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Sept. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And we are back.
Great to have you here, ladies and gentlemen.
It's always a pleasure.
I look forward to it every day being here with you guys on the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network.
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Okay, we're going to be getting back to the serious stuff.
I still have stuff in the serious stack, and we've got soundbites coming up.
But there are other things in the news out there.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, do not want to miss or have anything go by here and not have it commented on, such as yesterday's earth-shattering news, health-related news,
that mothers, pregnant women who eat chicken during their pregnancies, it can affect the size of a male offspring's penis.
And in a negative way, eating chicken can reduce the size, according to the latest scientific research.
Same kind of science that's applied to global warming.
There's all kinds of stuff out there, like Ray Lewis, former linebacker of the Baltimore Ravens, now a commentator and analyst at ESPN.
NFL Films every year does a highlight show of the previous season's Super Bowl.
And last year's Super Bowl was the San Francisco Fortiners and the Baltimore Ravens.
Do you remember early in the third quarter in the Superdome, there was a power failure?
Most of the lights went out.
At the time, the Ravens were way up as like 24 to 6 or 26 to 6 or something.
And the Ravens had the momentum and the lights went out.
On the NFL show, it's called America's Game, a special that Chronicle the Ravens win, which turned out to be nip and tuck there, 3431 over the Fortiners.
Ray Lewis said, I'm not going to accuse nobody of nothing because I don't know facts.
But you're a zillion-dollar company and your lights go out?
No, no way.
Now listen, if you grew up like I grew up, you grew up in a household like I grew up, then sometimes your lights might go out because times get hard.
I understand that.
But you can't tell me that somebody wasn't sitting there when they say the Ravens are about to blow them out.
Man, we better do something.
There's a huge shift in any game, in all seriousness.
And as you see how huge it was, because it let them right back in the game.
Ray Lewis thinks the lights were turned off on purpose by the league in the Superdome to bring the Fortiners back into it.
Either they wanted the Fortineters to win or they wanted at least a competitive game for ratings.
And Ray Lewis is, I'm not going to accuse nobody of nothing because I don't know no facts.
But he goes on to predict, not predict, or offer the opinion that somebody turned out the lights.
City and stadium officials later attributed the blackout to a faulty electrical delay, a relay device.
But There was a blackout at Candlestick Park a couple of years ago on a Monday night game with the Fortiners and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I think it was the Steelers.
No, I don't think it was.
Anyway, the 49ers are involved in a lot of blackout games where the lights go out.
So Ray Lewis, he actually stands by this.
You know, the league, what are they going to do here?
This is one of their stars.
So they have to take this seriously.
So the league's out there saying, no, we looked into it.
It's not possible.
But Ray doesn't believe it.
He thinks somebody turned the lights out to stop their momentum.
And it did.
It caused a delay in the game of 35 minutes or so.
And there are momentum shifts in National Football League and college games too.
And coaches can't explain it.
There's no way.
Have you ever heard something happening in a game and the analysts will say, now that's going to really rive them.
Now they're going to really be motivated.
And as a fan, I say, oh, you mean they half showed up at game time, but they're not really fully motivated until something happens in the game?
But that's the way it is.
Everybody always has a little more in the tank.
Now, there are a relative few greats who start at full throttle, go all the way through it full throttle, and end at full throttle.
And you know them if I'd mentioned the names.
You know who those people are.
Lewis was one of them in his prime.
But everybody always has something left in the tank.
And these momentum things, the momentum shift.
I asked Bum Phillips once.
He was no longer coaching Houston Oilers and the Saints.
He was in a press box at Three River Stadium.
And I don't know, the Steelers and Oilers are playing and something happened.
Coach, why does this happen?
And he looked at me and said, son, if I could answer that, I'd still be out there.
They don't know.
But we do know that turning the lights off in the Super Bowl in a dome will affect the momentum.
Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus.
No, it's time for a little low information outreach.
She got no regrets.
She says she made history.
She's weighing in on her own controversy.
She said, you know what?
I don't pay attention to the negative because I've seen this play out so many times.
How many times have we seen this play out in pop music?
We saw it with Madonna how many times.
We saw it with Britney how many times.
Every MTV VMA performance, something happens.
And you always remember it.
And it was my turn to make something happen.
I made history.
Me and Robin, Robin Thick, the whole time said, you know, we're about to make history right now, she recalls.
So what's amazing is people are still talking about it.
They're overthinking it.
You're thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it.
Like, I didn't even think about it because that's just me.
She's got a point here.
Well, she's learning it at a relatively young age.
I don't pay attention to the negative because I've seen how this ends.
And the negative never carries the day.
The negative never carried the day on Madonna.
Now, of course, it did in certain places, but it didn't hurt Madonna's support from her fans.
It didn't hurt her income.
It didn't hurt her fame.
Nothing.
Nothing she did harmed her.
Everything controversial she did made her bigger, made her more talked about.
Isn't this one of the cultural shifts that so bothers everybody?
Because there was a time where if you did something embarrassing, there was shame attached to it.
When you had behaved in a way that society agreed was not virtuous, there was a stigma attached at some point in our culture, and I don't know when that was turned upside down on its head.
And the more outrageous you are, the more offensive you are, the more risque you are, the more notorious you are, the more in demand you become, the wealthier you get, and the more popular you become, and the more known you become, the more famous you become.
You stop and think about it.
And the people in pop culture who are that we would consider to be virtuous, that's such a, you know, people sneer at that word, by the way, but you know what I mean.
People we consider proper, virtuous, humble, respectful.
What are they?
They're nerds.
They're boring.
They're dry balls.
And they don't spark any interest five or five or six years ago, maybe 10 years ago now, there was an MTV music awards where the F-bomb was not used once.
And the news the next day in every entertainment story was how boring a show it was.
Now, Snerdley says, well, she's not going to be 26 forever.
Yeah, well, Madonna's pushing, what, 80 now?
You know, and she's whatever.
It doesn't hurt.
Snerdley, there's been a pop culture shift, and it's not recent.
It happened long ago.
It used to be that if you did something, you could do something that would harm your career that you would have to pay a price for.
You would have to show remorse and engage in corrective behavior before the public, not the media, before the public would once again accept you.
Now it's the exact opposite.
The more risque, the more vulgar, the more profane, the more near pornographic you are, the more acclaim you get.
She's exactly right.
I don't pay attention to the negative, meaning I don't care what you critics are saying.
I don't care.
Mr. Limboy, you called what I did near pornographic.
I don't care.
I've seen this.
I've seen how this ends.
And I am going to end up bigger than I've ever been.
Yeah, but Miley, my guy here, Mr. Snerdley, says you're not going to be 26 forever.
What does he mean by that?
Well, he means that when you get to be 35 or 40 or 45 or 50 and you can't do what you did because nobody's going to care to look at you at that age, then where are you going to be?
And her aunt, by then, I'll be set.
I don't care.
I'll have morphed into something else.
If I do my career right, I'll become something else.
I'll reinvent myself and I'll be notorious for doing something else.
Maybe I'll go back and be Hannah Montana and I'll shock everybody and turn clean again.
And she's got her dad standing right by her side, fully supportive.
That's another thing that in the old days, your daughter goes up and does something like that on national TV, you are shamed as a parent.
You're embarrassed.
You're afraid to show up in a barbershop the next day.
In this day and age, you show up, hey, Billy, my God, your daughter last night on TV.
Whoa, man, what was that?
And you just smile because everybody's talking about your daughter.
You can frown in there all you want, but I'm telling you, I'm not criticizing it.
It is what it is.
Wardrobe Malfunction Super Bowl.
There's a piece, there's a new sports website out there.
Sports Illustrated gave a guy his own website called Monday Morning Quarterback, and there's a feature today with the former general manager, the New England Patriots Kansas City Chief Scott Pioli.
And Scott Pioli, who is Bill Parcel's son-in-law and sitteth at the right hand of the football god Bill Belichick for all those years, just admitted that he only recently realized that football is entertainment.
To him, it's always been a competitive sport.
And as a general manager, he couldn't be concerned or distracted with the entertainment aspect of it.
Now, here's a guy that's been in the game for decades and saying today that he only recently realizes entertainment.
And here was the example he gave.
He said, We were in a Super Bowl once in Houston.
We played the Carolina Panthers.
And we got out of there with a three-point win.
He said there was one of the greatest sports stories ever in that game.
We needed a long snapper.
And I had to go get a guy who hadn't played in a long time.
He'd retired.
His name was Brian Hinchin or Kinchin or something.
And I forget what it is about this player that is noteworthy, injured or something.
Anyway, they brought him back.
It was his play that enabled the winning field goals and so forth.
That was the wardrobe malfunction game.
And Pioli said, nobody remembers a damn thing that happened in that game.
It was one of the greatest Super Bowls ever, and nobody remembers it.
They remember Janet Jackson and Timberlake and the wardrobe malfunction.
And that's when I learned that football is entertainment.
Now, I'm not criticizing what he's saying.
I think it's fascinating.
I'm fascinated by what people say, what they think.
Football's been the entertainment business.
I don't know how long, but he was immersed in it.
It was his business.
Judging players, putting together the right roster, make sure they play.
There's nothing entertaining about that.
I mean, that is hard.
Blood, sweat, and tears.
It is cutthroat.
It's vicious on a football team in a football game in the locker.
But he had to come to grips with X Entertainment.
So what is it?
Well, if it's entertainment now, what does that mean in terms of putting together a roster?
What kind of players do you want on your team?
It used to be you didn't want the bad actors.
You didn't want the character mishaps.
Maybe now you do.
They get your team attention.
Miley Cyrus became a cheerleader for the Jets this year.
How many tickets would she sell?
The team isn't going to sell any.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
I got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
Come back and we'll start mixing in your phone calls with the sound bites because it's good.
We got McCain up here denying while he's playing poker at the Senate hearing yesterday, denying the allegation, the possibility that Basher Assad is being set up on these chemical weapons.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Here's another example.
Another example.
You look at Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky or Bill Clinton, Jennifer Flowers, or Bill Clinton, anybody.
There was a time in this country, if a president behaved that way, there'd be the end of him.
There's no, but he's the biggest star in the Democrat Party today, bigger than Obama, bigger than Hillary, bigger than Anthony Weiner, even.
Clinton is, and because of that, folk, because of it, not because he survived it, but because he did it.
There is an aspect that he got away with it makes him a curiosity.
And there's a how did he do it?
He turns Ken Starr into the pervert.
Ken Starr may still be a virgin.
He turned Ken Starr into a pervert.
He and Carville turned Ken Starr into being a sex pervert and selling cigarettes to kids and all this stuff.
Here's a story.
This is from the Daily Caller.
Bill Clinton pretending to be a vegan so he can talk about being a vegan.
President Clinton has been telling everybody he's a vegan since 2009.
It turns out he's a liar.
The former president who's been enlisted to sell the nation on Obamacare told reporters that he was joining his daughter Chelsea in an all-vegan diet after he'd had heart trouble.
He was even named PETA's person of the year in 2010.
But in a recent interview with the AARP, Clinton said he ate salmon and omelets once a week.
And they even found a chef, a restaurant guy, who came forward and said that Clinton eats filet mignon when he comes into his restaurant.
He eats meat.
No, it's not news that Bill Clinton would lie.
It's not news that Bill Clinton would get away with it.
It's not news that he would win an award for lying.
It's not news that it's like Al Gore getting an award for global warming.
Here's the point.
Why does Clinton even bother?
Why does Clinton make a big deal out of being a vegan?
Why?
There's an answer to this.
You want to hazard a guess at it?
Why does he do that?
No, it's not a fad.
I mean, it is, but that's not why he does it.
A, it plays with a certain element of the pop culture and makes him hip and young as he's aging.
B, it, I'm sure, helps getting chicks.
And I'm not, that may be number one.
I'm not, I'm not even trying to be funny with that.
But it allows him to be trendy.
It allows him to be who he's not.
Oh, yeah, I had that heart trouble.
You know, I told me I eat meat.
I've become vegan.
I'm a big believer in Chelsea.
Oh, my God, Clinton.
He's so secretly he's eating beef.
You know, just nothing's real.
But he's out there getting credit.
Why even go to the trouble?
It's because image, not reality, is everything.
This is funny.
I'm getting some emails from guys saying now they know why life is so painful.
Their mothers were vegetarians, and they've got this big problem, and they're wishing their mothers would have eaten chicken.
And then I have some people, honestly, and I've got a couple of people.
Why don't you create an image, Rush?
You know, it's a folks, I'm too lazy to be other than who I am.
I just, that, to me, would be really hard, to create an image of somebody I'm not and then do it every day.
I couldn't do it.
But that's what Clinton does.
All these guys on the left do it.
All these leftist politicians.
I mean, the ones that are stars do.
I couldn't.
I could not do it.
I don't know what the image would be that I wanted to craft.
And even if I had one, I mean, that's like saying I'd rather be somebody that I'm not.
And I have, folks, as a man, you're not supposed to say this.
I actually do like myself.
I don't have any problems with me.
I don't know why.
I don't want to be anybody else.
What image would I construct?
And then I have to do it every day?
Yeah, I'd have to remember it.
I would have to remember it.
Clinton doesn't have to.
He can lie about whatever he wants or get covered up, handled, or what have you.
Here's Maria in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
As we head back to the phones of the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Quick question for you, sir.
Is it too soon to start saying Obama lied, people died?
Hell no, we won't go.
Obama's chickens have come to roost.
I say to you, sir, to quote Charlie Wrangell, resist we mush.
That was Al Sharpton that said, resist we much.
Yes, sir.
And to his audience, it might be.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I thought it was Charlie.
No, it was that was Charlie.
It sounded like good old Charlie.
No, it was Reverend Sharpton.
You know, here's the thing.
Hell no, we won't go.
Obama lied, people died.
Those things will never be said.
The anti-war left, in conjunction with the media, said and reported those things.
Right, where are they?
Where are they?
They're not there.
We do have.
Now, Code Pink showed up at the John Kerry.
Let's go to that.
You know, I keep talking about this.
Maria, thank you so much.
You've given me a great idea here.
I'm glad that you called.
Let me find the numbers.
I know it's at the bottom of the stack here.
Okay, let's see where we start.
Where do we start?
Let's start with.
Let's just start at number 14.
This is in the category of why I opened the program today.
This whole Syria thing, it really is a national embarrassment.
It's the theater of the absurd.
We have blithering idiots who have reached the pinnacle of power.
I mean, who is this guy?
This guy's thrown his medals over the fence.
This guy's twice at least accused the U.S. military of being rapists, murderers, and terrorists.
He's now Secretary of State.
All of these 60s spoiled brat radicals are now in positions of power.
And they are unqualified.
They're incompetent.
They're inept.
And they're fools.
And it's on display now.
And it is, it's a low point for this country in terms of stature, respect.
So this is yesterday.
This is on Capitol Hill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on possible authorization for use of military forces in Syria.
This is when McCain was caught playing poker on his iPhone.
You know, and I was going to, gee, it would be great if he would draw four queens and think that that means he's now in a Muslim marriage, but it's a dream.
So the question came from Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
It's another guy.
This guy was flying women of questionable repute down to the Dominican Republic on a donor's plane and doing things of questionable repute with these women who were not his wife.
And it barely caused a ripple in the media.
It was nothing.
Not one story of how desperate the women must have been to accept an invitation from this guy.
Not one story about using women, abusing women, objectifying women, none of that.
And here this guy is asking Kerry this question.
Would you tell us whether you believe that a prohibition for having American boots on the ground, is that something that the administration would accept as part of the resolution, American boots on the ground?
In the event Syria imploded, for instance, or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cash falling into the hands of al-Nusra or somewhere else.
It already had.
And it was clearly in the interests of our allies and all of us, the British, the French, and others, to prevent those weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of the worst elements.
I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to a president of the United States to secure our country.
I, the Secretary of State, I have no power to do any of this, but I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to a president.
What is that?
A, he doesn't have power over that option.
B, how can he take an option off the table that might not be available to the president in the first place?
All it was, all Menendez wanted, are we going to send ground troops in there?
We got this circuitous, nonsensical, meaningless answer, all designed to make everybody think we're listening to somebody brilliant here.
Well, everybody had the reaction to that that I just had.
I mean, that was, you know what that was?
That was wandering aimlessly in a vain search of a coherent thought.
What you just heard was verbal diarrhea.
Kerry had the verbal runs.
He had no idea where he was going.
He had no point he was trying to make.
He was hoping that every word would make sense when it followed another word, and he was praying that it would end in a way that made sense to somebody.
And it didn't.
And so everybody was talking about how, my God, the Secretary of State just blew up this boots on the ground question.
What do you mean he doesn't want to take an option off the table?
He doesn't have that power that might or might not be available.
Boots on the ground might not.
It was totally, embarrassingly nonsense.
So during the Q ⁇ A, Senator Bob Corker, Tennessee, said to Lurch, you know, I don't, I didn't find that a very appropriate response regarding boots on the ground.
I don't think there are any of us here that are willing to support the possibility of having combat boots on the ground there.
And I do hope as we move through this that the regime can be very clear in that regard.
You know, all Menendez wanted, the question was asked so that Kerry could say in five words or less, no boots on the ground.
That's all they wanted.
They wanted the Secretary to say, no, we're not going to send in ground troops.
That's all they want.
Instead, they got this meandering verbal diarrhea That included things that were just incomprehensible.
So, as usual, it's left a Republican to save the day and give Lurch a chance to do it again.
Didn't this happen?
Yes.
In 2004, Kerry's presidential campaign, he was doing an interview, I think, with CBS.
He botched the answer so badly that the producer and the reporter said, you want to do that again?
Rather than airing it as they would have were Kerry a Republican, they said, wait a minute, Senator, that was going to do that again.
Now we're going to re-ask you the question, and we're going to do it again from the very beginning.
And the same thing happened here.
He got a do-over.
And this is what he said.
I don't want anything coming out of this hearing that leaves any door open to any possibility.
So let's shut that door now as tight as we can.
All I did was raise a hypothetical question about some possibility, and I'm thinking out loud about how to protect America's interests.
And that's BS2.
He wasn't thinking about anything except how smart can I sound?
Because he's not qualified for this job.
He's dreamed about being Secretary of State because he can speak French, half-assed.
So he wants to run around the world and act like a European and have the United States government pay for it.
And so he's got the job.
But he just is not qualified for this.
Okay, we got more Kerry soundbites.
Sympathizing with the protester, this is great.
But it's time for some more phone calls.
So we're going to go to Stewart, Florida, right up the road here.
Hi, Chuck.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Dittos.
Rush, dittos.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
All right.
If I may, give some advice to Bashur Al-Sad, the president of Syria.
Sure.
Be contrite.
Admit to some issues in the military that have gotten out of hand.
Essentially, admit to an Abu Gray moment and say that he's looking into it and that everybody should be patient and over the several months conduct an investigation, make some accusations, arrest some military individuals, put them on trial.
And by the year 216, I think we should have this matter wrapped up about this gassing.
Now, another thing that comes to mind when I heard about this is I think Stalin made the comment: you know, the killing of five people is a tragedy.
When you kill thousands, it becomes a statistic.
I think if Basur uses this method, it'll eventually go away for him.
And if he'd like, he can even accuse the Muslim Brotherhood of complicity in this gassing sometime later in the investigation.
You know what I wish Assad would do?
And I'm serious here.
I wish Assad would blame all of this on some malcontent who made a YouTube video showing how great nerve gas is.
And it inspired people to use it.
And he's tracking this guy down.
I would just love it if Assad would.
And your idea, too.
Just ramming it right down through the earth.
I tell you what, it's that theater of the absurd.
Let's carry it on to John Kerry and the comparisons with Joe Kennedy, who was the ambassador in England in World War II.
And during the, I think it was the Battle of Britain, that air encounter with the Nazis, he said democracy was over, and he suggested it was over for America, and that's when his ambassadorship ended.
Yeah.
But what I find really interesting, and just out of how things work in history, later he came down with aphasia, which is the inability to speak.
Maybe we could have the same luck with our current Secretary of State.
Never happened.
The guy's in love too much with his own words.
I mean, he just is.
This guy thinks that he is the smartest, most brilliant, brightest person walking the earth.
I'm telling you, I'm not making it up, folks.
He speaks French, sorta.
His dream is all he loves running around pretending to be a European on the U.S. dime.
That's why he wanted to be Secretary of State.
Because Europeans, they're really sophisticated.
They're really erudite.
They are really upper crust.
I mean, we don't have an aristocracy here.
I mean, we do, but it's not acknowledged.
But in Europe, they still do, and he's it.
I'll bet the guy wears an ascot in private when he and Therese are sitting around sipping cocktails, you know, pretending to be Europeans.
Anyway, Chuck, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Back to the soundbites here.
This is John Kerry testifying yesterday on Capitol Hill on the use of force in Syria.
And during his testimony, the co-founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin interrupted the hearing and protested possible military action.
Here's a little bit of how that went.
Committee will be in order.
The committee will be in order.
We don't want another.
Ask the police to restore order.
Hey, Amittey, nobody wants this pork.
Cruz Mitchell, launching Cruz Missile is another war.
The American people do not want this.
This is all too much for Kerry.
The nostalgia overwhelms him, reminds him of the good old days.
He's a little jealous, wishing he could do that again, but now he knows he can't because aristocrats don't do that stuff.
But he really feels a bond with Medea Benjamin.
You know, the first time I testified before this committee when I was 27 years old, I had feelings very similar to that protester.
And I would just say that is exactly why it is so important that we are all here having this debate, talking about these things before the country, and that the Congress itself will act representing the American people.
Right.
That's why it's so important.
Medea Benjamin showing up and making a spectacle of herself.
That's why it is so important to have this debate.
That's not why we're having the debate.
We're having this debate so we can figure out a way to blame this all on the Republicans.
That's all this is.
Let's go back April 22nd, 1971.
This is what Kerry remembered.
This is what he wishes could happen again.
This is the nostalgia that surfaced when he watched Medea Benjamin with a hint of jealousy.
He told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
That was Kerry in 1971 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Vietnam.
And I was hoping, it may yet happen.
I'm hoping that Kerry compares Assad to Genghis Khan.
Yes, my friends, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And we have one big, exciting, busy broadcast hour remaining.
These code pink people are sitting behind the witnesses at these hearings.
They're holding up their hands all red, made to look like bloody, and everybody is just ignoring them.
It's the funniest thing.
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