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April 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
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I have no idea who's going to win the masters, and you can't tell after the first day anyway.
And I don't know.
Let me check something.
Let me check the leaderboard.
I'm not going to spoil it.
Let's see here.
Whoa!
Well, let's see.
Oh, I'll tell you.
No, I'm not going to tell you anything.
I know people are taping this.
They don't want to know anything until they get home, so I'm not going to say a word.
And by the way, when I said, oh, it doesn't mean anything.
I just it it changed from when I last looked at it.
That's what the O was about.
There's no great surprise here.
Yeah, I think I think Tigers got a chance.
In the in the past, Tigers owned this golf course.
Yeah, I think he's got a chance.
The thing with Tiger is that, you know, he he he won uh Arnold Palmer's tournament.
And in addition to whatever confidence that might give him, that's going to put the fear of God in all these other guys.
That was that was one of the parts of the Tiger Woods phenomenon that it was commented on a lot.
These other guys wilted.
Just with the thought that he was in a tournament could win.
He had this ability to psych them out is the schoolyard term or the sandlot term for it.
But yeah.
Let's say he's four shots off the lead right now.
That's all I'm going to say.
That's it.
No more.
Okay, what?
I haven't talked about it.
What is it?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, here's the question is what's going to happen to the defensive players of the New Orleans Saints in terms of punishment because of the bounty scandal.
By the way, speaking of that, today, Sean Payton, the coach, Mickey Loomis, a general manager, and an assistant coach named Vitt are appealing their suspensions before the commissioner, Roger Goodell.
Known affectionately to some as Roger Goddell.
This morning or last night, a new tape was discovered.
There's a guy who was doing a documentary on a former Saints player who has ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.
And he happened to have his camera running in the Saints locker room prior to their last playoff game against the Fordiners in January.
It was either in the hotel the night before the meeting or in the locker before the game.
And the guy caught the defensive coordinator who'd been suspended for life or indefinitely, Greg Williams, caught him on tape, actually telling players to take out the quarterback Alex Smith with a chin shot and telling the players to go after other Fordiners at the knees.
He was naming body parts.
He was demonstrating how to do it.
It is not known whether Commissioner Goddell knew of this tape before he handed out the uh suspensions.
But it was theorized that if he didn't know about this tape, and then the Saints personnel show up to five to argue their appeal today, that it might even get worse if Commissioner Goddell did not know about this, that this might cause even more stringent suspensions.
Remember, one of the reasons why these suspensions are so huge is because the Saints management, the coaching staff lied throughout the investigation by denying it was going on.
And that didn't sit well with Goddell, and it wouldn't sit well with anybody.
I mean, you've got the investigation going there openly lying while continuing the bounty program.
That's as much as half the suspension reason.
So Goodell does this in the original suspension.
He hears the appeal.
Now the players, that's a whole different thing because they've got to work with the players' union on that.
There has been talk that there might be civil lawsuits filed against the players if there's evidence that this was more than just football.
If it was, for example, assault and battery with intent to harm outside the rules of the game.
Nobody knows what suspension penalties will hit the players involved here.
There is one player who's been named who paid 10 grand, who offered 10 grand to take out, I think it was Brett Farve, I'm not sure if that was.
His name is Jonathan Vilma, former Jets quarterback, uh, now with the with the Saints.
But they've got a because the Union is involved, it's a different process.
I don't, Frank, I have no idea how that's going to end up with the player punishment.
No clue whatsoever.
But this tape, then this I think Steve Gleason is the guy's name that has ALS.
I'm not, I think that's his name.
They're doing a documentary on him, and he just happened to catch Greg Williams with specific instructions on specific players and specific body parts.
Now, there's another side to this.
There is a player by the name of Bernard Pollard, who has he was with the Chiefs.
Bernard Pollard is who took Tom Brady out for a year with a shot at the knee.
Ostensibly inadvertent.
Bernard Pollard also took somebody else out for a while when he was playing with, I think the Ravens, and now Bernard Pollard's with a third team, and maybe if the Ravens he's with now.
Bernard Pollard anyway said this Goodell is going to ruin the game.
In seven years, they're going to be playing flag football.
People that have never played this game trying to tell us how not how to play it not gonna Pollard's point is we're gonna do this, whether we got a coach telling us to do it or not.
It's the name of the game.
You take the quarterback out.
This is football.
We know it, we sign up for it, we're willing to put ourselves on the line.
This is the game, is his point.
Here's something also interesting.
While this is going on this week, no, last week, the owners' meetings were here at the famed Breakers Hotel.
Last week, all the whole NFL was here.
And of course, the Saints contingent was in town and the media and everybody was buzzing about the forthcoming suspensions because of the bounty program.
While this was going on, in one of the meeting rooms, they had a television on to the NFL network.
And the NFL network was doing a uh an NFL films feature on the ten toughest tacklers in the league.
And number five was a guy named Hardy Brown, who's from Texas, but he played with the Forders.
And and Hardy Brown, I know of him, was vicious.
Hardy Brown perfected taking guys out legally.
And while the while the league is a buzz at the meetings with handing out these penalties for bounties, Hardy Brown's on television at the breakers on an NFL network, telling how a team had a $500 bounty on him back in the 50s.
And he's smiling about it.
And he said, you know what Hardy Brown did?
It was somebody in the Rams, somebody in the Rams told him that they had a bounty on him.
And he said, okay, look, you hit me, I'll fake it, and we'll split the 500.
It's part of the game.
And I'm I I told you people earlier this year, I and I meant this in the bottom of my heart, and I don't know that it'll happen in our lifetimes, but I can see where this country's going and I can see where political correctness is going, and I can see where a don't be surprised if somebody somewhere down the line suggests we ban football because it's too dangerous.
Concussions, head injuries, about 124 players have a class action suit against the league now.
Ex-players for concussions and so forth.
It it is going to happen.
Now, I don't know if whoever is going to propose banning football will have any credibility.
It could just be a kook, but it's going to happen.
And once it happens, it will be taken seriously somewhere.
This is what liberals do.
Liberals want to take all risk, all danger.
That's why they tell you coffee will kill you, then uh one day old brand will kill you, or then MSG will kill you.
You can't have coconut oil on your popcorn in the movies.
Or they want to take all risk out of life.
And it will happen.
It will happen.
And when you have people like Bernard Pollard say they're gonna they're gonna make us play flag football, he's essentially saying the same thing.
He says the sissies are gonna win out, is what he's saying.
The sissies are gonna win at some point.
And we're not sissies who play this game.
That's what bothered me.
We're not turned trying to turn us into you can't, in the heat of battle, determine where you're not gonna hit somebody, make a tackle.
That's not what you're paid to do.
You're paid to take them out.
And the dirty little secret is that's what people watch to see.
But you can also, on the other side of this, you can go back and you can get tapes of football of the 40s and 50s, and you can watch really rough tough football that's clean as a whistle, proper tackling, no headshots, no launching.
I mean, the game can be played, rough and tough without the modern day techniques that are taking place.
But the question is, would it be uh entertaining to enough people given the way it has uh evolved now?
All right, brief time out here, folks.
Uh we'll take it.
An obscene profit timeout here.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Either way, calling Commissioner Goodell Goddell just for the fun of it here.
Folks.
That's that's what a lot of the players are uh are calling, or not happy with uh the fact that people who haven't played the game or legislating it.
And uh his his nickname is Goddill to um uh a lot of people.
But I'm I'm just telling you, Mark mark my words.
Liberals are who they are.
Risk is unacceptable.
Uh being injured is unexpected, being hurt, being harmed, unacceptable.
It it uh especially when it's purposeful.
And somebody someday is is gonna propose a major, major shift in this game, or banning it.
And the players are all sitting around saying we are not sissies.
And the sissies are trying to take this game over, is what they think.
And of course, right in there is the media.
Hell, folks, the sports media is not proposing a federal commission here to study that, a federal commission there to study that, and another federal commission over here to study this.
That's it's getting absurd.
It's getting absurd.
Game is becoming political.
The worst thing could possibly happen to it.
Here is uh here's Mary, Cincinnati.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh my god, Rush is at you.
It's me.
It's me, it's really me.
Oh my god, this is like a dream come true.
I just I I'm thank you for taking my call, and and I am so thrilled to talk to you.
I just want to tell you I've been listening to you since I was 19.
I grew up in Southwest Detroit.
I was a product of like welfare parents.
My whole family was on assistance, their family.
Um I grew up believing um that I was entitled to everything.
Um that I and then I just started listening to you, and it was a fluke.
I just heard you on the radio one day.
Mary.
And you what you saved my life.
You know what?
I need thank you.
I need to ask you a question.
And I and I uh please do not do not misunderstand a tone here that you may get wrong.
I'm not being critical or anything.
I'm I'm genuinely curious about something.
Because I haven't lived the life that you've lived, and I have a based on something you said I have a question.
You said your family was on assistance, their family was on assistance.
You grew up on do you mean welfare assistance?
Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
And but you then you then felt entitled.
You said that everybody felt entitled to everything.
Oh, exactly.
Okay, now wait, wait, wait, wait.
But you certainly could not have had much, right?
I mean if you're living on welfare and assistance, you couldn't have had much.
So what what was the value in being entitled to everything when everything wasn't much at all?
That's very true.
No, um we did not have much.
Um we just felt that it should be given to us all of the food and like our utilities paid and all that sort of thing.
Um and my sister, she was a year older than me as she got pregnant when she was fifteen, had two kids, this is a house I lived in, and she kept getting like checks from the government, you know, and and I remember this so clearly, like she I the whole time I wanted this big radio, and then my sister's like, Well, go have a baby and you can buy one.
But I never did, okay.
But anyway, so I started listening to you because I was helping garden for this man and um to burn like a little bit of extra money because I never had any clothes or good shoes or anything, and um he started listening, he would always listen to you.
So I would hear you, and I'm telling you, uh you saved my life because I went to college, I put myself through school, I worked two jobs to do it.
I became a registered nurse, I met a man, a really good man, he's an engineer.
We have two beautiful children.
Wow, Catholic schools, and I am telling I'm a state-home mom now, and I will tell you what, if I would have never heard you, I would have never done it.
I would have like just been pregnant.
Let me ask you another question.
Let me ask you another question.
Okay.
You're sitting there when you're a child, for this these changes have happened to you.
And uh you're you're living on assistance, as you called it, and you everybody felt entitled.
But you saw in other areas of Detroit, did you not?
You saw other people that had a lot more than you did, did you not?
Oh, absolutely.
Okay, now did you want did you want that for yourself, or were you happy to just not was your did your family want that for themselves, or were they happy to be whatever they were and have as long as it was given to them?
I mean I I'm wondering what the ambition you you when when you said that they felt entitled, um what what I'm getting not hung up on here is but uh that's a that i living on welfare is is a life of subsistence.
It's it's not there there there's no wealth, there's no uh great opportunity no shining city on a hill.
It's a it's a crapshoot every day, and yet you look outside where you live and there's all kinds of people with a lot more.
Was d did your family ever aspire to having more than they had?
I don't know if they did or not.
All I know is they really begrudged people that had more than they did.
Okay.
It was always because they were richer or you know, they had it because their family had a lot of money and it was given to them.
That's exactly right.
Okay, you're right.
They were very resentful towards anyone that worked hard and had a job and and worked hard for what they they wanted.
And even when I was in college, I felt my relationship with my family completely change.
Um and they they started once I started working, they I felt like they were kind of resentful towards me too.
And did you ever know why?
Why did they resent people who worked?
I don't know.
They felt like they couldn't do it.
They they felt like um no, I'm I would always tell my sister, I would always say, You need to go back to school.
You and you would probably be eligible for so many different things, you know, since you got the two children and everything, and she just says, No, no, I don't have time for it.
I, you know, I'm I'm not smart enough, or or whatever.
I I want us this I like my life here.
And uh Okay, so what happened?
What you had you you were you got lucky, you found something, in your case, this program that lit your ambitions fire.
I did.
And you showed you.
And your rest of your family never found that.
Um actually my two nieces did, and I'm so proud of these girls.
They're 22, they're twins, they're my sisters' daughters.
Um they actually are in graduate school right now because I got them listening to you when I was when they were fifteen.
They would come to my house every summer to watch help me with my kids, and I made sure I showed them you, and these girls uh my nieces, they they just finished.
They just finished um college.
My one niece is in pharmacy school right now, and my other niece is in graduate school.
Mary You you you're you're just you're you're you're making our day here.
You are warming our heart.
This this is I love hearing stories like this because this is the America I know, and these are the possibilities that I know.
And I'm I'm really honored to have uh played some role here, and at least in your assessment, in your uh in your good fortune.
But you see, folks, this is what I was talking about yesterday.
People like her family is who Obama is campaigning to.
People like her family is who he wants them to believe that these Republicans in the court are going to take away their health care.
That's who he's campaigning to.
Thank you, Mary.
Hey, look at look at Dana Perino on Fox.
It looks like HR looks like she puts some yeast in her hair.
It does, it looks good.
Anyway, we're we're back.
El Rushbo, Thomas Sowell.
Well, Dana's on that show called the Five at 5 o'clock.
We we we love that show.
Yeah, she's on there with uh with Bill McGuran, that's who that is from the uh from the Wall Street Journal.
Anyway, uh Dr. Sowell has a piece today, National Review Online, and it's got some intriguing parts in it.
For example, the media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama.
Does that not say at all?
The media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama.
Our generation of journalism rebels, for whom the phrase investigative journalism was invented, have morphed into a bunch of lapdogs content with a little whiff from Obama's hindquarters, as evident in that horrible AP meeting yesterday.
That Sowell didn't say that.
I'm adding that on my own.
Sowell's quote is it would be hard to become nostalgic about Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign in disgrace, but at least you could tell when he was lying.
Obama's lies are just as big, but not as visible.
And the media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama.
Do you realize what an insult that is?
The media hated Nixon.
Woodward and Bernstein are heroes.
Woodward and Bernstein, investigative journalism.
Sixty minutes.
That's the reason 99% of the journalists in the business today are in it.
To destroy people.
They hated Nixon.
And Thomas Sowell comes along and says these very people, the very people who expose Nixon are covering for Obama.
And that's exactly right.
To the audio sound bites we go.
Jared Bernstein, Jared Bernstein's a former uh chief economist for Joe Biden.
And he uh it was in Las Vegas yesterday, the American Action Forum panel discussion on the U.S. housing recovery lesson from Nevada.
Jared Bernstein, he's a member of the regime.
That's all you need to know.
I was very active in the implementation of the Recovery Act, and uh one thing we found about clean energy was that you build a solar plant, you're gonna hire a lot of people.
You run a solar plant, it doesn't take a ton of people to run uh some of these uh plants.
Some of these firms don't employ as many people as you might hope.
They went in there and they spent billions of dollars, and only after did they realize there aren't any jobs.
The regime admits it.
Jared Bernstein, right there admitting takes a lot of jobs to build a solar plant, and then you go bankrupt because there's no business there.
And the reason it doesn't take a lot of employees to run the business after you build it's because the business goes bankrupt.
Well, we didn't know that until after we got into it.
It's really and he thinks He's advancing a cause here.
These people are so out of it.
I doubt Mr. Bernstein understands how he has undercut Obama here.
Jared Bernstein wrote Obama's stimulus bill.
That's the guy you just heard.
He wrote the stimulus bill.
Play this bite again.
Audio sound by number eight.
This is the offer of Obama's porculus bill.
I was very active in the implementation of the Recovery Act.
And uh one thing we found about Clean Energy was that you build a solar plant, you're gonna hire a lot of people.
You run a solar plant, it doesn't take a ton of people to run uh some of these uh plants.
Some of these firms don't employ as many people as you might hope.
Right.
One thing we found out about clean energy.
One thing you found out when they went bankrupt.
Of course you don't need a whole lot of employees for a bankrupt solar plant.
You don't need much of anything except the money somehow finding its way back to Obama.
That's about all you need to do.
And then you're cool.
Greg or Craig Saunner is the lawyer for George Zimmerman.
And he was on CNN Piers Morgan tonight.
I don't know.
Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan comes.
Is Piers Morgan on before?
Uh what's his name?
Anderson Cooper.
Piers Morgan replaced Larry King says nine o'clock.
That that would be right.
That would be right because I think Aaron Burnett's on at eight.
Then Anderson Cooper when he's not at the nail salon's on at 10, and Piers Morgan's on at nine.
Okay.
Right.
So well, what I'm getting at is I wonder if if this aired before CNN announced that their latest enhancer to the audio found out that uh Zimmerman didn't say what everybody thought.
Let's listen to sound bites.
Piers Morgan said if he was acting as a neighborhood uh watch official, uh then you would uh you would accept it's a fact that uh he should not have been carrying a weapon uh or indeed uh using it.
He's that right the one thing we know as a fact is that George Zimmerman was attacked by Trayvon Martin.
He was punched in the nose, his head was beaten on the ground, and he acted in self-defense when Trayvon Martin was shot.
Uh Piers Morgan then says, but but but they are suppositions, they're not facts.
Uh uh that that's not a fact.
That's not a fact.
I'm a journalist and I know facts, and that's not a fact.
That's supposition based on what John Zimmerman has told you, and the police.
But in terms of factual evidence, that's still not clear.
It's not factual evidence yet.
That's right.
That's why I'm telling everyone to wait before you rush to judgment.
Wait till the facts come in, wait till this case goes to court, wait till the facts come in.
Admissible evidence in court, not what's admissible evidence in public opinion, because what's admissible in public opinion are Dr. 911 tapes and whatever anyone else wants to say about George Zimmerman.
It's been open season on just destroying this man's credibility, destroying who he was.
He can no longer go back to the person he was being involved in his community, mentoring children.
You've destroyed him.
The media has just absolutely destroyed him unfairly.
And the conclusions you're drawing in your questions to me show that you've already reached that same conclusion, too.
Yep, exactly right.
Piers Morgan.
Does that somebody's their first name is Piers?
Does that it's like unfinished bridges?
Like did his parents really want to name him Bridges.
Morgan and they looked out the window and all I saw was Piers.
I don't know.
And anyway, they did you notice how calm this guy is with what's happened to his client?
They did destroy him, but they it's this is doctoring these tapes by major media organizations.
I mean, this is uh you take the first amendment away.
This is criminal stuff, folks.
It's real hard criminal stuff if you take the First Amendment and the freedom of the press away from this.
This is what wasn't accidental editing in a hurry or they they got what they wanted.
All this stuff's on tape.
Didn't air live.
It couldn't have aired live because it isn't what happened.
Moving on, Mary and Barry, I want you to hear it for yourself.
Marion Barry, uh, when he was mayor, I I he was doing something cocaine.
I remember that.
It was in a hotel room.
And uh some nice attractive woman had lured him there for an affair or something, and she was uh what, uh FBI affordant or a uh Yeah.
Well I I don't know if informant's the right word, but but she was she was uh undercover something or other, snitch, what have you.
She was working with the authorities.
And she um he it was cracked cocaine, it was smoking crack cocaine and she said, Do you want some?
He said, Yeah, yeah.
And the cameras were in there, the the the hidden cameras, like 60 minutes, and then Woodward burst in and got got and when the cops wrote a room, Marion Barry's a bitch set me up.
So now Mary and Barry's back.
He's on the DC City Council.
He doesn't like the fact that there's a bunch of Asian small businesses in town.
And after winning his election in the primary, but he's on a post, so he's he's gonna be serving his third term, Ward 8, City Councilman, former four-term mayor of Washington, Marion Barry spoke to supporters.
Yeah, just have these uh Asians coming in.
Open up businesses on dirty shops.
Yeah, stay there right now.
Well, we need African American business people to take care of Asians too.
We gotta do something about the Asians coming in and open up businesses in dirty shops.
They ought to go.
I'm gonna say that right.
Play the play this again.
This is you know, Asians encompasses a lot of people.
When you say these Asians are going to be dirty shops, this is encompass a lot of people.
I wonder are they just gonna sit around here and um do nothing?
I don't think so.
No, it was an FBI sting that got Mary and Barry, it's what it was.
And there he is back in office in DC.
Here it is again.
Uh Asians coming in, open up businesses and dirty shops.
They ought to go.
Well, we need African American business people to be able to take care of Aces too.
Well, how exactly is that gonna happen?
How you you you kick Well, but you not even before you ban Chinese food.
If you you you you first have to kick the Asian businesses out, right?
But then how how do you get African American business people to replace them?
You just install them?
But oh, that's how you stimulus money.
Oh, that's no that's that's where I was hung up.
I thought you had to go find people who had money to invest.
Oh, okay, okay.
It's been a long two weeks, folks, and I have to my my mind didn't function.
I totally forgot about Obama's dash.
That's what he's talking about.
Stimulus.
So we kick the Asians out, get rid of the Chinese restaurants, or whatever else in there he doesn't like, and then get stimulus money and give it to the people he wants to have business.
Got it.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh the excellence in broadcasting network.
Mr. Snerdley, a quick question.
Are you familiar with uh uh downtown Washington uh Ward 8?
Are you really?
But my my question is the Asians there that that Mary and Barry uh problem with, are they white Asians?
If you know you don't know that well.
I'd like to know.
Um maybe we'll find out here is Lynn in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Um I ha you caught me thinking yesterday.
Um I've been dying to talk to you.
I was gonna call Hannity and um Laura Ingram, but I thought, nope, you're the only person who could talk on these terms.
I um uh social psych um major, I'm uh and a nurse, and I worked in human services with um people for years and years and years, and and not uh rich people, so they would get themselves in trouble.
But the one thing they would have in c common usually is they had a personality disorder that, you know, and people can have them on a scale of one to ten, you know.
I mean, you know, different scales, and you can function, but when they got older, it got harder and harder for them to function.
So you personality disorder sounds right up Hannity's alley.
Uh well Just kidding, I'm just kidding.
He would have been perfect.
He could have answered this just fine and dandy for you, but I'm glad you called me.
Well, I l wanted to hear what you had to say, because you can talk to the everyday person um uh more uh um I didn't know if he wanted to deal with that.
Anyway, but I started writing down um things you were saying about uh the administration and Obama in clinical terms, and I came up with symptoms and he has visions of grandeur, he has delusions, he's delusional about himself, and delusional about uh what he can do.
Let me you know better than I. If you're a psych major, you you know better than my opinion is that he's a guy who's been sheltered and protected, totally special all his life, has really never been said no uh at major things and has had the way paid for him because he's special, have has had a lot of hangers on.
And uh by the same token, when when he runs into genuine opposition, he doesn't like it.
It's not that he doesn't understand it.
He doesn't like it, he's he considers it insolence and lashes out uh at it, and I I I think liberalism itself is a personality disorder, just to start with.
But I I think he's got all the symptoms of narcissism without any question about it.
But you actually, as the psych major would be qualified to say it.
I'm glad you called.
I wish I had more.
Sterling, get her phone number.
Wait, so we call her back.
Don't don't hang up, Lynn.
We'll be back here in just a I am wiped out, folks.
Exhausted to the end of the rope.
So the end of the program has come at a good time.
But we'll be back in 21 hours, open line Friday.
And we will see you then.
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