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Jan. 7, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Well, everybody is all at Twitter over Barack Obama nominating former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hegel to be Secretary of Defense.
Apparently Chuck Hagel doesn't like Obama Israel much.
And a lot of people know this.
I mean, I mean some people said Hegel's anti-Semitic, and then they've they've retracted that.
But Hegel is on record as saying he's senator from Nebraska, not senator from Israel.
I mean, I'm I'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty close to a quote.
I'm a senator from Nebraska.
I'm not a senator from Israel.
He's he's part of this crowd that resents the powerful lobbying abilities.
Well, I once used that term and got thrown out of a hotel in New York, so I don't use the phrase the Jewish lobby anymore because it got me thrown out of a hotel before people understood.
That's what I meant the rabbi.
Nate Siegel has saved me.
Uh with the New York Jewish community, because I didn't mean I mean I heard Mike Wallace say it the night before, and I was just quoting Mike Wallace.
And I got kicked out of the Parker Meridian.
Anyway, greetings, and I did.
I was supposed to be there for six months shortly after moving to New York.
Um anyway, folks, great to have you back.
El Rushbo here at 800-282-2882.
Here's the quote from Hegel.
I'm not an Israeli senator.
I'm a United States Senator.
And this was a quote from Hegel for his book.
Now, I don't know if it was Miller's book, some guy named Miller.
I don't know who Miller is.
I don't know if Hegel wrote the book or not, but there was a book called The Much Too Promised Land released in 2008.
And in it, Hegel is quoted as saying, I'm not an Israeli senator, I'm a U.S. Senator.
Now, uh our old buddy Ron Fournier, who's over to National Journal, Ron Fournier, I mean in the tank for Obama from the get-go.
Like most of the media today is, uh, he's now used to be at the AP.
He was the head Washington reporter for AP.
He has an article at the National Journal on Hegel as the nominee for Secretary of Defense.
He says, he's got the headline, Chuck Hegel's biggest problem is that he's like President Obama.
And then Fournier goes on to say, Obama has picked a man very much like himself.
Hegel is Obama in a Republican jersey.
And what that means, it's all about Israel, folks.
That's that's what that means.
Now, Hegel, one of the reasons he's going to be picked here is that he gives Obama a lot of cover.
He's a Republican.
And Obama's proving he's reaching out here, uh, bipartisan, inclusive.
And he's got a Republican that's just like him.
Ron Fournier says so.
And Fournier lists three, I'm sorry, four reasons why Hegel is worth the fight to Obama.
The first three reasons are all about giving Obama cover to do various things, like quit in Afghanistan.
And the the first three reasons all are, as I say, about giving Obama cover, and that's presumably because Hegel is a Republican.
But the fourth reason that Fournier cites here.
Four reasons why Hegel's worth the fight.
Reason for is this.
It's very telling.
As a Republican maverick, and he was.
He was aligned with McCain and a lot of stuff, as a Republican maverick with little good will inside the Republican caucus.
Nominating Hegel is a stiff finger in the eye to Obama's intractable rivals.
Now remember, this is from a state control media reporter who used to be the head of the AP's DC Bureau.
And this is what they really think about bipartisanship and compromise.
We're told we got a compromise, and everybody's got to get along with one.
And Fournier admits that Obama's picking somebody who with the pick is a thumb in the eye to the Republicans.
take this!" So Obama doesn't like the Republicans.
He resents us deeply, doesn't like us at all.
And just to remind you, Stephen Moore, editorial writer, Wall Street Journal, interviewed Boehner, asked him some questions about how negotiations went on the fiscal cliff.
And Boehner said that every time he told Obama we had a spending problem, Obama said, "No, And I said, I'm tired of hearing it.
Obama said to Boehner, I'm tired of hearing from everybody we got a spending problem.
We don't have a spending problem.
Our deficit is due to years and years of a health care system that doesn't work.
And I've fixed that now with Obamacare.
And Boehner told Steve Moore, he really believes this.
I didn't know, I didn't know what to do.
I didn't know how to come back.
Which is quite telling, by the way.
When everybody and their uncle knows that spending is the problem.
And Democrats know it, they just don't care.
But it's a quite different thing to deny it as a problem, which Obama did.
That ought to be a hanging curveball to knock out.
I mean, all Boehner would have had to do was throw Obama's own spending statistics back at him.
But you know, here's the thing.
And I want to prepare you if you haven't heard this.
As we approach the debt limit, one of the techniques, tactics that the left is using, is a hey.
All this is about is paying our bills, and we've already spent the money.
We've got to pay the bills.
And by the way, who is it that spends the money?
It's Congress.
Obama and the Democrats, he's powerless to spend money.
He can't spend money without the Congress voting it.
And so when the Republicans or Boehner want to play hardball on raising the debt limit, my God, you guys have already authorized the spending.
You can't come out now and say we're not going to pay for it.
Obama's offloading the whole thing to them.
While telling Boehner we don't have a spending problem.
So anyway, I the Hegel business, I. To be honest, uh, folks, I'm I'm neither here nor there on it.
I mean, Obama's gonna pick who he's gonna pick.
He won the election.
There's nothing anybody can do to stop it, and I'm I'm not gonna get exercised over any of it.
It's just what we have to live with and what we have to deal with.
And anybody who thinks they can talk Obama out of choosing Hegel if they want to try to talk him out of it is.
Um I think spitting against the wind.
Obama's who he is.
We've had four years to learn it.
If some people want to deny it or don't want to learn it, or want to pretend that he's not who he really is, that's their problem, as far as I'm concerned.
Dave, I'm sorry, Dan Wetzel is a sports writer at Yahoo Sports.
The headline of his story, Robert Griffin III's lies.
Doom Redskins in the playoffs.
Robert Griffin III lies and Shanahan's poor management.
Here's his piece.
Robert Griffin III couldn't run, at least not in any way resembling his usual sprints.
Robert Griffin III couldn't throw, at least not the deep darts that move the chains.
Robert Griffin III couldn't lead the Redskins offense, not after his knee buckled in the first quarter.
Robert Griffin III couldn't do much of anything Sunday except lie.
Which is what he's been trained to do in situations like this.
Lie to himself that he can still deliver like no backup could lie to his coach.
That this was nothing big, lie to the doctors who tried to assess him in the swirl of a playoff sideline, and so Robert Griffin III lied.
Which is to be excused because this is a sport that rewards toughness in the face of common sense.
A culture that celebrates the warrior Who is willing to leave everything on the field of business that believes such lies are part of the road to greatness.
Yahoo sports, folks.
Dan Wetzel.
This is why we need a congressional committee for safeguards.
These people can't be trusted to do what's in their own best interests.
The coaches can't be trusted.
The doctors can't be trusted.
The commissioner can't be trusted.
The referees can't be trusted.
The fans can't be trusted.
Somebody needs to step in here, get this warrior mentality out of the NFL.
Because it's a business that believes these kinds of lies are part of the road to greatness.
And I've I've I've read a number of sports writers today who agree that there ought to be federal safeguards to prevent atrocities like this.
It happened yesterday in the Redskins.
No, the atrocities, RG3 being allowed to play, the kid couldn't walk.
He was exploited, he was put out there.
This warrior mentality was exploited.
Let me tell you something.
I know we've got rules for concussions, we need rules for knees.
If we're going to have rules for the head and the brain, why not for the ACL?
And the MCL and the PCL while we're at it.
And then the Patel attendant.
People forget about the Patel attendant.
Ask Joe Klecco.
I'm just telling you.
If we're going to have all this compassion for the brain that we're going to have to have equal compassion for the ACL, the MCL, the PCL, and the Patel attendant.
And not even talking about hamstrings yet.
And the dreaded groin intrus.
You don't even want to go there.
The dreaded groin pole, if you get my drift, happens in the pile.
Anyway, folks, this game is it's it's it's out of control.
And what happened yesterday in Washington, it's there for everybody to see.
You we had a caller.
We had a caller in the first hour, celebrated some female Olympian who competed on a broken leg in a pole.
What was it, Kelly Strong?
Strugged, that's right, Kelly Strugg.
On a broken leg.
And we're applauding it.
Bunch of barbarians.
RG3 was hurt five weeks ago.
He'd been lying for five weeks, according to the Yahoo.
Sports writer.
Bob Woodward, Washington Post, took a swipe at the Tea Party yesterday.
He was on the Chris Matthews syndicated show.
And Bob Woodward of Watergate fame.
Listen to this quote.
See what you think.
Woodward said, We'll see if the White House is going to realize it's much better to have a speaker baner with that mindset than say somebody from the Tea Party or the more extreme right, which would just lay down and you know let the country burn.
Tea Party.
Just lay down.
Let the co now what does this mean?
What Woodward is sending?
He know I don't think he knows what he said here.
Woodward is if lay down means don't do anything.
Don't negotiate with Obama.
Let Obama have his way.
Don't oppose him, don't do anything.
Obama wants to raise taxes, let it happen.
Obama doesn't want to reform entitlements, let it that's what laying down is.
Going over the cliff is what laying down is.
Does Woodward realize that what he just said is essentially letting Obama have everything he wants equals the country burning?
It's what he says.
Obama is much better off with a speaker boehner who will negotiate with him than with a Tea Party person who wouldn't.
Boehner didn't want to go over the cliff, the Tea Party would go over the cliff, and the country would burn if we go over the cliff.
Meaning if Obama Gets what he wants, we go over the cliff.
Does Woodward realize that's what he said?
I'm not trying to make any of you nervous.
I'm passionate here.
Because I think this is one of these lines that people hear and they and they miss it.
They get caught up in the insult of the Tea Party, which, granted, is something to note.
Who is the Tea Party?
You know who the Tea Party is?
The Tea Party is essentially, I mean, when it first formed, the Tea Party is essentially senior citizens.
Who'd never been involved in politics before?
Not all senior citizens, but quite a few of them were, and they were simply outraged at the level of spending that was happening in Obama's first two years, and then Obama care came along, and they were beside themselves because they're old enough, knowledgeable enough, mature enough to know what it means for their kids and their grandkids.
And they happen to care about the future for their kids and the grandkids, and they they saw this endless spending, the racking up of debt, and what it would mean, and for the first time in their lives, they started going to town hall meetings.
Now, from this, the mainstream media has confused them with an angry armed mob going from town to town, blowing up buildings and burning down institutions.
But the Tea Party is your neighbor.
The Tea Party's almost unassuming people they never had any fame, nobody knows anything about them, nobody knows who they are.
They might have some guns, they might believe in the second amendment, but they're not running around burning down the houses.
That's what's occupy Wall Street.
It really is amazing.
The Tea Party, but yet, I mean, the hardcore reality is we've got to accept this is who they think the Tea Party is.
There are millions of Americans who are totally misinformed about the Tea Party, but that's what they believe it is.
Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street, where rape and incest and filth, squalor, theft, crime happen at every Occupy installation gets a pass as the modern equivalent of our founding fathers.
And the Tea Party people, the kindest, mildest, most invisible people in the world are now portrayed as outright counter-revolutionaries.
Occupy Wall Street people have been convicted of terrorism.
They're given a pass.
So here's Woodward, comes along and says a Tea Party speaker would have let the country burn.
And what that all means, I again understand you getting focused here on the insult to the Tea Party, but what Woodward's really saying here is that a speaker who would have let Obama have what he wants and go over the cliff, country would have burned.
And Woodward, I don't think he has any idea what he's admitted to here.
That Obama left to his devices will result in the country burning.
Instead he wants to pass that off as what the Tea Party would make happen.
I don't know, it's more than misinformed people running around.
But I thought that was striking.
That that's what if Woodward thinks that going over the cliff would have resulted in the country burning, they all think it.
And that's why they're praising Boehner.
Boehner working with Obama didn't, you know, help help the country from burning.
So in fact, country's been on fire and in flames for minimum four years.
Speaking of the Tea Party, there's a guy named Eric Gendresson.
Eric Gendresson is the writer and the executive producer behind the upcoming National Geographic production of uh Ted Baxter's book, The Killing of Lincoln.
Now get this now.
National Geographic, which I think News Corp has an ownership stake in, and it might even be majority, I'm not sure, but I know that News Corp, Fox News, whatever, paid six, however you look at that, they've got an ownership stake.
So National Geographic's hired this guy, Eric Gendresson To write and executive produce the killing of Lincoln.
And this guy, the writer and producer of Baxter's book, says that John Wilkes Booth would be a poster child for the Tea Party today.
Now, while you are incredulous as you hear that, you've got to understand something, folks.
This guy believes it, and I d this is what the left, this is what average, normal, if you can call him that Democrats across this country think about the Tea Party.
The mainstream media has defined them as such, and that's what this guy comes out and says John Wilkes Booth would be a poster boy for the Tea Party today.
That's not just political rhetoric they're trying to irritate.
They believe this stuff.
I have had to come to grips with it.
They really believe it's not that we can slough it off as it's a bunch of kooks.
This is what a majority of people who vote in this country believe and think.
That's what they've been told.
We have a large audience of this program.
It's the largest audience in talk radio.
In fact, the audience here is larger than many audiences for number one rated cable television shows.
And as such are a lot of people who listen.
That's what a large audience is.
And in that lot of people, large audience who listen are people that do a lot of different things.
There are NFL coaches who listen to this program.
There are National Football League players who listen.
And I opened the program with some quotes from a story by a sports writer, a guy who earns his living covering a National Football League and other sports, Dan Wetzel, who said that the thing to learn, the takeaways from yesterday's Redskin Seahawks game is that Robert Griffin III was responsible for the loss because he lied.
He lied about his ability to run.
He lied about his ability to throw.
He lied about his ability to lead.
He lied because he couldn't do much of anything yesterday, and he lied about it.
And his coach accepted the lies.
And as such, the Redskins lose.
That was well, an NFL coach happened to hear me say this.
And I got this email from the NFL coach.
And this is profound.
It's just one line.
Leave it to liberals to destroy a great American tradition taught in the greatest American team game ever invented.
Selflessness.
One of the reasons a great team wins a Super Bowl is selflessness.
So the NFL coach who saw the game yesterday thought that RG3 was being selfless, putting the team first, putting himself, you know, he was doing everything he could help the team win.
Shanahan said, quarterback was this is Dave Wetzel.
Quarterback who lies to me is better than our backup.
I'll go with the guy lying to me.
Anyway, I tell you, I I I predicted how long ago was it?
Was it was this summer, but maybe back in the spring, made a bold prediction that the forces of the left were marshalling against the NFL, focusing on head injuries, the concussions.
And I said, I don't know if it's going to happen in my lifetime or not, but but if they don't give up the quest, they're going to succeed in altering this game in a way that nobody would ever believe.
And it's I don't see them giving up.
I in fact, people who cover the game, earn their living covering the game, are perhaps unwittingly leading the charge to change the game into something that nobody will recognize it.
And I don't know if it'll happen in my lifetime or not, but clearly the effort is underway.
Now to the phones and Walter in Ponte Vidra Beach, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I was uh really uh in sensor when we were talking, uh you were talking about the um business of pedophilia uh being uh entertained in in England and uh possibly among the leftists in this society of giving it some kind of credibility and every single civilization that I've ever studied about uh and every religion in this country in this in this country teaches us uh over and over again about uh the destruction of of
civilization because of it.
I mean, the Greek history is one of the most egregious people who adapted as part of their culture, the culture of the warrior and pedophilia.
And it just absolutely, you know, amazed me that we live in this age where people have forgotten what happened with Sodom and Gomorrah, what Christ taught in his most profound,
thing about uh in anger was about the uh the hurting of little children that he would put a millstone around them and cast them into the sea and it's amazing that uh people have forgotten these warnings over 4,000 is and are willing to entertain this over and over again.
I remember a doctor at BU, Boston University, where I studied under him, and he told us that in 1960s, the mid-60s, the Psychological Association of the United States went from one person held off these aberrations and said that they were, you know, they were mental problems that needed to be directly dealt with from a clinical point of view.
And when that person died, the American Psychological Association, association then began this slippery slope of allowing all these aberrations to let me ask you a question.
Yes sir let me ask you you say you've been studying this were you aware before I mentioned this today were you aware of the UK Guardian story were you aware of the effort that is quite a ways along now to normalize pedophilia I didn't know that I I thought that they had this is the point you didn't know it I didn't know it until I ran across the story you didn't know it and most other people don't know it either and this is why it succeeds most people don't have time stuff like this.
Most people aren't reading a UK guardian they're trying to get jobs or as in the case of some I've got a New York Post story here welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores, and X rated shops welfare recipients are using the debit cards at these kinds of places.
Whatever they're not paying any attention to pedophilia.
So this stuff happens literally under the radar now if you're just joining us the UK Guardian has a story today that essentially says quotes a bunch of college academics who've studied it so there's really nothing wrong with pedophilia.
It's just another sexual orientation and in fact it may be safer for children when it's engaged in knowingly and accepting because children love it.
The adults love it and if there's love involved what can be wrong and I'm not making this up we'll link to the story at Rushlinbaugh you can read it yourself.
I was made aware of it by a a uh contributor at National Review and W Wesley J. Smith Well I mean that man boy love association.
Like I mentioned try to imagine where you were the very first time you heard somebody seriously make the case for gay marriage and ask yourself what was your reaction.
It was probably something like that'll never happen.
And here we are gay marriage and gay rights happen to be at the top of important issues for young voters ages 18 to 29.
It is the number one most important issue to them civil rights, freedom, tolerance, liberty all that cool stuff when you're that young well here we go with the same technique it's safer it's safer for children under these circumstances than if it's happening under the cover of darkness and behind the law and uh if it's happening under the shroud of
illegality then it has a stigma, but it really shouldn't.
It's just another sexual orientation.
It's a serious piece of serious effort.
And it's all about these people wishing to have their preferences and desires judged to be normal.
Not weird.
Or perverted or what have you.
And most people, and even if you had heard about it, what are you going to do?
Let's say you just what are you going to do about it?
You might organize opposition to it.
You might organize a California a proposition, you put it on a ballot to oppose it, and you win, and a federal judge will overturn it.
Yeah, what do you ban penetrating?
It's already against the law.
What do you do to stop it?
Who's going to stop it?
Do you think today's Democrat Party is going to speak out against it?
No.
You won't have them advocating it, but you're not gonna have not yet.
But that day's coming if it follows the same progression as some of these other things you thought would never ever happen, and they are happening now in a mainstream way.
So that is what Walter here is reacting to, and he said that pedophilia that societies can't survive when stuff like this um becomes normal.
But you've got some official psychiatric groups that are endorsing it as normal, and the only thing wrong with pedophilia is the bigoted attitude towards it, is the point that the story in the UK Guardian, which is left wing, but it's not a fringe publication.
It's a mainstream publication in Great Britain.
We'll be back.
And we're back.
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Here's Mike in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, how you doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Huge fan.
Uh I wanted to share my own personal story about uh the warrior mentality and uh all that you were talking about earlier.
Um I played high school football in North Carolina and uh I played all four years of uh high school.
Uh when I finished up, I had a couple uh scholarship offers like that.
But um when I played high school football, uh my coaches instilled in me the that warrior mentality you were talking about.
Uh that they got us to where you could basically take your aggression, your anger, and you know, turn it off and on like a switch, you know.
And um they they made us play hard.
They made us play as hard as we could every game.
And for me personally, there was that you know, that result has affected me for the rest of my it's good, it's just affected me since I since high school, and uh it'll set me for the rest of my life.
Uh my sophomore year wait a minute, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Uh I'll tell you why.
My my uh my sophomore year, um I dislocated one of my knees um just playing, I was playing too hard, I pushed my body way too hard.
The coaches, they you know, they told us, they told us, you know, they said if you do not play as hard as you can every game, that's how injuries happen.
You know, and you you were taught not to show pain.
You do not show pain, you do not show injury.
Right.
You know, if you were ever if you were ever on the sidelines and with the back of ice, the coaches could walk by, and just by the look that they give you, that look of disgust, is what made you just want to say, you know, I gotta get back in there.
I can't have him look at me that way one more time.
My uh my sophomore year, I dislocated one of my knees, and then my uh my uh last last play of the game, last game of the season, dislocated one of my knees, and I had to have a knee surgery on that one.
Are you are you saying that if you had not been instilled with this warrior-like mentality, you wouldn't have blown your knees out?
Exactly.
Because you take risks.
You take risks that are no that that common sense would normally tell you not to.
Wait a minute, what is being tired have to do with a knee injury?
Oh, I know.
It wasn't that being tired, it was uh you just you you're in still with the aggression and you want to just push yourself so much harder.
You take these risks in the game that you would not normally take.
You decide you say I can jump over this guy and hit him from as far away as I am, and sometimes you just can't do it.
Or you you ignore uh another player's size over your own.
You know, okay, so you you are sympathetic now then to the um uh the movement that has sprung up to fundamentally change the game of football.
Rush, I'm 23 years old.
I'm a college student.
I I I did not take a football scholarship because I couldn't.
I've had seven knee surgeries.
I've had my left knee completely replaced.
I have a prostate kneecap in my right leg.
I have a fake MCL.
Uh I have a um a prosthetic ACL.
I have no meniscus in my right knee.
I take pain medication to get up every day just to go to class.
And they told me already, but by the time I'm 35, I'll have to have both my knees replaced again.
Are you gonna sue anybody?
Are you thinking about that?
I can't.
I there's nothing I can do about it, you know.
And in I mean, you know, that was the thing.
You know, you play high school football, you sign a bunch of flavors and you know did did anybody make you play the game, or did you choose to?
I chose to.
It was it was my dad's dream to play football, and he had uh he had to drop out of uh school in the ninth grade to uh to help support his family.
He never got the chance to.
And you know, I I really I enjoyed the game, and and then it wasn't until after I got playing.
Um I I admit, when I was in high school, I didn't know what was best for me.
You know, my my my dad knew more than I did, you know, and he would try to get me to t uh to uh sit back a little bit, you know, take a you know, take a break, let your body heal, you know, that kind of stuff.
And yeah.
The coaches Well, this is it's this is uh you know, I played high school football too for one year, and then I got a chance to work the radio station, which to me was a no-brainer.
But I wouldn't trade it.
It was uh you know, I'd played baseball up until that time.
No comparison.
Uh it was playing football, football practice, where I learned that I had more in me than I thought I had, that I was better than I thought I could be.
Was it football where I was learned I was taught uh that some people have to be pushed beyond where they will go, and I think it's applicable in life throughout, not just physical things.
Um I remember the end of practice every day we had to run wind sprints.
I was an offensive tackle, which meant that I lumbered with the big guys.
And not every day, but most every day, the coach would say first three after running a bunch of sprints, the first three tackles, take it in, meaning a day was over.
In preparation for hearing, first three tackles take it in.
I would watch look down the line during the sprints, and I'd make sure that I finished in the middle of pack.
And then first three tackles take it in.
I always was in the top three.
I always got to take it.
One day coach came over, said, you know, um noticing here that during the sprint you're always right in the middle of the pack, maybe toward the end, and then uh first three take it in, and you're you're like a bat out of hell.
You're beating everybody.
What are you doing?
And I said, I'm pacing myself, coach.
And he got this stern look, his name was Norman Dawkins, and he had played football at Southeast Missouri State as a running back.
Stern look at his face said, son, we don't pace ourselves in football, and we don't pace ourselves in life.
We go all out all the time.
And I had to run ten or fifteen more sprints the rest of the week every day.
Because I had admitted to dogging it.
Now to me, it was a valuable lesson.
Now I don't know, you know, I got fired seven or eight times.
I've lost count.
I I don't know if uh the experiences I got playing football for one year were uh relevant in my sticking to it.
I I couldn't say for sure because I had such a burning desire to do radio that every time I heard I didn't have the talent for it, I didn't listen because I loved it so much, I just kept trying.
But I don't know if the but but I I can't say that they didn't have an effect either.
Uh but I've I've always admired because only I played organized for just one year and because I've always had a profound admiration for the people that play the game.
And those guys that that succeeded are so tough.
I mean, the average human being wouldn't last two plays without being carted off to the hospital.
Or different breed.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Just to show you how things are changing, it wasn't that long ago that Robert Griffin III, after his performance yesterday, would be portrayed as a hero, as a role model.
In America today, the pop culture of today, he's a stinking liar.
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