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March 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 15, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Have you heard this news about the NFL?
You haven't heard this about the NFL?
Running backs are not going to be allowed to duck their heads.
I mean, I told you people this was coming.
I warned you.
I told you you all thought that I was exaggerating, just like you did back in the SUV craze.
1996.
Yep.
No longer will you be able to use the crown of your head as a running back because you might hurt somebody, including yourself.
Hi, folks.
It's Friday, so let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And it is my favorite busy day of the broadcast week.
Snerdley hates it.
Don't know why, but he does.
Well, doesn't hate it.
I mean, nobody associated with EIB can hate anything about what we do.
It's just his least favorite day.
Open Line Friday.
I would think it'd be easy.
All you basically have to do is say, hi, what do you want to talk about?
Hang on.
He says, no, it's not that easy.
Anyway, Open Line Friday, that's where when we go to the phones, I take one of the greatest career risks known to exist in major big-time media.
And that is turning over the content portion of the program to rank amateurs.
It's kind of like kind of like hiring Ed Schultz.
Yes, I knew it was.
Anyway, whatever you want to talk about, it's fine.
Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about what I'm interested in or you don't get on the air.
Because if I'm bored, nobody's going to want to listen.
But on Friday, I take the risk.
Might be bored, might fake being interested, what you talk about, or you never know.
But it's a golden opportunity for you to bring things up that haven't been discussed.
You think might need to be.
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I am not making this up.
And I think if the NFL keeps going, they may as well make Michael Bloomberg the commissioner.
Listen to this.
Yes, of course I'm going to talk about CPAC.
Why does this happen?
Every day I start out with something and then somebody interrupts me and says, are you going to mention?
Not only are we going to talk about CPAC, you know what CNN did last?
CNN, I guess it was yesterday afternoon, last night, whatever.
CNN, I don't know what this means.
CNN actually went back to their archives and played video clips of my CPAC speech.
Let me look when that was.
These days just was 2009.
This is four years ago.
And they played a bunch of sound bites from it.
So since they've broken the ice, we're going to go back and play soundbites of my CPAC speech.
As you know, when I do this, there are critics.
What are you trying to do?
Upstage it?
Can't you just let those people have a convention without you having to hijack it?
That's not what I'm trying to do here.
But CNN broke the ice.
So yeah, we're going to talk about CPAC.
I'll tell you what, Rick Perry, some people have been on fire.
Pat Cadell, Pat Cadell told those people, what if he shows up as a Democrat pollster and a consultant?
And he told those people at CPAC exactly what the Republican consultant class is doing.
And he echoed some of the same sentiments that have been expressed on this program.
So yeah, we're going to get to all that.
But this is amazing.
A rule is going to be proposed to the NFL Competition Committee that would make it a penalty for a ball carrier to smash into a defender with a crown of his helmet in open space.
Even if he's gay, it will be a penalty to smash into a defender with the crown of his helmet.
Of course, nobody's going to really know if he's gay, and therefore that will be permitted.
Now, I know many of you haven't played football, but I, of course, have.
Even in, I'll never forget, you know, we used to play these flag football or touch football games when I worked for the Kansas City Royals every Thursday afternoon when the baseball season ended, we would play touch football games with the Kansas City Chiefs' front office.
And it was not tackle football.
It was nothing.
But even then, I mean, the instinct, when you are carrying the ball, the instinct is to lower your head and plow through.
It's an instinct.
People that have never been taught to play the game do it automatically.
That's how instinctive it is.
You lower your head and you plow through.
They're going to make that a penalty now if this actually comes to pass.
It would be the first rule in American football history limiting a runner's contact with a defender.
Now, I have looked, this is from a Canadian website.
I've looked at a bunch of American websites, and it's not all over the place.
You have to really hunt for this to find it.
Popular NFL websites in this country have not yet run with this story because I'll tell you, there are people who are flabbergasted over this.
And there are a lot of people probably remember I made my prediction it was middle of the year last year, maybe even longer ago.
I could see what was coming.
You know what?
The politically correct were embracing and getting their arms around this game, and we're going to forever change it.
And I've warned everybody, enjoy it while you can because they're going to forever change it.
If the owners are not careful here, I know it's ultimately the owners who vote, but so much of this, like everything else, is rooted in rather than taking a stand and believing in something, it's rooted in trying to figure out what the fans want or what the noisiest social do-gooders want and making them happy.
First rule in American football history limiting a runner's contact with a defender outside of egregious acts such as punching a tackler or grabbing the face mask.
So they went and they grabbed Emmett Smith, the Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys.
They got him on the radio down in Dallas and a co-host asked him, there's a new rule, Emmett, being proposed saying basically you can't put your head down as you plunge through the line.
You can't put your head down when you're about to be tackled.
You can't, here's Emmett Smith's react, a Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys.
As a running back, it's almost impossible because the first thing you do is get behind your shoulder pad.
And what that means is you're leaning forward, and the first part of content that's going to take place is going to be your head, regardless.
I disagree with the rule altogether.
It doesn't make any sense for that position.
It sounds like it's been made up by people that never played for vote.
I don't know how you're going to be able to enforce that rule without really jeopardizing the integrity of the game itself.
Exactly.
But did you note what he said here?
This is really crucial.
It sounds like the rule has been made up by people who've never played the game of football.
Just like it sounds like health care has been taken over in this country by people who have never had any experience in that business at all.
It's the same thing, folks.
If you think it's probably the best thing for the government to run healthcare, realize this.
From Obama on down, there isn't anybody outside of maybe a couple of doctors that are in Congress to have the slightest idea what they're doing.
They've never run insurance companies.
They've never run hospitals.
They don't know the first thing about insurance, medicine, treatment, any of the sort.
All they know is power.
All they know is arrogance.
They think they know how to do everything better than everybody else.
They have contempt for average people.
You don't know how to run your own life.
You don't know how to make the decisions to live a normal life.
You're just incompetent.
And here, Emmett Smith is based on what if people never played the game making this rule.
Because folks, trust me, go out and play football.
And not just with three or four people, go out and play football.
Get the ball in your hands.
Actually, try to simulate gaining yardage.
And you will find you instinctively lower your head whether you've been trained, coached, or not.
This is a rule that is the equivalent of saying don't think pink.
What are you thinking right now?
You're thinking pink.
It's just absurd.
And, of course, what Emmet is saying, here's the next Emmett bite.
He kept talking in his answer.
If I'm a running back and I'm running into a linebacker, you're telling me I got to keep my head up so he can take my chin off.
You absolutely lost your mind.
It's exactly right.
You've got to run through the line with your head up.
You get clotheslined, forearmed in the face, what have you.
Now, again, you can't find in a lot of American football websites very much about this, but it isn't being denied anywhere.
And I bring this up because once again, I want you to know, especially those of you who are new to the program, people new tuning in each and every day, listening for the first time.
And I want you to understand, particularly you low-information people out there, I want you to know that when I make a prediction about where we're headed, cutting edge, societal evolution, particularly when it involves liberals, when they've gotten their hands on something, don't doubt me.
And I warned everybody that the game of particularly National Football League was never going to be the same once they started focusing on trying to eliminate concussions and quote-unquote making the game safer.
No, no, I'm not in favor of the game being there, but the game is what it is.
You're either going to play it the way it is or you ban it.
But to try to change it this way, it's going to become something.
You may as well put flags on everybody and forget tackle football.
People are going to get hurt playing the game.
It's just the way it is.
But we live in a culture where nobody should ever get hurt doing anything.
Nobody should get hurt emotionally.
Nobody should ever get hurt physically.
Nobody should ever suffer.
Nobody should ever get depressed.
Nobody should ever feel any kind of pain in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And of course, if you don't, you're not living.
It's all part of the whole equation.
So, once again, it is what it is.
Speaking of football and radio, you know what I think they ought to do?
For those of you who play golf, you know what a gimme is?
You know what a gimme is?
Okay, so certainly goes to gimme it.
When you're on the green, you're putting and you're a foot, two feet, depending on who you're playing with.
I play with guys three feet's good.
Okay, that's good.
Pick it up.
Move on next haul.
Don't actually have to put it out.
Why don't we just say that if a team gets to the one-yard line, give them the touchdown.
Eliminate the one-yard plunge play where people get hurt, maybe.
Exactly, it would take away the most dramatic place of the game, but it would also take injuries out of the game.
And that's what we're trying to do.
We're trying to make it safe.
We're trying to make sure nobody gets hurt playing this game.
We're trying to take the roughness out of it, the barbarism out of it.
And so you get down the one-yard line, just a gimme.
Give them the touchdown.
Well, they're already, I mean, getting ready to ban the kickoff.
They're talking about banning the kickoff as well.
Now, Donovan McNabb, Donovan McNabb, the former quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, who finished his career with the Washington Redskins, is going to host his own radio talk show.
You know, it's getting to the point, folks, where it would take less time to mention all the people that don't have a show than it would to list all the people that do.
NBC Sports formally announced today that McNabb will co-host an NBC sports radio show with another former NFL quarterback, Mark Malone of the Steelers.
And it's going to run.
They're going to host out of Phoenix where they both live.
And it's an afternoon drive show, 2 to 6 p.m.
McNabb told USA Today, NBC's given me a platform to continue to expand in broadcasting with radio.
You don't want to just be stuck talking NFL.
We'll talk baseball, basketball, the Olympics, current events.
We are fans.
So McNabb and Mark Malone with their own radio talk show on NBC.
No.
I don't know anything about stations or any of that.
Okay, let's take a brief time out.
There was, I had the audio soundbites of this yesterday, and I didn't get to them.
There was a lot that I didn't get to yesterday.
Ted Cruz took Diane Feinstein to school on her assault weapons ban and she didn't like it.
Her feelings were hurt.
She was terribly upset and has said so today.
We had the Cruz Feinstein soundbites from yesterday, so we're going to recycle them today, coupled with her reaction.
We've got some of the stuff coming up from C-SPAN that we want to talk about.
And there's all kinds of exciting stuff to do.
Open Line Friday.
You sit tight.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
Don't go away.
I have to be in my best behavior today, folks.
We have some guests here at the EIB Southern Command, honored winners of the latest Dream Package Prize from our 2F My Tea sweepstakes.
We've got six fantastic people from across the fruited plain living their dream here watching the EIB network today.
They're right there on the other side of the glass.
They all had their photo taken sitting here at the Golden EIB microphone before the program.
And what an attractive bunch of people they are.
I mean, it's a cross-section of this country.
They're just solid, great-looking group of people, which is what comes from drinking 2F by Tea.
Look what it's done for me.
And it's done the same thing for them.
And they are there, and we're happy to have them here.
And it's always a fun thing to do to be able to bring people, listen to the program in here.
And actually, I've always said radio is not to be seen.
It's to be heard.
But this program is a little bit different.
Now, CPAC, I don't know if you get this same impression, but it seems to me that the drive-bys are spending more time covering everything at CPAC this year than they normally do.
Now, C-SPAN is there for the most part, wall-to-wall every year.
But some of these cable networks are also going wall to wall with it.
There is a fascination what's happening there.
And it's actually good because there are a lot of really, really great future stars that are on display, and they're not holding back.
Rubio was fabulous.
Allen West was fabulous to kick the whole thing off.
Rick Perry.
Rick Perry yesterday just tore the place up.
He said the popular narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals as evidenced by the last two presidential elections.
That's what they think.
That's what they say.
And that might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012, but they didn't.
So Rick Perry slamming McCain and slamming Romney, saying they're not conservative.
Then Pat Cadell, and we have, this is unfortunate.
We have scoured everywhere.
We called C-SPAN.
We looked at every cable network.
We cannot find any video to call audio from of Pat Cadell.
But Pat Cadell blew the place up as well.
Now, he's a Fox News contributor, a Democrat pollster.
He worked for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
And he's still a Democrat.
He's a frustrated Democrat, but he still is.
And he blew the lid off of CPAC two days ago.
And his message was that the Republican consultants class is taking the party down the tubes, that they're making filthy amounts of money, $150 million a campaign, whether the candidate wins or loses.
And it's a closed set, so to speak.
It's a very close-knit, closed group, these consultants, and they trade candidates and candidacies from year to year, and they go back and forth.
They're all moderates.
None of them are really conservative.
They say they are.
They think they've got the recipe.
Now, what I told you about all these consultants, what they do, the way they approach all these Republicans, is they say it's independence where elections are won.
Now, keep this in mind, folks, because this whole theory was also blown up in the last election.
They go to the candidate, look, independence.
You know that the Democrats are going to get their Democrat voters, and you're going to get your Republican, the independence.
And I'm the guy.
I'm the consultant that can devise the strategy in the ad campaign to get the independent.
And the candidates fall for it year after year after year.
More coming up.
Don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Folks, I made an error.
I have to correct here.
This will not take away from my opinion accuracy because this was not an opinion.
I said that McNabb finished his career with the Redskins, and I was wrong.
He finished his career with the Vikings.
So he finished with two teams that have racist mascots, according to the politically correct crowd.
And I forgot it.
He went one in five with the Vikings, which is why I forgot it.
But that's something I wanted to correct.
Now, back to this consultant business.
You know, we discuss this, I don't know how often, but frequently on this program.
And there's a formula that these guys use, and they pitch these candidates with the formula, and the candidates seem to routinely go for it.
And the formula is this.
The Democrats are automatically going to get 40% of the vote.
That's their base.
The Republicans are going to automatically get 40% of the vote, their base.
Grand total, 80.
And therefore, every election is won.
But who gets the majority of that 20%?
And that is why we end up being so frustrated with Republican campaigns.
It's by definition they're not going to campaign as conservatives.
They think people in the middle, these great moderate independents, aren't conservative.
And furthermore, they think that conservatism scares these people.
And they make no effort to educate or inform or correct that impression.
They just accept it and then proceed on the assumption that these people in the 20% don't have any core principles or beliefs.
And so you've got to go out and buy their votes or cajole them one way or the other.
And so they go to the candidates, say, look, we're the guys that know best how to get that 20%.
Now, we got the right ad campaigns.
We've got the great polling units.
We do the focus groups.
And the candidates fall for it.
And so every presidential campaign ends up being about 20% of the vote, at least on our side.
And the assumption is made that the conservative wing is going to automatically vote for the Republican candidate.
So no effort is made.
And that's exactly what did Romney in in 2012.
This theory that these guys have was blown through the roof.
Romney won independence over Obama by double digits and lost the election.
That's never been done before.
Usually, whoever does win the independence wins, but you must also get your base out at the same time.
So Romney, toward the end of the campaign, put on the brakes.
After that first debate with Obama, they convinced him, back off, you've made your point.
You know, we watch a show on Sunday night called A Good Wife, and this whole thing was depicted in last Sunday night's episode of The Good Wife.
The current state attorney, just out of jail, one, he's an Elliott Spitzer type, but he's back into politics.
Chris North, Mr. Big, sex in the city, is who plays the role.
He's a current state attorney.
He's running for governor.
He's got a female opponent.
His campaign consultant's in trouble with the law and is off the job.
And he's hired some new hotshot kid to be his campaign consultant.
This guy's advising him in a debate with the female candidate.
Just don't respond to any of her attacks.
You can't hit the woman.
You cannot be aggressive when she accuses you of something.
Smile, let it go by.
Trust me.
Don't doubt me.
And we're watching this, and I hit the pause as we're watching.
I turned to Catherine.
I said, this is exactly what happens.
They've got it, and this is a program not made for conservatives, but this is exactly what happens.
Well, anyway, the candidate's wife, Juliana Margulies, shows up, watches this debate, and can't believe what she's seeing.
Her husband's behaving like a wuss, behaving like a wimp.
And she's, come on, Peter, come on, Peter, fight back on this to fight back.
Then they have a break in the debate.
They have a snarky female moderator, have a break.
It's a long enough break for this guy to call the old consultant who's in trouble with the law and is no longer on the job.
But the wife insists that he call the old consultant.
So he does.
The new consultant is very jealous and very paranoid, tries to find out what's being discussed.
The wife distracts him.
The candidate calls the old consultant and he tells him what to do.
And it's basically go for the throat, go for the juggler, point out her hypocrisy.
She's not who she says she is.
Doesn't matter whether she's a woman, go for it.
Then he said, don't ever let her show up in the same camera frame.
Don't let her follow you around.
Don't approach her, but don't let her follow you around.
Well, how do I do that?
He said, you stay on the edges of the stage where the cameras cannot possibly get both of you in the frame at the same time without her looking like she's a puppy dog.
So he does all that and just wipes the floor with her.
And it was an exact depiction of what obviously happens in Republican candidacies now.
So this, you know, don't do anything to make the independents mad.
I don't know about you, but this has been something that irritates me because it's a liberal trick.
Don't criticize Obama.
Oh, people don't want to hear that.
No, be conciliatory.
Talk about bipartisanship.
Talk about compromise.
Talk about working and crossing the aisle and all that.
That's what people want.
And I've always been confused by it because we're told that anytime a Republican gets aggressive, anytime a Republican starts attacking or trying to define his opponent, the independents get scared to death and they're going to run right back to the arms of the Democrat candidate.
Except the problem I've always had is that Democrats are the meanest, most extreme, insufferable.
There's nothing nice about them.
They never talk about bipartisan.
Well, Obama talks about it.
That's the key.
But they're not interested in it.
They never compromise.
They don't do anything.
And look at how they talk about Republicans.
Somehow that doesn't scare the Independents.
The Democrats can say anything in the world about our candidates.
They can lie about it.
He can accuse Romney of letting a guy's wife die with cancer.
He can accuse Romney of not caring about his dog and putting him on a roof of the family sedan on a vacation.
He can accuse Romney of not paying his taxes, hiding money in the cayman.
Somehow that never, never bothers the independents.
But they convinced Romney: if you go after Obama on Benghazi, the independents are going to like it.
You just don't do it.
So Romney sat there and wanted to prevent defense after the first debate.
And you know what happened?
He won the Independence, just like these brainy acts said.
He won the Independence double digits, but 4 million conservatives sat home and didn't vote.
If the consultants had had a different theory, if Romney had followed his instincts a little bit more, I know he wanted to go after Obama.
There's nobody in the world that doesn't.
It's just everybody's been scared off of it because of race, the allegation of racism.
So he dialed it back, and we all see the result.
And what happened with that is that the conservative base said, you know, well, I'm not fired up here.
There's no reason.
They're fed up.
They send all the money to the Republican Party.
They get nothing back for it.
So they just stayed home.
Now, some of you might say, but didn't they realize what absolute disaster, four more years of Obama?
Yeah, I think they did, but they had so much more negative emotion aimed at the Republicans than they did at Obama.
So they sat home.
And Obama got many millions fewer voters in 2012 than he did in 2008.
And Romney got 4 million fewer Republican votes than McCain did.
That's hard to do, but he did it.
And if that hadn't happened, we would be talking about President Romney today.
So this is what, you know, Cadell and the rest of these guys are watching all this, and they're beside themselves.
They cannot understand how this continues to happen while Republicans continue to lose.
And while it all goes on, the consultants are getting rich to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars rich.
One of the ways it works is that the consultant gets the advertising commission.
Every dollar spent on advertising, there's a 15% sales commission on it that the advertising agency gets.
In this case, the consultant is the agency.
So if the consultant decides, you know, we're going to spend, we're going to spend, I'll pick a number, $100 million on advertising.
He's writing a check to himself for $15 million.
And it doesn't matter whether a candidate wins or loses.
And it doesn't matter whether the ads are any good.
So this is what Cadell, this is the foundation for Cadell's speech at CPAC.
And he launched.
He said, I blame the donors who allow themselves to be played for marks.
I blame the people in the grassroots for allowing themselves to be played for suckers.
It's time to stop being marks.
It's time to stop being suckers.
It's time for you people to get real.
And the audience, he was on a panel with two Republican consultants.
And then he said this.
And like I said, we searched around the world for video and audio of this to let you hear it in his own words.
We can't find it.
I don't think there is any.
He said, when you have the chief of staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for their fantastic get out the vote program, some of this borders on RICO violations.
Racketeering is what Cadell essentially is accusing these people of engaging in.
Get out the vote program.
There is nobody that deserved a dime for the Republican get out the vote program.
Yet 4 million Republicans sit home.
What get out the vote program?
No, no, I know I'm making myself a huge target of the consultants, but this is not the first time.
They haven't, they don't, they're not big fans of mine anyway.
They're not big fans of conservatives anyway.
I mean, the consultant class was among the group of people leading the charge.
The era of Reagan is over.
Why do you need a consultant?
If you've got a blueprint that shows how to win two landslides and it's the Reagan campaign, you don't need a consultant, right?
You just got to figure out what did Reagan do and emulate it.
You know, make adjustments for the changing demographic of the changing electorate.
But basically, you run a campaign of core beliefs and principles, and you don't do demographic.
When you start, when you as a political party reach out with a different message for that group and a different message for this group, which is what the consultants advise.
Okay, you're going to talk to Hispanics and let them know you're for amnesty.
You're going to try to get the women's vote.
Let them know that you're a little maybe open-minded.
You maybe might not got to fight Roe versus Wade so much.
In the meantime, you rip the core foundation right out from underneath your party.
And what do you do?
You fragment.
Fragment the party and you blow it.
That's exactly what has happened here.
Because there's not, I don't think the party knows what it is anymore.
It's certainly not confident where it is.
And so a totally defensive posture.
And in many cases, this is the attitude that is transferred to these campaigns.
Cadell said, the Republican Party is in the grips of what I call the CLEC, C-L-E-C, the Consultant Lobbyist Establishment Complex.
And he described the consultant lobbyist establishment complex as a self-serving, interconnected network of individuals and organizations interested in preserving their own power far more than they are interested in winning elections.
And he said, to prove it, just follow the money.
It's all there in the newspaper.
The way it works is this.
Ever since we centralize politics in Washington, the House Campaign Committee, the Senate Campaign Committee, they decide who they think should run.
You hire these people on the accredited consultant list.
Otherwise, we won't give you any money.
You hire my friend around.
What he means is, you got some senator will run the Senate, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Job is to get as many Republicans elected to the Senate as possible.
So candidate Ted Cruz, just pick a name, is running for the Senate in Texas.
So what happens is the Washington-based party goes to Cruz and said, here, hire this consultant, or we're not going to give you any money.
Now, I don't know if this happened with Cruz.
I'm just using him as an example.
He's a well-known name, and he ran and he won.
The way it works is here, hire this consultant, and we'll make sure you get the money.
It's a very closed group.
And so what Cadell is alleging here is that the most important thing in a campaign is hiring the consultant.
That's how you get campaign contributions.
The consultant gets paid, and that's how we all stay in business.
And whether or not you win the election, it's an afterthought.
That's what he's accusing these people of.
And that's what he said in his CPAC speech.
And he wasn't even through.
He had more.
I just have to take an obscene profit timeout, but I'll continue with this so we get back.
Don't go away.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
El Rushpoe here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Open Line Friday.
I'm going to get back to the Path Cadell CPAC speech because there's just a couple more items, but it is Open Line Friday.
And we always try to take at least one phone call in the first hour.
And it's Tom in Long Island, on Long Island.
Tom, great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to know why do you think that the media focus on safety in the NFL is orders of magnitude higher than in the NHL?
Let me ask you a question in reaction.
It's not quite the perfect announcement.
Well, why they're focusing on the NFL, the NHL, is a far, far, far bigger audience.
Far, far, far more money.
NFL is the biggest sport, biggest athletic business in the country by far.
It's not even close.
You have to hunt for hockey games on TV.
NFL people make appointments.
But why all the regulation in the NFL?
Let me ask you this.
Have you ever thought why a year or two ago, no matter where you went, every business was focusing on how green it is?
They'd have green sales and they would brag about their new environmental regulations in the stores.
And you wonder why that happened.
Sure.
I mean, just marketing reasons.
It's because the people that are in charge of marketing and want to move product believe that the people, their customers, care about this.
They believe that they can separate people from their money by convincing them they care about the environment.
So the left sets the agenda on these things.
The left and the media gets everybody worked up into a frenzy over these things.
They're going to kill us, hurt us, destroy us, harm us, make us sad, what have you.
It's all our fault.
Here's how you can fix it.
Give up a little of your freedom, let government grow, pay more taxes, and you'll be safe and you'll never die.
It's the same thing with the NFL.
There's a gigantic lawsuit, thousands of players suing them, claiming they didn't know how dangerous it was.
They were never told they could get concussions.
Well, you know, once the trial lawyers start coming after you, you've got to make some changes to limit the awards that might come down your way.
It's a hideous thing.
And all this is, I mean, it's simplistic to say this is what happens when people on the left get their hooks into something, want to reform it and change it, make it so that they approve of it.
It's over.
If the NFL doesn't set itself up as some individual entity and tell these people to stuff it, we know our business, the game's never going to be the same.
Mark my words.
By the way, they are going to crack down on hockey.
I didn't mean to give hockey a pass.
It's going to be the next target.
They're already looking at it now.
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