?
Carl, Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
It is a pleasure to welcome you.
How are you doing?
Hey, Mark.
How are you doing?
Good.
Good.
You know, I was just sitting around thinking today, and something crossed my mind, and I thought I'd bring it up, and I was lucky enough to get through.
It seems to me that a few years, or over the last few years, I think we all can remember a bumperstick slogan that said something like, I support the troops, but I don't support the mission.
And of course, that was a kind of a left-wing thing.
It is, of course, a non-sequitur.
It's impossible.
Yeah, exactly.
And at some point after Barack Obama got elected, I remember that being turned around kind of as a little joke, a little snub to the other side.
I had heard some people say things like, you know, I support the president, but I don't support his policies, that kind of thing.
And yeah, you know, I thought that was a good little joke, but, you know, it was what it was.
But it occurs to me that if we look at recent polling data as far as what people think about the president in general, as opposed to what they think about the current policies, that I support the president, but not his policies, is actually something that bears itself out as more than just a bumper sticker.
No, Carl, you're completely, completely correct in observing the sort of the snapshot of the moment, that the president enjoys high personal approval ratings, yet the things he is actually doing are souring in the minds of many.
Let me thank you for the call.
We've got about a minute here.
Let's use that as a point of departure and do a little bit of analysis here on how in the world that happens.
It's the inverse of President Bush.
A lot of people didn't like him.
I mean, they did when they elected him, but then everybody went sour.
They got tired of the war and blah, blah, blah.
If you ask people about cutting taxes and even about sort of trying to win the war and various other things like that, a lot of people would say, oh, okay, I guess that's all right.
If you ask people about various other Republican philosophies and such, they'll either be ambivalent or maybe even mildly positive, but then you attach them to the Republican name or attach into Bush's name.
It's like, oh, no, it's the devil's work.
This is the reverse of that.
Ask people just objectively, hey, should the government be running GM?
Oh, no.
You know, should we be spending trillions of dollars in our as-yet unborn grandkids' money to bring about neo-European socialism?
Oh, no.
Well, the guy who wants to do that is Barack Obama.
Love him.
What?
So it's a disconnect.
Politics can create, either way, a bit of a disconnect.
And I guess the thing that's proven here is that policies are inextricably tied to the people who offer them up.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back.
And with that, we're in the home stretch here.
Up at the top of the hour, we are done.
Leave you to the rest of your day.
And then tomorrow in this timeframe, Rush will be back.
And I hope he'll regale us with stories of what's been up during his three days of absence, Friday, Monday, Tuesday.
It was great to be with you on Friday.
I really enjoyed Mark Stein yesterday, as I always do.
And I've thoroughly enjoyed today as well.
So really, I guess I've given you just about everything that was in my head.
Why don't we actually let some people be on the radio here for most of this closing half hour?
I guess if there's anything I haven't really tied a big bow around, it's real sports tonight with Bryant Gumbel on HBO.
I know.
Ah, run screaming.
But as tough as it is to take Bryant, some of the reporting packages, including a hero to me and many, Bernie Goldberg, are really pretty great.
And at one point, there's an interview with Jim Brown, former NFL star, who just goes after Tiger Woods for not being, I don't know, socially.
I got some experts, experts, excerpts.
They're talking, Bryant and Jim Brown and Jim Brown on whether he's surprised or disappointed in the lack of activism among some of today's top black athletes.
Quote, there are one or two individuals in this country that are black that have been put in front of us as an example, but they're basically under a system that says, hey, they're not going to do a certain thing.
Yes, that disappoints me because I know they both know better.
And Bryant Gumbel knows who he's talking about.
Tiger and Michael, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan.
Did Michael Jordan not quote unquote give back to the community?
Is being excellent not enough?
And I don't know if it's about money.
I mean, there's a Tiger Woods Foundation that has done so many things for so many people.
My head spins.
Jim Brown goes on, Tiger and Michael.
Yeah, I know they both know better, and I know they both can do better.
Jim Brown continues, you know what's so interesting about Tiger to me?
It was just a matter of me looking at an individual that's a monster competitor.
The cat's a mama jamma.
He's a killer.
He'll run over you.
He'll kick your A.
But as an individual for social change or any of that, terrible, terrible, because he can get away with teaching kids to play golf, and that's his contribution.
And in the real world, man, I can't teach no kids to play golf, and that's my contribution.
If I got that kind of power, the words of Jim Brown.
Look, whatever Jim Brown wants to do, he can do.
The question arises: if you are Tiger Woods, or if you are, I don't know, Emmett Smith, or if you are, and I guess I'm just talking about black guys.
I don't hear this so very, very much in the Latino community, and I never really seem to hear it in the Asian community.
Did Christy Yamaguchi ever get a lot of heat for failing to give back to the Asian community?
I somehow don't think that protest will ever arise.
But what is the obligation?
What is the obligation?
My answer is none.
I mean, if it's 1965, you know, maybe so.
I don't know.
I mean, one of the things that made Jackie Robinson great is that he didn't just, you know, burst through the barriers, but every moment that he spent having busted those barriers was another day to be an example under the horrible slings and arrows of being called you-know-what, at just about every visiting ballpark.
That ain't exactly happening to Ken Griffey Jr.
So maybe that means that today's black ball players, God forbid, can go live their lives.
They can be, there's this word, there's this word.
We all say it, and nobody means it, post-racial.
We say we want to be post-racial.
And that doesn't mean forgetting that there's still racism.
There is.
It doesn't mean forgetting what has come before.
We mustn't.
But it just means actually living kind of like Dr. King was talking about.
You know, when people can be judged on content of their character and not the color of their skin, where race can become as irrelevant as he wanted it to be.
Well, there's some people who are trying to make it irrelevant.
I mean, I think I did this once filling in before.
How often has Oprah been quoted on the Rush Limbaugh show?
Maybe not too often.
And the only reason I would do it is that she's got one of the great quotes ever.
The best deterrent to racism is excellence.
Thanks, Oprah.
You know?
And by the way, how much has she done?
She does a lot of things for a lot of people.
You know, mostly giving away Pontiac grand dams to house rows who happen to wander in for that day's show during Christmas time.
But she's set up schools and places and done a lot of philanthropic things.
And that is great.
But has she been, you know, she spent a sufficient amount of time back in the hood?
You know, because that seems to be what Jim Brown's talking about.
The tiger, you know, what kind of stuff does Tiger need to be doing for Jim Brown to view him as socially conscious?
Well, how many of us, show your hands.
How many of us think this has a little something to do with politics?
The tiger probably doesn't need to go out and write a check for a gym floor to create so they can have midnight basketball in Compton.
What Tiger needs to do is maybe get out and bust some political chops.
Show a little more love to President Obama.
That'd make Jim Brown happy.
Suggest that the Bush years were a Holocaust for black people.
Throw down a little Kanye.
George Bush doesn't like black people.
I bet Tiger could do that.
And now that, that's giving back to the community.
So I'll just flat tell you: if you ask me who's been a better role model for kids, Jim Brown or Tiger Woods, I'll take Tiger.
And as far as these things that other people need to be doing, I salute the things that Jim Brown has done for young black kids, please, or young kids of any color.
Of course, of course, of course, a million times, of course.
But this wagging of the finger in this, this suggesting that everybody else needs to lead their lives the way Jim Brown wants, Jim, you're an NFL great, a hall of famer.
But on this one, you can blow it right out your ear.
1-800-282-2882.
All righty, let's see here.
Let us head to Livonia, Michigan.
Ken, Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome to you, sir.
Hi.
Yeah, Mark.
There were three topics that I wanted to hit on really quick.
One was as a person who buys his own health insurance, someone that has family that lives in Canada, I totally reject everything that President Obama wants to do to our health insurance as far as socializing it.
Bless you for that clarity.
Number two?
Issue two.
Regarding Iran and what is going on there now with those who are fighting for freedom and regarding the election, he's spoken too late and too little.
In fact, if it wasn't for the French President Zarkozi coming out with his statements as well as other world leaders coming out with their condemnation on Iran, I don't believe Obama would have come out and said anything yet.
Well, there was probably some recoil from domestic poll numbers, but I think that what you've described was a part of it.
I'll let you get to number three here in a second because there's just a sentence.
I'm not the first to speak it this week.
But when the president of France is standing up for liberty more aggressively than the president of the United States, something is the matter.
Exactly.
And number three.
And number three, it had to do with, I think it's totally wrong, irresponsible for President Obama to invite the officials of the Iranian embassies overseas to attend the 4th of July celebrations at the American embassies.
Yeah, I mean, we don't have an embassy in Tehran, obviously, but if there are Iranian officials that want to show up at our embassy somewhere else, they may do so on the 4th of July where there's going to be fireworks and hot dogs and burgers and stuff.
No, that is not speaking truth to evil there, Ken.
Thank you.
Three, three issues in less than three minutes.
I envy you your compactness of language.
On the hot dog thing, so an Iranian delegation, you know, Ahmadinejad and Khomeini's henchmen show up at some American embassy for a July 4th thing.
Okay.
Okay.
But we offer him a hot dog and we tell him it's Hebrew national.
Okay.
Should have thought twice about that line.
All right.
It is 1-800-282-280.
See, Ahmadinejad doesn't like.
Okay.
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We laugh lest we cry around here.
All right.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It is time for a pause, after which more of you and me, and I much appreciate it.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush, and we'll continue in just a moment.
1-800-282-2882.
Waning minutes of the Rush Limbaugh Show here for Tuesday.
I'm Mark Davis, been filling in.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
And Rush Limbaugh is back tomorrow.
It's been a joy to join you from Proud Affiliate WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Not all of the Texas flavor comes from me.
I want to share something that one of Congressman Joe Barton.
Joe is the 6th District of Texas.
And it's kind of funny because examine the gap, if you will.
Everybody's heard of a million different congressmen, and Joe's obviously well-known around here.
But there is a gap between how much power someone has and how much influence they have and how well known they are.
I'm going to suggest that gap might be widest with Joe.
Joe's the most powerful and influential congressman that you never heard of.
Probably.
Joe's represented the 6th District pretty well since the Reagan era.
And if there's anything that he's a hero on, and that list is long, it is fighting the panic cult of man-made global warming aficionados.
And as Nancy Pelosi brings that flawed bill to the floor, you will be hearing the name Joe Barton, and you'll be hearing him try to prevent the wreckage of the American economy that would result.
And just it's kind of funny.
You always try to, if something clever pops into your head, maybe it's memorable.
And just the other day, Joe had a line that I just thought I would share.
The Democrats call their plan, it's an acronym, ACES, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, ACES.
I call it CRAP, continuing the reduction of America's Prosperity.
To the phones, 1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to Gainesville, Georgia.
Hey, John, Mark Davis in for Rush, and it's a pleasure to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Mark.
How are you?
Good.
Listen, I wanted to sound off on this Tiger Woods issue.
And I really think that Mr. Brown is off the mark here.
I think the single most important thing that Tiger can do is to continue what he's doing, to be a stand-up dad, a stand-up husband, and a great golfer, and to have others live by his example.
Right.
I mean, whether it's Barack Obama becoming president, Emmett Smith winning the rushing title, Tiger Woods being a great golfer, Bill Cosby being a magnificent comedian, TV star, and social activist of sorts.
Just do as much or as little as you want to do in terms of social activism.
But whatever you've chosen to do, be great at it and lead your life well.
And that is I can think of no better way to quote-unquote give back.
Yeah, I could not agree more.
I think these people that want others to stand up to be activists, they need to stand up in a different way and be an example for the kids of today.
Yeah, indeed so.
And again, just in terms of personal behavior throughout his life, I'll take Tiger over Jim Brown a hundred times.
Let us head to Nashville.
Hey, Carl, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Well, I tell you, this is the first time I've ever been on this show, and it's the first time I've ever had a chance to talk to you.
Before I comment on what I was calling about, I missed the Tiger Woods stuff.
I wish I could have heard it.
Well, just in just 30 seconds.
Oh, I just wanted to tell you.
No, no, it's okay.
Tonight, just for those who might just be joining us, wondering, what are they talking about?
Tonight on Real.
Dude, it's okay.
No, it's okay.
No, no, no, it's not about loud.
It's about just sit tight for it.
I love loud voices.
If others are wondering, tonight on Real Sports with Brian Gumbel, NFL veteran Jim Brown will bust Tiger Woods for not being socially conscious enough, and quote, giving back to the community.
That's for anybody else that was wondering.
Now, go, please.
Go.
Floor is yours.
I just want to tell you, first of all, Tiger Woods, he probably does a lot that he doesn't want to tell.
But I want to talk about 1979.
I was 17 years old, and I'm thinking about back then.
Now I'm 47.
And I'm thinking about the embassy stuff.
And then when the planes, when the helicopters crashed and they dragged our Americans through the desert, I'm getting chills thinking about it.
But I think what 444 days would be if I were 47 back then, I would be thinking nobody respects us.
I will tell you this.
I went in the Air Force in 1980.
In 1981, I was in tech school in Denver, Colorado.
And guess what I heard?
They say the American hostages are leaving Iranian airspace.
Why?
Because of Ronald Reagan.
Had we had just got, this would have been an act of war under Ronald Reagan or anyone else.
But I just want to tell you, I am so tired of the rest of the world acting like that we're the bad guys.
If it weren't for America, can you imagine the Dark Ages?
Can you imagine the Islamic fundamentalists, the Dark Ages that would be?
It's about freedom.
It's about love of country.
We've got 444 days.
Just think about that, people.
How would you like it if one of our embassies over in the Middle East or in Europe or anywhere in the world were taken over by a bunch of thugs?
That's what I've done.
How would it have gone under Reagan?
How would it have gone under Bush?
How would it go today?
I wonder how different those answers might be.
Carl, thank you very, very much.
I appreciate it.
I loved your loud voice.
Everybody else needs to step up like you do.
Appreciate it.
No, I just wanted everybody to know where the Tiger thing had come from if you wanted to check that out and watch that.
Let's see how loud the voices are on the other side of this break.
They may be loud, but they'll need to be brief.
We just got another brief segment here before we're done with today's Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis, fill it in.
Sit tight.
We've got just a couple more moments to share together, and we'll do that in just a moment.
Executive decision, even by the fill-in host, Mark Davis in for Rush.
And that's, what are we looking at here?
Like a minute?
There's just one little nugget I want to give you.
And yeah, the 60 seconds, that ain't right.
So rather than give somebody short shrift, I'm just going to take us out here and just throw some thanks around the room.
Real quick, little tiny things like this drive me crazy.
The gentleman was talking about the failed Iranian rescue mission to rescue the hostages and invoke the imagery of our folks being dragged through the streets of somewhere.
I think we had a little synapse check there with the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
I don't think anybody got dragged.
I think everybody was pretty well incinerated in the rescue attempt and the dragging was through the streets of Mogadishu in 1993.
Okay.
Feel much better now.
And I feel great having spent time in your company.
Thanks so much to Kit Carson, Mike Mamone, back at HQ, and to Rush for letting me do this, man.
I love you and thank you so much.
And I know Stein feels the same way after doing it yesterday.
Back on July 10th, so I'm told.
So that should be fun.
And in the meantime, God bless our country and God bless our troops.
God bless Rush and God bless you.
How about that?
Mark Davis in Texas.
Take it easy.
Be good.
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