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Sept. 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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I really I guess it's because you know, when you're busy time flies, I I cannot believe the NFL season opens tonight.
I I Baltimore Ravens at the Denver Broncos.
Why what was that weird looking face?
Did you not know the season began tonight?
You're just not up for it, right?
It is not what what if the cowboys are playing tonight?
Okay, so you'd be revved if it was the cowboys tonight.
Well, I have to admit, an opening night game of the Ravens and Broncos is not all, but it is what it is.
Uh well, they're you know, they're they're two good teams, I guess.
I don't know.
I just I say that every snurdy cowboys have a really good team.
You know what I can't Tony Romo makes on what 125 million dollars and won one playoff game.
And they and uh I this guy, I'd say he's really mastered it.
I mean, he's made money on the come, I don't know how many years now.
It's great.
I'm all for it.
Capitalism.
Tony Romo would have been a great pilgrim.
If he'd have been on a boat, he'd have been a great guy.
I'm sure William Bradford would have thought he was cool.
Uh even the Wall Street Journal, you know, it's TV ratings going to go through the roof.
Folks, I have to say something.
Even preseason ratings have gone through the roof.
You know why that is?
As much trouble as football is in, and it is, don't doubt me.
It's that there's a dearth of stuff on TV, but my God, it's so bad out there.
People are looking.
You know what?
The popularity of the NFL, what it equals is a link to the past.
When times were better in people's mind, or whatever that means to them.
Not more innocent.
It just it's something that's there.
There's an American tradition that they haven't they haven't yet.
They're in the process of turning it upside down, but they haven't pulled it off yet, but they're trying.
It's still something in the midst of lackluster TV, in the midst of lackluster life, lackluster job, lackluster government, lackluster pres there you what the ratings are going to be through the roof.
They really are.
It's something solid that is American that people can glom on to.
And I think people are searching for that.
I I think it in a lot of people it's subconscious.
They're not even aware of it.
But I, who have lived much of my life by observing others live it, know exactly what I'm talking about.
This there are articles that does this concussion thing is not over by a long shot.
There's oh, I've got three or four articles on that.
In the news stack of stuff.
Within minutes of the settlement, the NFL says I want to get this off the uh table.
Get this out of the conversation.
It's not gotten it out of the conversation.
It's it's it's it's the conversation is growing on this.
But look, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, headline, NFL Offenses Exploit a Fear of Fines.
This is a story about rules changes that are rooted in increasing player safety, and how the players have learned to exploit it.
It's another it's another object lesson in how massive bureaucracies can try to control large numbers of people with regulations and laws, and how entrepreneurial creative people find ways around it.
And this, well, I don't want to give it away, but it's it's about how defensive players now have to pull up and make Sure, they don't hit offensive players too hard and hurt them.
Defensive players are not supposed to hurt offensive players.
Rodney Harrison is quoted in the game of NFL football, college football, too.
Manliness is defined by your willingness as a receiver to go over the middle.
Not run sideline routes, not run go and out patterns on the sideline.
You are crossing pattern over the middle.
That's where these supposed decapitations have taken place.
This that that's that's where the real brutality is because the offensive player does not see what's coming.
And the NFL has decided that's too brutal.
That's too mean.
So they have put limits on what defensive players can do to offensive wide receivers going over the middle, running past in the middle of the field.
Rodney Harrison says this is just he says this is it's just a joke.
He says these wide receivers are now laughing as they go over the middle.
They're not afraid of anything.
They know they can't be hit.
And if they're hit, they know that the defense is going to get a major penalty.
So these guys, there's no fear anymore.
And then Rodney Harrison.
Rodney Harris are prototype safety in the NFL, prototype.
And it's it's funny to listen to these old line guys who played the game like it was meant to be played now watching it.
This is not their word.
They're watching it be a little wussified here as the lawyers are getting their hands in it, which is naturally going to happen.
And to hear Rodney Harrison say these wide receivers are crossing the middle now laughing.
It's a perfect, a perfect description for what his view of the rules change.
The Wall Street Journal has a whole story about this.
There is another story.
Get this, folks.
I I know some of you, when I get into football, say stick to the issues.
But this is the issues now.
That's the point.
They've turned it into the issues.
Football is the issues now.
Sadly, there is in the NFL now supposedly something new that's never happened before.
Obviously, it has happened.
It was part of the early game.
It's called a read option offense.
And it's the kind of offense run by these new quarterbacks like RG3, who plays for the Washington Redskins.
Well, until they change it, I'm not going to whisper it.
RG3 for the Redskins, Russell Wilson for the Seattle Seahawks, Colin Capernick of the San Francisco Forderners.
And the read options is basically your variation of the college wishbone offense.
Quarterback takes the ball, starts running either way, pitches out, or takes, carries the ball himself, which is the key to this, or maybe stops the whole thing and throws a pass.
And so defenses now have been created to deal with the read option quarterbacks.
In fact, where was I looking at the Kansas City Chiefs?
Twenty-two coaches on the staff, and they've got a guy.
The Kansas City Chiefs have a coach whose title is read option analysis.
His sole job is to analyze the read option on both his team, his quarterback, etc., His quarterback can't really run it, Alex Smith.
So he would be analyzing the other teams, helping with his defense.
The read option is crucial because when the quarterback leaves the pocket, he no longer is afforded wussified rule protection.
He can be decapitated like any other player.
When he leaves the pocket, running with the ball.
Well, guess what?
Clay Matthews, major linebacker, Green Bay Packers, is starting to play in the Forderners this weekend, and he's talking about all the possible ways they can go after Capernick.
And he's talking about the legal ways, the illegal ways.
He's talking about what the Packers' plan is.
And of course, this has the Forder coach, Jim Harbaugh, say, this is horrible.
You don't have people out there talking about how you're going to hurt a man.
This isn't right.
He says, we went through this two years ago.
We don't want to go through this.
And that's a reference to the bounty program.
So now you got the Fordiner coach getting close to saying the Packers are behaving the same way the Saints did with the with the bounty program, although he's not saying it, but he's alluding to it.
You got a linebacker now saying, salivating over these quarterbacks in the read option, leaving the pocket, because now they can be creamed like any better player.
All this is taking place while the league is going to great lengths to make the game safer.
But look what the players are doing.
The players are looking for ways around it.
Just like when Obama raises taxes on the rich, what are the rich do?
They don't sit there and pay it.
They figure ways around it.
Is what productive entrepreneurial people do.
When times are tough because of overregulation, massive government, they find ways around it.
The people who write the regulations and write these laws just expect everybody's going to be a bunch of sheep.
Sit there and abide by it.
NFL, in this case, is the government.
And they're kept all these new rules, supposedly make the game safer, and the players are conspiring.
The Wall Street Journal got a story about it.
So the NFL is the issues.
It relates.
And it's all about this concussion business.
It's all about player safety and limiting liability, which takes it all back to money, of course.
But I just I'm fascinated by it.
And now Rodney Harrison, two defensive players, talking about ways that they would wide receivers laughing as they go across the middle.
If he, you know, that offends defensive players.
I mean, we're laughing about it, but that foot.
Football is a collision sport.
It is a man's game.
It is meant.
It's a brutal collision sport.
Everybody playing it knows it.
And this effort here to take manliness out of it and to reduce the collisions and so forth.
You got all these quotes of defensive players.
Yeah, I could have, I could have made a huge hit, but I had to let it go because of the rules.
You got players now on record counting the number of touchdowns they allowed to happen last year because of these rules changes.
Defensive players all upset about the number of touchdowns that that happened that needn't have happened if they could have leveled a guy like they used to be able to.
Now, I I frankly love this.
Don't misunderstand.
Because if anybody's going to save the game, it's going to be the players.
People who play it.
I want you to hear a little bit of Donald Rumsfeld last night with Greta, talking about this Syria business.
And then I want you to hear a little bit of uh Henry Kissinger.
And then I want you to listen to John Kerry being interviewed by a member of Congress.
Well, I want you to hear Putin call Kerry a liar.
And then I want you to hear Kerry being questioned by Mike McCall for the Congress from Texas and a couple others on Fast and Furious and Benghazi.
And questions you're not supposed to ask the Obama regime.
As uh all of that relates to what we are being told about Syria.
All that and your phone calls coming up right after this.
Don't go away.
Donald Rumsfeld, um, who is a true statesman.
Donald Rumsfeld has served this country for decades.
Donald Rumsfeld has gave this country the best that he has.
Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO of G.D. Searle and company at the time they introduced Aspertame, equal, and uh released it onto the market, which everybody knows is an effort to poison people and turn them into communists.
Just kidding, Snerdley, this is what some people think that all that's the Rumsfeld is a great man.
The John Careys, the Nancy Pelosi's, the Hillary Clintons, the Barack Obamas, and everybody associated with them tried to destroy Donald Rumsfeld for eight years.
Both terms of the Bush administration, Secretary of Defense tried to destroy him, along with trying to destroy Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and Carl Rove tried to destroy him.
Not just disagreed with him, tried to destroy him.
It was infuriating, and it's it's not uncommon.
The left uses this as their modus operandi.
Rumsfeld was on Magretta last night.
I really wish I could play the whole thing for you.
It is such an illustration of the stark contrast between then and now.
True statesmanship, true leadership, true competence, versus the rank amateur fire drill that we're living with now.
I've only got one soundbite here, but it'll give you a flavor.
Greta Van Susterin said to Rumsfeld, what's the worst case scenario?
What do we have to worry about?
What you have to worry about is that the role of the United States is seen as ineffective, uh, weak, and that our country is in decline.
The credibility of the United States has already been damaged, and it would probably be further damaged if we did, quote, a shot across the bow, and that's it.
We're better off not doing that, it seems to me.
The absence of leadership is a signal to the world that the United States is withdrawing, that the United States is not going to be a factor for contributing to peace and stability in the world.
And if someone said, Well, what's the biggest thing you worry about?
I would worry about that.
And that's big.
First time in our history, we will not be standing for that.
First time in our history we will not be contributing to peace and stability in the world.
The absence of leadership, which is what we've got here, is a signal to the world that the U.S. is withdrawing, that we are in decline, that we're no longer a factor.
And he didn't say it, but I can.
This is all on design, on purpose, by design.
Because we now are being led by people who do not believe in the goodness of this country the way Donald Rumsfeld does.
They don't believe that the United States has contributed to peace and stability.
We have done just the opposite.
We are the reason for the instability of the world, and we are the reason for the lack of peace.
And I am not exaggerating, folks.
If you get these people privately, when there are no cameras or microphones around, and they're just in whatever their faculty lounge equivalent is sipping cocktails, this is what you're going to hear them say.
Do not doubt me.
It is what informs them, it's what animates them.
It's why they want to be in charge of the country is to change that.
They think this country has behaved immorally and in an unjust way we have stolen and raped.
Look at the college professor at Michigan State.
We've stolen and raped the world's resources.
We've taken them for our use.
We've made the world poorer.
They believe this.
A United States in decline is what's desired so that we get and learn a lesson about what it's like for the rest of the people in the world.
Now, it's about time we got to come up with.
Thank you.
We're not this great exceptional place.
They don't believe it, they never have.
And Rumsfeld is very worried about it.
He said one of the key aspects of leadership is clarity.
And by inference, there isn't any clarity.
There's absolute confusion.
No matter where you go.
It's Syria, Benghazi.
You name Obamacare doesn't matter.
There is abject confusion everywhere.
Nobody knows what's on tap.
There's another great quote from Rumsfeld.
The president, this president has tried to find a way to blame everybody or anybody for everything.
And leadership requires that you stand up.
You take a position.
You provide clarity and take responsibility.
And I can't imagine him saying that he didn't draw the red line, but he did.
You know that that we played for you yesterday.
Obama yesterday.
I didn't my credibility is not a line.
I didn't draw that red line.
The world drew that red line.
You may have heard that, started laughing like we did here.
And you may have been incredulous when you heard it.
But let me tell you something.
To real statesmen, to people who take the highest positions of leadership in this country very seriously.
That was something incomprehensible.
That that that was something that never expect something like that from a president.
A congressman senator, never from a president.
I didn't draw that red line.
I'm not responsible.
I mean, I'm my credibility on the can't believe it.
They're not, even when they go on TV to talk about it, they're not really expressing how dumbfounded, disappointment, scared they are about what that kind of mentality means.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I think the word I'm looking for here is appalled.
I maybe worse than that.
I mean, true leaders and statesmen.
People who really take this stuff seriously, who have a cherished opinion of this country are appalled, folks at what they're seeing.
On the international stage, they're just literally appalled.
Rumsfeld on Greta last night was just appalled.
You could see it.
He made a good point that if Obama really wanted regime change, it might make a little more sense what we're doing here.
At least it'd be a goal.
At least it'd be an objective.
But what's the point?
A shot across the what are we doing here?
What really are we doing?
Nobody can answer that question.
What are we doing?
Human rights, civil rights violations because of nerve gas.
What are we doing?
What we're being doing, what we're doing is being guided by the absolute intellectual vacancy of liberalism.
The emptiness.
The sophistry, the symbolism of liberalism is what's leading us and guiding us and directing us.
I mean the country, not you and me.
And serious people are appalled by this.
Rumsfeld, the president has tried to find a way to blame everybody or anybody for everything.
Leadership requires you stand up.
You take a position.
You provide clarity.
You take responsibility.
Instead, grab sunbite 20 from yesterday.
Well, 20 from today.
Here's Obama from yesterday.
This is what has.
And by the way, not just people like Rumsfeld or Cheney, but I'm telling you everybody around the world that takes this stuff seriously, who keeps up with it.
It was last summer.
Obama drew the red line.
He defined what crossing the red line would mean yesterday.
No, I didn't.
I I I didn't do that.
I didn't do that at all.
I didn't set a red line.
The world set a red line.
The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's population said.
Now move on to somebody 21.
It was asked about it was a QA press conference.
What do you mean you didn't set the red line?
Everybody heard you set the red line.
My credibility is not on the line.
The international community's credibility is on the line.
And America and Congress's credibility is on the line.
But not his.
Stop the tape.
This this folks, this this is uh this is some pathic.
I I don't know what a psychopathic side, it's sympathic.
I didn't set that red line.
I didn't draw that line.
My credibility and on the line.
Congress.
Congress and America, the country, but not him.
He drew the red line, then he said he didn't.
Then he said his credibility on the line, it's Congress's fault.
Because they're the ones that passed a resolution decades ago against the use of chemical weapons.
So yeah, it's the Republicans' fault.
And you've got people watching this, and I'm telling you, they're questioning the stability of the people running this country, and they're scared to death.
And they're not going to go on television and say that.
Or they're going to go on TV and say is what Rumsfeld said last night.
We have a wonderful country.
And if the president would bring in good advisors, sit down and think through where he is, and get down to bedrock to concrete and know where he is, and then decide that he's willing to make a decision.
Either decision is to not do something, if he's unwilling to do anything, that's going to change the regime.
I think he's probably better off doing nothing and accepting the burden that falls on us from all of his prior statements than going out there and making an absolute stupid mistake.
Now, those are not Rumsfeld's words, the last ones I'm throwing them in myself.
But this is dangerous.
And it's it's uh it's not cool, and it's not clever lying, and it's not brilliant politics.
And it's uh it it's i it's not Obama cleverly outwitting his opponents.
He's president of the United States, he's not up to it.
He doesn't want the job.
He doesn't want the responsibility, not something like this.
He'll be glad to raise your taxes and and uh control your life with health care, but he doesn't want all this.
This is too messy.
Doesn't care about it.
This is doing his stuff because he's got to, and he's got to provide cover for the Democrats, and he's gotta do all these things, but this is too messy.
But he does have the job, and it's not responsible.
Uh well, I don't know whether he knows it or not, his credibility is on the line.
It is his credibility on the line, and nothing he can do about that.
He can go all day and say, my credibility, I didn't draw the red line.
Congress drew that red line, international community is not my credibility.
Maybe America's problem, not my you imagine.
Can you imagine any president ever say it's not my problem, it's America's problem.
Who the hell says that?
Who?
What kind of person thinks that?
That's what's got people troubled.
It's not my problem, it's America's problem.
This is not some college professor.
Not some president of the law review here.
Not some state senator voting president, although it actually is.
That's what this looks like.
Moving on, Dr. Kissinger.
If I can find my place, but yep, audio soundbite number four.
Dr. Kissinger last night on the record with Greta Van Sustran, she said, if you don't agree with the president that this is uh in our national interest, should you still go along with the president because he has proclaimed it is, meaning, okay, look, president.
Should we support the guy just because of that?
Even if we don't agree with what he's doing?
What is the impact on the international situation?
If the President of the United States for the first time in American history, it's refused authority by the Congress to do what he has declared in the national interest.
The impact of that on allies and on people that we will have to be in political confrontation with could be enormous.
I don't think this issue should ever have been brought to the Congress as a single issue of that one strike or death one nut strike.
Of course not.
So why was it?
For political reasons.
That's all this is is Obama gunning for the 2014 midterms.
All this is.
He doesn't need congressional authority to do what he said he's going to do, and it is a surgical strike of cruise missiles.
He doesn't need congressional authority.
He's even said he doesn't need it.
But after a 45 minute walk on the White House grounds, Obama had a revolution.
And he said, I am going to ask Congress for permission, authorization.
I don't know who he was walking with, but it had to be a political advisor who said, Mr. President, um, let's turn this to our advantage, find a way to blame it on the Republicans, which is all they ever do.
Everything they do is designed to eliminate political opposition.
That unqualified incompetent college professor at Michigan State that we played for you in the first hour.
Same thing.
These people are not interested in debating in the arena of ideas and prevailing on the strength of her ideas.
They don't want to deal with any opposition.
So Obama is using the Syrian people and whatever is happening there as an opportunity to defeat Republicans again.
So he doesn't need congressional authority, but he know he's going to seek it.
And he, I'm telling you, he's hoping they don't grant it.
That gives him two things that he wants.
A, he doesn't have to launch an attack then.
And two, it can blame it all on them.
I told you it wasn't my problem.
I told you my credibility wasn't on the line.
It's a Republican.
Republicans don't care about this country.
Republicans don't care about doing what's right.
Republicans don't care about people dying with nerve gas.
Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, villains, villains, villains.
They don't care who's dying with nerve gas.
I did everything I could.
I went by the Constitution, I asked them to help me out.
They didn't want to help.
They don't care.
That's the name of the game.
That's the Obama administration in a nutshell.
How do we blame everything on the Republic?
James Carville.
James Carville was on O'Reilly last night.
We got the tape going to blame Bush.
You know why this mess exists?
Is because Bush went into Iraq and everybody hated it, and now nobody trusts Obama to do the right thing because of Bush.
If Bush hadn't made such a mess of Iraq, then everybody would be totally supporting Obama.
But because everybody remembers what a mess that was.
Hey, James, let me tell you the truth and something.
You know, my friend, Iraq was not a mess.
You guys made it a mess in the U.S. media and uh in the halls of Congress, but it wasn't a mess.
You guys made it that.
You convinced people it was a mess.
This is this is cowardice to go back and keep blaming this on uh on Bush.
And then Dr. Kissinger here, don't forget one of the salient points he made.
What is the impact on the international situation of the president for the first time in American history is refused authority by the Congress to do what he has declared in the national interest.
Well, what Obama wants is exactly that story.
He wants a headline in the New York Times that says, for the first time in American history, Republican Congress denies president.
That's what he wants, folks.
That's what all this is about.
I don't know if Kissinger knows what he swerved into or not, but that's what Obama wants.
He wants that headline in the New York Times and all over networks.
For the first time in American history, Republican Congress or Congress led by Republicans denies president what he has asked for in the national interest.
That's what that's what they want.
That's the end game, that headline.
And Henry Kissinger, he's looking at it the other way.
What's the impact on the international situation of the president?
because what Kissinger is saying is that ends all respect for America.
Because what that says to the world is the Congress thinks the president's a joke.
Obama doesn't.
Obama wants the headline domestically for the first time in American history.
Congress.
And again, then it won't take long in the body of that story to find racism is the reason.
Racist Republicans, first time in American history, deny Obama president.
The use of force in a situation in the national interest.
That's exactly what they want.
It's not about the people of Syria.
It's not about Assad and chemical weapons and so forth.
This is about the only enemy Obama really is energized to destroy is us, folks.
Republicans, Tea Party, conservatives.
And notice this is all happening while the Republican leadership in Washington is doing everything it can to befriend Obama.
Okay, I'm going to take a break.
We'll do it, and we'll come back and get your calls in the mix here, so don't go away.
And we go to Midland Park, New Jersey, heading back to the phones as promised.
And Dave Kroos.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Thank you for taking my call, Russia.
I've been listening for 20 years now.
Thank you, sir.
Um speaking of absence of leadership, how about absence of proof?
We have yet to see any kind of proof.
I mean, God, at least Colin Powell had a Lego set up and some black and white pictures.
But who's asking for proof?
We're going on a five-second video, kind of similar to what happened over there in Benghazi.
Um words of proof.
What do we have?
Come on.
We have the word.
What do you mean?
We got the word of Barack Obama.
That's all we need.
And that's all we need.
That's all we've ever needed.
I think we're in trouble.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, your question is uh, in all seriousness, is really timely because let me I I mentioned this earlier, and Dave, thanks for the call.
Really good.
I mentioned this earlier.
Who does Obama put in the position of selling this?
One of the biggest anti-war figures in American history, John Forbes Carey, who, by the way, served in Vietnam.
He actually mentioned that in his testimony the other day.
Here's a guy who believes the worst when told about the U.S. military.
We all know Kerry's story.
So Obama puts him in there and he's out trying to sell the use of force.
What a gift to Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin is now saying Kerry is lying, and we've got the audio coming.
In fact, grab it.
Grab Zunbite number six.
This is uh yesterday in Moscow during a speech to his human rights council, which is a laugh, but nevertheless, Vladimir Putin said this about Kerry.
Well, I've watched the debates in Congress.
A congressman asked Mr. Kerry are all Qaeda in Syria.
People say they've gotten stronger there.
Some asked.
Is a unit of Al-Qaeda.
Kerry and the others know about this.
This wasn't nice to watch.
We communicate with them and assume that they're decent people.
But then he goes and lies openly, and he knows that he's lying.
This is sad.
What that yeah, it is.
I mean, what the hell are we supposed to do as American citizens?
We got a guy, John Kerry, who we know that we can't trust.
And Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, Russia.
Who was it?
Romney.
Gosh, Romney.
Romney was so on the money during the campaign when he talked about some of this foreign policy stuff.
He said that Obama was making a big mistake putting any trust in Putin, any kind of alliance, and this is this is being borne out.
So here you've got Putin calling Kerry a liar.
Um everybody on our stage is just diminished now into a caricature, folks, a joke.
And so, Dave there, well, what is the evidence that they're using that the Syrian government's using nerve gas?
And all the press is now asking that question, by the way.
They're not in a in another telltale sign.
The press is not unilaterally accepting Obama's word on this.
They are asking, where's the proof for this?
We're gonna send missiles and maybe boots on the ground.
Where's the proof of this?
You know, and that is an offshoot from Iraq.
And Kerry is citing Intel sources.
Well, these are the same people that told us ten years ago that we can't trust Intel sources, that they'll tailor what they say for a president.
Now, say these guys are coming back and they're being bitten by their own.
It's called being hoisted in their own petard.
This is they're being bitten by their previous words.
They haven't made the case.
But again, don't don't don't forget.
The real truth of this, all you need to know is Obama is counting on a no vote in the House.
So we can get the headline that we were just talking about.
Hey, folks, now it's it must be really getting serious.
Because Obama is canceling a fundraiser in Hollywood to stay in Washington to deal with the Syrian situation.
That means this is serious.
A fundraiser is the second most important thing in Obama's life.
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