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April 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Have a question, ladies and gentlemen.
What happened to the Barack Obama of last week?
Last week, Barack Obama talking about what happened in Boston said, if we can save just one child.
If we can save just one child, and today Obama goes and celebrates an abortion factory.
and closes by saying God bless you to Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood Governor of Massachusetts is not going to release the welfare records of the Sanaya brothers.
Deval Patrick said, nope, I'm going to keep those welfare records under wraps.
And nothing to see here, and nothing for anybody to learn about the welfare records of Tamerlin and Jokar Sanaev.
Nothing to see here.
Let's move on.
Great to have you back, folks.
It's L. Rushball, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and we are here on Open Line Friday, where when we go to the calls, whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy.
Telephone numbers 800 282882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Just to wrap up this Duck Dynasty business.
Duck Dynasty, the highest rated show on TV Wednesday night.
All TV.
Highest rated.
Not just cable.
Its numbers were bigger than Survivor on CBS, bigger than American Idol on Fox, and the numbers weren't even close.
Duck Dynasty.
If you haven't seen it, when you do watch it, I downloaded about eight episodes flying out of town today, and I may watch some on the uh on the airplane.
Well, hey, this is a big show.
I've uh we gotta get in on it.
I've seen I watched 10 minutes of an episode a day where one of the stars is teaching his daughter to parallel park in a in a it looks like the town dump, and they're using uh garbage cans as the parking space.
And there's six or seven guys on a concrete restraining wall watching, chewing and spitting tobacco, uh making jokes about her inability to parallel park and making jokes about the father who's the star of the show, trying to teach her.
And uh you watch this and you won't know whether it's ratings are high because people relate to it or they're laughing at it.
You won't know.
It's on the AE Network, Arts and Entertainment.
Now, the uh Walking Dead is on AMC.
You know, AE, Arts Entertainment, that A E was supposed to be like a PBS.
Very, very highbrow, supposed to be high-toned uh anthology of high art.
Opera, uh, introduced by movie stars that didn't last long.
And then they got into the biography uh business.
By the way, if if the Sanaev brothers remembers the Tea Party, do you think the governor of Massachusetts be holding that information back?
I doubt it.
But the governor of Massachusetts is withholding the welfare records of the Sernayev brothers.
The father, just so you know, for those of you who are gonna take time and watch this show, Duck Dynasty, the father of the Duck Dynasty fan.
They're multi-millionaires.
Let me tell you something.
I have watched episodes of the real housewives of, and that's just, if not more so.
Mr. Snerdley, it's show prep, yes.
Uh, I've I've not watched whole season.
Uh I get scared watching this stuff.
I mean, I'm uh you watch the real housewives of Orange County, New York, and you find out that there are people who do not know anything about what's going on in this country, and they don't care.
They are oblivious, they're totally disconnected.
The things they're worried about, uh, we should be so fortunate to be worried about the things they're worried about, the manicure, what they're gonna wear for a cocktail party with their ex-wife or hook.
I it just anyway, it's a total disconnect.
The father of the duck dynasty family, Phil, has a master's degree in education.
The CEO of the duck business, Willie has an MBA, and all their sons are college educated.
They're multi-millionaires by virtue of manufacturing duck calls, the things that duck hunters put in their mouths and imitate duck sounds with.
And that's the appeal.
It's a reality show.
It's a half-hour show, so each episode is 22 minutes.
What is give us 20 minutes, we'll give you the world.
Take 20 minutes and you can learn Duck Dynasty.
Immigration bill to bring in at least 33 million people, says group.
This is Neil Munro, the White House correspondent forced to run for his life after asking Obama a question at an outdoor rose garden event, you remember this daily caller.
The pending Senate immigration bill, a gang of eight immigration bill, would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade.
According to an analysis by Numbers USA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate by 2024.
The inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children dubbed dreamers, and about 3.4 million company sponsored employees with university degrees.
The uh number that everybody is hearing is 11 million.
Now, can you know this is interesting, too, by the way.
In 2007 and 2008, 2009, whenever this subject came up, amnesty, pathway to citizenship, immigration, the numbers were always 12 to 20 million.
Remember that.
And in some cases higher, but they're routinely, I mean the numbers used by the drive-bys, the numbers used by members of Congress, 20 million.
And I remember at those times, 2007, 2008, 2009, say, well, if they're up there admitting 20 million, it's got to be probably more than that.
Remember, this is since 1986, and the amnesty bill then was supposed to give us border control and shut it down.
So the number of illegals since 1986 is what we're talking about here.
Now, all of a sudden, when the Gang of Eight bill comes up, the number's 11 million.
And I'm sorry, I should have mentioned this at the beginning when I first heard this, because it didn't make sense to me.
I'd never heard a number that low.
When discussing amnesty and how many illegals are here and how many we're talking about.
The number's always been between 12 and 20 million.
And now all of a sudden it's just 11.
I say just 11 by virtue of comparison.
But maybe we're being snowed on that number two, just like we were snowed on the number of homeless, like saying 3 million homeless, it was 500,000 back in the late 80s, early 90s, when that was a big issue.
Find a homeless census, found out 500,000 Americans were homeless, not 3 million.
Well, this illegal number, 11 million, that's the lowest number that the smallest number anybody's ever been using.
And obviously, 11 million is a little more palatable than 20 million, obviously making it easier to sell.
But now this group, numbers USA says over a 10-year period, we're talking about 33 million people.
So right there, if that number's right, we're talking, according to polling data that exists today, out of 33 million people over 10 years, 25 million of them would be Democrats.
And 8 million would be Republicans, according to polling data today.
So if you want to look at it that way, over 10 years, 25 million new Democrats.
It's like the political said last week, folks, that's the end of the Republican Party.
That that wipes it out.
For a generation.
The politico wrote that story, the end of the Republican Party for, and grab grab submit number three.
Senator McCain yesterday in Washington, this was at a Christian science monitor breakfast.
Senator McCain talking about immigration reform.
I believe if we pass this legislation, it won't gain us a single Hispanic vote.
But what it will do, it will put us on a playing field where we can compete.
Right now we cannot compete.
It is a demographic certainty that if we are condemn ourselves to 15, 20, 25 percent of the Hispanic vote, we will not win elections.
It will put us on a playing field where we can make an argument for smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, pro-life, pro defense, etc.
That's the argument that I think we can make to gain Hispanic support.
Well, all good and well, but why don't you do that now?
Why do we have to wait to make those arguments until amnesty has occurred?
Why can't we start talking about lowering taxes right now?
We got the perfect opportunity for it with this internet sales tax bill.
Why not talk about less regulation now?
Why not be pro-life now?
Why not be pro-defense now?
Why wait until amnesty for all that?
Seriously.
And he says, if we pass the legislation, we're not going to gain a single Hispanic vote, but it will make us able to.
Does Senator McCain not know what he's doing here?
Does he not know what this sounds like?
Senator McCain is he's buying hook line and sinker.
The only reason to do amnesty is that Hispanics don't like us, but if we do amnesty, they will.
And then once they like us, we at least have a chance to make our case to them.
But until we legalize the people who are here illegally, we can't make our case to them.
I'm sorry, once again, I, El Rushbo, don't get it.
I do not understand this.
Well, no, I do.
But I mean, I this is all being done because McCain and the boys are being told by whoever that Hispanics hate them because they're Republicans.
And Hispanics hate them because they're Republicans, because they somehow don't want to let people skirt the law.
So if we are front and center on an immigration bill which basically does pathway to citizenship, amnesty, whatever, now they'll like us.
And then we'll have a shot at them.
But we don't even have a shot at them now because they don't even like us.
You know, I came in here.
I uh I was actually feeling up and and good today.
And as this goes on, folks, I don't know.
I'm starting to lose it.
I'm starting to lose it.
Something to point out here on amnesty, uh PEF way to citizenship, according to the Investors Business Daily, and we trust those guys.
They point out that 40% of the 12 million illegal immigrants the bill gives amnesty to are not from Mexico.
They're not just Mexicans.
They are foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas.
And that would include tens of thousands of people, Saudis, uh people from Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, And Europeans, too.
Not just Mexicans that we're talking about here.
The pro-amnesty people say all this is gonna make us safer.
Here's uh John in Rockland, New York, as we go back to the phones on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hey Russ, thanks for the call.
You better.
I just wanted to comment on um, you know, uh this war that we're having with uh Islam, and it is a war.
It's a war that's been going on, but it's not new to the United States.
We we fought in Tripoli, that's what Tripoli was all about.
Um and for the for the Muslim nation in itself, I mean, it goes back to the seven hundred uh seven hundredth century.
This is new.
Um the Quran is pretty specific.
I mean, we're a Christian, we're a Christian nation, whether people believe it or not.
And um, and that in itself, right there makes us an infidel.
And the only way this is ever going to change is unless we change the mindset of the Muslim religion.
Or our own.
Oh, definitely our own.
And if we would adopt Sharia, it would end.
Oh, yes, you would not in not immediately, but but that we we could we could end it pretty quickly by adopting Sharia.
Yes, but uh the I just urge all Americans out there to to start researching, go back and look at history, because it's all there in history, and just to be reminded of the.
Yeah, you're right.
Our first foreign war, Thomas Jefferson sounded the warning bells about it.
The Barbary Pirates.
That's correct.
Thank you.
Okay.
Barbary pirates and and uh our our first war was with Muslims.
You should go back and read what Jefferson said.
Jefferson, don't get just just leave them alone.
Don't take them on when you have to, but leave them alone.
Essentially.
Back in the in the days of the of the founding, look, this the the Muslims fight amongst each other, too.
You've got the Sunnis and the Shiites uh in Iran and Iraq.
But this is like anything else.
It's like the Middle East peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
That's been going on since before you and I were conceived.
It it's biblical, and it's not gonna end until one side defeats the other.
There isn't gonna be a negotiated peace.
It might be for a day, but not a um solution, and maybe Sharia wouldn't fix it, folks, because the Sunnis kill the Shiites, and they both have Sharia.
So I get your point.
The point is that there's there's there's no negotiation here.
And that's true of any conflict involving nations, peoples, uh, what have you, of this size and type.
Albert, San Jose, California.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I had two questions regarding um the immigration bill.
Um, and I haven't heard a lot of people talk about it, but I know you will know the answer.
Um specifically, what do you think the reaction of the GOP base will be if the immigration bill is passed?
And then the second question is if they do sit out like they did the last election, what do you think the reaction of the GOP leaders will be?
Well, thanks, Rush.
In the in okay, the first question j just so you know, Ted Cruz is right.
The amnesty bill, the the piece of legislation that's sponsored by the gang of eight, is not supposed to pass right now.
What is supposed to happen is it's supposed to sail through the Democrat House, then reach the Republican-controlled House and be voted down.
At which time Obama and the Democrats begin campaigning for the House in 2014 by claiming the Republicans hate Mexicans, hate Hispanics, hate freedom, uh mean-spirited, racist, sexists, all this kind of stuff.
That was also supposed to happen with the gun control bill.
A gun control bill is supposed to sail through the Senate, and then the Republicans in the House were supposed to defeat it.
So the Democrats could say Republicans love guns, they love murder, they love people getting killed, they love the NRA, blah, blah, blah.
But The Democrats confounded them.
Now, if Amnesty were to be passed.
And by the way, Albert, who cares about the GOP base anyway.
If if people cared about the GOP base, this wouldn't even be up for discussion.
Because this, if if this if Amnesty passes, there will be no GOP.
That's it.
The base will disintegrate in terms of support for the Republican Party.
And even if the base doesn't, you've got millions of new Democrat voters.
It's it's Republican Party suicide.
That's what I don't understand any of this.
Thank you.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It is open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
National Football League.
Is it over?
And nobody knows it yet.
A case can be made.
And if said case can be made, it is I who can and will make it.
Let's begin with this piece in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday by John Cass.
Headline American football industry is on its deathbed.
With all a college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multi-billion dollar.
American football industry.
But here's something football fans should know.
Football is dead in America.
Even though all the chatter and cheerleading and media hype, even through all that, football as an American cultural institution lies in final spasm.
It is as dead as the Marlborough man.
And if the professional game survives it all, it'll be relegated to the pile of trash sports.
Mixed martial arts or whatever is done in third-rate arenas with monster trucks and mud.
It won't be as American as Apple Pie.
Instead, football will become the province of people with face tattoos.
Lawyers are circling football now.
For years they've had their wings locked, cruising overhead, but lately they've swooped in low.
Landing and hopping over to take chunks out of the great billion-dollar beast.
But it's not the lawyers who are the death of football.
Blaming lawyers misses the point.
Like their counterparts in nature, lawyers are merely the cleanup crew.
When you see the lawyers show up, you know something's finished.
And what finishes football are the parents of future football players.
The NFL desperately needs American parents, not as fans, but as suppliers of young players.
The NFL needs parents to send their little kids into the football feeder system.
And without that supply, the youth teams, high school and college, there can be no professional football.
And yet every day, more American parents decide they're finished with football.
Why?
Because parents can no longer avoid the fact that football scrambles the human brain.
In cultural terms, parents who send their 10-year-olds to play football might as well hold up signs saying they'd like to give their kids cigarettes and whiskey.
What I'm just telling you, here you've got a football-loving media guy who derives his living from covering the game.
And you can see where this is headed.
Told you this.
When was it when I first made this prediction?
This was all going to start happening.
Sometime it was a year ago, nine months ago I made this prediction.
Anyway.
Make no mistake, Mr. Cass writes, I loved football.
I loved it desperately.
Even now.
Forty years later, I remember endlessly damning myself for being too small to play it at a big time college.
I ached for it.
I ached for the violence of it, for the training, the salt pills, and no water on hot August fields, the helmet scabs on the forehead, but mostly the collisions, and I still love it.
But I can't shake the guilt of supporting the physical ruin of great athletes.
My wife and I would not let our sons play.
We just couldn't.
He can't shake the guilt of supporting the physical ruin of great athletes.
Can you see now where this is headed?
Future historians may explain all of this in terms of cultural change of more information about concussions, spinal cord injuries, paralysis, brain damage, and another football killer, taxpayer liability.
Some 4,000 former NFL players have joined lawsuits against the league for allegedly hiding the dangers to the brain.
This follows a rash of depression-related suicides, with some players shooting themselves in the chest so that their brains could be studied after their deaths.
One of these was the great Chicago Bear safety Dave Doerson.
He left a suicide note asking that doctors examine what was in his skull after a lifetime of bashing it.
College players have also filed suit.
Eventually, lawsuits are going to overwhelm the high schools, and high school superintendents won't be able to increase property taxes to pay for the additional cost of subsidizing the game.
Joseph Siprett, lawyer representing a former Eastern Illinois University player, said the idea that five years ago I would have forbidden my kids to play football is hard to imagine.
It never would have occurred to me, now given what I know about the concussion issue.
First, as a lawyer who has litigation, but also as someone who reads the papers, for me as a parent, I don't think I would ever let my kids set foot on a football field, ever.
Now, football may hang on for a few years, hang on desperately like a cat, dying under a backyard deck, hissing as it goes.
Billions of dollars at stake here.
Feeding owners, players, agents, advertisers, journalists, most importantly, bookies.
The NFL's about gambling.
The game's not a contact sport.
It is a high-impact collision sport.
It's about exploding into your opponent, refusing to break, while breaking others to your will and knocking them senseless.
Shudder at the thought.
All sports can be dangerous.
They involve physical spiritual risk, but football's different from other team sports.
It is designed to slam body against body and often head slams against head.
And no way to alter this fact.
There's no way to spin it, and no way to change it, I might add.
So if you're wondering about the future of football during the NFL draft, try this experiment.
Ask the parents of a little boy about tackle football, about concussions, and look into their eyes when they speak.
That's John Cass, Chicago Tribune.
A couple of days ago.
Let me add to this.
Precisely because Mr. Cass is not alone in his thoughts here.
His thoughts represent the thinking of a number of people.
An increasing number of people.
And I know some of you, when when I inject politics into things, you know, come on, come on, rest at football.
You have to put politics.
I'm not the one doing it for.
This is what you must understand.
I get up here every day, I read, I study, I look.
I defend, I react to the political efforts of the left.
If People in this country were aware of how the left, the Democrat Party for lack of a better word, politicizes everything.
We would be so far ahead of the game and they would be losing so many elections.
I'm not the one politicizing this.
I'm telling you how they are.
And sure as I'm sitting here, the American left is going to try to kill this game.
Mr. Cass says it's over now.
Just nobody knows it yet.
Because parents now know that the game destroys their kids' brains.
Suicides, early death, paralysis, other disabilities.
And it's gonna be.
It's gonna be the left and lawyers carrying the water on this.
They're gonna first try changing the rules, make the game safer, take the head out of it, which they're already doing.
That's gonna make the game less exciting.
And at some point, fan interest will decline.
It's gonna be slow.
It's not gonna happen this season.
But I see it almost like the NFL going the way of the GOP, in a sense.
The liberals are gonna demand that football, high school, college, NFL, make all these changes to improve the game.
And the NFL, out of the same kind of fear, the GOP experiences will acquiesce.
The GOP is told that they are mean spirited, rotten to the core when it comes to Hispanics and women.
And if they don't change, they're never gonna get the support of those people, right?
You heard McCain.
McCain said, I believe if we pass this amnesty legislation, it's not going to gain us a single vote.
But what it will do will put us on the playing field where we can compete, and then we can get into our agenda.
Once we've convinced them that we do like them.
Well, why does McCain think Hispanics don't like them?
Because the Democrats in the media are telling him that.
And all these other people in the Republican Party, women don't like him because of abortion.
Hispanics don't like him because of immigration.
This group doesn't like the Republicans because of this issue or what have you, and it's all oriented toward getting the Republican Party to do what?
Basically write itself out of existence.
You think the Democrat Party wants to save the Republican Party?
You think the Democrat Party wants to share some of its voters with the Republicans?
You think the Democrat Party is saying you guys better wise up on Hispanic, you guys better support Amnesty.
You think the Democrats really want Republicans getting Hispanic voters?
Or do you think it's more likely that the Democrats and the media would be urging Republicans to take action that will destroy their chances to get voters that vote Democrat?
What's more likely here?
The same tactic is going to be used on the NFL, guilt on the owners, what they're doing to the players, what they're doing to American parents.
Because at the end of the day, the NFL is what?
It's big corporation.
And corporations aren't people, right?
The NFL is a giant corporate entity.
And what does it do?
It maims its employees.
Big oil wants to poison the world and kill the climate, right?
And big pharmaceutical wants to kill its customers and overcharge them, right?
Isn't this the meme?
I'm not the one that makes this up.
This is what the liberal Democrats say.
You take a look at their enemies' list, and it's every corporation.
Walmart, you name it.
All the media covering the game themselves liberals will Fall unwittingly right in line, supporting every move to change and weaken the game under the guise of safety and removing risk and taking the masculinity out of it.
I will concede most people think I'm all wet.
Dead wrong.
Rush, this could never happen to the NFA.
It's never.
The owners are going to wise up soon enough.
I hope they do.
Rush, the fans are never going to create too that's too much money.
The people just not going to sit around and let themselves be put out of business.
Uh is not every American corporation bending over and grabbing the ankles on this environmental stuff.
Are they not being forced to manufacture product nobody wants?
Out of fear of an all-powerful regulating, punishing federal government.
And meanwhile, 200 million dollars in loans to what was it, Fisker, and not one car has been built.
I'm just I'm just telling you the left has got the NFL in its crosshairs now.
And yes, it is the left.
And they disguise themselves well.
They're concerned about safety and uh uh prolonging life and stopping injuries and all that.
And I'm there's nothing immediate.
This is gonna be a slow, slow process.
But don't forget, it's not just me.
This guy from the Chicago Tribune, he thinks it's already over and nobody knows it yet.
And he's right, five years ago, nobody can even conceive what's happened now.
We don't know that suicides are taking place because of hit it.
We don't know that for sure, but everybody now assumes it.
Junior say, I'll do her so we don't know for sure.
But just like global warming is a total lie, when the left wants something, when they want to affect change, when they want to control it.
Who cares about truth and accuracy or any of that?
Got to take a break, open line Friday, back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Look, I don't want to be right about this.
Don't misunderstand.
Snerdley's arguing with me like you can't.
He said Rush, and Snerdley's got some good points.
The players aren't going to go along with this.
This is the this is the gateway that so many of these players have to having successful lives.
You take this away from them, and what have they got?
They're not gonna, the players are not gonna put up with the league going out of business.
There are 4,000 players in a class action suit wanting a check because they were lied to.
Claim they were lied to about the uh the risks involved.
That's not incidental.
That's not just a class action suit of 4,000, but it doesn't mean anything.
Um I uh people are telling me that football is too patriotic, you're gonna have to take America out of it.
I hope I'm wrong about this.
I'm just telling you that I see the forces of the left marshaling here.
I see them getting in and the the Redskins names all part of it.
Trying to change that, it's all part of it.
Now I understand for a lot of players, this is it.
This is their game.
You watch, you know, it's it's it really is touching to watch the first round of the NFL draft.
Because these players, for the most part, are coming from very depressed economic backgrounds, and they're chosen in the first round, and that's their ticket, and they've got their parents there, they've got their family.
It is the biggest day of their lives.
You can they they have tears coming down their cheeks.
There, it is the happiest.
It is a culmination.
Football's hard.
It is first round draft being chosen.
It is the culmination of hard work.
They have dedicated them.
These players have their dreams too.
They haven't changed.
And so people, that These guys are never going to sit around and let that be taken away from them.
I hope that I'm wrong about this.
I didn't want global warming to get this far along.
I didn't want the left to get halfway where they are.
I hope I'm dead wrong about my uh football prediction, and I hope that Cass is wrong.
The Tribune guy.
Liberalism scrambles the brain more than football, as far as I'm concerned.
If you're worried about the brain, if you're worried about what's happening to people's ability to function, ban liberalism, not football.
It was December 14th of 2011, a year and a half ago, when I made my prediction that there would be members of the new Castrati pipe up and say that the game should be banned.
And that has happened.
There have already been such people of note who have suggested the game be banned.
Anyway, one hour of open line Friday remains.
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