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Jan. 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, for the Stick to the Issues crowd, the AFC championship game last night had the highest television ratings for any championship game in 24 years.
The highest, the previous high-rated AFC championship game was the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns.
I think that was the drive.
The Elway Drive.
I know, I don't get it either.
Maybe more people watching TV back then.
Who knows?
Anyway, greetings.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Jay Cutler, their quarterback for the Chicago Bears, does have a torn MCL.
A big controversy, Cutler took him out.
Well, the Bears coaching staff, medical staff took him out of the game.
Sideline attitude made it look like Cutler didn't care.
He's been beaten up all day, all night since he left the game.
Players around the league ripping Jay Cutler for no heart, kick him off the team, this sort of stuff does have an MCL tear.
Now, the relevance of this is that tomorrow night is the State of the Union show by Barack Obama.
And I just, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama warns Cutler to have security in the operating room to make sure doctors don't amputate his leg to line their pockets while fixing the torn MCL in his knee.
That'd be the medial collateral ligament.
By the way, I have it.
If you want to do a drinking game for the State of the Union show tomorrow, and I got two words, you will be plastered inside the first 20 minutes.
Investments and civility.
If you take, if you consume a shot of quality adult beverage every time you hear Obama talk about investments or civility, ladies and gentlemen, you'll be unable to pay attention to that thing as soon as possible.
You may have heard Jack Lelaine, longtime exercise guru.
I met Jack Lelaine some years ago.
Jack Lelaine passed away in age 96, and it just proves what I've always told you.
Exercise will not keep you from dying.
He passed away at age 96 after a long and very successful career as an exercise guru and advisor.
But even Lelane circum to the ravages of physical exercise.
Did you have a good weekend out there, folks?
Snirdley is livid.
His team's the Cowboys.
He can't believe that it's the Steelers and the Pack.
Exactly what I told you.
I thought it would be the best Super Bowl matchup of the four teams that we had left.
Packers player's not happy.
You know, the president picked the Bears.
This, by the way, I think that this ought to prove something to President Obama, and that is that actions speak louder than words.
He picked the, well, the Jets lost, and they're full of a lot of talk.
Bears didn't say a whole lot, but they still lost.
Obama does a lot of talking, not much action, and you can see what happens with that.
But a whole lot of, USA Today has a story today, Obama praising Reagan.
You know, the only time you can praise Reagan and get away with it is when a Democrat does it.
When we cite Reagan as a great president, we get ripped to shreds by our own people.
By our own people.
The era of Reagan is over.
But here's Obama in a USA Today story citing Reagan.
Great president, great example.
It is Reagan Obama has been studying in order to win his reelection bid in 2012.
So, now It was a great, great, great, great weekend and a great day of football in the national football.
You had everything.
And everybody's trying to figure out what happened to Jets.
And it's very simple.
They played the Steelers.
That's all you really need to know.
I mean, it's just, and that game needn't have ended the way it did.
The Steelers went into a pre-vent offense.
Have you ever heard of that?
No, you haven't.
No, you've heard of the pre-vent defense.
The pre-vent defense is where you're prepared to give up all kinds of yards, but not touchdowns.
It never works out that way.
They went into a pre-vent offense until the final two series.
They were playing not to lose up until the final two series in particular.
At third and six, with just under two minutes to go, they line up with five wides, nobody in the backfield.
Rex Ryan says, ah, they got to run the ball here.
They're not going to throw an incompletion to stop the clock and kick it.
Back does.
They're going to run the ball.
Keep the clock running.
Go to a quarterback draw.
They threw it.
First down game over.
That was one of the few times in the second half the Steelers were playing outside of their pre-vent offense.
They're playing to win the game, not to lose it.
The pre-vent offense is where you play the game not to lose rather than you play the game to win.
So they had that 24-3 halftime lead, ran out the clock, sat on it.
Two totally different games, first half and second half.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, lots to do on the program today.
Lots of great soundbites coming up and a pre-analysis of the State of the Union show that is tomorrow night.
A bunch of friends of mine are hectoring me saying they're not going to watch it because they don't have to, because they know I have to.
You know, I can farm some things out.
You know, I can pay people to watch The View.
And I can pay people to watch the sludge that's on cable channels at night.
But I have to watch the State of the Union show.
I have to watch it.
And it is routinely.
And I can't do the drinking game along with you people.
All I can do is suggest it.
But I'm serious.
Whatever your favorite adult beverage is, have some of it standing by.
And every time you hear the word civility or investments, let fly.
Here is Obama.
Remember who this guy's like Clinton.
Whatever he picks, he loses.
Whatever he endorses, doesn't happen.
This is Friday in Schenectady at General Electric.
Obama offering in his opening remarks a prediction that Governor Andrew Kumo, New York, wanted to give him a Jets hat.
Obama said.
Both the Jets and the Bears, I think, are slight underdogs.
So we're going to be rooting for the underdogs on Sunday.
Root for the underdogs and make them losers.
President Obama didn't sit well with Charles Woodson, cornerback for the Packers last night after the game.
He said, among other things, this.
President don't want to come watch us in Sunday.
Yeah.
We're the most in him.
One, two, three, White House.
I'm sure the non-alcoholic champagne was flowing in the Packers locker room at Soldier Fair.
Soldier Field, Walmart shooting leaves two dead, two deputies hurt.
This is from today.
And it is an associated press story.
A shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington state left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded Sunday afternoon.
One of the dead was a man who shot at deputies.
Tacoma police said the deputies were both shot in a torso.
We're in satisfactory condition, being kept overnight at Tacoma General Hospital.
Details were sketchy.
Last night, the sheriff's office received a call about a suspicious person at the store in Port Orchard.
The man ran and started shooting with three deputies, tried to talk to him.
Now, why isn't the heated political rhetoric and the atmosphere of hate that has been whipped up against Walmart by the unions being blamed for these shootings?
I've read the whole story.
You won't find one reference to the incendiary rhetoric we find in American culture.
And you won't find one word about the lack of civility.
And yet, unions, there was a we've had marches.
We've had unions marching at homes of Walmart's executives.
We've had flyers.
We've had banners.
We've had members of the Democrat Party condemn Walmart.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago: if you listen to the Democrat Party, you are going, and believe what they say, you're going to have a reservoir of hate built up in your soul each and every day.
They launch into diatribes and they accuse people like Walmart of all sorts of things short of killing people.
Big pharma, big oil.
If you listen to the Democrats, there's no way you could possibly be happy.
They're tearing the country apart.
In fact, from January 20th, here it is.
Group pickets pro-Walmart developers, Washington home.
A group of about 25 people protesting Walmart's imminent arrival in D.C. gathered Thursday night in Woodley Park by picketing the Washington home of a developer who has publicly said he wants to open stores for Walmart in the city.
And lo and behold, we have a flyer.
No Walmart on Georgia Avenue, no Walmart in D.C.
And guess what?
It's got a crosshairs logo on it.
They put a smiley face in the center, but it still has a crosshairs logo.
March on the developer's house, gives his address the date and the time.
Meet at Woodley Park.
And we organize, and I saw a videotape.
Why is this being given a pass?
Why are the unions not being accused here participating in a climate of incivility?
Because here you have everything the president warned us against happened in this case.
You have supporters of the president ginning up their troops to march on the home of a developer who wants to build Walmart stores.
And then over the weekend, we had a shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington State, leaving two people dead.
Where is the connection?
I know I didn't talk about any of this.
They can't blame me.
I haven't heard Sarah Palin talking about it.
That shooting, that big shootout at the Moscow airport.
Have you seen that?
Sorry I wasn't there.
Waiting for me to get blamed on that.
I don't know.
Sarah Palin hadn't said anything about it either.
And then there's a word not being used in connection with that shooting, and that's Muslims.
Brief timeout, folks.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here behind a golden EIB microphone having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Maybe the Walmart shooter in Washington State confused Washington, D.C. with Washington State because these guys in Washington put out a flyer with a big crosshair on it in defiance of their president.
Obama's number one supporters, the unions, in defiance of their president, put up this big flyer demanding and inviting people to show up at the developer's home for a protest on his front yard in the street in front of his house.
And shortly thereafter, there's an actual shooting at a Walmart in Washington state.
And I don't even see any media curiosity about this.
I don't see any media condemnation whatsoever.
By the way, I have folks for tomorrow night.
Obama's State of the Union show kicks off a little after 9 o'clock in order to give the media time to tell us what he's going to say.
And then Obama comes in.
I have a way.
I know a lot of you don't want to watch this.
A lot of you know that we will watch it.
And if there's anything salient, that we will pass it on to you.
Unlike you, who wants to sit there and listen to somebody live for an hour and 15 minutes?
As an example, let's go back January 27th of last year, 2010.
Here is Obama in the House chamber and the State of the Union show.
It's a brief bite, but here's what he said was his focus.
Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010, and that's why I'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight.
Well, I don't know if he got his jobs bill, but he got unemployment compensation extension bills.
He got stimulus bills.
And in the State of the Union, he's going to call for more spending called investments.
Where are all the jobs?
Where are all these platitudes?
Which, by the way, do not mask his actions.
But here's my alternative for you.
Tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in the Golf Channel is episode 3 of the Haney Project starring me.
I happened to know, I knew that the show was going to debut on January 22nd or January 11th.
Therefore, I knew that the third episode would come two days after the AFC and NSC championship games.
So when we taped this episode last fall, I wore my Steelers jersey.
As I figured, I want to make myself look precious.
I'll wear my Steelers jersey in the Haney show, which will air two days after the Steelers win the championship game and go to the Super Bowl.
And it worked.
It worked.
I also have to tell you, Hank Haney was not pleased that I showed up in a Steelers jersey.
Seriously, he was not happy.
He thought it represented my not taking the game seriously.
It's not because he's a Cowboys fan.
It's because he thought I wasn't taking it seriously by showing up in a jersey.
No, we got a TV show here, right?
We're trying to have some fun.
So, at any rate, I think it's tomorrow night's episode where I show up in the Steelers jersey, at least for part of it.
Now, here, this is, I mean, I'm not, although I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and I pretty much know, particularly when it's involving Democrats and liberals, I know what they're going to say before they say it, and I know what they're going to do before they do it.
And here is evidence exactly what I know.
All this talk about investments in the State of the Union show last night.
That's what all the new spending is going to be called, or tomorrow, Tuesday night, that's what the new spending is going to be called.
And here's a media montage from this morning.
Media montage from this morning on the use of the word investment.
Now, we know Clinton popularized this back in the early 90s.
They're going back to the playbook and trying it all over again.
Here is the media setting everybody up for what they already know is coming on Tuesday night.
President Obama's speech will call for investments in key areas like education, infrastructure, and technology.
What the White House calls investments.
Investments in things like education.
Investments in education.
In research.
Investments in things like education, infrastructure, and science and technology.
The president will also promote investments.
A more business-friendly way to sell more public investment.
New investments to create jobs.
Investments that will help us grow in the future.
How many decades have we been investing in all of these things?
And all we've got to show for it is a nation in debt.
We have no winning performances, leading performances in our education system.
In fact, practically everything we've been investing in is falling apart.
Everything we've been spending money on, there's no progress to show.
Which gets me to the point, Obama's platitudes, which is what he's full of.
Obama's platitudes do not mask his actions.
When he speaks tomorrow night, and he's going to be using these poll and focus group tested catchphrases like investments, civility, and so forth, his branch, while he's speaking, while he's speaking tomorrow night, his branch of the federal government will be shutting down oil rigs.
His branch of the federal government will be shutting down coal mines.
His branch of the federal government will be massively expanding regulation over the means of production through CO2 and the centralization of financial activity.
All this, it's already underway, but it's going to be continuing.
It's going to be going on.
While Obama speaks with his platitudes, his administration will be regulating the internet through the FCC while he's speaking tomorrow night.
This is all action he's already taking.
It's already underway, but while all that's going on, his speech will not reflect any of it.
The judiciary has said that he does not have the power to regulate the internet via the FCC.
They're doing it anyway.
While he's speaking his platitudes tomorrow night, the price of food and energy will continue to increase due to government policy.
Jobs will be shipped off to Red China, not because of free trade, but because of Obama's policy of smothering domestic capitalism, which, in effect, subsidizes the Chikom economy.
Now, Obama's not a new face on the scene anymore.
He actually has a record.
His record is a disaster.
The Obama record has been, and his presidency has been a disaster.
He likes to talk about saving the nation from the next Great Depression.
And I'll bet he repeats.
I've got a thing in my throat here, a little swig of water.
And I'll bet he repeats that lie again tomorrow night.
Saving the nation from the next Great Depression.
There was not going to be another Great Depression.
He used the recession to advance his political and economic agenda.
And since those agendas are destructive of enterprise and opportunity, he has pushed the nation into a deep rut.
And all of this will have happened.
And we will be getting deeper and deeper into that rut while he speaks his platitudes tomorrow night.
Now he says, having saved the nation from disaster, he's ready to focus on jobs.
Gone is the $1 trillion stimulus.
Gone are shovel-ready jobs.
Gone is no more 8% unemployment.
Gone are all the green jobs.
Gone is all that came before.
If you dare to hold him to his word, yet he points to his actions as having saved the nation.
The nation's still in the process of being destroyed.
Of course he doesn't mean this stuff about Reagan.
This is all part of this image, this faux move to the center.
There's no faux move to the center.
It's just verbiage for crying out loud.
Hell's Bells, as they say.
I just recited all the societal, cultural, economic damage this guy has inflicted.
And I'll be glad to run through it again if you want, but none of all this vast improvement that he's talking about is taking place.
Everything is getting worse.
Despite all the spending, and he wants to spend even more.
This business about Reagan is particularly offensive to me.
If you go back to his book, well, his first book, the autobiography, Dreams from My Father by Barack Sotero, page 54.
In 1983, I decided to become a community organizer.
There wasn't much detail to the idea.
I didn't know anybody making a living that way.
When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn't answer him.
Instead, I would pronounce on the need for change, change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying out their dirty deeds.
Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt, change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed.
Change won't come from the top, I would say.
Change will come from immobilized grassroots.
And that's what I'll do.
I'll organize black folks at the grassroots for change.
Now, Obama was either deceitful in this book about how much he hated Reagan all of his life, or he's being deceitful now.
And I'm going to play it safe and say that he has been both.
But this USA Today up had this story about Obama loving Reagan, greatness, studying Reagan.
All that is, is an admission that these bunch, this bunch on the left, knows how popular Ronald Reagan is to this day.
And by embracing Reagan, they seek to make people believe that Obama is not this leftist extremist, but rather a centrist.
And all this is about trying to get these precious independents back that he lost, the Democrats lost in the November elections.
It doesn't mean any of this.
None of his words match the actions.
None of the actions match the deeds, or none of the words match the deeds that have taken place here.
Price of food and energy will continue to increase due to his policy.
Jobs are going to be shipped off to the Chikoms.
And look at, again, he's not a new face on the scene.
Can't say that he's come from a background that nobody knows, a wonderful orator, a great articulate speaker, a brilliant mind, all that rot.
No, he's got a record now.
And it's one of disaster.
Like this business, again, trying to save the nation from the next Great Depression.
And he'll repeat that lie again tomorrow.
He'll talk about how we were that close to it.
And he's brought us back from the brink with investments and we need more investments.
So now that he's saved the nation from disaster, he's ready to finally focus on jobs, even though that was the focus last year, the State of the Union.
But he's going to focus on jobs, but gone is the $1 trillion stimulus.
Gone are the shovel Revi jobs.
Gone is no more, he promised, than 8% unemployment.
Gone are all the green jobs.
Gone is all that came before, if you dare to hold him to his word.
Yet he points to his actions as saving the nation.
And while he says that, his actions are in the process of destroying the nation by any and every measure.
He's been a disaster.
And not just domestically.
The CHICOMs and the Russians are on the move.
Iran proceeds with its nuclear program slowed only by Israeli intelligence and scientists and a computer worm.
Obama doesn't even talk about human rights anymore.
When's the last time he spoke about genocide in Africa?
North Korea.
They're plowing ahead.
You people on the left, Obama has abandoned his position on Guantanamo and military trials, and he gets praise for it from you people.
Isn't that odd?
It took him becoming president to realize that terrorists needed to be held offshore and that they should be tried outside our cities and civilian courts.
He's now to be praised for finally recognizing the obvious after demagoguing the issue.
Oh, yeah, because praise is all that the left can muster for Obama.
Praise is all that the White House can do, the media, that's all they can do.
You remember what the actual name of Obama's porkulus bill is?
It's called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.
And that investment was supposed to save or create at least 3 million jobs by the end of last year.
We're supposed to have an unemployment rate down to 8%.
Look how that turned out.
So tomorrow at the State of the Union, he's going to be trying to sell us on re-reinvesting.
Spare yourself the torture.
Spare yourself the tension.
Spare yourself the angst and just watch me on the Heiny Project on the Golf Channel, episode 3, tomorrow night at 9 Eastern.
Let me just ask you.
It's been two years now since Obama's been president.
Is America stronger?
Is America freer?
Is America better since the regime took over?
Is the world safer or freer?
What is it?
No, no, no.
We are not stronger.
We are not freer.
And we are not better since Obama, nor is the world.
What is Obama's vision for the country?
I mean, we know what it is, but I mean, what can he even state with clarity what his vision is?
Even when he's lying about it, can he state what his vision is?
When he cites a Declaration of Independence half the time, he rewrites it to exclude the crucial words about God.
When he talks about the Constitution, which is rare, it's only in the context of what he wants it to say, not what it actually says.
When he talks about free markets, can you think of anything he's done to promote capitalism or private or property rights?
Nope.
And how about last week, Obama celebrated abortion by heralding the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court decision?
What else would you call it but celebrating abortion?
His is just a bunch of propaganda.
And it is mush.
And we're going to get more of it.
And the reason you're going to get frustrated to no end if you watch it is because the media is going to do nothing.
And I'm sure people on our side too are going to listen to the speech and they're going to laud it.
It's going to be Slobber City 2.
With everybody fawning, aha, this is the second best speech of his career.
First being, of course, the Pep Rally out in Tucson.
Sorry, the memorial out in Tucson.
Brilliantly delivered, brilliantly written.
Wow.
When Obama's good, there's nobody better.
Listen to that oratorium.
Listen to that articulation.
Listen to the intelligence just overflowing with cranial cavity.
Nobody will pay attention to the substance.
And if they do, even that's going to be a bunch of propaganda.
Because while all of these platitudes are flowing from the oral cavity of the president, economic destruction and the loss of individual liberty and freedom via federal executive branch fiat will be taking place right before our very eyes, although under the cover of darkness.
Gonna get to the phones here pretty quickly.
First, one more audio soundbite, and it's from Sunday morning.
ABC's this week needs David Brinkley.
This is during the panel discussion.
George Will with Christiana Amanpour.
Amanpour said, you know, we talk about symbolism, what the president needs to do.
Politically, he's moved to the center.
Typical of he hasn't, Christian.
He won't move to the center.
It's all verbal.
Anyway, he has heeded the call of the people, so to speak, she says.
But when it comes to real solutions, how do you kickstart and how do you make a dent in that 9.4% unemployment figure?
And this is what George Will said to Christiana Amonpour.
I mentioned this week with Austin Goolsby, who was your guest a few weeks ago.
And he said, look, people seem to feel that in the basement of the White House somewhere there's an enormous switch.
And you go down and throw it and jobs are created.
The fact is the terrible frustration in the White House must be that everything that really matters is beyond their control, which is how to create jobs.
It's not going to happen because of the government.
George Will admitting that Austin ghouls me frustrated that the White House is powerless to create jobs.
That's good to know after how many trillions of dollars falsely spent on it.
And who is it that believes there's a switch in the White House that creates jobs?
Who is it?
It's Obama.
He's the one who always thought there was a switch down there that the rig Republicans would not pull the switch because they like people being in pain.
All right, to the phones, Robbie, North Carolina.
Lucas, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to address the question of save jobs because I think you've asked rhetorically a number of times what a saved job is.
And I was just thinking about emergency room doctors.
Surely you aren't saying that an emergency room doctor or an EMP, you aren't saying they don't save someone's life because the person hasn't been declared legally dead yet.
I mean, emergency room doctors save lives even when the person comes into the emergency room alive.
So surely you can save a job.
If the business was unable to get a loan and couldn't keep someone employed, but they got some federal funding that allowed them to keep another employee, that's as effective as creating a job as preventing one from going to job.
I missed the point, and I shall illustrate it by asking you a question.
Name for me the emergency room jobs saved by President Obama.
No, I was asking about the lives saved in an emergency room.
It was an analogy, a metaphor.
You said if you can save lives in the emergency room, you can save jobs.
No, I was saying when an emergency room doctor saves lives, he's saved a life.
The analogy is saving a job.
You don't have to have the job die first to have saved one.
We prevented jobs from going overseas.
Right.
So I'm asking you.
I'm not sure.
Fine.
So give me a list of the jobs.
I don't care what kind of jobs they are.
Give me a list of the jobs that Obama has saved.
Name one.
Well, teachers' jobs.
People who would have been unemployed if the government had not provided money to the states to employ teachers and police officers.
How many of those are there?
I believe tens or hundreds of thousands at a minimum.
You see, I don't know the exact numbers.
I'm not an economist.
Here's the problem.
The states would have had to cut.
My North Carolina would have had to cut teachers and police officers, but we did get some federal funding at HACC.
I'm going to ban cell phones from this show.
It is impossible to have a conversation with people on a cell phone initially.
If you're on a cell phone, don't call because it's pointless.
I can't talk to you.
I understood every word you said, Rush.
Well, then you're rude.
You didn't stop.
I apologize.
I thought I left plenty of room for a conversation.
I'm trying to.
No, you didn't.
I was trying to ask you a question while you were speaking, and I don't think you heard me.
Not your problem.
It's a technical question.
Oh, while I was speaking, I'm sorry.
That's what I said.
I was speaking to you.
Yeah, you can hear me now.
I'm going to stop talking for you.
Right.
My point is, I was trying to tell you that all that vaunted money to save teachers' jobs, teachers never got it.
The states held the money or used it to pay down debt or some such thing.
They didn't get it.
But anyway, my point about saved jobs is that Obama creates a category, a government category of saved jobs, and then starts attaching a number to it.
And we have created a saved 3.2 million jobs.
And without us, we would have been doing depression.
And that's the kind of lie I'm talking about.
There is no way to calculate a single saved job, particularly by the federal government, unless they're talking about their own workforce and only if they can show us where they planned to fire somebody and then didn't.
That's it.
Save jobs around the country.
There is no category.
There's no scientific or any other method for calculating a saved job.
And there haven't been any jobs created.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have a rising unemployment rate.
So you inadvertently swerved right into the point that we've always tried to been making.
This is smoke and mirrors.
The sad thing is that you're concocting ways for it to be true based on things that didn't happen.
New York Times, August 17th, 2010, by Motoko Rich.
Given money, schools wait on rehiring teachers.
Remember the story, Mr. Snurt?
They didn't use the money to rehire the teachers.
And everybody kind of scratched their heads.
So, well, wait a minute.
There was a specific bailout for teacher money, and the states didn't use it for that.
What happened?
They used it on other things.
Anyway, save a job now.
You're going to lose it down the road anyway, unless there are genuine market forces that are behind the creation of jobs.
It's the whole point.
George Will just said he talked to Goolsby in the White House.
Goolsby can't figure it out.
There's no switch down there to create jobs because they don't.
The government doesn't.
The White House doesn't.
You can't create jobs.
I expected you to say, you know, that guy before me, George Will kind of just took my point away.
But you plowed ahead.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Waynesboro, Virginia.
Helen, welcome.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you.
I love your show.
But I just want to illustrate something to your give you all the football fans and FYI.
When you said the football player's leg had an MCL type thing, Rush, if it's a cruciate ligament tear, it's called an anterior cruciate ligament tear or a posterior cruciate ligament tear.
If it's a minimistical tear, then it is medial or lateral menuscal tear.
So I'm just trying to educate you on the verbiage, and this is just a friendly FYI from a no-hour nerve, okay?
I, as a sports fan, know the difference between an ACL and an MCL, a PO2, PCL, and a DDD.
I know what the media call it.
But somebody will correct you, and I wanted to just give you a friendly FYI.
That's all.
What did I say?
It needs to be corrected.
You said MCL.
The proper terminology, Rush, is if you're talking about the cruciate ligament in the knee, you know, it's right or left knee, of course, but it's anterior cruciate ligament or posterior cruciate ligament.
And if you're talking about a meniscus tear, then you actually mention that you should call it a medial meniscal tear or a lateral meniscal tear, and depending on right or left leg.
But it's just an FYI because I know people get worried about the football people.
But again, the terminology as an OR nurse is important.
And for example, cruciate ligaments are very much more of an extensive injury than it is a meniscal tear usually.
So it's just FYI.
Cutler has an MCL.
Sorry?
Jay Cutler, the Bears quarterback, has an MCL.
Okay, that's what I'm saying.
Usually, for the regular medical term, it's not considered an MCL because it's actually only when you're talking about cruciate ligaments, you're always titling them as anterior or posterior, not medial or lateral type, because there's no such thing.
The whole ligament is a ligament, and there's an anterior part to it and a posterior part to it.
That's all.
Okay.
Helen.
I'm clearing up.
I'm an expert OR nurse from all different types of specialties, and it's just an FYI.
And good luck, and God bless.
Right.
Did Jay Cutler fake it or not?
That's all anybody wants to know.
By the way, folks, the microphone here is on a collateral boom rather than an interior boom.
Just thought you would want to know.
And we'll take a break.
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