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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, well, people retweeting tweets or sending me tweets.
And even in the New York Times, some New York Times reporter tweeted that the power outage last night was Bush's fault.
They said, way to go, Brownie, meaning this brown guy that ran FEMA.
I kid you not.
They were blaming.
I heard Ray Lewis kill the lights.
Try to destroy 49er momentum.
It 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 Sustrin.
Because both times they've been here, they've blown our circuit breakers.
Every time Fox has shown up, do a live, 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 Lombardy Trophy this weekend, eco-friendly fans and city leaders in New Orleans are competing to maximize 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 Mary Madeline 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 added that myself.
The exterior of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome features more than, let me go through the lights here, and the system draws only 10 kilowatts of electricity.
Everybody knows what Beyonce blew it out.
Did you watch the halftime show, Snerdley?
You did.
Oh, let me tell you something.
I marvel at people's talent, and she has it.
She has incredible.
That was the most high-energy Super Bowl halftime show I've ever seen.
I mean, I really, production value, you got to marvel at it, Snerdley.
You have to mark when you see the upper echelon of professionalism on display.
You have to acknowledge it.
She didn't do anything political last night.
It was really good.
Poor Chris Culliver.
I don't know if you people pay any attention to this.
Chris Culliver, his cornerback for the Fortiners, who 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 he didn't want them in the locker room.
He didn't want any part of it.
And then, of course, 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 says, that wasn't me.
That's not really 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 vacation.
And I don't know if you were listening on Friday or not.
His 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 going to be 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 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 going to be the Ravens because they're more upspeed.
And lo and behold is what happened.
And this poor guy, Chris Culliver, got torched.
The Ravens, he's a cornerback, and they were throwing at him all night.
Anquan Bolden, they just ate the poor guy up.
And I told Catherine, I said, you know, turn on a coverage in the website tomorrow.
I said, last night, I'm going to turn on the internet.
I'm going to read coverage, and I'm going to read that.
I'm going to read this guy got torched, and he got torched because he was wrong on gay.
Well, lo and behold, I found Sports Illustrated.
Mm-hmm.
How would I?
Kaepernick and Flacco.
You mean Copernic.
Tattoo Man.
Well, Flacco's in his fifth or sixth year.
This is this guy's 10th game.
The San Francisco quarter.
That game, five yards.
Can you believe?
Forget all the stuff that happened prior to it and the referee calls.
That's irrelevant because what it is is what it is.
What happened, 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 49ers 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 the five-yard line, throwing these fades of the end zone.
So how about they had this massively creative offensive coordinator?
I was stunned by the play calling there.
But all in all, the power outage turned a game into the longest Super Bowl ever played.
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 are a marquee team, but they haven't been there in a long time.
The Ravens haven't been there since 2000.
I don't know if you, folks, you may not know this, but the two head coaches of the teams were brothers.
Did you know that?
Yeah, the coach of the 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, and the coach of the Ravens, a guy named John Harbaugh.
They're brothers.
They're like separated by 15 months.
They what?
Where dad was a coach in football, too?
And their mother, their mother was a mother.
Yeah.
And then, of course, it was Ray Lewis's last ride.
It's Ray Lewis' last game.
So he had a lot of ingredients here that made this an attractive matchup plus Beyonce.
Anyway, I got to get back to poor Chris Culliver.
Number 29 of the 4.
First off, he made his youthful comments about gays, politically incorrect.
He got taken to Woodshed.
He corrected his comments.
And then, I don't know if it was 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 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 biggest thing, he got torched.
And they were throwing at him, and 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 35 seconds.
Everybody thought she was finished when she wasn't.
Now, I've always, just as a little side, this is not what I intend to say here, but it's a little side issue.
I've always had a problem 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 song ought to be played up tempo.
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 Richardson.
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 got to be Bill Richards.
They never did a Chiron.
Anyway, that's the first.
The second thing I said, and I said this to myself, well, the national anthem, then the Newtown Kids, and then 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 him 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 Tricia 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 we're in the middle of what took 10 or 15 minutes to do all this.
And I could just imagine, you know, liberals don't like that.
It makes them nervous.
They get queasy.
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 Super Dome is covered.
But a military cover guard will be on the field.
A 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.
It's a conspiracy.
Did you know that this is a pro-America conspiracy?
It's not an accident that the national anthem and flyovers and America the Beautiful are played before sporting events.
It's not an accident.
Many of the militaristic rituals we see in stadiums and arenas across the fruited plane 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 a 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 Roselle 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.
She said, what comes next?
Navy SEALs sneaking through the bleachers to deliver free pizzas.
Beer sold in combat boot-shaped cups or maybe miniature drones dropping t-shirts under the crowds below.
Tricia Jenkins, by the way, the author of the story.
That's what she writes here.
I'm telling you, 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, Rush, do you really have to, you know, here's the proof right here.
Tricia 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.
We've got no, I'm not kidding.
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 it happened.
The air conditioning, everything went out.
There was a big buzz in there, like an electrical buzz, or like an insect light outside zapping.
A lot of people were understandably nervous.
I got to take a quick time out here.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Have a story that's 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 is 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 studies suggest 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, 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 individuals' 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 gay rights, gay marriage, is it's in the top two or three issues, college-age kids today 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, well, there were a rash of deaths within the political ranks of the 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 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, he honestly said, there's a woman in that casket.
It's a closed casket, I guess.
There's a woman in that casket.
Speech was all about him and Bush and weapons of mass.
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 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 or respiratory diseases.
Go after the virility argument.
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 routine.
Back to the Super Bowl.
I just want to get a couple of things out of the way here.
In fact, grab, let's see, well, I'm looking for the Obama bite on player concussions.
Which one?
Never mind.
I'll get to this in just a second.
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.
I'm looking on the wrong page.
I'm looking at 10-11.
Here's Obama.
This is about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, 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.
Haskral College, 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.
But as we start thinking about 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 the rock'em, sock'em elements of the game, we're probably going to be occasionally frustrated.
It's the President of the United States talking about how he's going to guilt trip watching the NFL.
We are going to 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 college players and haskrew 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 government's going to have to do it.
Somebody's going to 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 put himself, injected himself in this football safety argument.
And I'll tell you what it's leading up to.
This is your guilty conscience.
You fans, we're going to have to somehow dial back these hard hits.
And you may be a little disappointed.
It may not be as exciting for you, but that's where we're going to have to go if we're going to 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.
You 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 going to 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 a 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?
The entertainment of the rich.
Bread and circuses, if you will.
The fans who want to see these dangerous hits and collisions.
And you can hear the average civil rights leader shaping up, standing up, pointing fingers, making accusations.
Yesterday on Face the Nation, audio sombre number seven, Shannon Sharp, the former tight end for the Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens, was on with Bob Schieffer.
Bob Schieffer 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 does, you don't have to worry about it.
Speaking of, folks, did you see a great, I mean, journalists uncovered the fact that Dan Marino, the former quarterback of the Dolphins, had a...
had an affair with a CBS employee and a child.
Had a love child six or seven years ago.
It's like that.
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 Marino business, but maybe a TMZ or whoever it was, maybe you tell us what happened in Benghazi and you guys could find out.
A lot of people want to know that.
David Natick, Massachusetts, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rice.
Klaus Nomi Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, yes, Klaus Nomi, gay community update theme.
I love that song.
Yeah, I did.
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 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 their do like they do in baseball to time the passes.
I think it's an interesting question.
I'd have to, it's a 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 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 bet you're wondering because of Kaepernick, the 49ers quarterback, apparently got a bazooka for an arm.
Right.
Do you have any idea what speed a football does fly?
I don't.
But 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, 9,500 miles an hour.
If somebody can do that, that's unique.
I mean, that's special.
The football would not go there.
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
I'll find out, though.
All right.
I'll find out.
I've had one thrown to me by somebody that can throw that correspondingly hard.
I got out of the way of it.
didn't want any part of it.
It's unlike any pass I ever attempted to catch playing sandlot football.
So it is 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 coming off the arm of an NFL quarterback.
Okay, folks, we've got to take a brief time out here.
But as you can see, there are no boundaries here in terms of what we discuss here on the EIB network.
We are only getting started.
We got Tom Puff Daschell ripped into me blaming me on C-SPAN Saturday for the way the media is.
That's right, Tom Puff Daschle.
In fact, Snurdley's got a theory that the EIB Southern Command, what did you call it, the center of the political universe?
The second, the second capital. of politics in this country is wherever I happen to be.
And there's Daschell.
I mean, we haven't heard from this guy in decades.
And he blaming me for what's happened to media.
All that and more coming up.
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