All Episodes
Previous Next
Oct. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
37:26
October 12, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.1% of the time.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and we come to you from the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute.
For advanced conservative studies, a telephone number if you'd like to join us, 800 282-2882, and the email address L Rushbaugh at EIB net.com.
As a group of economists out there say that uh economic recovery is underway, which is just laughable.
Larry Summers, who is one of Obama's economic advisers, says that they stemmed unemployment.
It would have been far worse had they not done their stimulus bill, and that they've increased growth, which would have been worse thanks to the stimulus.
So we're to ignore the you see retail sales are down eight percent in August.
Luxury retail sales, that matters.
Um all the unemployment news rising all over the country.
We're approaching 10%.
Yeah, we're supposed to ignore all that and listen to what the Obama administration mouthpieces have to say about this.
It's I might it's it's it's surreal.
It really is surreal.
As is this story from the in fact, I've got to find the companions.
I meant to do that uh when I got back in there after the break, and I forgot to do it.
There's a story out there today.
Uh I think it's in the Washington Post.
Maybe somewhere else about all of the profanity being offered, uttered by Yeah, here it is.
It's uh NBC Chicago.
Uh all the profanity being uttered in the political spectrum today, and what's with all that X-rated language here?
Uh it's it's an attempt to justify it on the Democrat side.
So that's a companion story to this in the New York Times.
Democrats must attack to win in 2010 strategists, say.
New Jersey Republicans complain that Governor John Corzine, a Democrat, has turned up nasty to gain ground in his re-election bid this year.
Republicans elsewhere should brace themselves.
That's because Mr. Corzine's strategy for a comeback victory is turned into a template for Democrat candidates to survive in the 2010 midterm elections.
Its shorthand description is winning ugly.
Now that Democrats control the White House Congress and most governorships, voters discontent with the new status quo represents their burden, which has Democrats strategirists considering tactics to push back challengers.
Charlie Cook, the nonpartisan political handicapper, framed the Democrats' challenge for 2010 more bluntly.
It uh does not track the genial new politics identity that Obama has cultivated.
They're gonna have to play really, really rough, said Cook.
For the average Democrat congressional incumbent, the opposition researcher will be the most important person in the campaign.
The fallout for Democrat congressional candidates is clear in a recent Gallup survey.
Independent voters preferred Republican candidates for Congress 45 to 36%.
Last October, they favored Democrats 46 to 39%.
So the nonpartisan, Charlie Cook, says the Democrats have to play rough to hold on.
That means dirt, folks.
That means and and here's, you know, the dirty little secret about this is when do they not?
When do they not?
I mean, what the hell were they doing the last well, the whole eight years of Bush, but particularly the last five after we went into a rock for crying out loud.
Um the independents, if you read deep into the story, independents prefer the Republican Party 45 of 36.
Now we're always told, and I talked about this at great length on Friday.
We are always told by these same people, the John Harwoods and the Charlie Cooks, that if the Republicans attack, uh most recently it was Obama.
If the Republicans attack those moderate Frank Lutz tells us this too, that the moderates are gonna turn tail and they're gonna make fast tracks to the Democrat Party because the moderates don't like contratomp.
The moderates don't like arguing.
The moderates don't like tension, the moderates don't Like stress, the moderates just want everybody to get along.
Damn it.
So we're told, and a bunch of saps on our side believe that we can't be critical of our political opponents because these precious moderates.
See, if I'm a political party and my election depends on moderates, I close the party.
Means the party stands for nothing.
I made a great point about this, Jamie Gangell.
I haven't seen the Today Show interviews, I don't know if that's gonna air or if it aired today or if it's gonna air tomorrow, but this this is just absolutely absurd.
Republican Party, if if if if it's if it thinks that its future is the Lindsay Grahamnesties and the John McCain's of the world, then they better just close the party down and start it up as something new.
It did air.
Good.
We call it the moderate party.
I mean, why don't you just go for it?
If the moderates are the key to success in electoral politics, shut down the Republican Party, we'll take that over, and you guys call yourselves the moderate party, and you go out there and have at it.
And you buy up all of these uh these claims that the Democrats and the media make, you better not criticize Democrats.
Oh, sir, you do that, and those moderates are gonna turn tail and they're gonna run so fast that the Democrats they don't want to hear that.
So now the New York Times is running a story, and everybody loves and respects Charlie Cook in electoral politics.
Then why not they're gonna have to attack?
The Democrats are gonna have to attack.
I mean, it's got vicious out there.
I mean, it's really bad.
The Democrats are losing big time because of policy.
They're going to have to attack.
Now, I want to see the stories from the New York Times and from the Charlie Cooks, and from anybody else in the Democrat side of things.
When the Democrats start attacking, you buy you better not do this.
You're just gonna send those moderates running right into the Republican Party camp.
Do you think you'll ever see such story?
No.
You will see the attacks amplified.
You will see them confirmed, quote unquote.
You will see them shouted out even louder, and you will see Democrats encouraged to keep it up, as is the case in uh in this story from uh the uh NBC eyeball news Chicago.
Team Obama dishes out profane proclamations to eager media.
What's with all the X-rated language?
Let's I mean let's just the Democrats are showing us who they are.
And now all of a sudden, all this cussing is a good thing.
Sort of like lying was a good thing during the Clinton years.
President Barack Obama called Rep star Kanye West a jackass.
Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to give me an F-bombing break.
Economic advisor Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have their holy shh excrement moment over the economy.
Those who pay attention to political rhetoric say an unusual amount of profanity has emanated from this White House, even without counting Rahm Emanuel.
But before this statement becomes fodder for yet another partisan debate with conservatives saying Obama's disgracing the presidency, they quickly add that team Obama's no crasser than administrations past.
It's just that they're being quoted more accurately.
What's different according to linguists, media analysts, and reporters who've covered past administrations is the media.
Networks and newspapers have become far more willing to run with quotes, video and audio.
Oh, so it's really nothing new.
A new law has not been reached.
It's always been this way.
It's just now the media is more accurately quoting these people.
Oh, yeah, Haynes Johnson, former reporter, Washington Post, oh yeah, cursing happened all the time across the board wherever you went in the White House or on the trailer in campaign offices.
At the post, Haynes Johnson said, we had a huge discussion about this, and I've it finally got in, but in most um in most most of these conversations I'm talking about, there was an understanding you weren't gonna quote that language.
The same way you didn't write about Jack Kennedy and sex.
It was it was the same attitude.
You protected your sources.
You didn't want to embarrass them.
And then, of course, we have this uh the story.
What's this clown's uh the from the Congressman from Orlando who um called Republicans uh Neanders Falls, what's his name?
I'm having a metal block, gay lord or something?
Gray said, Yeah, yeah, Grayson.
This guy's being defended.
The guy being the oh, he's just doing what he has.
He's finally getting tough with these mean republicans.
These mean Republicans are standing in the way of passing everything.
These Republicans, it's about time to stand all this rotten stuff about Obama.
It's about time that Grayson got in gear here.
Grayson's showing the Democrats how to do it.
I thought that was going to scare off the moderates.
I thought the moderates don't like that kind of politics.
See, the Republicans allow themselves to be shut up by the dictates and the fear warnings coming from the left, whose only objective is to silence opposition and the people that run our party in the past.
All right, right, you want to like us?
Good.
We want you to like us too, so we'll shut up.
We'll do what you say.
And they still try to cut them off at the knees.
I'll tell you what I think's going on out there.
I think the New York Times must not see the ads in Virginia.
The Democrat, the mealy-mouthed idiot named Craig Deeds.
Deeds is going full negative all the time, accusing Bob McDonald, a Republican of hating women, even though he's married to a woman, has three daughters.
One of his daughters was a platoon leader in Iraq.
I wonder if Craig Deeds has a daughter who was a platoon leader in Iraq.
Sounds to me like Craig Deeds doesn't like strong independent professional women.
And that, by the way, is an interesting race to watch.
Next month, Governor Virginia, the Republican is Robert McDonald.
He is leading the Democrat R. Cray Deeds by nine points.
And that's after the usual Democrat smear tactics.
Which highlighted by portraying McDonald's an anti-female caveman despite having a wife of three daughters and a platoon leader daughter in Iraq.
The Democrats are worried about what this pretends for 2010.
Washington Post analyzed polling data.
They found four critical shifts among the voters who propelled Obama into the White House.
This is in Virginia now.
Number one, only half the Obama voters from 2008 say they're certain to vote.
Two-thirds of McCain voters 2008 say they are going to vote.
Second, there is a notable lack of energy in the African American community.
When Obama won, they were 20% of the vote in Virginia.
Next month they're expected to represent only 12%.
That's huge.
Third, younger voters' statistics are even worse.
Last time out, 2008, they were 21% of the vote.
Next month, they are expected to comprise only eight percent of the votes.
And fourth, the so-called intensity gap.
Between Democrats and Republicans has completely flipped.
Uh, just as it has in a lot of places around the country, and that's why they're worried about this election.
It's done this in New Jersey too.
Um, things have gotten so bad that our Cray Deeds, a Democrat went out of his way to distance himself from Obama.
Which ticked off Democrat leaders.
And doing so is not gonna help Deeds.
The Democrat agenda is so radical, it is so wrong for America, there's no running away from it.
And cray deeds are cray deeds, and the Democrats are going to soon learn that the hard way.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Belleville, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Arts and Cloth Crowd Ditto.
I wanted to comment.
I wanted to add to your comments on Detroit.
Um, I wanted to say tell your uh your audience that what is actually going on there is something that Senator Phil Graham warned us about back during the Clinton years.
Republican, Senator Hilgram.
He said we were reaching a point where we're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.
And when you take the job loss that's happened under Grandholm in Michigan, those are jobs that pay the tax dollars that keep the poverty scheme that is Detroit.
The greatest post-welfar welfare state failure of this country going.
And the people in Detroit, their lives are only going to become more miserable because there's six hundred thousand workers not paying into the system to keep it all going.
And if Jennifer Grandholm had not received the Obama bucks of the bailout, Michigan would be in dire straits.
Come December, one hundred thousand dollars.
The point is.
See, that that's not I want to stop you right there.
Because you're playing right into Larry Summers' hands.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not being critical.
I want this is a teachable moment.
What you're saying is the same thing he said.
Hey, it would have been much worse if we hadn't stepped in.
The problem is, whatever stimulus money Governor Grandholm got is gonna run out.
Exactly.
Probably already has, and then they're right back where they are because they have not addressed the problem.
There aren't any new jobs creating new revenue, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it's this is all just a band-aid.
Right.
It's a Rush, it's an infection.
We just left Michigan, my family.
My husband's one of the ones that lost his job.
We lived in Gross Point.
I mean, say they there are very few towns in this country nicer than Gross Point.
Send that little well, that little uh video guy with the that goes around with the prostitute.
Have him do Obama and me.
You know, take on Michael Moore.
Have him go and see the white collar folks that have lost everything trying to get out.
Go to Bloomfield Hills.
Those are the people that pay this country to keep going.
They are the ones.
They've been demonized and destroyed by this guy, Obama.
And it's ridiculous what's happening.
And you're you've been so on the mark.
Rush, we I was in St. Louis having lunch with my husband after we realized from the real estate agent how much we were going to lose on the house we had to sell.
A gorgeous home that anyone would love to live in.
We had to work uh we had to show up at closing with a hundred thousand dollars in gross point.
And we had never overbought.
This is insane.
And I said to my husband, Russia's right.
This is all intentional.
They don't care about us.
Our children, we lost that was their college funds.
We had been responsible from the day we got out of college and put money aside every year.
Yeah, you have you have to understand that that in the world of Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright, uh Bill Ayers and Valerie Jarrett, Ram Emanuel, his support staff.
You did the plight that you've just described for yourself is exactly what they want to hear.
I want to hear you suffer because in their world, you are responsible for all the other suffering around the country and around the world because you and your husband happened to achieve more than your fair share, and doing so took money out of the pockets of the rightful owners of the nation's wealth, and we're going to return it to them.
And that means your assets become worthless, your work becomes worthless, and you join everybody else in being destitute.
Right.
And you know what?
When I'm wiped out, so is the rest of the country.
I hate to tell you, that's how it works.
That's the system they've set up.
We pay the taxes that keeps the country going, according to the Democrats.
So if this is the game Obama wants to play and he's a big- Well, now wait a really think they're worried about that?
If if if if that's something they believed that tax revenue is what's necessary to keep the country going, then they would take steps to increase tax revenue.
One of the reasons why we have a massive one-year, one year budget deficit of one point four trillion is in part due to all the unemployment, which is uh there aren't any taxes being paid.
They don't care about the revenue generation.
This is folks, it's so so hard to accept, but it's so right.
If they cared about the normal procedures by which the people who make this country work are incentivized and rewarded so that those who genuinely need assistance can be given some.
If they really cared about that, they wouldn't be doing one policy that they have implemented.
Not one.
It is counterintuitive, counterproductive, and counter a lot of other stuff that I can't think of right now, but I'm glad glad you called out there, Janet.
Thanks much to Garner Valley, California.
This is Big Walt.
Rush, are you there?
I'm right here.
I just wanted to say is they need to the if they're gonna get people money, they need to make them work.
You know, and I wanna I got a few things on the book.
Where wait a second, where?
They I proposed you know, sweep the streets, pick up trash, rebuild the buildings in Chicago.
Give them jobs, make them proud of themselves.
Well, that's what the stimulus was for, but it's not.
Right.
Well, now there is a job.
You know, what was it, Houston?
Where is it that uh last week that uh the some guys the city's paying some people four bucks to go around and pick up a key?
Oh, it's in it.
It's in in uh in England uh to pick up uh pet poop.
P pet poop.
And uh I'm sure that's a problem in every city.
The plastic bags are against the lock, and you know, it's not politically correct.
You know.
But uh I I wanted I want to tell you that.
Uh the first time I called you, I hung up because I was so scared.
Well, I think you're a great American net, and uh I just gotta say some things real quick.
I've never seen so much racial hatred in this country since Mr. Obama's been president.
I didn't vote for him because he was black.
I didn't just didn't like his politics.
If if I liked his politics, I would have voted for him.
Uh uh another thing too, I'd like to ask you something.
Uh you know, a lot of people ask you for a bed or a box of meat and out.
I just wonder if you could do me a favor someday.
Is uh I put on uh uh support our troops rally in this little town of Ans in California, and I've called the politicians, and none of them will show up uh every year there's less and less people.
Uh I got ten seconds.
Get to the question, please.
Yeah, could you come out and give a speech on our little if I put one on next year?
Have you got a hundred and fifty grand?
That's my fee.
We're just poor folks.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just lighten up, folks.
Come on.
Well, I'm I'm I'm getting flashed from a lot of people here that uh I'm really underselling myself with my 150,000 speaking fee that Larry the cable guy charges 500,000 uh and that Colin Powell charges 150,000, and I should at least uh charge more than uh than Colin Powell.
The dirty little secret is I don't charge anything for speeches.
I charge zero for speeches and I pay my own expenses.
Yes, Snerdley, you heard me right.
I don't do that many either, but I don't charge for them.
Uh why why do it's not it's not about it's not about capitalism.
It's it's it's um it's not it's not where I make my money, and I don't want to commit to padding my income by flying around and making a bunch of speeches because I don't like it.
As you well know, I do not like making speeches.
I don't like doing television either.
All the more reason to charge big books, yes.
I know I'm gonna get a lot of and I'll do I'm I know I'm gonna get a lot of requests since I'm announcing I don't have a speech fee, and I don't I don't have a speech agent, I don't have an agent, period.
No, you can't be my agent.
No, you cannot be my agent.
I I'm not I don't I don't need to pay some schlub 15% of what I can get myself.
I can get three if you think you can get me two.
But I don't I don't I I don't I let the request come in.
I'll just the same answer.
I've got a guy on staff, folks, has one job.
The answer whenever he gets the call is no.
And then he sends me a note and says, I just declined.
If you want me to change it, I can.
I never reply.
One job.
He has health coverage.
He is fully covered on the EIB insurance plan.
He's got one job.
And that's to say no.
No, I'm not a hard uh I do speeches.
I usually do the speeches, uh, the appearances, uh it related to my affiliate radio stations.
Um the same guy handles my interview requests.
The answer is no.
He's paid to say one thing when his phone rings.
Answer is this is this is uh sometimes hell no if they if they don't get the message.
And sometimes, hell no, what do you not understand about the word no?
But that's as far as it goes.
Uh anyway, um I was telling you Friday.
No, no, I was telling you.
No, I'm I I said it for a reason.
I think all these people run around charging for speeches.
Uh I'm capitalism's what it is, but I think it's cheap to run around charging.
All you gotta do is watch these people on television every Sunday.
You don't need to hear them speak.
Uh I I'm I'm talking about the speakers bureau guys so forth.
But look at that's just me personally.
I I don't want to enter the world.
Remember when I was telling you uh last Friday, and I think I even mentioned this to to Gang, I can't remember what I mentioned.
That was an hour interview.
But I've I've got myself at a very, very enviable place in life.
This is this is this is a blessing, and it's not too many people who can ever say this.
And I'm not bragging about it.
I I I think it's a blessing.
I I have to do very little that I don't want to do.
Very you realize what freedom that is.
And I'll tell you why I don't like doing speeches.
It's because I don't prepare them because I don't know how.
I ad lib them, it's all improv, and the night I've got to do a speech, I'm a wreck all day.
What if I don't come through?
What if my mind isn't working?
What if it isn't firing on all cylinders?
What if the people who are showing up are disappointed?
That uh Snerdley is saying it's never happened.
We don't know that it's never happened.
We don't know that it's never happened.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
I go out there with no notes.
Yo, yes, I got all kinds of stuff in my hands.
I'm not a script, but I got the stories I'm going to talk about.
I don't take a stack of paper out there and start fumbling through it.
Do a speech.
Would you stop it?
Uh I need two podiums.
Have you seen the stack of stuff in here during an average radio show?
I don't even know what I'm doing next.
Here is let's go back to the phone, shall we?
Uh Bonnie in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Or ma'am, ma'am, I'm sorry.
That's okay, Rush.
Um, today is Columbus Day, and I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus.
Well, I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here.
Oh, great, great.
It's not what you're going to want to hear.
Maybe.
I I think he was a great courageous visionary.
I think he's a great role model for today's youth.
He was an entrepreneur.
He if he didn't come here, if he didn't bump into America, who knows how the world would be different, but it would definitely be different.
I know.
We wouldn't have cigars.
That's right.
We wouldn't have all this great food.
We wouldn't have freedom because he really laid the foundation for that here.
And I'm so frustrated when I hear that he all the only the bad things about him and all the garbage that's being taught in the schools about him.
Um and so I'd like to ask everybody to put their flag out today and maybe make a good good dinner for their family and and celebrate Columbus Day.
All right.
Um Thank you.
You bet.
I'm I'm glad I'm I'm glad you called.
From the Rasmussen Report's webpage.
Twenty-four percent.
Twenty-four percent of Americans believe we should not honor Columbus with a national holiday.
This is the result of government and multicultural education winning.
From, let's say, where's this from?
Uh the Washington Post, uh Boyce Rensburger, November 1, 1992, went back to the archives.
So this is uh what, 17?
Man, oh man, that's 17 years ago.
The chief rival position called the Columbian theory argues that there was no syphilis in Europe until Columbus took it there.
Advocates of this view agree that what had been called uh been called leprosy was a mixture of true leprosy with other sexually transmitted diseases, but that none of them was syphilis.
More likely they argue the other disease was gonorrhea, which my health teacher in junior high pronounced gongrilla.
Question, did Columbus give the world syphilis?
And they've been debating this.
You know, this is part of the multicultural uh uh curriculum now that that Columbus introduced racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, environmental destruction, syphilis, And horses, which brought their own problems.
And so they've actually been debating this.
Did Columbus give the world syphilis.
In the year 1500, not long after Christopher Columbus and his crews began returning from their voyages to the new world, an epidemic of epidemic of syphilis erupted in Europe shortly thereafter.
More epidemics flared and swept across the continent, raging with much the same impact as AIDS does today.
And remember, this is 1992 when this story is from.
So the uh the theory there is that uh Columbus caught syphilis from the Indians, or whoever it was he interacted with down there, and he and his crew uh took it uh back to Europe with him.
Uh and there are countless stories in the stack today about what teachers are teaching kids about Columbus, and it's basically the the multicultural curriculum that he was racist as a sexist and bigoted and homophobic and brought all of those things to this country uh this the new world on his uh on his voyage.
This is this is why I say, you know, a lot of your kids are in school listening to the traditions and institutions that make this country great get trashed each and every day.
And it's now gotten to the point that 24% think we should not honor or have a Christopher Columbus Day.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back and roll on after this.
Okay, I have some explaining to do.
I just got a fascinating email from somebody who said that he was just inspired like he has never been to hear me, the epitome of broadcast excellence, admit that I can't do something, and that is write a speech.
He said, Rush, we're sitting out here thinking you can do I mean you do that in your sleep on the radio, you can do it, and you don't like it, and you get nervous all day about having to do it?
No.
It's it's writing anything.
The reason why there are no scripts on this show is my vocabulary shrinks by 50% when I sit down to write, because my my hands cannot keep up with my brain.
I failed speech, even though I gave the speeches because I didn't outline them.
They should have called the course outline 101.
I flunked it twice in college.
I gave every speech and they were great.
But my whole life I have spoken extemporaneously.
My intellect, my vocabulary, my brain is firing on all sixteen cylinders when I'm speaking.
When I sit down to write, I get caught up in correcting typos, I lose my train of thought, uh my my thought vision narrows.
Plus, I'm impatient.
Why should I take four hours to write a speech and I could give in 30 minutes?
So I just go and I'm I'll I'll forget something and so forth.
So it's not it's not that I'm afraid to do it.
I just don't like to sit down and write a speech.
It's not what I did.
My so many years of speaking extemporaneously.
My fear all day of all day long having the speech that night is not that I can't do it, it's that it's not going to be good enough to meet the expectations the audience is going to have.
It may all be and sometimes you need that kind of uh impetus or or fear or what have you, but you know, it's just it's it's it's uh Snurdley is shouting at me.
I've it makes no sense that I've never bombed out speaking anywhere.
I can't tell you the number of times I think I have.
I can't tell you the number of times I've looked at I don't just do 30 minutes, I do an hour and a half to two hours, and that's what people expect when they show up.
And I can tell you there have been plenty of times I've walked out and thinking, home run, grand slam, and there have been a lot of times I've walked out of there thinking, I blew this, I wasn't nearly as good as I could have been.
And I and I've I I feel a little guilt about that, because the things I do do, people are paying to attend.
The money always goes to charity.
And so I just it's it's a it's a peak performance thing.
That if if I if I don't uh it's just a gosh, I better be good.
And I've I don't like finishing the the day or the speech thinking it hasn't been as good as I can be.
Because you're right, it ought to be superb each and every time.
Now, let me address one of the things.
The email is loaded today uh with people requesting my comment on some of the outrageous slander and libel that's been on television and in newspapers since last week about my uh potential purchase of being in a group, potential purchase of the uh Los Angeles Rams, and I I mentioned last week, I can't do anything but confirm this.
We the people bidding on this, we all have a confidentiality agreement with Olden Sachs, who are the brokers here.
And there are just certain things that can't be said about it.
I can't answer any specific questions about status.
Uh who else is in the group.
And I just I just want to tell you, I'm not surprised.
I'm I'm a little disappointed that otherwise responsible journalists are believing a bunch of garbage.
There's a there's a quote out there that I first saw it uh in the St. Louis Post dispatch last week that I somehow, some time ago defended slavery and started cracking jokes about it.
And you know, you say a lot of things in the course of 15 hours a week over the course of twenty-one years.
We've gone back, we have looked at everything we have.
There's not even an inkling that any words in this quote are accurate.
It it's it's uh it's an outrageous, but it's totally predictable.
And it's being repeated by people who have never listened to this program.
They certainly didn't hear it said themselves because it was never said.
I it's it in some of the people's cases, uh Michael Wilbon.
I mean, he's better than this.
I've met Wilbon.
When I started ESPN, I ran into him out at a golf tournament at Las Vegas and he welcomed me to the network and so forth.
Uh I I just mystified that somebody with uh that kind of brain would believe anything like this.
And they must even if they don't believe it, they obviously wish to be harmful and damaging, which, folks, you have to understand.
I expect it.
I mean, twenty-one years, the enemy's monopoly uh the faux pas media monopoly has been destroyed by who?
Me.
And those whose careers started after I started this one.
They ought to hate my guts.
The point is when I talk about them, I tell the truth.
I watch them, I listen to them, I report what they say, and I tell them why they're wrong, and I play their own words.
They have to go somewhere to find concocted quotes, which are now bordering on slander or libel, whatever it is, that I never said, and they believe it.
And even if they don't, they use it on purpose.
Uh it's I say this, it's the case of some of these people, it's just it's disappointing because they are better than than uh the things they're saying and writing and doing.
Some of them are not better, and some of them it's totally predictable.
So one of the things that is going around out there is that black NFL players will boycott playing the game if I am an owner in the league.
Which, of course, is patently absurd, but this is being reported, and it's it's uh it's designed to affect the outcome of all of this, which again I can't address.
But Stephen A. Smith did.
Stephen A. Smith, uh black journalist, used to be a uh uh and may still be a columnist for one of the Philadelphia papers, and really reamed me over the McNabb incident when it happened because he knew I was talking about the media there, not McNabb.
But Stephen A. Smith, who then got a job at ESPN and is no longer there, he was on CNN's Your Money, I think yesterday afternoon.
It says here yesterday on the uh Soundbutt roster, and the host Christine Roman said, uh Limbaugh may be part owner of a football team.
Some uh black NFL players say if uh he's the owner, they won't play.
What's this all about?
Absolutely.
If he has the money, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and those black ball players that are saying that, I'm here on national television telling you they're lying through their stinking teeth.
That's just a bunch of things.
Well, why is they make a moral standard?
Hypocrite.
Oh, please.
Their moral standard is great.
Oh, I'm an athlete, and Rush Limbaugh happens to be the owner of the St. Louis Rams.
So the New York Jets offer me 10 million, but Rush Limbaugh has offered me 20 million dollars.
I'm gonna have a problem with it.
What about McNabb?
What about McNabb?
Please, they're lying.
What is it?
The media's desire is that that a black quarterback do well.
Yeah, it caused a lot of controversy.
I thought that Rush Limbaugh should have been, you know, criticized for that, which he was and unceremoniously fired by ESPN.
But the reality is is that that does not mean that he should not own an NFL team.
If he has the dollars, he should be allowed to do it.
He's definitely an NFL fan.
I've listened to him talk about football.
It's not like he's ignorant to the game of football.
The man knows football.
He's a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
Oh, you're gonna pass up money because, oh my God, I'm offended by Rush Limbaugh being the owner.
Who are you fooling?
You're liars.
That's uh Stephen A. Smith uh on CNN CNN's Your Money with uh with Christine Romans.
Do you realize you all know who the Hutch is?
Former player, Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks, the Hutch is on this show many times a year, and we talk about football and life.
He's a preacher.
He's black.
This is all of this, as you well know, is just patently absurd.
The disappointing thing is that people who could just turn on the radio and listen to this program and find out what they want to know somehow can't do that.
They, like Stephen A. Smith has.
Quick timeout.
Back after this, don't go away.
St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Rams.
I'm a longtime football fan.
They were the Los Angeles Rams, and before that, the Minnesota Rams.
That's why the Lakers are called the Lakers.
Well, no, the Lakers were the Minnesota Lakers.
Basketball team.
Anyway, uh St. Louis Rams.
A um verbal dyslexia.
Uh, there, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, quick timeout.
We'll come back.
▲
Export Selection