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Jan. 7, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you.
How are you doing, folks?
Great to have you here.
I am L. Rushbow, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, and the end of tax increases.
Here at the uh Limbaugh Institute for and Yeah, have you heard no more t what's in the news yesterday?
No more tax in well, not it no.
Uh there's some on our side are saying that there can't be any more now than the Democrats say, oh no, no, we're not through.
We're not through.
All this is coming up, but great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
I don't know what we're gonna have to do.
Folks, uh uh we we need obviously some safeguards, a congressional con uh committee uh hearing, so I did did you see what they did to Robert Griffin III yesterday.
I let him play.
The guy can barely walk.
He's on a knee that's practically bandaged up all the way to his thigh, can't walk, and they kept him in the game.
This is inhumane.
I can't believe what's happening in national football.
They better get rid of this warrior culture and and and turn this game over to people who understand danger and risk, so they can take it out of the game.
It was absurd what happened.
The Redskins put this guy out there and he can barely walk, and of course he didn't want to come off because of a warrior team depends on him, but he's not the guy to make the decision.
The last guy to make the decision in a situation like this is the player.
Players don't know what they're talking about or doing.
It's gotta be up to the commissioner coach, maybe even Congress.
It's going to audio sound bites.
Mike Shanahan, coach of the Redskins.
This is last night, FedEx Field after the Seahawks beat the Redskins during a media QA.
Reporters said, Does there come a point where you say to yourself, I gotta take this decision out of the player's hands and I gotta take him out of the game.
Yeah, I think you do.
And it's very tough decision.
So you gotta kind of go with your gut.
You gotta go with your gut.
Um I did.
I'm not saying my gut's always right.
I'll probably second guess myself when you take a look at uh different, you know, in the second half, should you have done it earlier.
I think you always do that, especially after you don't win.
So next up was the player, Robert Griffin III.
He had a press conference, of course, after the game as well.
He's uh talking about playing after he hurt his knee.
You respect authority and I respect Coach Shanahan.
Um, but at the same time, you have to step up and and be a man sometimes.
And uh, you know, there's a lot of things.
Wait a minute, just decide that there's the problem right there.
Stop the tape.
Stop the see.
There's the problem.
You gotta step up and be a man.
What does that mean?
You step up and ruin your leg for the rest of your career just to perhaps win a game on that one.
See, this is what our culture is doing.
These young guys stand up and be a man.
That's not what this is all about.
Used to be, but that's not what it's about anymore.
Stand up to be a man, that's the problem.
Stand up and ruin your career.
Okay, play that sound bite from the top.
We respect authority and I respect Coach Shanahan.
Um, but at the same time, you have to step up and and be a man sometimes and see right there's a lot of things.
There is no way I was coming out of that game.
I think I did put myself at more risk by being out there.
Um, but every time you step on the football field in between those lines, you're putting your life, your career, you know, every single ligament in your body uh in jeopardy.
So that's just the approach I had to take.
See that?
Every time you step on the field, you're putting your life in jeopardy.
Don't compare it to crossing the street.
That's not what this is about.
You know, you're uh you you I got smart alex here in the IFB.
That's why they don't have microphones in there, so you won't be distracted by some of the inane things I have to hear while at the same time hosting the program.
What are we doing in this culture?
We're playing a game.
A game they call it a game when the participants are putting their lives on the line and they admit it and they know so.
Let's go back to uh November 15th in Boston, the Harvard Scrual of Public Health, the commissioner.
Roger Goodell spoke.
Here's what he said.
I was recently at dinner with family friends.
Their 15-year-old daughter plays field hockey and told me how during a recent game she hit her head on the turf and blacked out for a moment.
Well she didn't tell anyone.
Yeah.
she didn't want to come out of the game.
The warrior.
The next day she was diagnosed with a concussion.
It's the warrior mentality.
See?
A fifteen-year-old girl.
This is unfortunate.
But we are working with players, team doctors, and coaches to change that culture.
No, you're not.
It is changing.
But we'll take more time.
Resolve.
Patience.
And determination.
That's all the way back in November.
It's a Harvard School of Government.
15-year-old soccer playing girl gets a concussion.
Warrior mentality.
What are we doing to our kids?
What are we doing to our children?
15-year-old girl with a warrior mentality.
The commissioner promised in November to do something about this.
You saw RG.
You see the game yesterday?
You watch it?
You see the knee buckle on that last snap?
So painful, couldn't even recover the bad snap.
Seahawks recovered it.
I don't know.
Well, it didn't know it wasn't as bad as uh what as bad as uh Steisman's broken leg.
I mean, it's it it it just it did.
It did.
It it it looked horrible.
And it needn't have happened.
Were there federal regulations to prevent that kind of thing from happening?
He ought not have been allowed in a game.
If a coach is aren't going to do it, the commissioner isn't gonna do it, we're gonna need some guidelines set forth by Congress.
The only way we're gonna stop this and make this game safe.
I don't know about you folks, but I was ticked off.
Grab Soundbite 19, Jareen Janine Garofalo, she had some things say about the TV show 24, uh, which has been off the air for a long, long time.
But Janine Garofalo, this is on some podcast that nobody heard, and that's why I'm gonna play it for you here.
She is talking about Joel Cerno and me.
Uh Cerno is the uh the creator, was the producer of the TV show 24.
He is a real right wing.
He actually worked with the Republican Party producing like propaganda campaigns with them.
And actually, Rush Limbaugh and Lynch and he would visit the set and stuff like that.
He wanted Cherry Jones to play the president that season as a slam to Hillary.
He wanted it to seem unappealing.
Unfortunately, the fans loved Cherry Jones as the president, she was wonderful.
But it was made to frighten you from Hillary.
This might sound like all like that's crazy, but don't underestimate a right winger, especially with power and money.
They will use any platform.
Well, now it sounds good and sounds as well.
She couldn't be more wrong if she wanted to be.
Cerno helped Republicans produce propaganda films.
Uh, and the casting of Cherry Jones as the female president was not made to alarm people about Hillary.
The Cherry Jones character was not dislikable.
If they were going to do that, they would have made I don't know.
This is just more of the I just wanted to get this out of the way because these people are are are not backing away or backing all in their victory, they are even angrier.
Uh and and more fit to be tied uh even than uh than than when they when they win.
Now let's go to the tax.
Go to Mitch McConnell, all the way up to soundbite number one.
This is yesterday on this week with George Stephanopoulos, who said, look, the deadlines are approaching.
I think the President has said he's willing to engage in more discussions over the sequester and the government shutdown, but that would also include new revenue.
You say the tax debate's over.
Oh, yeah.
The tax the revenue, the tax issue is finished, over, completed.
That's behind us.
Now the question is what are we going to do about the biggest problem confronting our country and our future?
And that's our spending addiction.
It's time to confront it.
The President surely knows that.
I mean, he has mentioned it both publicly and privately.
So are you saying that any discussion of revenue is completely off the table going forward?
You will not accept any new revenues in any new deal?
Yeah, absolutely.
The tax issue is behind us.
Now, is this is this not loaded?
It let's take this in order.
Here's McConnell says, okay, the tax deal's done.
Now, this is what the Republicans think, folks.
They think we talked about this last week.
Give up a core issue, go along with tax increases, takes it off table.
Now that focuses everybody on spending.
The media is going to go after Obama on spending, and it's okay, Barack.
The Republicans gave in.
Now it's time for you to.
They think that's what's going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
We are not through with tax increases.
The Democrats are promising more.
They're salivating for more.
Now, where does this notion that taxes are off the table come from?
Listen to George Will during the round table yesterday with George Stephanopoulos.
People will look back on this deal as where liberalism passed an apogee and went into decline for the following reason.
A hundred and seventy-two House Democrats voted to make the Bush rates permanent for all but one half of one percent of American taxpayers.
What that means is that they can no longer tax the middle class.
You cannot fund the state that liberals want, the entitlement state, without taxing the middle class at least.
And now you've given up that with the locking in as permanent law of the Bush tax rates, that's off the table.
Okay, so that's the prevailing.
But the reason why the Republicans think that new revenues are finished is for this very reason.
The Bush tax rates, which were set to expire, are now locked in perpetuity.
And those are tax rates on the middle class.
And they didn't go up.
They didn't go down, but they stayed the same.
Now it is true that you can't fund a welfare state without taxing the middle class.
You just can't do it.
We're proving it.
We've been proving it the last four years, and we're going to prove it for as long as this circumstance survives.
You just can't fund the tax increases on the rich are going to raise about $60 billion a year, and Obama already gave away $10 billion of that for Sandy relief.
Hurricane says we're down to $50 billion this year from the tax increase on the rich.
You can't pay for the welfare state.
And so they're thinking, well, we got the Democrats to agree, no tax increase on the middle class.
That wasn't a toughie.
The Democrats are all for the notion they're not going to raise tax on the middle class.
But if the Democrats ever get the House of Representatives back, this is all out the window.
And everybody should understand this.
Just because this year they locked in tax rates for the middle class and made them so-called permanent, they're permanent until they're changed.
And what'll change them?
A Democrat House with a Democrat president.
And everybody ought to know that that is what's going to happen if the Democrats win the House.
Uh in in 2014 or any other time.
But plenty of other taxes are going to go up.
Payroll tax, Medicare tax, Obamacare tax, there's going to be plenty of taxes go up on the middle class.
However, Stephen Moore, writing for the Wall Street Journal, he's part of the editorial board there, did a sit down with Boehner.
And this is quite illuminating.
Boehner told Stephen Moore that he was shell-shocked in there talking to Obama because every time Boehner, this is what he said, every time he told Obama we got a spending problem, Obama would reject it.
Said, no, we don't.
Our deficit's not because of spending.
Our deficit is because of out-of-control health care in this country, and I fixed that.
Boehner was insistent that Obama was insistent that we don't have a spending problem.
And we never have had.
The only reason we're running deficits, and the only reason we have a national debt is because of our health care being out of whack, which Obama has now fixed.
And that's it.
And Boehner said he was stunned.
And he didn't know what to do.
He didn't know how to react to that, which proves my point.
These guys don't know what they're up against with Obama.
They still don't know who he is.
They still don't know what he's about, and they still make the mistake of assuming he's telling them the truth.
Anybody really believe that Obama really believes we don't have a spending problem.
He knows we got a spending problem.
It's a problem he enjoys.
It's a problem he wants.
He wants to spend more.
I don't believe Obama's sitting around in the cover of darkness telling himself that he's not a big spender.
He's I think the Democrats spend big on a big welfare state.
That's how they empower themselves.
You know the drill.
But Boehner made it clear that that Obama would not ever admit even one time that we have a spending problem, which also illustrates my my theory, espoused numerous times in recent months that there's nothing in common with these two.
The Democrats, Republicans, have no common ground.
There's no way to fashion a bipartisan agreement because there's nothing we have in common.
No, we don't have a spending problem.
It's health care, and I fixed that.
So there simply is no common ground.
Now this this idea settled in that the tax rates on the middle class are locked in.
They were temporary, and they were.
They were temporary under Bush, but now they've been made permanent.
And it is true the middle class still is in an aggregate sense where all the money in the country is.
That's where all the money in the economy is.
The rich do not hold all the money.
Now, low information voters don't believe me when I say this if they're listening, and they certainly don't understand it.
Most people in this country who vote, majority of them believe the rich have all the money.
And it, you know, the middle class think they all used to be rich at some point, uh, and when they weren't looking, the rich stole all her money.
They they believe this.
I mean, that's what they've been told.
Uh it's it's just like African Americans today can be convinced that they are still slaves.
Jamie Fox does it every day.
Samuel L. Jackson, uh, the Reverend Jackson try to make the case that there's still slavery in this country.
Well, middle class is made to believe every day that at one point they were rich, but the rich came along and screwed them out of everything, and the rich have all the money.
They don't.
The middle class is still the greatest concentration of wealth, aggregate basis, and if you're not going to raise taxes on them, then you're not going to be able to pay for the welfare state.
And we're going to have a welfare state that's growing.
We have one now.
It's going to continue to expand.
It's going to be unfunded.
But this idea that there aren't going to be any new taxes that they're off the table, um.
I think the Republicans really believe that they've that this is a last week.
How many core beliefs are we going to throw away in hopes that we'll get down to what's really important?
And this was one of the things that inspired or motivated Republicans to agree with Obama on this.
On the fiscal cliff deal.
Okay, let's just give them the tax.
Let's get the taxes off the table.
Bill Crystal said get the tax off the table, we'll get the taxes off the table.
They did it.
They think the taxes are off the table.
And now that all we got to look at is spending.
He said there's a big problem.
President doesn't think that's a problem.
There is not a spending problem.
He told Boehner that.
The idea of Boehner, Boehner also said he didn't know what to do.
He I'm paraphrasing it.
Boehner said he he was shell-shocked.
He didn't know how to react.
That is it in itself quite illustrating.
I have to take a break, we'll do that, come back.
We are loaded today, folks.
You can't afford to miss a single syllable today.
For example, there is an effort underway to normalize pedophilia.
Yep.
And it has it has two aspects to it.
One is that sex with children doesn't hurt them.
Kids like it.
And so do adults.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
It is something look at I want you to take you back to the first.
I want you to remember the first time wherever you were that you heard about gay marriage, and I want you to try to recall your reaction, your first gut reaction when you heard that some activist or somebody was trying to promote the notion of gay marriage.
What was your initial reaction?
Ah, come on, never have.
That's silly.
What are you talking?
There is a movement on to normalize pedophilia.
And I guarantee you your reaction to that's probably much the same as your reaction when you first heard about gay marriage.
What has happened to gay marriage?
It's become normal, and in fact, with certain people, it in certain demographics, it's the most important issue.
In who terms of who they vote for.
So don't poo-poo.
There's a movement to normalize pedophilia.
Don't poo-poo it.
People behind it are serious.
And you know the left as well as I do.
They glom onto something they don't let go.
That can.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Il Rushbaugh, the distinguished prestigious limbo institute.
For advanced conservative studies, it's right there.
It's in the UK Guardian.
Pedophilia, bringing dark desires to light.
The Jimmy Savile scandal.
He's a presenter on the BBC.
Jimmy Savile, I'm maybe mispronouncing the name, doesn't matter.
Jimmy Saville scandal.
It says here caused public revulsion, but experts disagree about what causes pedophilia and even how much harm it does.
Experts disagree about how much harm it causes.
And then they go interview people and make the case for pedophilia.
No, it's not a crime, it's love.
well, yes, statutes on the book, but statutes are wrong.
The statutes are from a bygone era where nobody, you know, everybody's morality was wrong.
I mean, look, I'm just telling you what it says.
Uh and and they make the case that uh kids enjoy it, adults enjoy it.
What's wrong with a little love?
The same things that were said about gay marriage.
Look at the story, the the Elmo story, the puppeteer at at uh PBS, three or four young people, kids were hit on by that puppeteer.
Look how little attention.
That story.
In fact, that story was laughed off, wasn't a big deal at all.
More coming up.
Sit tight.
Yesterday on Meet the Press, cookie, you don't need to go get the bite.
I don't need to, but David Gregory, the host on Meet the Press, asked somebody, we're talking about the fiscal cliff deal.
And David Gregory said to somebody, Well, look, could we have really spared ourselves a lot of trouble in the economy if the Republicans would have just agreed a year ago to raise taxes on the rich?
If they were going to do it, could we have helped ourselves by raising taxes on the rich a year ago?
And you'd have to say, using the thinking that the Republicans engaged in to go along with raising taxes on the rich, you'd have to say so.
If raising taxes is good, uh raising tax on the rich is good, if it's somebody helped should have done it sooner, right?
Should have done it sooner, and maybe should have done it bigger.
See, this is the problem the Republicans have uh created for themselves.
And now taxes are off the table.
Wait till you hear Democrat soundbites on that.
I'm not I had checked the email during the break.
I'm not engaging in shock values.
I'm not trying to shock you.
I'm just telling you what's out there.
And this pedophilia, but I'll tell you where I first saw it.
Wesley Smith, who is uh married to Deborah Saunders, she's the friend of columnist San Francisco Chronicle.
He had a little blog post that the National Review website is pedophilia, just another sexual orientation.
So what?
So I read it.
And it was it was uh this piece that alerted me to the column, the piece about this in The Guardian, and that piece suggests that pedophilia may be just another sexual orientation.
It's it's not perverted, it's not wrong, it's just another sexual orientation.
And in fact, it's quite loving and and and as natural as any other sexual orientation.
And this is what those of us with our heads and minds in the dark ages have got to modernize and realize.
The argument being made in the piece is that the desire for sex with children is a natural part of the human condition.
And in fact, if we acknowledge it and encourage it, we can actually somehow better protect children.
That's in the story, too.
It's the same thinking, if you remember back in the 90s when we were told that kids are going to have sex, you can't stop them.
And that's why we needed to give away condoms in the schools.
And remember we had stories from Long Island, parents who said that they willingly let their daughter's boyfriends spend the night because it was better if their daughter was gonna have sex in a clean bedroom rather than the backseat of a car.
Well, same thing here.
We can better protect children if we know that they're having sex with adults rather than it being done on the sly.
And if it's supervised, and if it's engaged in by loving people, then what's wrong with it?
This is in the article.
And I just want to remind you now, when you first heard about gay marriage, and I don't mean to pick on gays, it's not what I'm just saying, it's something that is such a tremendous departure from accepted norms of the day.
When you first heard about gay marriage, would you poo-poo it?
When you first heard me say that the Sierra Club was going to try to come after and ban your SUV, what was your reaction?
Oh, come on, Rush.
There you go again.
Overreacting, exaggerating.
Well, you know that the SUV has become a target.
You you know all about that.
You know how much progress the notion of gay marriage is made.
So I'm just keeping you here on the cutting edge.
In fact, the article in the Guardian actually quotes some academics.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's college professor types.
These are the people you see that have leather arm patches on their sport coats.
Academics are quoted in the Guardian piece saying that sex with adults does not hurt children.
Normalization.
So Wesley decided he wrote a whole piece on this, normalizing pedophilia, where he quotes extensively and looks into it and finds out what this is all about.
Pedophilia bringing dark desires into the light.
And it says, among other things, this article's loaded.
This is pedophil pedophiles, may just be wired differently.
There's nothing wrong with them.
They're just wired differently.
There's a growing conviction, notably in Canada, by the way, that pedophilia should probably be classified as a distinct sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality.
Two eminent researchers testified to that effect, Canadian Parliamentary Commission last year.
And the Harvard Mental Health Letter of July 2010 stated that pedophilia is a sexual orientation and therefore is unlikely to change.
You imagine if Jerry Sandusky had had this information at his trial.
What will you think that the reaction of Jerry Sandusky's defense?
Hey, look, it's normal.
The kids loved it.
I loved it.
Nobody was hurt.
And in fact, it's just a different sexual orientation.
Now who do you think's behind this?
What kind of people do you think are behind this?
This effort to normalize pedophilia.
Which is what?
The abuse of kids, is it not?
Who is who's behind that?
What is their objective?
They want us to all think that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation.
You know who's going to fall right in line?
College kids, just like they have on gay marriage, just like they do on all other revolutionary social issues.
Their own definition of the cutting edge, civil rights, freedom, understanding, tolerance.
So just warning you here.
You think it can't happen.
Impossible.
Don't be nutso and wacko on us, Rush.
I'm just asking all of the things that you now that occur normally in our culture that when you first heard about them thought, no way, that'll never happen.
I'll never be mainstream.
And now they are.
Here is another one to add to the list.
You want more excerpts in this piece, 1976, National Council for Civil Liberties, the respectable and responsible pressure group, now known as Liberty, made a submission to Parliament's criminal law revision committee, and it barely caused a ripple.
Childhood sexual experiences willingly engaged in with an adult, it read, result in no identifiable damage.
The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of pedophilia result in lasting damage.
So you see, it's you who have to reorient your thinking.
It's you who have to get rid of your bigotry.
It's you that have to open up and become more tolerant.
It is you judgmental people who think this is child abuse when it isn't.
You are the ones who are going to have to change.
The pedophiles and the children involved, they're normal, just like you or anybody else.
It is your old-fashioned conventions that create the problem.
It's another excerpt.
It is difficult today, after the public firestorm unleashed by revelations about Jimmy Savile as the presenter, the BBC, and the host of child abuse allegations that they've triggered to imagine any mainstream group making anything like such a claim, but
But if it is shocking to realize how dramatically attitudes to pedophilia have changed in just 30 years, it's even more surprising to discover how little agreement there is even now among those who are considered experts on the subject.
And here is a money quote.
For Mr. Good, though broader societal change is needed.
Adult sexual attraction to children is part of the continuum of sexual human sexuality.
It's not something we can eliminate, she says.
If we can talk about pedophilia rationally, if we can acknowledge that, yeah, men do get sexually attracted to children, but no, they don't have to act on it, then we can maybe avoid the hysteria.
We won't label pedophiles as monsters.
It won't be taboo to see and name what is happening in front of us.
See, the only people have changed are you who have these old-fashioned Victorian type attitudes.
You're gonna have to open yourselves up to love and realize that wherever it happens, it's wonderful.
No matter what.
Now there were people, I just want to remind you, back during the early days of the effort to redefine what a family is.
And in the early days of the gay marriage activists, there were people who said, well, if this becomes mainstream, then someday marrying your dog is going to be okay.
And then having two husbands and two wives in one family is going to be okay, because who can say it isn't?
And then there were others who predicted pedophilia would be mainstream, and there was an outcry of opposition to this.
And here we are.
From the UK telegraph, girls need more protection from greedy corporate world.
Rising numbers of girls are suffering mental health problems after coming under sustained assault from diet advertisements, alcohol marketing, fashion pressures, and access to pornography, according to a leading psychologist.
So what do we have here?
Rising number of girls suffering mental health problems because of a sustained assault from diet advertisements, alcohol marketing, fashion pressures, access to pornography.
If this stuff affects girls so much, then wouldn't similar things like playing violent video games, watching violent TV and movies, wouldn't they affect boys negatively?
I mean, I'm just asking.
If this stuff can affect little girls, then doesn't similar stuff affect little boys.
A greedy corporate world increasingly sees girls, particularly those in the preteen group, as soft targets to be exploited, it's claimed.
Steve Biddlef said that girls are being forced to grow up too quickly and warned that parents had failed to protect them from external pressures.
So here's just another assault on corporate America.
Another assault on capitalism.
Why look what's happening?
All of these evil corporate people are polluting and perverting our young girls.
The left never sleeps.
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By the way, the um the expert that I was quoting extensively from in the pedophilia story in the UK Guardian is Sarah Good, G-O-O-D-E.
She is a senior lecturer at the University of Winchester and is the author of two.
Count them two.
Major sociological studies on pedophilia in society in 2009-2011.
Hey, folks, look, I know it's it's uncomfortable.
I'm just warning you, there's now an effort on to normalize it.
It's safe for children.
Controlled, supervised, engaged in two loving people.
It's actually safer for children this way.
I mean, it's same rationale, same rationale back in the 90s for giving away condoms.
We can't stop it.
Kids are going to have sex.
So we want to make it as safe as we can.
It's the same technique being used here.
And now we've got a bunch of people on the left upset at corporate America focusing on and targeting young girls for exploitation, making them nervous.
Sustained assault, diet advertisements, alcohol marketing, fashion pressures, access to pornography, makes them feel inadequate.
Makes them feel they've got to engage in all these cool hip things to be cool and hip.
And it's creating mental health problems with girls.
Now, there's nothing said about the effect on boys, but I would think that it has to be there.
And so the article here is said to include a call for restricting access to television, banning gadgets from little girls' bedrooms, and the government in charge of organizing more family time with grandparents and other relatives.
That's the fix.
And the government must do these things.
Just like there must be a uh commission, federal commission, guidelines for when an NFL player must be taken out of the game.
It has to happen.
Because left of the people that play, coach and manage the game, they don't care about the players.
They'll exploit them and use them up, ruin their lives, and just put the next one in.
Congress, the federal government needs to be involved.
This is a move.
And if the Republicans raid taxes a year earlier, why we'd be even further down the road to economic health.
So there's a lot happening.
Let's start in Tucson with Eric as we go to the phones.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, thank you very much.
At the beginning of the beginning of this hour when you played that soundbite of the Harvard academic who decried the warrior mentality and how we needed to be a little bit more than a few years.
That was a commissioner of the NFL.
That was not an way, it might be an academic, but that was the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell.
Well, my mistake, that makes it even worse, in my opinion.
I just got to thinking if you take away the warrior mentality.
I got to thinking about Carrie Strugg running down and sticking that vault in the women's Olympics, winning the gold.
I was 11 or 12 at the time, and she stuck that landing with a broken leg.
And that was the first time I was proud to be an American.
And I was just a young kid.
See, and look what it took.
You derived pride, pleasure, and entertainment from watching an American woman break her leg for you.
That's that's it was it was admiration, Rush.
I knew that that girl worked her entire life to put herself in that position, and she wasn't gonna let anything stop her.
And that trickled down to millions of Americans to instill pride and admiration for not only their country for what she worked for.
It was just awesome to see.
And if you take away the warrior mentality, that would have robbed this entire nation of that moment completely.
And there are tons of other moments.
She wouldn't have broken her leg.
And we wouldn't be talking about girls having a warrior mentality and all that.
See, people people like this guy derive pleasure from the willing pain and suffering of others.
What kind of country are we, folks?
I'm a folks.
Without the warrior mentality, we wouldn't have wars.
You're about that Diane Feinstein said we got too much testosterone in the world, and that's what's causing all these things.
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