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July 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I was joking, but I was also looking every every really good piece of humor has an element of truth in it, which is why it's funny.
And I'm just saying, if we came to a consensus that Al Gore assaulted the massage therapist, then we assume he did it.
Now Gore's no longer in politics per se.
He's not an electoral politics.
But you know, I wonder if you remember Bob Peckwood when when he was a Republican, liberal Republican even.
He was accused of sexual assault, which was mild compared to what the Gore allegations are.
And the Senate Ethics Committee required that Packwood turn over his diary.
You see, Republican senators don't have any Fourth or Fifth Amendment protections, even if you vote the way the liberals and the feminists want.
And Packwood was the biggest feminist supporter you could have, and they still ran him out of there simply because he's a Republican.
I remember saying this is you moderates is what's going to happen to you.
You're going to try to make them love you.
You're going to try to make the press love you.
And uh they're gonna throw you out.
Larry Craig, Idaho, Ditto, greetings, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Nice to have you here as we serve humanity on the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
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Now, if if things are on schedule, if they are on schedule, representatives of the New York Knicks, or I should say the New York Knicks, our meeting with LeBron James, who today becomes a free agent in the National Basketball Association.
Now many of you are saying, oh, come on, Rush, stick to the issues.
What are you bringing up?
Football's bad enough, golf's even worse.
Now we're gonna talk NBA.
No, we're not talking NBA.
The New York Knicks and the New Jersey Nets both want LeBron James.
The Cleveland Cavaliers want him to stay in Cleveland, of course.
Here's the decision LeBron James has to make, and let's just use his current contract.
He is currently being paid, or his contract that just expired, was five years ninety-six million dollars.
If LeBron James had earned that money in New York, he would have had to pay an additional 12.34 million dollars in state and city income taxes.
Then say if he played in Miami or for the Dallas Mavericks, or wherever there is no state income tax.
So here you have these poor schlubs that run Madison Square Garden and own the Knicks, and they're gonna try to persuade LeBron James to move to New York and play for the Knicks, and they're gonna tell him, by the way, uh whatever you're gonna pay about 12 to 15, maybe 20 million dollars more in taxes in New York than you would uh if you play they won't tell him, but his agent will.
Now I have a question.
For all of you do-gooders out there, what should LeBron James do?
Should Le LeBron James decide to play for the Knicks and pay the additional taxes to show his compassion and to show he's willing to give something back, which is what we demand of our athletes.
Or should he not sign with the New York Knicks or the Nets, sign with the Miami Heat and pocket, and use the additional money for his own economic stimulus.
What would you do if you were LeBron James and somebody was gonna offer you an excess?
Remember his old deal's 96 mil over five years.
Let's just make it up.
Let's say somebody's gonna pay him 140 million over five years.
I don't know what it's gonna be, but let's and let's say that that new number is gonna, and you know, taxes are going up next year, federal taxes going up in New York taxes are going up.
Uh if he goes place for the Lakers, it's the same kind of situation.
Don't think the Lakers are in the running, but regard, what would you do?
Now I'm gonna make a I I I'm gonna make a prediction.
What, snerdly?
What?
What?
What what?
Yeah, okay.
Here's Snerdley C says, you're you're you're you're making my prediction come true even before I make it.
Snerdily said, Well, there's more to New York than just that tax is New York versus Miami.
Come on.
Yeah, I've made that call, and where am I?
Well, d doesn't right.
That's a so is Miami.
In fact, for a guy like LeBron, Miami's more to.
I mean, you got South Beach down there, you got Dwayne Reed down there, Dwayne, uh Dwayne uh Dwight Wade down there playing for the Heat.
No, I'm gonna here's if here's my point.
A lot of you would probably are probably saying, uh, I would go to the team that I really wanted to play for, regardless of the extra taxes, because even at 140 million dollars, even if I have to pay an additional 15 to 20 million, look at what I'm gonna have left over.
I know a lot of people will say that.
Until you earn it, until you earn, and then you will totally change your mind about it.
But my question to you is, is LeBron James, if he chooses to play for the Miami Heat or the Mavericks, I don't know if they're in the running.
Uh let's say if he chooses a team with no state income tax and saves 12 to 20 million dollars a year in taxes.
Is he being smart?
Is he being selfish?
Is he not being a good citizen?
What is he?
Now, you people in Cleveland, of course, look at this in an entirely different way.
You want to win a championship, he's the guy, and you're saying to the ownership, pay him.
And whatever the additional taxes are, essentially pay those for him.
Well, you can't legally do that, but you can up his gross so that he ends up with the net that he would have while not paying the taxes, but that's just gonna cost everybody more to do it.
So I just find it very fascinating.
These guys from the uh from MSG are in there trying to sell LeBron James on coming to New York, where he'll probably live in Connecticut and commute down, because that's where they train, and drive all the way down to Madison Square Garden, maybe stop off at uh some restaurants after the game's on the win and head back home.
Uh and the Knicks are nowhere guaranteed to win anything.
But it is New York.
And more endorsements in the with LeBron, I don't know, Snerdley.
With LeBron James, I'm not sure you get more endorsements just because you're in New York.
Uh, well, sh okay.
The HR here.
Yeah, he just wants to win a championship.
Yeah, I've heard that.
They want the ring.
And want the ring.
Wants to win a championship.
Yeah, okay, I'll buy that.
Well, it ain't gonna happen in New York.
One guy can't make it happen.
At any rate, I don't want to get into discussion of who's gonna win the NBA championship, the finals next year.
I'm just it's an interesting question.
And you know where this story is?
Is in page six of the New York Post today.
It's a uh it's a gossip story.
Oh, speaking of all this, July 1st, which is today, marks the start of that new tax on tanning companies.
Tan beds.
The new tax means that you will pay 10% more to go get a tan and one of these tan centers.
It's all part of Obama's federal health care bill enacted uh last March.
Local tanning salons say that they're worried and feel that small businesses are being targeted.
They say customers are gonna suffer too.
So here's our here's our post-racial presidential update.
Eric Holder, and have you heard Meghan Kelly on Fox yesterday talked to this disgruntled Department of Justice lawyer who said he quit in frustration he was handling the case against the new Black Panthers and voter intimidation in Philadelphia.
He quit accusing the DOJ of dropping charges against the new Black Panthers strictly for racial reasons.
And the DOJ, the guy's essentially a whistleblower, and the Department of Justice has come at Glenn Reynolds to me note Department of Justice has come out and said, ah, this guy's just disgruntled.
He's unhappy about what his position here was.
He had just been promoted in April.
Now, normally, normally we love whistleblowers.
The media loves whistleblowers never lie.
Whistleblowers are constantly telling the truth.
Whistleblowers are blowing the whistle on the powerful and the rich.
And uh now we got a whistleblower blowing the whistle on Holder and the Justice Department, and guess who's going to be destroyed?
The whistleblower.
We got sound bites from this guy who was on with Meghan Kelly yesterday.
Uh J. Christian Adams is his name.
So that's coming up.
Your phone calls are coming up.
Uh Eric Holder protecting civil rights deniers, the new Black Panthers.
Now, see, voting is a civil right.
Voter intimidation infringes on civil rights.
Eric Holder refused to bring charges against the new Black Panthers in Philadelphia, who openly practiced voter intimidations on videotape.
Everybody's seen it.
Now, I'm not a lawyer.
My dad was a lawyer.
But this sounds pretty serious to me.
And I'm not talking about the charges against the new Black Panthers.
I mean Eric Holder's situation.
Did Holder obstruct justice in a civil rights case?
Did he go to the line attorneys and say drop the charges?
We're not going to pursue these guys.
The answer is obvious, and it's all on tape.
Holder protected civil rights deniers.
The new Black Panthers.
And it is said that race is what motivated Holder.
This is what J. Christian Adams, the DOJ line attorney, is saying.
So what racism in Obamaville?
Oh, speaking of that, a tent city for the homeless has sprung up in.
Wait for it.
Hawaii.
We have an Obamaville in Hawaii, a tent city for the homeless in Hawaii.
I have a question.
You ever been to Hawaii?
Aside from the rain, you don't need a tent.
You're not going to freeze.
I'm being somewhat jocular with this, but it's not like needing a tent in New York in February.
So we have an Obamaville in the whole country's an Obamaville, actually, but we got one in Hawaii.
Who would have thought?
Who would have thought it could have descended to this?
Reverend Wright must be proud.
Must be proud.
And the Caucasian tax starts today.
That's the uh tax on white people who want to get a tan.
Back after the South has asked me a question in an email.
So Rush, I listened to what you said about Keg and a declaration of Constitution, Obama on a Statue of Liberty.
So your point is we have somebody here explicitly rejecting the founding of the country and originalism of the Constitution who's going to sail through the Senate confirmation process.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I do you see anybody?
I mean, Colburn's making noises about maybe filibustering.
Quinn Hilliard today, American Spectator has a piece that they ought to do a temporary filibuster and announced that they're going to have a filibuster, not permanently, but just until September.
So the American people can learn who this woman is because they're not being informed who she is by virtue of the confirmation hearings.
People need to understand that any vote for Kagan is a vote for Obama's agenda.
The individual mandate, cap and trade, vote against the text of the Constitution.
Kagan is who is controversial, not me.
And not those of us making these allegations about her.
She's the one who's controversial.
This is the back of the hand to the American people.
This is a backslap.
Slap of the hand to the law and the founding is being treated with contempt.
That they think it deserves.
Here is, I'm going to get your calls ill quickly, but Cookie has given me the uh Obama soundbite on the Statue of Liberty.
Now you heard, if you were here with us in the previous hour, you heard me correctly give you the history of the Statue of Liberty.
This is what our president said about it.
A young woman named Emma Lazarus, whose own family fled persecution from Europe generations earlier.
Took up the cause of these new immigrants.
Although she was a poet, she spent much of her time advocating for better health care and housing for the newcomers.
That's a crack.
Inspired by what she saw and heard.
She wrote down her thoughts and donated piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statute.
Wrong.
The Statue of Liberty.
Wrong.
Which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.
Stop the tape right there.
She entered a contest.
She wrote a poem.
The contest was to raise money to pay for the pedestal, not the statue.
She was not inspired by immigrants.
The Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with immigration.
The Statue of Liberty is not on the Arizona-Mexico border.
It is not the Statue of Immigration.
It was not constructed to show the way to the United States, the huddled masses, the tired, the poor, the hungry, the thirsty.
Emma Lazarus'poem had nothing to do with the construction of the statue.
It's not even posted on the statue.
It's posted on the pedestal inside the statue.
And it took years and years and years for that to happen after her poem was chosen in the contest.
Years before the statue was built.
Years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of a long and brutal voyage.
Years before would come to symbolize everything that we cherish.
She imagined what it could mean.
She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation.
But unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire.
Instead, it would signal one's arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge.
All right.
Hold it.
Hold it.
Hold on.
Right here, right here.
First place.
I misspoke, it was not a contest.
She she donated the poem as a work of art.
But the Statue of Liberty was built by the French, a French purse 1800 as a as a gift to celebrate the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence.
It had nothing to do with immigration.
The lore of the Statue of Liberty is that after World War II, well, even before World War II, but the in the early 1900s, when people were fleeing oppression, not poverty per se, but fleeing oppression.
They had to go through Ellis Island.
That was the law.
They had to go through Ellis.
Well, to get to Ellis Island, you had to go by the Statue of Liberty, and people saw it.
And so the transformation of what the statue meant began.
Look at there.
Look at there, Mabel.
Well, it's a beacon to all the immigrants around the world.
Come to America.
Look at that, Emma.
What?
How about that?
Nope.
The original intent.
Are we allowed to talk about original intent?
The Statue of Liberty was to light the way of liberty for the rest of the world.
Obama seems to think the only thing worth cherishing about America is that everybody can live here.
I've never heard him be more passionate, impassioned about this country, than talking about the fact that everybody can move here.
Because the Statue of Liberty is the invitation.
Let's go to the phones.
I I've uh I've had my piece about this.
This is how the whole thing was distorted today.
And how Alad continues to be distorted by the left.
Here's Kelly in League City, Texas.
Your first, I'm really glad you held on.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hi, Ray.
Um, my question is in response to the president's remarks this morning when he said that we can't do a mass deportation of 11 million immigrants.
Or I'm sorry, eleven million illegal aliens.
If we can educate them, and we can give them health care, and we can count them for the census.
Why can't we deport them?
Uh I understand the nature of your question.
They will come out from of the shadows.
They will come out from the shadows for a trip to the emergency room for a trip to the doctor.
Uh food stamps.
But they won't come out of the shadows if when they do, they're going to be sent home.
That's the theory that'll go into hiding and all that.
Now, I uh I'm not sure in the history of this Eisenhower years.
We deported a mass deportation program.
I don't know how many were involved.
And you know the name of that program.
I cannot, without getting myself into big trouble, tell you what the name of the program was.
Well, I just go look it up on a Wikipedia.
Look at it.
Look up Eisenhower immigration/slash operation blank and see what name comes up.
I just think that the president is not telling the truth.
We can do it if we can do all these other things.
Well, no, we can't.
This is a thing.
Barack, but the the whole notion of yes we can is gone.
There is no yes we can.
There's no optimism.
But he doesn't want them to leave.
I mean, that the answer to your question is they are potential future Democrat voters.
All right, the Eisenhower deportation program.
I I'm not gonna tell you what the name of it was.
You can look it up.
We're just gonna call it the uh the Operation Ike.
And most of the people um self-deported when it was announced, they fled.
Which is what happened when the Arizona law was announced.
They don't seem to be any really good figures on how many were forcibly deported under the Ike operation.
But the INS estimated 500,000, 700,000 left of their own accord from Texas alone.
I've heard the number a million uh thrown around.
In any way any case, uh what why do we say deportation won't work?
We've never really tried it.
We have tried amnesty, and we know that doesn't work.
We know where that gets us.
We did amnesty back in the eighties, and we were granted amnesty to three million men, and that was supposed to be the end of.
What was Ike known as a racist?
Well, he he would be well, no, no, no, he wasn't known, not not back then he wasn't known as a racist.
He would be today.
The unions, back in Ike's day, the unions opposed illegal immigration.
They they viewed it as a threat.
Now the uh the unions view illegals as potential new members, contributing members and uh and and Democrat voters.
By the way, uh Tony LaRusse, it's a good thing he's the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.
It's a good thing he's a manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and not the coach of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League because he would have been thrown out of the league last night after he said this.
You're supposed to be able to have opinions and disagree, and I'm actually supportive of what Arizona's doing.
You know, people don't fix your problem.
Government doesn't figure national government fix your problem, and they got a problem, you got to take care of themselves.
That's Tony LaRousse, a manager of Cardinals at Bush Stadium last night in St. Louis.
Uh the uh uh National Football League would not have put up with that.
Uh but there's LaRussa saying it.
Now he might get a pass because he is a big animal rights guy.
He and his wife are huge animal lovers.
Well, which I am too.
Massive animal.
Have you seen, speaking of animals?
Have you seen the massive effort to move something like 40,000 to 70,000 sea turtle eggs off the shores that oil might hit in the Gulf?
And they're gonna move them all at Cape Canaveral.
I'm gonna move them all over there.
And I I heard I heard Shepard Smith on Fox describing this yesterday.
And Shepard, as usual, got some of it right.
Uh he said that they all hatch on the same day, which they don't.
So they all hatch on the same day, and on that one day you have to turn your lights off if you live on the beach.
Uh Shep, you have to turn them off for eight months if you live on the beach.
Not one day when they hatch, because nobody knows what the day is.
He said that the little turtle hatchlings run to the light, which is just a theory.
Nobody's really actually proved it.
He had a guest on, this I also knew to be true, had some uh reptile expert.
Well, how many of these little turtles that hatch and and their their eggs are buried in the sand on the beach, and then they come up and they they head to the water.
He said, How many of these little hatchlings survive?
One out of a thousand survives.
One out of a thousand.
Nine hundred and ninety survive to adulthood.
Yeah, 999 uh become food.
It's called the circle of life.
Eat or be eaten.
A great Elton John song, written for Disney, by the way, uh, Lion King.
Nevertheless, he also did not mention this.
Now, this is lore that I haven't.
You see, I become, I'm I'm I founded a turtle preservation society of uh two acres of beach on Palm Beach.
And what I have learned is that these the sea turtle mothers who come and lay the eggs come back to the beach every year they were born or they were hatched.
They will come from all over the world and somehow they will know which beach to go to.
This I have been told.
This is only relevant if it's true.
Because what's going to happen now?
They move in 40 to 70,000 of them away from the Gulf and taking them over to Cape Canaveral.
Uh is this gonna upset future migration and uh egg laying habits and so forth.
Oh.
Well, well, the the Gulf people will be able to turn on their lights, but they're not gonna want to, because all they're gonna see is oil infestation.
The Gulf people, yeah, they're gonna be turning on the lights because the turtles aren't there, but who's gonna want to watch all the oil infestation?
In the meantime, what's gonna happen with a nighttime rocket launch during the summer if these poor turtles happen to hatch.
At that.
Well, no, no, wait, wait, no, no, we're not launching shuttles, snurdly.
We're not launching astronauts.
We are going to launch rockets.
So you just wait, I know they'll I know they'll cancel the launches.
That's what they'll do for the sea turtles.
Who's next?
Mary Ellen in Rheabuth, Massachusetts.
Is that right?
Great to have you on the program.
It is Russia, it's Rehobit, Massachusetts.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Um, I have a probably a very stupid question, but you know, here it goes.
I don't understand why the senators cannot filibuster the Kagan nomination, because it is obvious that she is not being either forthright or honest in the first place.
They can't in her answers.
They can.
Well, then why are they not going to?
Because it seems to me if she cannot be honest, and we have the proof that she is not being honest.
We have her writing, those that they have allowed us to read.
If she cannot even be honest about that, then why would we put her on the Supreme Court?
I don't think if she gave those answers, she could be on a chair on a jury.
Uh yeah.
Excellent point.
But there's a little thing here called politics.
The question is, what should the Republicans do about this?
I mean, filibuster, I think America is very hungry for truth.
Right.
And I think America, Americans are very hungry at this point.
That's exactly right.
That's why they listen to this show.
So the the the question is, what should are we close to getting the cell phone telo system in here, by the way, as I just ask uh it's in?
We've we've got the new cell phone telosystem upgrade in.
Is it is it turned on?
Well, you could fool me because it isn't working.
At any rate, little inside base.
We have a problem with cell calls.
The people on cell phones cannot hear me.
I could insult them while they're speaking, they can't hear me.
Uh and and Mary Ellen here could not hear me.
So we got it fixed.
I've just been told that we just got it fixed, and it isn't working.
So the question is, what should the Republicans do about this?
We it it's not that she's lying or obfuscating.
We know for certain what she is.
We know for certain what she's going to do on this court.
Now, Quinn Hillier, I mentioned this earlier, American uh spectator today.
They can spec they could announce a temporary filibuster to put off the vote until, say, September or August.
So the Republicans could take the time to inform people who this woman is because the hearings are not producing any of that information.
You know, and by the way, all of her records are not in.
We still have that this has been a pretty good document dump, but it's so much that the staff has not had a chance to go through all of it.
A lot of it's from the Clinton era, and it has not been released, and those documents, the Clinton era, will illustrate the 100% political animal that she is, as opposed to uh having a judicial temperament.
So filibuster until the records are reviewed by September or block her altogether.
My sense is they're not going to do either of those things.
Yet we have a nominee who explicitly rejects the founding documents of this country and the whole concept of originalism in the Constitution.
And she's going to sail through.
Any vote for her is a vote for Obama's agenda.
Every aspect of it.
But Mary Ellen, they can filibuster.
The question is, will they?
And while nobody knows, Colburn is alluding to the possibility, and Jeff Sessions has alluded to the possibility.
But you've also got Lindsey Gramnesty on the committee as well, who probably wouldn't.
Because don't want to make waves.
I mean, after all, they'll say Obama won, he gets to a point who he wants to appoint.
We want them to be nice to our nominee next time we have a chance today.
This is the thinking.
So I wouldn't hold my breath for filibuster.
You could pray for it.
I certainly will.
But whether or not it'll happen, just have to wait and see.
I want to go back to Obama's speech.
I don't have the uh audio sound bites in this, but there are a couple of things that I want to relate to you.
Ed Morrissey caught one.
Here is the uh at Hotair.com.
But here's uh something else Obama said.
When he's talking about security at the border is tighter, better than it's been in 20 years.
He said today we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history.
Let me repeat that.
We have more boots on the ground on the Southwest border than at any time in our history.
We doubled the personnel assigned to border enforcement security task forces.
We triple the number of intelligence analysts along the border.
For the first time I get this now, for the first time, we have begun screening 100% of southbound rail shipments.
And as a result, we are seizing more illegal guns, cash and drugs than in years past.
Contrary to some of the reports you see, crime along the border is down, stats collected by customs and border protection reflect a significant reduction in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally.
Southbound trains, southbound train shipments, we are seizing more illegal guns, cash, and drugs.
Now, does this mean Obama thinks America is the problem?
We're seizing South, we're stopping southbound rail shipments, stuff going into Mexico, and we're finding guns, drugs, cash, but we're not doing it the stuff coming north.
Could it be that Obama means to say here, although he didn't say it, it could be implying that we are intercepting guns, cash, and drugs from illegals, sending it stuff back home.
No, I don't think so because he will not indict the illegals that he wants their vote, so he's not going to say anything that will convey that they're breaking the law that way.
Ed Morrissey today, and this is a good catch.
American citizens, this Obama said this, American citizenship is not a matter of blood or birth.
But it is.
In the sense of natural-born citizenship, it is a matter of birth.
And the 14th Amendment makes that all too clear, which is why the issue of anchor babies has been part of the immigration debate for the last several years.
As Mr. Morrisy points out here, those opposed to the reading, that reading of the Constitution might like what Obama had to say about it in his speech on immigration today.
Being an American's not a matter of blood of birth, it's a matter of faith.
Matter of faith.
Being an American's a matter of faith.
Really?
A matter of faith.
He also blamed resentment to new immigrants to poor economic conditions.
Now we can't forget that this process of immigration and eventual inclusion has often been painful.
Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentment towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic unheaval, upheaval.
Being an American is a matter of faith.
Then if if if what is the religion then?
If being an American is a matter of faith, what's the Mr. Morrissey points out that the religion has to be the rule of law.
Devotion to the rule of law.
Which Elena Kagan says doesn't exist.
Or at least she won't comment on it, per se.
Chris in Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach.
Yeah, he says California here, and I know there's no Myrtle Beach in California.
South Carolina.
Yeah.
Welcome, Chris.
How are you?
Doing good, Mr. Wimbaw.
You're my hero.
I remember listening to you riding back from daycare, and you've even inspired me to have my own talk show on my college campus.
Wow.
You remember me riding home from daycare.
I remember the uh old EIB tune, the death, if you will.
So, yes.
Back when you were talking about Clinton.
But my point today is.
Wow.
Well, let me ask you are you on a cell phone, Chris?
Yes, sir.
I want to conduct a test.
Okay.
I want you to count.
I don't I don't want you to count to ten, and I don't want you to pause.
I want you to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, when I tell you to.
And I'm gonna say, Chris, stop.
And I want you to stop if you hear me, okay?
Okay.
Go.
One, two, three, four, three, three.
Chris, stop.
You heard me?
You heard me?
Yes, sir.
Okay, Brian, what'd you do?
You turned it on, didn't you?
You finally turned it off.
Just to make the host look bad.
Here it was not working a moment ago.
I do an on-air beta test, and he turns it on to make me look bad.
This is how comfortable my employees are.
Make my whole.
All right.
Chris, uh, you have you you've helped me with the test.
What was it?
What was the point today that you wanted to make?
So, well, uh, I heard you talking about LeBron James, if you will, and it's funny that you talk about him because this guy, this wacko, reminds me a lot of a serious leader, Barack Obama.
Uh I've got five reasons.
Wait a second.
Are you calling LeBron James a wacko?
Uh I I think that the fact that he's trying to be a billionaire instead of win championships, that's a little wacko to me.
The main goal of being a NBA athlete is to win championships, not to be uh international global superstar.
So, yes.
I think he's trying to do both.
Uh that's the reason for the decision.
Uh I I know, I I know this is this is a sentiment that's sprung up among fans ever since free agency hit the books in all sports.
Where's the loyalty to the team?
Where's the loyalty to the fans?
Where's the loyalty to the city?
Stay in the city, help the team win.
Who cares if it costs you 50 million?
Where is your loyalty?
On the other hand, the players are saying, I have an average of five years in this sport to make my money.
And in the process, I might end up disabled, disfigured, or in a wheelchair.
So I'm gonna go for my family and my security.
And after I get that, then I'll think about giving something back.
And a lot of them are devoted to the ring, too.
But, you know, you we'd all we'd all be pretty happy to be in a LeBron James situation today, other than facing twenty million dollars in taxes in New York if he decides to go there.
quick question: why does President Obama keep mocking our fears?
Why does he keep making fun of what we're afraid of?
We have laws because we're afraid of things.
He talks about crime being down.
How about crime by illegal aliens?
Is that down?
We mentioned a few weeks ago Phoenix is now the kidnapping capital of America, second only to Mexico City in kidnappings in the entire world.
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