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Oct. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The Washington Post.
They are just over the top ecstatic, ladies and gentlemen.
The Washington Post has found 30,000 stimulus jobs.
Businesses that receive federal contracts from stimulus spending reported creating or saving about 30,000 jobs, according to figures released yesterday.
Reports also suggest the program has been particularly beneficial for the Washington region.
Look!
Look, honey, over there!
It's a stimulus job.
Hey, look over there.
It's another stimulus job.
The seat of government is making out like a bandit found a whole flock of jobs in D.C. Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And here's your telephone number if you want to join us.
It's 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
Openline Friday is where I relinquish the content of this program to you when you call.
You realize what a huge career risk that is.
What, are you screening today?
Oh, really?
Oh, okay.
Well, thanks for telling me before the show starts.
Did you even know, Snerdley?
Snerdley's been screening calls and he doesn't know that he's not the screener today.
Oh, now this point, this is going to be an interesting day.
HR tells me he's screening the calls.
Snerdley's in there on the phone answering phones.
Brian says, why?
I said, what?
What, you screening today?
And Brian said, yeah, AT ⁇ T is here working on our static problem.
What else do I know?
Let's get it right out of the bat.
Now, what else is happening here today that I don't know about?
What, happy boss day?
Yeah.
Happy boss day.
You heard it on the radio.
Well, that must make it true.
Happy boss day.
That's right.
Yeah, the overrated staff, highly overrated staff is wishing me happy boss day today.
Okay, telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, at rushlimbaugh.com, we have posted a series, a large number of links from across the media spectrum, which are either very supportive of me in this whole NFL fiasco or very accurate in reporting what I said in the first 15 minutes of this program yesterday.
And so it's all, it's too numerous to go through here on the radio program because frankly, there are other things I want to get into today.
But there is one aspect of this that we learned from Joseph Ashby at theamericanthinker.com last night, or I guess it's last night yesterday afternoon, and it has been updated.
And we just posted the update at rushlimbaugh.com.
The plot thickens on the media's character lynching of Rush Limbaugh.
Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh's bid for the Rams, none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMorris Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Obama's transition team.
One of them does, though, there is an ESPN story from back in the summer that does.
ESPN reported it back in the summer, but didn't report it in October the 6th, the 12th, the 15th, or the 15th.
Now, the update here is that the source of the phony quotes, now this is Limbaugh targeted by Obama official.
And then I made the point yesterday that Obama was involved in this.
And of course, the critics in the media, oh, that's just Limbaugh.
He just can't handle it.
We've sourced it.
I mean, the whole the ESPM themselves uh and, and the story does uh mention here that uh, Demorris Smith uh talked to the players of the Players Association uh and, and Sharpton and uh uh, what's his name?
Jackson and so forth.
So um, the headline that they're running here Limbaugh targeted by Obama official is true.
Now the update is, there's also another story uh, on the um.
Let's see.
Where is it on the Americanthinker.com that lists the um source of the false quotes that everybody is uh running around quoting the, the totally fabricated, made-up quotes.
Now, where did I put that anyway?
The ip address of the of the person, the ip address of the office where those quotes were put on Wikipedia, is a New York City law firm, Rudy Giuliani's old law firm.
The law firm is Patterson, Belknap WEBB AND Tyler LP and they have an ip.
There's an ip address at their computer system that's been tracked and the phony quotes that were put on Wikipedia, then picked up by everybody else, have been sourced to that ip address.
The update that Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker has just discovered is, lo and behold, on september 21st of 2009, this law firm established a sports group.
September 21st 2009, Pattern Belknap WEB AND Tyler LLP pleased to announce the formal establishment of its interdisciplinary sports group.
The firm's work in this area dates back decades and includes high-profile disputes and transactions involving professional baseball basketball hockey, tennis and golf, as well as the representation of sports related media entities.
They go on to describe the various experience that they bring to sports related groups and the lawyers in their firm involved in litigation who will handle litigation in this area.
The sports group includes leading litigation, white-collar defense and investigations, intellectual property tax exempt organizations and corporate attorneys, including and they give the names of all these people then the phone numbers and email addresses.
They it it, it is, it is.
It is extremely interesting.
You know, those quotes were totally totally, totally made up fabricated, and they were first found on Wikipedia.
And it turns out now that the ip address for the person that posted those quotes is a New York City law firm now Rudy Giuliani's not there anymore, but it's a big firm is um.
Is the point now this?
This stench is now capturing and encircling other good people.
Last night on the O'reilly Factor on the FOX NEWS channel, Juan Williams was a guest along with some radio host by the name of Warren Ballantyne and the subject was me, and O'reilly said the reason that Limbaugh is not going to be able to buy into the NFL is because a bunch of made-up stuff became legion and he got hammered.
Here's Warren, Ballantine and uh, Juan Williams their exchange.
Okay, we want to look at the made-up stuff.
Let's look at him playing Barack the Magic Negro on his show.
That's not racial either.
It is racial to real.
Hey Warren, you were saying that I was.
My argument was a red herring.
Maybe you should do some research, go back and find out that it was an article written by a black person headline about Barack the song.
He made it out of a song and played it on his show.
So what, he's making fun of it.
Anyway, it's okay, you can go back to the porch now.
Ballantyne said, Juan, you can go back to the porch, Snerdley.
What do you think that's a reference to?
Exactly right.
Snerdley, of all the people here who would know, he's calling him an Uncle Tom.
Juan Williams simply dispersing the facts.
Juan Williams is black.
Juan Williams caught hell for writing a positive piece about Justice Thomas back during that whole scenario when he was nominated.
You've got this guy, Warren, but go back to the porch, Juan.
He just called him an Uncle Tom.
In other words, a sellout because he's not following the lie.
He's not following the party line on this.
And I just, you know, feel you talk about bigoted is right.
I feel, I don't know.
Here's a guy, Juan Williams, just trying to get the truth out about this and comes under attack, comes under assault.
And this is Obama's America, folks.
This is it.
Limbaugh targeted by Obama official.
Now, here's Wayne Heisinger.
Wayne Heisinger this morning on Bloomberg News, the correspondent Lizzie O'Leary interviewed Heisinger.
She said, you would not have objected to Limbaugh being an owner in the NFL.
No, I mean, Rush wouldn't bother me a bit if he was in, just like it wouldn't bother me if Obama was an owner.
There's a vast difference of opinion in the NFL as it is today in all sports.
I mean, you know, there's Republicans and there's Democrats and there's people that don't have any allegiance.
And so I think Rush would have been fine.
You asked me a question, would I have objected?
No, I would not have objected.
Wayne Heisinger, who still owns 5% of the Miami Dolphins, and full disclosure, I mean, I know Wayne, we've socialized together.
I told the broadcast engineer, I don't want you to play soundbite number three, but I have an interesting story about Marshall Falk.
I don't know if I, if I want to waste time telling the story, it's just a funny little story about the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Golf Tournament.
Last night on ESPN, they talked to John Clayton and asked, okay, the status now the check has been with Limbaugh gone.
Well, because he's reacted to the public, I think, in a better spot.
And also, if he can pull in a Marshall Falk, somebody that would be very dear to St. Louis Rams fans, that's going to help out.
So I do think he's in a better spot today than he was yesterday.
If they get Marshall Falk in a group, it's obviously going to help him.
But let me tell you a little Marshall Falk story.
This was three years ago now, I think.
The years run together, but I took a bunch of buddies of mine out to Palm Springs and we played in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
And it's a week-long thing, and it's a five-day tournament with the amateurs playing the first four days.
And every night you go out to dinner somewhere, and I grab my buddies.
There were three of them, plus my security detail.
And we'd asked the Bob Hope organizers to give us a good restaurant name.
They gave us an Italian place, so we went there, and they put us in a small back room, and there were only four other groups in there.
And one of the groups was Marshall Falk and a bunch of his friends.
So we sat down and we started having dinner and talking.
And there's a table of five women and a table of six or seven guys and women, couples, total maybe eight people there.
So after about a half hour, I said to my buddies, I'm going to go over and say hello to Marshall Falk.
So I went over to Marshall Falk.
I said, hey, Marshall, Rush Limbaugh.
He had his blank look on his face.
Hey, Rush, Marshall, it's Russia.
Marshall is Rush Limbaugh, and I just want to tell you, I really admire your work.
He had retired from the NFL.
And he looked at me and he said, well, we're fine.
It was polite, but non-interested.
Uninterested.
So went back to the table.
I said, you know, I think I just got dissed here by Marshall Falk.
I just went over there to tell him how much I admire his work and so forth and acted like I don't know who I am, which might have been the case.
So at that point, one of my buddies said, well, let's show him who you are.
So one of my buddies went over to the table of the five women and said, we'd like to buy you a drink.
And the women said, no, Limbaugh can buy us one, but you can't.
So I smiled.
I went over to the table and they just, they all wanted pictures.
And I'm sitting on their laps and they're sitting on my lap taking pictures.
And then other table, once I'd gotten out of the table and showed, okay, I'll do some pictures.
They all wanted pictures.
And Falk and his buddies are in the corner.
Look, what the hell is going on?
Rush guy.
Who is this?
What's going on in here?
Because nobody was asking Marshall Falk for a photo or anything.
So the next morning, the next morning on the practice range, I'm on, actually, on the putting green, and Marshall Falk is walking by.
He's in a group ahead of me with, well, I think he's with Marshall Marcus Allen, who is a friend of mine, former Chiefs and Raiders running back.
Marcus Allen, I once got, you remember that vocabulary program, one of our early sponsors?
Yeah, verbal advantage, verbal advantage.
Before he quit the Chiefs, he wanted to go into broadcasting and he was a listener.
And Bob Chandler was a good friend of his, who's now the late Bob Chandler, wide receiver for the Raiders and I think the Buffalo Bills played with OJ.
So anyway, Marshall walks by, stops and looks at me, says, rush, huh?
It was nice.
Don't misunderstand.
It was just one of those fun times that you have when you're out with your buddies at a golf.
What are you saying, Dawn?
What are you shaking your head?
Well, I don't know that he didn't know who I am.
You know, I have no idea that he really didn't know, but he might not have.
But that's why, anyway, I introduced myself to him and told him how much I admired his work.
First up, he played with the Indianapolis Colts and then got pre-agented, I think, or traded to the St. Louis Rams.
He was the best athlete on the field during his career.
He's part of the greatest show on turf.
You know, back in the Mike Martz, Dick Vermill days, I remember them doing a big feature.
He grew up in New Orleans and they had a Super Bowl there against, I think it was the Patriots in New Orleans.
They did a big feature on Marshall Falk, took him back to his neighborhood, relived where he'd come from and so forth.
And I think might have been ESPN that did NBC.
I forget which.
At any rate, let's take a brief timeout.
We'll come back.
Oh, one more thing.
Grab audio soundbite number six.
Jay Leno last night on the Jay Leno show on NBC.
Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group of investors who were trying to buy the St. Louis Ramps.
Speculation was that Limbaugh was considered by the league to be too controversial.
You know, unlike Michael Vick, Pac-Man Jones, Coach Tom Cable, Flaxagobert, the NFL hates controversy.
Rado, rado, rado, rado, rado.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Happy to have you with us.
It is Open Line Friday.
Here's the, very briefly now, AmericanThinker.com, the search for the Wikipedia libelist, thanks to an intrepid blogger posting a letter to Mark Stein.
The search for the Wikipedia libelist responsible for damaging poster Rush Limbaugh has been narrowed to the IP address of a New York City law firm, which is Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler.
This address has been used mostly to make changes to Limbaugh's Wikipedia article, but also Wikipedia articles about Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, James Dobson, and Sarah Palin from 2005 until earlier this year.
This law firm, just last month, announced the establishment of a sports division, meaning they might have important sports clients here, meaning, oh, you take it from there.
Folks, look, you and I now know, we have proven beyond a shout of it, except for yesterday, the loan occasion, the drive-bys did listen to the first 15 minutes yesterday.
You know how I know that?
Because they reported what I said accurately.
From the New York Times to the Associated Press to any number of places, they reported it accurately.
Well, no, they were not shamed into listening.
It was a strategic move on my part, H.R.
They were all you should see my iPhone email from Thursday afternoon up until all through Friday morning.
I had hundreds of requests.
And I've, by the way, I had a couple people I know in media who did not ask me to appear on their show.
They just said anything I can do.
And it was nice to feel not part of a, you know, be a news commodity.
But nevertheless, I refused all these requests.
They had nowhere to go other than this program to find out what my reaction to it was.
It turned out this whole thing leaking on Thursday afternoon was a good thing because it allowed me to go for over 12 hours, almost 24 without saying a word.
And so they had to go the only place they could, which was this program.
But we know they're gone now.
They got what they don't listen.
You and I know that, right, folks?
So here, I want to let you know a little scheme, a little plan that I have based on what we know.
My trick here, my plan is based on the possibility that I might be able to trick the media into dumping Obama.
You heard me right.
I have been working on this scheme for weeks.
How can I trick the media into dumping Obama?
As you well know, I can play the media like a Stradivarius.
And it's all based on one simple reality.
The arrogant SOBs refuse to listen to this program.
And even when they do, when a sense of humor is involved, they don't get it.
They're all wound too tight.
They're wringing their hands out there, just waiting for anything that's offensive, either to them or somebody else.
And they're just waiting to harp on it.
Or it's gotten to the point now, another reason HR I didn't call them back and talk to him is why should I?
They're going to make it up anyway.
So why should I waste my time talking to them?
So they had to listen.
So here's just the first rough draft, if you will, of my scheme that I offer here publicly to the world, knowing full well that the targets of my scheme will be totally ignorant of it when I spring the scheme on them because I know they will not have listened to it.
Folks, it would require a lot of patience on your part.
It would require a stiff backbone on your part to play along with me in this scheme to trick the media into dumping Obama.
It would be a nasty, gut-wrenching job.
But based upon multiple scientific studies noted in Wikipedia, think of this.
If I were to endorse Obama's policies with the appropriate, you know, I've really looked at this and I've been, I was so obsessed with my own prejudice and ideological bias, I really wasn't honestly looking at Obama's policies.
I've done so now.
And I really, I got to count myself at his camp.
Now, hang on.
Hang on.
Don't panic out there, folks.
Okay, this is fun.
This is the scheme, folks.
Now, remember, you'd have to really be up to speed on this.
You'd have to have a lot of courage, understand what's going on here.
But the scheme is to trick the media into dumping Obama.
See, the fact is, the state-controlled media would rather see this country succeed and Obama fail than agree with me.
It appears what we have learned here that the last thing the media wants to do is agree with me.
They just refuse to do it.
Their hatred is such that they will go out and make up quotes, or they will believe made-up quotes.
So, for example, if I were to say down the road when I initiate the actual scheme, you know, just a rough draft here, keeping you in the loop.
If I were to say, you know what, I've been wrong.
I've allowed my own ideological bias to inform me improperly on the essence of Obama's agenda.
And I would like to change my original pronouncement on the agenda that I hope he fails.
I really now, having looked at it, I hope he pulls it off.
For example, if I were to say, I agree with the president, senior citizens, they're too stupid to figure out that Obamacare will bankrupt the country, that Obamacare will destroy liberties, create massive new taxes on those making less than $200,000, and will require death panels happily run by Robert B. Reich.
You see him in a little white lab coat, head of the death panels.
And what's more, I think when it comes to Obamacare, the elderly are corrupt and greedy, and they can be bought off with a one-time $250 payoff in newly printed money that we don't have.
To come out and say that I support this because Obama's agenda is all that matters.
Who?
What do you think their reaction would be?
I mean, the objective here of the scheme is to get the state-controlled media to declare Obamacare a disaster and to reject it out of hand simply because I support it.
Research confirms this.
They will not be able to help themselves.
They have laws, dogs.
Same with cap and tax.
Let's say, folks, we need, we need a job-killing energy tax, and we need it now because we have to save our climate.
The more jobs we destroy, the less carbon emissions we'll have.
The more misery we create, the less prosperity we will have, and the less damage to the environment we have.
And then the easier it'll be to demonize free market capitalism as the failure and turn the United States into a welfare state.
And that's what we need to save the planet.
And that's what we need for Obama to succeed and survive.
This and Obama succeeding is the objective here.
We must have Obama succeed.
Now, when these bigots in the state-controlled media hear this, what do you think their reaction would be?
For good measure, I could add, President Obama wants to strengthen the military.
He wants to stand up to anti-American despots.
I've looked at Obama.
I've looked at the way he's running the military.
And I think I'm seeing shades of Ronald Reagan here, folks.
We have been wrong about Obama.
I'm seeing shades of Reagan out there.
I like what he's doing.
I like what I'm seeing.
The studies indicate, folks, that this could end the Obama presidency.
The media would say without hesitation, we hope he fails because Lindbaugh wants him to succeed.
The war on prosperity would be dead in the water.
The state-controlled media would rather see this country succeed than agree with me.
They'd rather see the country fail than agree with me.
The research is solid.
I've triple-checked it.
It's peer-reviewed.
This would be very, very hard for them.
But the media would cave and stop carrying Obama's holy water.
By the way, Obama had a fundraiser in San Francisco after a four-hour flyby in New Orleans where people at the town meeting said, Obama, you're nickeling and diming us.
Where's the big check?
They did.
What are you nickeling in diming is?
Where are the big checks?
And then they had a staged question from a little kid.
Did you see that?
Mr. Petiget, Mr. President, why do they hate you so much?
They did, though.
A little kid came up with the, you know, this balloon story, they can't stop running this silly balloon story.
Another example of drive-by media here, folks.
Now they're ripping on this family.
They're doing everything they can to destroy this family because they happened to appear on wife swap and a little six-year-old kid and Larry King last night, we did it for the show.
And the mother said, no, no, no.
And the father said, no, we wasn't talking about yesterday.
He was talking about we did this for the wife swap show.
Now, these people may be out of the mainstream, but they are still targeted because the media was made to look like a fool here.
They were reporting all day yesterday that the kid was in the balloon.
And the kid wasn't in the balloon.
He was hiding in a box.
So now they're saying hoax, hoax, hoax.
We don't know.
What we have here, regardless, is notice me, notice me, notice me.
What we have here is a bunch of people, for lack of a, want some attention, which I think is a cultural problem that we face.
So anyway, folks, I'm not ready to initiate the scheme as of now.
It has to be well thought out.
It has to be brilliantly conceived in order to be flawlessly executed.
But it is based on irrefutable research, irrefutable facts, that if I am for it, the media will be against it.
Maybe a little reverse psychology.
And they, of course, are totally unaware that this is coming because they're not listening to this.
And when it gets reported on the websites, they do look at to hear what happens on this program.
The websites will botch that.
And the media will still be clueless when I hatch this brilliant plan.
Now to the phones, open line Friday.
We're going to start in Wall, New Jersey.
This is John.
Glad you called.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Big fan of yours.
I just want to make three quick points in this obvious.
Hang on just a second here.
Just don't go away.
I'm still here in static on if we have switched to screening back down here to Florida because HR refused to do it on Happy Boss Day.
So he's, but the ATT hasn't fixed this, right?
Okay, just so John, if we lose you, it's not your fault, although we'll blame you.
It's our phone lines.
Okay, three quick points.
You know, I hate the fact that the left has politicized football.
I use football and baseball, watching it to get away from it.
Two, if you're so irrelevant, you're such a clown, what does it matter?
Why do they make such a big deal?
I mean, you always speak to the fringe.
And this is for the viewers, you know, if the players are too good to take your money, then, you know, maybe they're too good to take our money and we won't go to games and buy merchandise.
All of that is right on the money.
I thank you for it.
But like I said yesterday, the big myth here is that sports is not politicized.
I have a story in the stack.
You want to hear this is funny.
George Soros was part of a group back in 2005 trying to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team.
And the Republicans in Congress raised a little stink about, well, we're not sure we want this because Soros is out trying to shellac them.
You know, Shoros Soros is funding Democrats.
Soros is out there running and setting up 527 organizations for the express purpose of defeating with lies and distortions Republican Party candidates.
So the Republicans raised some objection, but nothing ever happened.
George Miller, Democrat Congress, says, what has politics got to do with sports?
If we're going to start disqualifying people from sports ownership because of their politics, whoa, we're heading down a slippery slope.
Make no mistake, the NFL is as politicized as anything else is in this country.
And it's for lack of a better word, when DeMorris Smith and Al Sharpton or Reverend Jackson can pressure a commissioner into saying who can and cannot even apply and go through the vetting process, then they've got their own slippery slope and they're admitting that politics is here.
And DeMarris Smith is an Obamaite, the transition team, a big donor, close buddy of Eric Holder.
So Obama, the Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now.
It's just what it is, folks.
This is Gordon in Lakeland, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my phone call.
I'm a conservative like you, and socialized anything scares me.
So when I did some research and found out that the Japanese health care system, which is socialized, has people living longer, having less cancer, and it costs about half as much as ours, I got confused.
My gut feeling is saying socialized anything is bad, but my academics are saying that it's good.
You're very knowledgeable on this matter, and I'd like to see if you can help me out.
Well, I'm going to have to look into this because I was not aware of the total socialization of the Japanese hospital.
It's not totally socialized.
The doctor's offices are privately run, but the hospitals are socialized.
And if you need some extra time to look into this, I'm not going to make fun of you at all because if I need help, then I'm not going to make fun of you for not knowing it.
Well, you can make fun of me.
I don't care.
No, no, no.
I'm not going to do it.
You can call me an ignoramus if you want.
I can take it because I am ignorant about this.
I am going to have to reach.
I will not tell you I know something that I don't.
That's one real reason why I really respect you because you're honest enough to step up and say, I know about this, but I don't know about that.
Now, the hospitals are socialized, meaning government runs them?
Well, the government, from what my research indicates, that the government runs the hospitals, but not the doctor's offices.
Well, that's a key distinction.
But let me tell you something.
I have to tell you this about Japan.
We are at, forget healthcare.
Let's look at our overall economy.
Japan was in in the 80s.
How old are you, Gordon?
I'm 43.
Well, so you probably remember back in the early 80s, the mid-80s, the Japanese were flush with cash and they were buying up things in Los Angeles.
They had a good market back then.
That's right.
And they bought up the Rockefeller Trust in New York.
And everybody, oh, my God, the Japanese owning 30 Rock.
Oh, they're going to bring their culture over here.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Am I going to?
And then something happened, and they went into a deep, deep, deep recession.
Okay.
And they formed an organization called Japan Inc.
And it was an alliance between the Japanese government and Japanese private sector business.
That resulted in a 20-year recession.
And I don't know the current status of their economic plight right now.
Well, from what my research indicates, they take 6.6% off the top of the person's, yeah, I think it's their gross income.
Now, a few things.
They do have a healthier diet.
They have less illegal immigration.
And there are some things that can kind of partly explain why some of their mortality figures might be calculated differently.
Well, that's true.
I was just going to mention to you that now the experts, again, we're talking about media reports.
I don't believe anything anymore.
But the media experts are telling us, or they're citing health experts, it's saying that the reason that Japanese life expectancy is long, it's attributed to their healthy diet.
They're not healthy.
It's just the Japanese diet.
But they are complaining now the more Western diet is being adopted, and they're saying that there are more long-term health problems that are popping into their society and in their culture.
They're going to Americanize some of their diet.
Before I forget about it, I want to bring to your attention that Sean Hannity has spoken out about chiropractors being very good.
And I'm very glad about that because I see a chiropractor, and I think you have too.
And if you haven't, I would hope that you did.
And a vegetarian diet has a lot of positive benefits.
Ah!
A planned call.
You are good.
You are good.
You strong meal.
You don't give a rat's rear end about the Japanese healthcare system.
You are a militant vegetarian.
You are good, Gordon.
You are really.
Hannity spends a lot of time on our knows about chiropractors.
It reminds me, you know, when anybody tells me that their back is bothering, I always say stay off of it.
But I'd like to get to know you.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have rich in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Great to have you with us on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Great.
Thank you.
Hey, I just wanted to point out that I think the NFL has been racist prior to this.
Back when they went to Detroit for the Super Bowl, they had the Rolling Stones import band play.
And I think they should have had Motown stars.
I mean, Stevie Wonderer comes to mind right away, and the rest of them.
That's tremendous music.
And here they brought a bunch of Brits in and sold the stuff.
Okay, let me grab my NFL stack because I knew that this was going to.
By the way, I have a question.
Would Obama be allowed to buy an NFL team, do you think?
No, I think so.
No, not according to current standards.
Look at all the racially tinged comments Obama has made in his very brief time in the national spotlight, all five minutes of it.
The bitter clingers, grandmother being a typical white person, the stupid cop up at Cambridge.
And these are things he's actually said, by the way, as opposed to quotes made up out of whole cloth.
But since you want to go down this road, I happen to be prepared for you.
Our caller has just said the NFL is racist because in Detroit they brought in the Rolling Stones rather than use a Motown group.
Now, I wouldn't look at it that way, but some people might.
I don't happen to look at things that way, but obviously some people do.
Jack Cashiel, American thinker, the NFL's diversity problem.
He quotes the Colts owner Jim Ursay.
I myself couldn't even consider voting for him, said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Ursay of accused thought criminal Rush Limbaugh.
As a nation, as a world, we got to watch our words and our thoughts.
How do we watch our thoughts, by the way?
Have you ever seen one?
Jim Ursay must see thoughts.
Anyway, he said, divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about, said Commissioner Roger Goodell.
I wouldn't want to see those kinds of comments in people who are in a, no, we can kill dogs.
We can shoot ourselves in nightclubs.
We can run over people while we're drunk, but we don't want to do anything divisive with some people who think a certain way.
Now, Cashio writes, before these execs start doing their end zone dance, they might want to address a major diversity scandal brewing in their own house.
I refer here not to the exclusion of women from the NFL, although I could.
After all, we've put them in fire departments.
But the NFL so far steadfastly refuses to allow women in the NFL.
The difference, of course, is the fire department can adjust their assignments to keep women out of harm's way.
Football teams have no such cover.
Everybody's visible.
What is difficult to justify, however, is the veritable exclusion of Asian American and even more incredibly Mexican American men from the NFL.
An analysis of Jim Ursay's AFC South division reveals a shocking lack of genuine diversity.
I didn't know this stuff until I read this from Jack Cashiel, because I don't look at things like this, but since they've entered it into the fray, Cashiel did the research.
Of the 208 players in the AFC South, there are no Japanese or Chinese Americans, and only two players of any kind of Hispanic descent.
Now, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics make up 15.4% of the American population, but less than 1% of the AFC South and of the NFL in general.
Asian Americans make up 4.5% of the American population and 0% of the NFL, unless one includes Scott Fujita, a Caucasian adopted by a Japanese family.
The Institute for Diversity in Ethics and Sport at the University of Central Florida gives the NFL an A- for racial hiring practices and a C on gender hiring practices, but these grades are largely for front office jobs.
It'd be like giving Goldman Sachs an A for hiring minority janitors.
The real money is on the field, but then his analysis of the white-dominated positions, the white-collar positions, quarterback and kicker, are especially punitive to minorities.
We'll be back.
Japanese healthcare system, eh?
Try this headline from Tokyo, March, February 4th of this year.
I'm sorry.
Injured man dies after rejection by 14 hospitals.
We don't know whether he was a vegetarian or a chiropractor, but nevertheless, he died after being rejected by 14 hospitals.
Washington Post, September 7th this year, they do cite the low cost of the Japanese system, but there are specialist shortages, longer hospital stays.
And the bottom line is, Obama and Gibbs have been asked to cite a country they want to emulate healthcare, and they can't name one.
So we're not going to include Japan in this.
Nothing against Japanese.
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