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July 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, I know that Cookie is monitoring the Obama speech and is in the process of preparing audio sound bites, but during the top of the hour.
I just heard Obama himself articulate the limbaugh theorem.
I mean, he didn't use those words, of course.
He's out there in Galesville, Illinois, and he's talking about the economy and how we've got to get things rolling again, finally.
And he said, Washington has taken its eye off the ball, and it has to stop.
He's not in Washington, you see.
He has nothing to do with what is happening in Washington.
Obama has nothing to do with what's gone on in Washington.
But Washington has taken its eye off the ball.
Washington hasn't been paying any attention to the economy.
And it's got to stop.
Washington has been focusing on the IRS.
Washington has been focusing on Benghazi.
Washington's been focusing on Trayvon Martin.
Washington's been focusing on all of these, and it's time to start.
It's got to stop.
Washington's got to start caring about you again, is what he said.
He's he's it's just.
Oh, folks, it's just amazing.
I mean, it's the limbaugh theorem right out of his mouth.
Washington has taken its eye off the ball, and it has to stop.
Washington has not been paying enough attention to the economy.
Washington has been spending all its time on all of these things that don't really matter to people, and it's gotta stop.
He's also apparently President Obama also is uttering profundities today.
You know what a profundity is?
A profundity is when you say something profound.
Like me, things I say.
Well, apparently Obama uttered a profundity today that is being tweeted and retweeted all over the place, and it is this.
Lincoln was all about building stuff.
He was talking about Abe Lincoln, and he said that Lincoln was known for building stuff.
Lincoln was all about building stuff.
So I guess he tried to come I I don't know the context.
Apparently he's trying to equate himself with Lincoln and they're gonna start building stuff now.
Once he can get Washington to focus and get its eye back on the ball.
See, he's um he's in Galesville, Illinois.
He's not in Washington.
He's he's in Galesville, Illinois, and he's talking about the economy.
And Washington hadn't been working hard enough on this.
And it's time they did.
And these people, you should see them.
They're just nodding their heads, glassy-eyed and going, applauding when appropriate and so forth.
It's scary.
CBS News poll.
More people than ever want Obama care repealed.
A new CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want Obamacare repealed.
According to the poll, 36% of Americans want Congress to expand or keep it the way it is.
39% want Congress to repeal it.
Now that 39% is the highest percentage seen in CBS polls.
But most polls are in the 50s, the mid-50s, and some are even close to 60% who want it repealed.
And even in the CBS poll, 54% disapprove of it.
So in the CBS poll, 54% disapprove of Obamacare, but only 39% want it repealed.
The health care law, a chronic issue for the White House.
CBS News political director John Dickerson said on CBS this morning.
Dickerson said the feeling basically is again speeches are not going to change public opinion.
This has got to start taking hold.
People are going to start signing up, and the White House hopes good things will start to happen once it kicks in, and that might turn public opinion around, but that's a ways away.
So apparently the White House, yeah, but as soon as people sign up, as soon as this gets kicking rolling, people are gonna love it.
That isn't gonna happen.
Sad thing is that they're not gonna have much choice when it really kicks in.
Okay, Malcolm Gladwell was on uh Fareed Zacarius GPS on Sunday on CNN.
He is the author of the book Outliars, and he did a study of uh highly successful people.
And the thing that he found that they had in common was that they had spent a minimum of ten thousand hours perfecting their craft.
And he cited the Beatles.
The Beatles between 1960 and 1964 in uh in Great Britain and in Germany, played gig after gig after gig, rehearsal after rehearsal, before the first Beatles record was heard in the United States, they had put in 10,000 hours.
And he mentioned a bunch of others.
Now, the reason I mention this is that that book has a lot of credibility with people.
It has uh is a British uh scientist of some kind, but the book has a lot of credibility.
It's a hard work book, it's it's uh uh a book that that features pathways to success, his journalist, and he has now become an outspoken advocate of banning college football on health grounds.
Farid Zakaria on his show Farid Zakaria GPS on CNN Sunday said to Malcolm Gladwell, you compare football to dog fighting.
Why?
This was at the time when Michael Vick was convicted of dog fighting.
And to me that was such a kind of and the whole world got up in arms about this.
How could he use dogs in a violent manner in a way that compromised their health and integrity?
And I was just struck at the time by the unbelievable hypocrisy of people in football, for goodness sake.
Getting up in arms about someone who chose to fight dogs to pit one dog against each other.
So you see, what Gladwell is saying here is that it was kind of humorous, and kind of curious.
It was uh actually hypocritical.
And here you have people really hammering Vic.
How could you be so inhumane?
Run a dog fighting operation, and those same people applaud dog fighting, or its equivalent on Saturday and Sunday, college and professional football.
Gladwell, so what's the difference?
You got a bunch of rich people out there watching lesser beasts, fight it out for their entertainment.
Forbes magazine uh wrote this up.
And they quote Gladwell's pretty much saying what he just said to Fareed Zicaria, GPS, but then he added something.
He said, in what way is dog fighting any different from football on a certain level, right?
I mean, you take a young, vulnerable dog who was made vulnerable because of his allegiance to the owner.
You ask him to engage in serious, sustained physical combat with another dog under the control of another owner, right?
Well, what's football?
We take young boys, essentially, and we have them repeatedly over the course of the season smash each other in the head with known neurological consequences, and why do they do that?
Out of an allegiance to their owners and their coaches, and a feeling that they're participating in some grand American Spectacle.
The answer to the problem, according to Malcolm Gladwell, is that a major university must decide to cancel its football program and set a precedent for others to follow.
His ideal candidate is Stanford.
A screw with both serious academic credentials and a high powered football program.
He said if a school like Harvard or Yale called it quits, it'd be a good start, but it's going to take a major bowl-winning program like Stanford to draw an acknowledged line in the sand.
I remember it was, folks, it wasn't much more than a year ago where I think I predicted something like this, where I warned that this was headed just based on the way I saw the media dealing with the concussion stories that were being ramped up.
And I said, I know what know how liberals act.
How they think and what they do.
It ain't gonna be long before somebody of stature suggests the game be banned.
And once that is seriously proposed, the game is never going to be the same.
And I still claim I don't know what the ultimate fate is going to be.
Like Lem Barney, who played for the Detroit Lions back in the 70s, has predicted that there will be no NFL in 20 years.
He flagged football to some such thing, but it will not exist as it does now.
Lem Barney, I think he's in the Hall of Fame.
If not, he was close.
He was a great player.
Lem Barney and Melfar.
Detroit Lions, defensive backs.
And he's suggesting that uh football's it just all over but the shouting.
It's gonna take twenty years, but it's gonna be over.
Too dangerous.
Now here's this Gladwell guy comparing it to dog fighting.
So read Zakaria GPS, upon hearing Gladwell make this comparison, dog fighting Michael Vick, NFL, stat there, sat there and stared at Gladwell, didn't say anything else, which forced Gladwell to continue.
Well, what's football?
We take young boys, essentially, and we have them repeatedly over the course of the season smash each other in the head, right?
With known neurological consequences.
And why do they do that?
Out of an allegiance to their owners and their coaches, and a feeling they're participating in some grand American spectacle.
They're the same thing.
And the idea that as a culture, we would be absolutely quick and sure about coming to the moral boiling point over the notion that you would do this to dogs, and yet completely blind over the notion you would do this to young men is to my mind astonishing.
There's a certain point where I just said, you know, we have to say enough is enough.
It is to my mind astonishing that people have not drawn the comparison that I have.
That I watch football and I see dog fighting.
To my mind, it's astonishing that people don't see this.
It was December 14th of 2011 that I predicted the left would try to ban football.
So it's about a year and a half.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, question from the program observer.
Yes.
Do I think it's astonishing that Britain never had an empire?
Yeah, one day the sun never set on the British Empire.
Well, they clearly this current crop of Brits gave it away.
This current crop of Brits gave away their empire.
No, this current crop of Brits, no way.
That's not in their blood.
They don't have the makeup for it.
Anyway, this is only going to ratchet up.
I mean, it's it's only going to continue.
You you add this to the controversy over the Redskins name.
You add that to the controversy over concussions, and the 4,000 former players suing the NFL, because they didn't know that the game was dangerous.
And they didn't know that all this could happen.
And you've got a uh you've got a and you add to that the do-gooder nature of liberalism, and then add to that that most of the sports media is made up of do gooder liberal types.
Folks, the writing is on the wall.
That's that's a good question.
What are these sports writers going to do for a living if they preside over the end of the sport that supports them?
I don't know.
By that time they'll be ready for the great retirement home touchdown in the sky, and they'll and they'll be celebrating the great contribution they made to society and culture by getting the game banned uh is what I suspect will happen.
Now I have some other football news here.
Art Monk, former great wide receiver, Washington Redskins, was on the radio in Washington yesterday.
He finally made the NFL Hall of Fame.
He said this.
Native Americans feel like Redskins or the Chiefs, what other name is offensive to them, then who are we to say no it's not.
And Daryl Green, another great defensive back for the Washington Redskins, also on the radio in Washington yesterday.
It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, hey, you know, this offends me.
So you see, uh I look at folks, I hate to s I see I told you so, but now these these two men have been swallowed up by this whole notion if it offends somebody, it's gotta stop.
If it offends somebody, it has to stop.
The offended.
The offended are always a minority.
Well, not always, but for the most part they are.
And they get to dictate now.
If your speech offends them, you must shut up.
If your behavior offends them, you must change.
If the name of your football team offends them, you must change it.
Simply because somebody's offended.
In the meantime, in the wake of Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder charge, former tight end for the New England Patriots, National Football League teams might take a closer look at the tattoos of prospects entering the NFL draft.
CBS Sports says that teams may have police experts look at the tattoos of NFL hopefuls to see if they can spot allegiance to gangs.
Tattooed on the players' bodies.
This as a result of uh news stories that Aaron Hernandez has uh tattoos that glorify gang membership.
CBS sports columnist Bruce Feldman said on Twitter, I spoke with a longtime NFL personnel man who said in wake of Hernandez teams may use police experts to check prospects tattoos.
Meanwhile, the owner of the Cincinnati Bengals said that there's no proof that concussions lead to dementia.
There's no proof that concussions lead to anything bad like this.
It's all speculation.
That would be Mike Brown.
Details when we get back, don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh to Tucson, Arizona Bernie.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
About this wiener behavior.
We can chalk it up to the left yet again behaving more like Europe.
The royalty there's been engaging in this type of behavior for centuries.
And left here is wanted to be regarded as royalty, at least since uh Kennedy Camelot era.
Well, now wait a minute.
This behavior is not exclusive to uh Europeans.
You mean uh uh European elites, uh political leaders, and that kind of thing.
You bet royalty and France, England, Germany, and prior centuries.
Well, look, it's not, it's not unique.
We've had the Kennedys.
I mean, my God.
The Kennedys.
And then you've got Bill Clinton.
And you've got.
Remember Wilmer Mills and Fannie Fox and the uh in the reflecting pool?
Exactly.
I mean, you've got it, it's it's a it's it's a common what what's what's new here to me is women openly, publicly, happily uh uh participating in their own degradation in order for the cause to be advanced.
That's that's what's I mean, I know you're thinking of this DSK guy and the maid at the sofa tell and his wife finally leave and so forth.
I I know what you mean.
The owner of the Cincinnati Bengals is Mike Brown.
He says that linking concussions and dementia is speculation.
More than 4,000 former NFL players suing the league, claiming the NFL withheld information about the long-term effects of playing football.
They say that repeated hits and concussions can lead to dementia and other brain injuries like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Well, the owner of the Bengals isn't convinced.
Now that's one thing, but to publicly say this, he says he's not sure that there's a link between concussions and dementia.
There's not enough research to draw that conclusion that football causes brain damage when players get older.
He said uh no one really knows what concussions mean, especially as you grow older.
It's not only not proven, it's merely speculation that this is something that creates some form of dementia late in life.
Our statistics, one I've seen anyway, the ones I've seen don't show that.
I'm not convinced that anybody really knows what concussions bring, what they mean later in life, if anything.
Oh, folks.
This is like saying the earth is flat to these people.
The conventional wisdom is that concussions cause all these things, and there's no argument.
You don't are it's it's like there's global warming, and if you say there isn't, you are a denier.
Why not link steroids and dementia?
See, dementia in a lot of weightlifters who've never had concussions.
Why don't we link steroids to it?
Why don't we link uh human growth hormone?
Why don't we I mean this stuff never ever ends.
The thing about Paul Brown, he's right.
I mean, they're studying concussions, but it's absurd.
Uh I'll tell you, it really is absurd.
I get in trouble for this all along because I don't go along with conventional wisdom.
I simply don't buy it.
Uh in fact, I reject most conventional wisdom.
Most conventional wisdom is popular culture.
And it's now popular to believe that concussions lead to dementia and Alzheimer's.
You just in fact, if you believe that, it means you're a compassionate, understanding person.
If you don't believe it, you're a cold-hearted, mean-spirited SOB.
And you want to continue the brutality.
So Mike Brown has really stepped in it here.
And what's going to happen is a bunch of sports, he's not that popular anyway, because he's considered to be a tight wad owner.
So a bunch of sports writers, just give it a couple of days, and they're gonna be all over this guy as a as a Neanderthal as an idiot.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, and they'll cite doctors at Boston University, uh, Moss General Hospital, wherever the uh University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, all kinds of uh concussion research is going on where they claim to have irrefutable proof.
Uh, and he's gonna be mocked and laughed at and made fun of, he'd be Zimmermond.
Before it's all over, you watch.
It's going to happen.
I mean, Junior Seao commits suicide.
What's the first thing?
Concussions.
It's just how this stuff begins.
Uh it's it it it's kind of frustrating, actually, because it's it's just you know, follow me, follow me.
Popular culture crowd says something, and everybody gets on board with it and assumes that it's happening.
Like global warming, like all this medical stuff turned out to be untrue, like salt, trans fats, and all this supposedly gonna kill you.
Uh And it's you know, since it's all being done by liberals, it's all politicized.
There are people don't like football who are trying to end the game, and they're trying to do so by saying the people who play it are all going to get these late-in-life ramifications.
And even Malcolm Gladwell joined the phrase.
So Mike Brown coming out now and saying this, you just watch.
It isn't gonna be long before he's gonna be mocked, made fun of.
And he'll be he'll be portrayed as somebody dangerous for perhaps not recognizing the true dangers, the threats and the peril that exists.
And as such, he'll he'll be somebody that's uh short-sighted, stupid, dumb, unserious.
You name it, peace in the LA Times, just brought to my attention by a woman named Robin Abkarrion.
Says hate to say it, but you can't trust a woman whose husband has been screwing around.
A year ago, Anthony Wiener, also known as Carlos Danger, a white Hispanic, and Huma Abaddon posed for People Magazine.
They talked about how they'd worked to repair their marriage after his first sexting scandal forced him to resign his congressional seat in 2011.
Anthony has spent every day since trying to be the best dad and husband he can be, Huma told people, as the couple launched a carefully orchestrated lead-in to Weiner's announcement that he would run for the mayorship of New York.
Well, right around the time he was photographed for people holding his young son Jordan as his loving wife perched next to them.
Weiner had begun a new sexting relationship with a 22-year-old woman who, by the way, I should have mentioned that the new woman worked for organizing for America, the Obama website.
The photo that he sent her, published Tuesday by a raunchy gossip website called The Dirty was even more graphic than the one that drove him from office.
And she cites what Huma said at the press conference yesterday and said, but her assurances, Huma's assurances mean nothing about Wiener's future behavior.
History shows that wives who vouch for their badly behaving political husbands do so at their own peril.
Take the Clintons, for example.
Then she says you can't overlook the Schwarzeneggers.
History shows that wives who vouch for their badly behaving political husbands do so at their own peril.
Anthony Wiener's wife wants to reassure us, do not trust her.
That is Robin Abkeryan in the Los Angeles Times.
Just putting it out there.
We have a couple of sound bites from Obama as he's out in uh in Galesville, Illinois, blaming Washington for paying not enough attention to the economy.
We've actually got one, two, three, four, five, six, looks like seven.
Six sound bites here.
We've got the last two that I want to play for you right now.
This is uh Obama talking about his vision for rebuilding the economy.
With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, Washington's taken its eye off the ball.
And I'm here to say this needs to stop.
There are Republicans In Congress right now who privately agree with me on a lot of the ideas I'll be proposing.
I know because they've said so.
But they worry they'll face swift political retaliation for cooperating with me.
Oh, geez.
I folks, I can't, I can't react to this without that.
There's something pathologically wrong here.
In the first place, Washington has taken its eye off the ball, and I'm here to say this needs to stop.
Now I mentioned, I told you I heard that bite, I heard him say it live.
Washington is he is Washington.
This is the limbaugh theorem.
He's articulating it himself.
It's coming out of his own mouth.
He's out there in Illinois claiming Washington hasn't been paying enough attention to the economy.
They've been looking at the IRS, they've been looking at it.
I've been looking into Obamacare, and they have been working on the economy.
And I'm here in Illinois to make sure that they refocus in Washington.
As though he has had nothing to do with it.
This is it.
This is how he does it, folks, with the low information voters.
This is how he maintains his lack of attachment to his own policies.
But then this business that there are Republicans in Congress right now who privately agree with me on many of the ideas that I'll be proposing.
How do I know they've told me?
But they worry they'll face swift political retaliation for cooperating with me.
It's this straw dog.
See, there are these Republicans that really want me to do what I want to do, but they're afraid of people like me, obviously.
Now my observation is that there are plenty of Republicans who are already publicly agreeing with Obama.
John McCain comes to mind.
There are a number of Republicans who are very publicly saying things that are very much the same as Obama wants when it comes to immigration, when it comes to amnesty, when it comes to what the Democrats think the Republicans need to do to reorganize their party.
But here he's telling these people there's a lot of Republicans that really want to agree with me, but but they're afraid to say so publicly.
Now the fact is that there's no way, even though you and I know this is total BS.
How do you prove it?
Are there going to be Republicans?
Wait a minute, he's talking about me, and that isn't true.
Nope.
This is something he just gets away with saying.
But they are afraid to say so.
Well, if they're afraid to say so, they can't confirm it.
So he just gets to say there are plenty of Republicans who agree with me.
And where that leads is that his audience that hears this gets even angrier at Republicans.
Because they won't publicly help Obama, even though they tell him they agree with him.
This is pathological.
Maybe brilliant politics is pathological.
Finally, uh here is Obama's vision for the middle class, an economy that grows from the middle.
A better bargain for the middle class and the folks who are working to get into the middle class.
An economy that grows from the middle out, not the top down.
That's where I will focus my energies.
Not just for the next few months, but for the remainder of my presidency.
These are the plans that I'll lay out across this country.
What makes us special?
It's not the ability to generate incredible wealth for the few.
It's our ability to give everybody a chance to pursue their own true measure of happiness.
I'm just folks.
We're listening to the wrecking ball who has already torn down a bunch of buildings.
Tell us how he's building new cities.
It's pathological.
There is no building from the middle out.
There is no growing the economy from the middle out.
When you try that, you get Detroit.
It's never worked.
I mean, there's not even a formula for it.
It's just a bunch of words designed to sound good to a bunch of ignoramous, low information people who don't pay enough attention to be fully informed about what's going on.
And have been so woefully ineptly educated on economics that it all sounds good, but it's meaningless.
What makes us special has never been our ability to generate incredible wealth for the few?
What has made uh what's made this country spn even know.
He does he he has a profound structural disagreement, folks, with the things that have made this country great.
The things that have made this country great are things that irritate him about this country, and those are the things he's trying to change.
He is shrinking the economy, the private sector, and with it he is shrinking opportunity for everyone.
But here he is talking about how he's gonna spend the rest of his administration making sure that everybody has a chance to pursue their true measure of happiness.
In the year five, and people are still buying this.
Okay, so Obama wants to help the middle class.
Would the Keystone Pipeline help the middle class?
Would stopping the war on coal help the middle class?
Does amnesty for 11 million new low skilled workers help the middle class?
Obama's not about helping the middle class.
He's about turning the middle class into Detroit.
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