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Jan. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Wow, look at this.
Breaking news here from the Associated Press.
Ex New Orleans mayor Ray Nagan indicted.
Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagan been indicted on 21 federal corruption charges, including wire fraud, brother, bribery, and money laundering.
The charges of the outgrowth of a city hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen.
Nowhere in the article is his party affiliation mentioned.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
So for those of you who don't know Ray Nagan is a Democrat.
Nicknamed School Bus.
It was Ray Nagan and left a bunch of yellow school buses unmanned and parked during Hurricane Katrina.
They ended up being flooded.
They weren't used to evacuate Democrats from well, Republicans either.
From the uh from the city.
So finally, 21 federal corruption charges.
Not one mention in the AP story that Ray Nagan is a Democrat.
It's the William Jefferson treatment.
William Jefferson, Democrat in Louisiana.
He wasn't mentioned as a Democrat either.
That's why we did every time we mentioned his name.
Happy to have you with us, folks.
Open line Friday, Rush Limboss, serving humanity.
At talent on loan from God.
A telephone number for our final hour, 800 2822882 at the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
H.R. Who's going to be here on Monday?
Mark Stein is guest hosting on Monday.
They didn't slip a Martin Luther King Day past me this year.
Normally Monday, Martin Luther King Day comes and I show up here and I realize that it's a holiday for everybody else.
And I've always tried to assuage myself by saying, well, the really important people show up.
And that's why I'm here.
I decided this year to actually practice solidarity with the low information portion of the population.
I am not going to the inauguration.
I was not invited to go.
Well, take that back.
You know, I was invited to the inauguration.
You think I should tell them?
I was invited, I can't go.
I was invited to sit with all of the Republican wives.
Wives of House Republican members.
I was invited to sit with them at the inauguration.
And I already had plans, so I could not accept.
So but that would have been cool.
To have me surrounded by Republican wives and women during the war on women, of course.
During the immaculation ceremonies for Obama.
And it's too bad.
You know, I'm going to miss Beyonce.
I'm gonna I'm gonna miss Alicia Keys.
Um you seen the list of performers.
Who is it?
Who the first Stevie Wonder, yeah.
Stevie Wonder's gonna be there, Alicia Keys, uh Beyonce.
If the if if Beyoncé's gonna be there, that means Jay-Z is gonna be lurking around, and I mean Blue Ivy will be there.
Um I'm gonna miss that.
That's it's that's just the way it goes.
I saw that.
I saw Michelle's new hair to 49th birthday.
She's now she's showing some bangs out there covering the forehead.
Did you see the picture?
Did you didn't see all the you thought you were gonna stump me with Michelle's new hairdo, right?
I saw it.
I saw it, I made note.
I've got it here in the low information stack.
We do have low information voter stack now every day.
In fact, here's the first item.
Man Titeo.
Yeah, I lied, but I had to.
No, that's not Lance Armstrong.
This is Man Titeo.
This is TMZ.
T, I'm telling you, TMZ is becoming the new AP.
Exclusive to TMZ.
Man Titeo is telling friends he knew the truth about Lenay Kakua in early December, but he continued the lie for 20 days for the sake of his team.
Sources connected to Man Tai Teo.
Say that it's true what the Nort Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said on Wednesday night that Mantai realized he had been hoaxed on December 6th when he got a phone call from Lenae months after she had died.
It wasn't until then that he knew he was talking to a woman who didn't exist.
He talked to a woman who didn't exist for a whole year, but it wasn't until after she died, and he got a phone call from her from beyond the grave that he thought something was up.
Sources tell TMZ and Man Titeo didn't tell his coaches about the Hulk until the day after Christmas, because he thought it would be a huge distraction while a team prepared to face Alabama in the BCS championship game during the 20 days where he knowingly participated in the hoax.
TMZ was told that Manti Teo struggled over how to handle the situation, but that he eventually felt compelled to come clean to his coaches.
Manti Teo, currently in training for the NFL Combine, TMZ says that uh he's getting a lot of support from the guys he's been training with.
So he lied for the team.
Must have a great PR person.
You got it.
Republicans need to get hold of this guy.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is uh December 8th in New York before the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
I don't like cancer at all.
I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend in cancer.
That was Man Titeo before the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
I don't like cancer at all.
I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer.
Now, let's see.
Let's see, what hang on, hang on here.
What's the date?
What's the date?
Man Titeo.
Twenty days.
He knew.
He realized.
Okay, listen to this now, folks.
According to TMZ, Man Taiteo realized he'd been hoaxed on December the 6th.
Play that sound bite again.
This is two days later.
December the 8th, two days after Man Taiteo says he realized he'd been hoaxed.
I don't like cancer at all.
I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend in cancer.
There he is, perpetuating the hoax.
Two days after he admits to learning it was a hoax because he got a girlfriend call after she died.
That was the first red flag.
And that would kind of shake you up.
Your girlfriend dies and she calls you.
You might think something was weird.
That was the uh that was the first warning sign for Man Taiteo.
Uh January 8th.
Now a month later, ESPN radio.
Man Taiteo being interviewed during a discussion about uh grandmother and girlfriend, and the host and Man Taiteo have this exchange.
Man Tai, you mentioned the tragedy.
You lose your girlfriend and your grandmother in the same week, right?
I want to make sure I got that correct.
Correct.
Okay.
Same day, same day.
Same day.
So what do you think both of those ladies would say to you being a Heisman Trophy finalist?
I hope that my grandma and you know my girlfriend say that they're proud.
Not only that I'm here, but uh the way that I conducted myself and um just always to remain humble.
Wait a minute now.
Wait a minute.
What would you say to you being a Heisman Trophy finalist?
I guess that could be the January.
He didn't win it.
So this is 32 days after learning about the hoax.
And he said, what would your girlfriend and your grandmother say?
What will you you what would you uh I'd hope to tell my grandmom and my girlfriend would say that they're proud that I'm here, but the way that I conducted myself just folks, I tell you.
This is uh strange city.
Now this piece is related to this.
This this whole story.
Remember now the drive-bys were on the story every day inside out the college sports media, a lot of the lot of the professional sports media, because the guy's got prospects.
And they're covering this and they're making it, they're ballyhooing it.
They are promoting it.
This sea, it fits a narrative.
Great athlete off the field.
What a guy.
What a story.
Just amazing.
His grandmother and his girlfriend that he said he's never met for die on the same day.
And he's doing everything in his life for them.
And so whether it's true or not, the drive bys weren't even interested in that.
And that's the point of the dead spin guy's column.
Which is entitled Won't Get Fooled Again.
Let me just give you a couple of excerpts, a couple of quotes.
Will Leach is this guy's name.
He says, This is what happens when you report on sports as if they are some sort of metaphor for life, or that athletes are somehow more inspirational than regular people.
This is what happens when you think sports are more than sports.
It is, to be frank, the primary reason that dead spin was invented in the first place.
But it it has worsened in an age where media is fractured, niche, and struggling, where the primary goal is to get on the Today Show or the front page of Yahoo, to get the clicks, to get the exposure that everybody now is so desperate for.
So whether the story is true doesn't matter.
Having Al Roker talk about it after he admits pooping his pants in the White House or Mount Wower talk about it, or having to be on the front page of Yahoo, that's what it's all about.
For the journalist.
And his treatment of the story, and the belief that it could be true.
Because the great athletes involved here.
And they're special people.
Mr. Leach writes everybody, and by the way, I'm probably destroying this poor guy Leach's reputation by quoting him.
And I Mr. Leach, I apologize.
I am writing here and signaling your piece, offering praise, and it's going to get you in big trouble with your buddies.
I know this.
So I apologize here in advance.
Another excerpt.
Everybody who wrote Man Titeo's tragic journey stories got pats on the back for it because those stories went huge.
That they weren't true is not just something nobody checked, it's something nobody even thought to check.
And he's right now, expand this to the news media's coverage of Obama.
Or lack of.
The tentacles of this story reach deep, I think, into the media, the overall news media's coverage of Obama and other Democrats.
But I think there's a lot of similarity.
Or maybe, he writes, they didn't have the staff to check.
Doesn't matter.
You have a hit story.
It's don't rock the boat.
Times are tough enough as it is.
If you've got a story going like the Manti Tales story, you just keep at it.
Try to dig up more, come up with more heart tugging stuff, more tear-jerking stuff, put in that story, make sure it gets read, you get clicks.
Doesn't matter if it's true or not.
It's just, it's it's great journalism.
Another pull quote, it's sort of like the steroid story in baseball in microcosm.
A complicit press corps misses the story that's right in front of their face, if they had just thought to look for it, either willfully or just because of laziness, ineptitude, inertia.
And then when the truth does come out, they scramble to overcompensate.
They have to go find a villain to explain how they got hoaxed.
When they get taken by a story, or when their laziness permits them to be taken in by a hoax or a total lie of a story, when the truth finally comes out and they look like fools, Somebody has to pay the price, and that's when mainstream journalists kick into high gear on character assassination.
My words, not Mr. Leach's.
He writes, you're going to be seeing this in the coming days.
As more and more aspects of this story are revealed, we all find out just who we can blame for this.
There's going to have to be somebody to burn at the stake, somebody to serve as the stand-in for the story everybody missed.
We were all duped before, and now we're going to make up for it.
We will not be duped again.
He says the next phase of this is to see who the drive-by sports media people fing finger to blame as the culprit for making them look bad.
As their escape mechanism.
And he's right on the money.
Folks, do you remember during the campaign 2008?
You remember all of the stories that that uh Obama told about people dying because they didn't have health insurance.
It turned out to be not to be true.
How about the story about his own mother?
He told a flat out falsehood about his own mother being ripped off by a health insurance company or a hospital or something, turned out not to be true.
It's the same thing.
It's the same in the sense that if you're the right guy, if the media has total love and adoration or approval of you for whatever reason, they're not going to question you.
They want it to be true.
They want people to be dying because of health care because they support Obama.
And they'll gladly report that Obama's mother got the shaft.
If it isn't true, it doesn't matter.
If it helps, move the chains.
That's all that matters.
And the Man Taiteo situation, it was such a great story, and of course, we would love for this to be true.
Wow.
What a great story.
And what a great indication of where we're going culturally.
Men and women now having affairs on the phone.
Man Titeo said he slept with this woman on the phone.
He went to bed with her on the phone.
How cool that well, it's just it's it's it's the societal evolution, snurdly.
It's it's it's it's how the progressives are um you know ahead of all of us uh backwards uh boring clods.
That's it's really happening out there.
Oh, it's great story.
That's a great don't question it.
Now Tebow starts talking about this stuff, and not a syllable of it goes by without it being investigated.
And if they can find it, Tebow's lying about someone.
Well, you imagine Tebow trying to run this hoax.
Oh, folks, I don't even want to think about that.
Man, oh man, that that Mariah Carey thinks she got trouble with that uh cookie minaj babe.
Boy, can you imagine what that would do to her?
Here's uh here, John in Edgewater, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
You bet my you sound just like Piers Morgan.
I should be so lucky.
Yeah.
I just wanted to let you know that uh I have a uh I had at one time uh an intimate relationship with uh uh with Lance uh as far as his cycling career went.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, oh a minute.
You had an intimate relationship with Lance Armstrong and as far as cycling is concerned.
As far as cycling is concerned, that's that's correct.
You mean in the biblical sense here?
No, definitely.
No, no.
We were just uh I was the manager and he was the writer on the teams.
Really?
I've never seen that position.
Well, each team, each cycling team has a manager, especially when we go to the world championships.
Each team has a manager and a coach.
And in 1992, when the United States cycling federation was split in two, the US pro was the uh cycling organization that handled pro cyclists at that particular time before they became united.
Between uh uh when both uh federations united after uh nine ninety two in and what happened was in '92 after the Lance Road in Barcelona, he returned to the United States,
he immediately turned pro, and me being uh the team manager, uh had him uh he signed up to turn pro, and we turned around and we brought him right back to Spain again for the world championships that year.
As a pro.
As a pro.
This was his first uh major race.
Kind of like Tiger at the Masters in '97, first time as a pro, right.
That's correct.
That's correct.
And uh we went back to Spain and uh, you know, he was riding pretty good.
He didn't get the results he wanted in Barcelona, but we figured uh he might be doing a lot better once he turned pro and he fit uh pretty well.
Well so what is it?
You you're the guy that that that put Lance Armstrong on the world championship scene, is that the point here?
I I was I was uh a member of the uh the team that selected the writers for the world championship.
Well, what team what what was their doping then?
Is that why you're calling?
No, no.
I I the reason why I'm calling was that uh since it's become worldwide uh known, worldly known and and everything has come about.
There was one rider in the United States that never ever failed to uh recognize Lance's uh overachievements, so to speak.
Uh I've got a I've I've got to take a I've got to take a break here, John.
Um I'm still not sure where we're going, so we'll continue this when we get back.
Don't go away.
I don't know, Snerdley.
I have no clue whether Cheryl Crow knew anything.
She was just out trying to have a good time.
But Lance was supposedly the ringleader here.
You know that the sponsor of his team is the United States Postal Service, and they're getting all this they're using FedEx, and occasionally UPS.
I mean they're they're they're really if you read some of the stories about this, the things that they had to do, this was a really intricately involved um logistically challenged coordinated thing to have the transfused blood flown to the right location to be kept fresh,
be ready for the transfusion after a race, make sure that none of the old bags were thrown away that traces of blood.
I mean it was a massive operation.
The blood doping was because that was transfusions.
When you're when you're riding up the Pyrenees, I mean I don't think people know.
The tour de France pedaling uphill in the in the Pyrenees and the and in the Alps, uh what these guys were doing was replacing their blood as often as possible to keep it highly oxygen oxygenated for for energy.
The um the pace at which these guys are riding uphill is inhuman, and now that was one of the reasons why all the susp uh suspicion about doping.
Because they were doing things that that don't look possible.
That you just couldn't do with proper nutrition and uh working out uh sleeping right and so forth.
There had to be something else going on to enable this.
This practically superhuman stuff.
I mean, there are stages of the tour de France that are over 80 percent uphill the whole route.
We're talking multiple miles, multiple kilometers here.
And to have all of that blood, their own blood, uh taken during rest, highly oxygenated, flown ahead of them, so it was there to be transfused or or what whatever in private or no there was no way to keep this secret.
It had to be everybody in the world knew this.
That's why when Lance is out there denying it all and then attacking everybody and suing them when they were simply telling the truth.
That's what that's what got everybody so uh really curious about this.
It wasn't just he was denying, I mean, he really did do the Clinton technique.
After the denial, he just went out and attacked everybody making allegations about him, including suing them.
And it was right out of the Bill Clinton playbook in the way they did with uh with Ken Starr.
Here's uh John Backen in Edgewater, uh, New Jersey.
What you you you're I think I know where you're going here.
You've got you want to tell us about one guy who was clean, a legitimate champion, right?
Yes, that's correct, uh Rush.
There was one writer in the United States that knew from the get-go when he started to see Lance's performance, that he was suspect, and he stayed and he fought against Armstrong all those years.
And that was the great American champion Greg Lamond, and who still happens to be the only true American to win the Tour de France.
Greg went head to head with uh Lance, and Lance fought him tooth and nail.
And I think now that Greg and his wife uh Cathy are exceptionally uh satisfied with what has now taken place.
You know, you are you still in touch with Lamond?
Oh, yes, yes.
And it coincided with the same year as I was there, and I think I'm not sure.
I think I met him once, very casually.
Where did he still live in Sacramento?
No, no, he's now uh uh located in the Midwest now.
Okay.
Well, he was it was uh I remember there was a reporter at an infobabe for KCR KCRA Channel Three.
Her name was Beth something, and she I mean, ev she was almost the the Greg Lamond expert.
Uh profiles constantly of Lamond and his training uh you know, riding up the Sierra Nevada range, Highway 50 up to Reno and Tahoe and so forth.
And I'll never forget those.
And it she he was portrayed as um the way everybody thought of Lance Armstrong, actually.
He was portrayed as a a genuine hero, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and so forth.
I'll never forget, and I do think I met him once.
But anyway, John, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
I ha I knew he was heading.
I knew he was going somewhere to name somebody.
And I had a feeling it was Lamond.
You know, we got that tightened down during the uh during the break.
Joe in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
It's your shot now.
Open line Friday.
Go for it.
Well, it's a real privilege to speak with the uh mayor of Realville.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh going to gun control.
Say you have a victim of a violent crime and they suffer a traumatic brain injury.
Would that person be allowed to uh possess guns in their home?
And knowing the extent of their injuries, what is their doctor's liability as far as presenting that the government officials?
Now wait.
A victim of violent crime, they suffer traumatic brain injury.
Would that person be allowed to possess guns in their home?
Yes.
You mean now or with future legislation?
Well, right now.
That is the law.
Oh, right now they can.
You're saying they can, you're not asking?
Well, they they can right now.
Will they be allowed to keep those guns in the future?
Well, I don't see any moves being made against the mentally disabled.
I mean, they they're almost untouchable here.
But that is a mental health issue, is it is it or it is.
Oh, it most certainly is.
Uh the the Sandy Hook elementary thing is a clearly a mental health issue.
And and that poor mother apparently was unable to do anything, was unable to get her child uh institutionalized.
There are a lot of people who have kids like that that that that worry their kid could be the next Sandy Hook shooter, and they're they're writing and they're telling stories about how difficult it is because of the steps have been taken to make sure that the mentally ill have every right that anybody else has.
Okay, without sounding totally heart heartless, where would say a James Brady or a Gabby Giffords fit into the scenario?
Uh in terms of being permitted to own a gun.
Correct.
You're asking the wrong guy.
Um I don't know that anything would stand in the way of it.
That is a real problem then.
Well, you're focusing on the mental health aspect.
I know what you're doing.
You're trying to get people focused on even with what you think is a cold, heartless, cruel, insensitive question.
You're trying to get people focused on what the real problem here is.
And it's who has access to and he's grabbing guns.
And once we learn who they are, why can't we do anything about it?
It's a legitimate question.
You may have an impolitic way of uh of asking it, but that just tells us that you're a conservative and a mean spirited extremist.
Uh but it doesn't mean no, I'm just kidding.
It is one of the focal points of all this that's not being looked at, of course.
Uh, in any uh sensible way at all.
Brief time out, open line Friday rolls on, we'll be back and continue.
I think we're doing pretty well today taking calls.
And and we're doing pretty well taking open line Friday calls.
We've had our share of nothings.
We've had our share of doesn't make any sense.
Uh we've had our share of genuine curiosity about things other than politics.
We've had plenty of what the hell are they talking about?
I don't know yet, calls.
Uh, and we've stuck with it, and it's all working out.
We got we got football picks coming up.
It's exactly the way it was intended.
Okay.
The NFL championship games are this Sunday.
If I've got this right, and I know I do.
The early game at three o'clock is the San Francisco Fortiners and the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome.
And the late game is the Patriots hosting the uh the Baltimore Ravens.
Now let's look at the first game first since it comes first.
And in fact, in both these games, the probably most important factor in both games happens to be two quarterbacks.
In the case of the Fortiners and Falcons, the quarterback in question is Colin Capernick.
Known affectionately to some backwards old fashioned dry balls as tattoo man.
Colin Capernick cannot be planned for.
You know, defensive coordinators love to come up with a game plan.
You look at hours worth of tape of the opposing offense, you see tendencies, you see formations, you see snap counts, you see plays, you see when do they pass off that formation, when do they run off that formation, when do they fake who goes in motion when not?
What does a quarterback do on every play?
The problem for every team playing the 49ers is Capernick, the quarterback.
He doesn't know what he's gonna do.
Most plays.
I mean, he's got the script, but the guy is a classic sandlot quarterback.
In the last game the Fordiners played, he led the team in rushing as a quarterback.
That doesn't happen in the NFL.
Now, eventually NFL teams, defensive coordinators are gonna come up with a way.
In fact, this is the role, by the way, I should say that the Jets said they had planned for Tim Tebow.
Never happened.
The Falcons just haven't had enough time here to plan for Capernick.
He took the job over halfway through the season, week six, I think, week seven.
And they're really, there's not enough data on him to know when he's gonna take off the run option, when he's gonna use it, when he's gonna throw it.
And so defenses have to lay back and play soft and can't really plan for what the guy's gonna do.
And on and plus the 49ers are a great road team.
John Harbaugh, the coach of the Fordiners has somehow managed.
You know, of all the West Coast teams, I remember every Raiders game this year.
If you listen to pregame analysis from the Wizards of Smart on ESPN, or anywhere, they would all say the Raiders traveling east, time zone change, one o'clock game, starting a game ten o'clock, body clock time, don't have a prayer.
And the Raiders Never did win in the Eastern Time Zone at one o'clock.
It doesn't affect the 49ers.
It doesn't affect the Seahawks much either, and it's not said to affect the 49ers.
I don't know where the 49ers are practicing.
I think they stayed in San Francisco, but uh one week they spent in Youngstown, Ohio.
It's where the DeBartalo family is, getting ready for it.
But Harbaugh and Ray, that ain't gonna matter.
I think the uh quarterback is the big difference in the game.
He's still a rookie.
Matt Ryan, a quarterback for the Falcons.
This is only his second playoff game, too.
So I think Capernick is the is a guy to watch.
If he has a typically good Capernick game, plus that defensive line for the Fordiners.
I have to go with the Forders in a game.
And the Patriots and the Ravens, and again, that's a quarterback game, and that's Tom Brady.
And if Tom Brady's on your team, you win.
The odds are, Brady's playoff record at home is astounding.
Now, since Spygate, they've had some trouble going all the way.
Admittedly so.
But if you had to hand, and I'm just doing this straight up.
I don't even know what the points are.
I'm just doing it straight up.
So I'd have to go with the Super Bowl being the Fordiners and the Patriots.
Many of you are going to be disappointed at this.
Many of you are looking for an all-harboss Super Bowl.
John Harbaugh, a coach of the uh Ravens.
Jim Harbaugh, a coach of the Fordiners, but don't sweat.
The coaches don't play.
You know, after all the hype, brother against brother, they're not playing.
Mind against mind, how do you watch that in a uh in a football game?
So that's the uh the picks.
I could have done.
I thought about doing environmentalist wacko picks, but I thought, no, we'll go straight up here.
It's been a while since we did this anyway, and uh treat it seriously.
Until there's other data, uh if if, for example, players on the 49ers, any of them having Imaginary relationships with girls that don't exist.
If you figure if something that surfaces and comes out, you you've got to factor that out.
So far, we don't know that that happens anywhere but Notre Dame.
Again, folks, a reminder, Mark Stein will be here on Monday, Martin Luther King Day, and it's inauguration day, too, right?
Will not be here uh seeking solidarity in my ongoing effort to remain low profile and to establish a commonality uh with the behavior of the low information segment of the population.
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