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Feb. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
They were.
They were blaming Bush.
I got a couple of uh I got a couple of well, people retweeting tweets or sending me tweets.
Um, and even in the New York Times, some New York Times reporter tweeted that the power outage last night was Bush's fault.
It said, way to go, Brownie, meaning uh this brown guy that ran FEMA.
I kid you not, they were they were blaming.
I heard Ray Lewis killed the lights.
Uh trying to destroy 49er momentum.
That was just alleged it was never established.
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I thought when the power went, I said, maybe either Martha McCallum's down there or Greta Van Sustran.
Because both times they've been here, they've blown our circuit breakers.
Every time Fox has shown up to a live uh even taped.
They blew us out for 45 minutes.
Martha McCallum did one day.
And then Greta was next.
And then look at this Super Bowl City.
This is a story that ran before the game.
Super Bowl City leads on energy efficient front.
Department of Energy, while the Baltimore Ravens, the San Francisco 49ers compete to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy this weekend.
Eco-friendly fans and city leaders in New Orleans are competing to maxi sustainability practices to the fullest to make this the greenest Super Bowl, the New Orleans host committee, which was chaired, by the way.
Did you know this?
By Carville and Madeline.
James Carville and Murray Maddow were the host committee chairs.
The New Orleans Host Committee has partnered with fans and the community to offset energy use across major Super Bowl venues by turning it off.
No, I just I I added that myself.
The exterior of the Mercedes Benz Superdome features more than going through the lights here and uh system draws only 10 kilowatts of elect.
Everybody knows what Beyonce blew it out.
Did you did you watch the halftime show Snurley?
You did all.
Let me tell you something.
I uh I I marvel at at people's talent, and she has it.
She has incredible.
That that that was the most high-energy Super Bowl halftime show I have I've ever seen.
I mean, I I I really production value, you gotta marvel at it, Sterley.
You have to mark when you see the uh upper echelon of professionalism on display, you have to acknowledge it.
She didn't do anything political last night.
It was it was really uh it was really good.
Poor Chris Culliver.
I don't I don't know if you people pay any attention to this.
Chris Culliver, his uh cornerback for the Fortiners, who um earlier in the week last week said that there wasn't going to be any sweet stuff in the 49er locker room, meaning no gay players on the 49ers, and and he didn't want them in the locker room, he didn't want any part of it.
And then of course, uh that was not that was not cool, so they wrote an apology in which Chris Culliver went out and read what somebody else wrote in which he said that wasn't me.
Which is a standard way you apologize.
He said, that wasn't me.
That's not really who uh who I am.
Anyway, the poor guy got torched last night, and I told you.
Snerdley, I don't know if you were listening.
Snurdley's back after a uh a vacation.
And I don't know if you were listening on Friday or not.
It's vacation spent in bed and in the hospital.
I don't know if you heard, I didn't, it was sort of a modified environmentalist wacko prediction.
I said that the winner of this game was gonna be the it had to be the Ravens because they had the fewest problems involving gays, gay players, and gay marriage.
And I found it highly ironic that the team with the with the most luggage when it comes to gay rights happened to be the one from San Francisco.
And I said the 49ers, I said either lay the points or take the points, whatever.
But it's gonna be the Ravens because uh they're they're they're more up to speed on, And lo and behold is what happened.
And this poor guy, Chris Culliver got torched.
The Ravens, he's uh he's a cornerback, and they were throwing at him all night, and Quan Baldwin, uh Bolden, they just they just ate the poor guy up.
And I told, I told Catherine, I said, you know, I I'm gonna turn on a coverage in the website to Marsha the last night.
I'm gonna watch, turn on the internet, I'm gonna read coverage, and I'm gonna read that.
I'm gonna read this guy got torched, and he got torched because he was wrong on gay, and lo and behold, I found Sports Illustrated.
Mm-hmm.
How would I Capernack and Flacco?
You mean Copernic.
Well Tattoo Man.
Well, Flacco's in his fifth or sixth of the year.
This is this guy's tenth game.
The San Francisco quarter.
I uh that that game, five yards.
Can you believe, forget you know, all the stuff that happened prior to it and the referee calls, and that's that's irrelevant because what it is is what it is.
What happened to what happened?
You can say there was holding on that last play, but there was also holding in Atlanta on the 49ers that wasn't called against the Falcons.
And if that call had been made, it might have been the Falcons last night instead of the 49ers.
You throw that all out.
They had five yards, four plays to make five yards.
The 49er to win the Super Bowl, and they couldn't do it, and they didn't run the ball once.
I could not believe that they weren't running the foot from five-yard line, throwing these fades of the end zone.
So what I thought they had this massively creative offensive coordinator.
Um I just I was stunned by the play calling there.
But all in all, the power outage uh turned a game into the longest Super Bowl ever played.
Um and it had the highest rating of any Super Bowl.
And who would have thought with the 49ers and Ravens, I mean, they're not 49ers a marquee team, but they haven't been there in in a long time.
The Ravens haven't been there since 2000.
Uh you may, I don't know if you folks, you may not know this, but the the two head coaches of the teams are brothers.
Did you know that?
Yeah, the uh coach of the 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, and the coach of the uh the Ravens, a guy named John Harbaugh, their brothers are like uh separated by 15 months.
They what?
Well, dad was a coach uh in football, too.
And their mother, their mother was a mother.
Yeah, and uh, and then of course it was uh it was Ray Lewis's uh last ride.
It's Ray Lewis's uh last game.
So he had a lot of ingredients here that uh made this an attractive matchup, plus uh plus Beyonce.
Anyway, I got to get back to poor Chris Culliver.
Number 29 of the four got first off, he he made his his youthful comments about gays, politically incorrect.
He got taken to woodshed, he corrected his comments, and then I don't know if it's before the game, I don't know if it was Saturday or earlier on Sunday, it was announced that Chris Culliver is going to have to go to sensitivity training.
He is being made to go to sensitivity training, which will be conducted by an LGBT group.
No, no, it's not a joke.
He is going to go to lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender sensitivity training.
I mean quick, like maybe even this week.
Now that may not be a big deal to you, but imagine if they could send you to retraining if all you had to do was say you're sick and tired of seeing the Kardashians on TV every day.
How would you feel if if if they could send you off to get your mind right if that's all you said?
You're sick and tired of seeing the Kardashians.
So this guy, I mean, his whole everything, but the the biggest thing he got torched.
And that they they were throwing at him, and it uh it succeeded.
Now, I don't know about you.
The pregame was patriotic, like I have never seen at the Super Bowl.
Alicia Keys sang the national anthem.
It was the longest rendition of the national anthem in history at such an event.
Two minutes and thirty seconds.
Everybody thought she was finished when she wasn't.
Now, I've always, this as a little side, this is not what I'm intend to say here, but it's a little side issue.
I've always had a problem with the with the national anthem presented as a funeral dirge.
I think the national anthem ought to take about 45 seconds.
That's a song that you play up tempo, you are proud, you are excited, you belt that baby out.
That's about the survivability of the country.
It's not a funeral tune.
It's a, you know, the bombs bursting.
That that song ought to be played up tempo.
It ought to no more than 45 seconds to get that thing done.
If it's done, this is just me.
Holy cow, look at you see Bill Richardson there.
Is that Bill Richardson?
That's not Bill.
That's not.
Jimmy Lee Dykes.
That's not Jimmy Lee Dykes.
Jimmy Lee Dykes is in a bunker with a five-year-old hostage.
That's Bill Richardson.
He's gone all gray.
There must be some political advantage to that.
He's got a beard, he's all gray now.
That's gotta be Bill Richards, isn't it?
They've never done a Chiron.
Anyway, that's the first.
The second thing I said, and I said this to myself, while this the national anthem, then the New Town Kids, and then uh Jennifer Jennifer Hudson.
I said, this has got to be tearing some liberals apart.
This has got to be ripping them to shred.
This much patriotism.
This much honoring America.
Just play the game, I can imagine them saying.
Lo and behold, ladies and gentlemen from the Washington Post, I have it here, my formerly nicotine stained fingers, the headline.
When we cheer for our team, do we have to cheer for America too?
It's by Trisha Jenkins, and this is before the game.
This is January 31st.
She wrote this thing last week, and I have been holding it in abeyance.
I didn't say anything about it, but I because I had no idea what this pregame show was going to be.
But I we're in the middle of what took 10 or 15 minutes to do all this.
And I could just imagine.
It makes them nervous.
They get queasied.
Here's proof.
Super Bowl too patriotic and too militaristic.
I mean, you got the color guard people out there.
Oh, you got the military people out there.
Here's how she begins her piece.
Again, Washington Post on January 31st.
The customary flyover by fighter jets may be absent from this weekend's Super Bowl, after all.
The Superdome is covered.
But a military cover guard will be on the field, or color guard will be on the field.
CBS will cut the shots at troops watching the game.
Veterans will be recognized in the stadium's video boards.
A flag imagery will abound, as will stirring renditions of a national anthem and most likely America the beautiful.
Sports games have become stages for large-scale patriotic theater.
This is no accident.
Did you know that this is a pro-America conspiracy?
It's not an accident at the National Anthem and Flyovers and America the Beautiful are played before sporting events.
Many of the Militaristic rituals we see in stadiums and arenas across the fruited plain were deliberately designed to promote unity during times of crisis, but they've stuck around far longer than needed, making sports feel less like pastimes than pep rallies for our military or a particular war.
During World War II, team owners introduced the national anthem and ceremonies honoring the armed forces a way to win FDR support for continuing play amid the conflict.
The weekend after John Kennedy's assassination in 1963, NFL Commissioner Alvin Pete Rosell inserted moments of silence and flag ceremonies into his league's games.
Actually, I looked it up.
The Star Spangled Banner was played during the seventh inning stretch of the 1918 World Series.
It preceded World War II.
Before that it was performed as early as 1987, or I'm sorry, 1897 during the opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia, and then regularly at the polo grounds in New York City starting in 1898.
And then she writes the small flag decals on many athletes' uniforms arose from basketball and football organizers and blah blah blah.
But gestures that once offered comfort have become habit.
And the patriotic displays have only gotten more inventive.
College football's national championship game last month between Notre Dame and Alabama featured Air Force paratroopers who jumped out of a plane and glided under the field to deliver the game ball to officials.
And this thing goes on and on and on.
What comes next?
Navy SEALs sneaking through to bleachers to deliver free pizzas.
Beer sold in combat boot-shaped cups or maybe miniature drones dropping t-shirts under the crowds below.
Trisha Jenkins, by the way, the author of the story.
That's what she writes here.
I'm telling you, I saw I saw the pregame, I knew.
You know, when I say that this kind of stuff irritates liberals, I know what some of you out there go, come on, Ross, you really have to you know here's the proof right here.
Trisha Jenkins is an assistant professor of film, television, and digital media at Texas Christian University and the author of The CIA in Hollywood.
How the agency shapes film and television.
So that would explain her expertise in propaganda.
So there you have it, folks.
Uh we've got No, I'm not kidding.
Uh somebody just told me, I think it's on drugs, that Beyonce blew circuit breakers twice in rehearsals at the Superdome.
But they still don't know really why that uh what why why it happened.
The air conditioning, everything went out.
There was a big buzz in there like an electrical buzz or like a uh an insect light outside zapping.
A lot of people were understandably nervous.
I gotta take a quick time out here.
Don't go away, we'll be right back.
Have a story that's uh by Paul Bedard, Washington examiner, and the way he begins this story is the exact way that I would have had I written it.
He says there is no delicate way to say this.
Are you ready?
No delicate way to say this.
Exposure to pornography softens opposition to same-sex marriage among the largest group of naysayers, heterosexual men.
This is a new scholarly analysis.
I found it, Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, new scholarly analysis suggests that the more straight guys, especially those who are less educated, watch pornographic videos, the more they warm up to the idea of same-sex marriage.
The reason pornography opens their mind up to accepting non-traditional sexual Situations, like gay sex.
This from Indiana University.
One of the study's authors is an assistant professor named Paul Wright.
And he told Paul Bedard at the Washington examiner, our study suggests that the more heterosexual men, especially less educated heterosexual men watch pornography, the more they watch it, the more supportive they become of same-sex marriage.
Explaining the findings of the analysis.
Wright said, the professor, pornography adopts an individualistic, non-judgmental stance on all kinds of non-traditional sexual behaviors and same-sex marriage attitudes are strongly linked to attitudes about same-sex sex.
If people think individuals should be able to decide for themselves whether to have same-sex sex, they'll also think that people should be able to decide for themselves whether to get married to a partner of the same sex.
So this guy's theory is you watch porn and it softens.
Yeah.
Does it well that's kind of you watch porn and it softens your attitudes toward gay sex?
And as your attitude toward gay sex changes, then so does your attitude toward gay marriage.
I don't know where this came from.
I don't know why these guys decided to study this aspect of it, but they did.
At Indiana University, the assistant professor is Paul Wright.
He said, since a portion of individual sexual attitudes come from the media they consume, it makes sense that pornography viewers would have more positive attitudes towards same-sex marriage.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I would not want to be this assistant professor at Indiana University today who has released his scholarly news that watching pornography boosts support for same-sex marriage.
Here's the theory again.
If you watch porn, your attitudes on sex change, become more open-minded about it, including same-sex sex.
And once you become tolerant, accepting of same-sex sex, then same-sex marriage, you also end up supporting.
That's this guy's theory.
And we know that that gay rights, gay marriage, is it's in the top two or three issues.
College-age kids today, uh, and younger.
So anyway, I'm thinking Chris Culliver.
Maybe poor guy.
Watch a little porn, he won't have to go to sensitivity training.
What would you rather do?
Not long ago, ladies and gentlemen, who was it that um well, there were there were a rash of deaths within the political ranks of Democrat Party.
And in every one of them, the Clintons showed up.
Bill and Hillary showed up, every one of these famous Democrat funerals, and made the whole funeral about them.
You know, that reminds me it was the Coretta Scott King funeral.
And Bill Clinton showed up.
He was one of the um eulogists, and it took him 45 or 50 minutes before he even mentioned her name, and we put that in that bit that you just heard.
And by the way, I just want to make sure everybody knows there's a woman in that casket.
He said that.
Well, you honestly said there's a woman in that casket.
It's a clothes casket, I guess.
There's a woman in that casket.
He's speech is all about him and Bush and weapons amassed.
Well, it happened.
The Clintons crashed another funeral, this time in New York this morning, the memorial service for the former mayor, Ed Koch.
He really weighed in when I was trying to pass the crime bill in 1995.
He supported more police on the street, the limitation on the size of ammunition clips, the ban on assault weapons, and Governor, he'd be very proud of you today.
So Clinton basically was eulogizing Koch for saying, hey, he supported my agenda.
And that's why I'm Here.
And he wasn't through.
Somehow Clinton worked Viagra into the routine.
He said, you know, we've got to do something to convince these young people to quit smoking.
And there's just been a new study saying that it impacts virility.
And he said, you know, this Viagra is a big deal.
This letter is hilarious.
He said, now, politicians don't like to talk about this, especially among young people, but young people are way more sophisticated than older people, and they get this.
And it doesn't work to tell people they're going to get cancer and respiratory diseases.
Go after the virility argument.
So Ed.
There you have it, the class indignity, Ed Koch Memorial Service, Bill Clinton crashing the funeral to praise Koch's allegiance to Clinton's agenda, and then somehow working Viagra into the uh into the routine.
Back to the Super Bowl.
I just want to get a couple of um things out of the way here.
In fact, grab, let's see, uh.
Well, I'm looking for the for the Obama bite on player concussions.
Which one?
Never mind.
I'll get to this in just a second.
I've I've got three Obama bites.
I don't know which one's the one I want.
I've got a it was number nine, the first one.
Oh, there it is.
I'm looking on the wrong page.
I'm looking at 1011.
Here's here's Obama.
This is this is at about 4:30 yesterday.
It's the pregame interview.
Scott Pelley did with Obama, and he started off by saying there has been concern about the safety of football at all levels.
Has crew college in the NFL.
If you had a son named Trayvon, would you let him play?
I'd have to think about it.
There is no doubt that some of the concerns that we've learned about when it comes to concussions have to give parents pause.
I feel differently about the NFL.
These are grown men.
They're well compensated.
They know the risks that are involved.
Uh but as we start thinking about, you know, the pipeline, Pop Warner, high school, college.
I want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to make the sport safer.
And that means that the game's probably going to evolve a little bit.
And for those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy, you know, the rock'em, sock'em elements of the game, you know, we're probably going to be occasionally frustrated.
It's a president of the United States talking about how he's going to guilt trip watching the NFL.
You're gonna have we are gonna have to dial this game back.
Now he didn't say it in his interview yesterday, but earlier in the week, he actually used the phrase when talking about uh college players and has grow players.
He said they weren't equipped to make some of these decisions.
The NFL players, they're adults, they have a better understanding, more able to make these decisions about whether to play or not, because of the risks, the injury risks.
But these young guys, they don't mean governments can have to do it.
Somebody's gonna have to make the decision for them.
They're too incompetent, incapable, which is one of the core beliefs of liberals is you just don't know what's best for you.
And they do, and you will not make the right decisions in your life about spending, about your safety, about your health, you name it, you won't do the right thing.
They have to do it for you.
So now Obama has has put himself, injected himself in this football safety argument.
And you I tell you what it's leading up to.
This is this is your guilty conscience.
You fans, you're gonna have to we're gonna have to somehow dial back these hard hits, and you may be a little disappointed, may not be as exciting for you, but that's where we're gonna have to go if we're gonna keep playing this.
The president of the United States weighing in on this.
So I have been waiting, folks, for another element to be thrown into all of this.
And we got close to having that element injected yesterday on Face the Nation and In pregame coverage of the Super Bowl.
Now, the element that I have been waiting to be interjected is race.
And I have no doubt that at some point it will be.
Now look at what we're dealing with now.
It's dangerous.
It's riskier than people who play it know.
The people who play have been lied to by teams and doctors and experts who have not been honest with players about the risks.
Haven't been honest with them about the long-term risks of repeated collisions involving the head.
Haven't been honest.
Players have been playing this game for all these years unaware how dangerous it is.
And these players obviously have been exploited.
We have rich owners, rich leagues, rich sponsors, throwing these guys out playing a barbaric game that is ending up damaging them, perhaps for the rest of their lives, and they didn't know it, and we're gonna have to do something about it.
Add to that 75% of the people who play in the National Football League are African American, and you've got a recipe being completed for really drastic action to be taken.
Because you throw in, okay, players are being exploited.
They're being lied to.
They are not being told the truth about the risks.
It's a barbaric game.
Rich owners, rich sponsors, rich leagues, rich this, are throwing these guys out there.
And these guys are not being leveled with about what they're engaging in, how dangerous it is, and then add to this that they are minorities.
And you can see where this could end up.
Throw a little potential unintentional, of course, racism into this, and then you've got the whole pot being stirred up here, where of course action would then have to be taken, because that's the element that's thrown in that who is being exploited, whose lives are at risk, and for what purpose?
entertainment of the rich bread and circuses if you will the fans who want to see these dangerous hits and collisions and And you can hear the average civil rights leader shaping up, standing up, pointing fingers, making accusations.
Yesterday on Face the Nation, Audio Summit No.
Shannon Sharp, the former tight end for the Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens, was on with Bob Schiefer.
Bob Schiefer said, Shannon, what I want to ask you is how can you make this game safe and ensure that it's safe?
Football's about blocking and tackling.
How do you make it safe and yet keep it football, the game that we know?
You look at the article came out in the paper the other day that the commissioner had a 61% disapproval rating.
See, change is always met by resistance.
You look at integration, it was met with resistance.
You look at civil rights, it was met with resistance.
But as we look back, we realize that was the right thing to do.
I think 10, 15 years from now, all the players will sit back and say, you know what?
I didn't like what the commissioner did at the time, but it was the right thing to do.
All right, it's coming.
Now we're talking about integration was met with resistance.
Civil rights was met with resistance.
So we're getting close.
We're getting close to the racial aspects, not the focus yet, and it may not end up being, who knows.
But it's sitting out there as a huge potential for whoever it is that got this ball rolling and wants to forever alter the way the game is played.
So Obama would not let, maybe, would Maybe perhaps not let his imaginary son play football.
But he'll send your daughter or maybe his and your son off to combat in Afghanistan, Iraq.
Or wherever.
That's true.
If his imaginary son throws like Obama doesn't have to worry about.
Speaking speak folks, did you see?
A great, I mean, I don't know.
Journalists uncovered the fact that Dan Marino, a former quarterback of the of the Dolphins, had a had a uh an affair with a CBS employee and a and a and a child.
Had a love trial six or seven years ago, something that did you did you see that?
Whoever did that, would you guys try to find out what happened in Benghazi?
Whoever found that out about Marino regular media doesn't seem to be able to find out what happened in Benghazi.
And they didn't know about this merino business, but maybe the TMZ or whoever it was, but maybe you tell us what happened in Benghazi, but you guys could find out.
It's a lot of people want to know that.
David Natik, Massachusetts, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
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Um Klaus Nomi Ditto's.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, yes, Klaus Nome, gay community update theme.
I love that song.
Yeah, I didn't.
Uh yesterday while watching the Super Bowl with no team that I was really rooting for, just hoping for a good game, which I think we got, was um the fact that everybody was talking about the speed that the football is being thrown at.
And I was wondering why they don't use speed guns on they do like they do in baseball to time the the uh passes and I think it's a it's an interesting question.
I th I'd have to wild guess.
I mean, I don't really know, but I would say that the speed of a baseball that's being thrown is directly relatable to how difficult it is to hit.
Yeah.
I don't know that how hard a football thrown is related to how tough it is to catch.
So it may not, other than a you know, a little point of interest, some guy's got a rocket arm.
What does that mean for throwing a football?
I I bet you're wondering because of uh Kaepernick, the uh the 49ers quarterback apparently got a bazooka for uh for an arm.
Right.
Do you have any idea what speed a football does fly?
I don't, I don't, but I I know there are people that do.
I just have never if I've heard it, I don't remember.
Yeah.
But the benchmark for a baseball pitcher fastball 9500 miles an hour.
If somebody can do that, that's that's unique.
I mean, that's special.
The football would not go there.
Yeah, I don't know what it I'll find out though.
All right.
I'll find out.
I I've I've had one thrown to me by somebody that can throw that correspondingly hard.
I got out of the way of it.
I didn't want any part of it.
Uh it it it never it it's unlike any pass I ever attempted to catch playing sandlot football.
So it is it it it it does take a special talent to catch those things, but those guys do have arms.
Rocket arm, maybe 50 miles an hour, I'm guessing, is a rocket uh coming off the arm of an NFL quarterback.
Okay, folks, uh we gotta take a brief time out here.
But as you can see, there are no boundaries here, terms of what we discuss here on the EIB network, and we are only getting started.
We got Tom Puff Dashel ripped into me, blaming me on C-SPAN Saturday for the way the media is.
That's right, Tom Puff Dashell.
In fact, Snurdley's got a theory that um the EIB Southern Command is what did you call it?
The center of the political universe.
The second, the second capital of the of politics in this country is well, wherever I happen to be.
I mean, we haven't heard from this guy in decades.
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