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Oct. 17, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, I'm wondering if I ought to Snerdly, what do you think?
You got to start this Adrian Peterson Phil Mushnick story now rather than waiting until I thought I had plenty of time yesterday, and I just I ran out of time, and it was really it was embarrassing as a as a highly trained broadcast professional.
Uh I did not get that in.
I had to go like a bat out of hell to get it in, and I did and I didn't.
I probably left a lot of people hanging.
There is new news to this today, so it may it may be warranted.
So we'll do that.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh in Los Angeles for the rest of the week.
Been here all week, and we'll be back to our Southern Command of Florida next week.
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Let me expand just a little bit here on this note that I got from somebody, friend of mine who's really upset at a lot of us are Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, the Tea Party, various blogs, some at Fox News, although not many, and those of us in talk radio being ripped, being criticized as responsible for this damage being done to Republican brand.
And this guy pointed out to me, okay.
So here's Obama, and he he, in order to lessen the pain of the real deal, he delays the employer mandate for a year.
So employers do not have to provide health care insurance.
But the individual mandate remained, meaning we've all got to get it or pay a fine, but our employer, which is the place most people get their insurance.
That mandate was waived for a year, and so big business can tell people, sorry, we're not providing health care anymore.
You know, you're on your own.
And that, of course, is by design.
It sends people to the exchanges, which ratchets down the entitlement.
This guy says, you know, here's big business.
They take their payoff, and they just sat on the sidelines during all this.
They sat on the sidelines, and they're feeling no pain whatsoever.
They stood on the sidelines as conservatives were fighting for the little guy.
They're customers, by the way.
With big business on the sidelines, Republicans sat on their hands.
And he said, This is sort of, you know, you talk about Obama's incompetence.
In this sense, it's genius.
He bought off the opposition.
He gives employers a year's delay on their requirement to provide insurance.
And they sat around and they rubbed their hands in glee and said, hey, you know, this is fun.
This doesn't involve us.
No pain for us.
While everybody else got involved.
I understand the uh the point.
Okay, so yesterday, what I attempted to do, and I really need to do something here that I haven't done.
I need to print out some of the responses that Phil Mushnick's column got.
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post wrote a piece on Sunday.
I'm I need to tell you who Phil is.
For those of you outside New York, and have maybe not until recently discovered him.
Phil Mushnick, I guess it would be fair to say, has a couple of frequent themes that he writes about with different examples to each theme.
And one of his themes is the cultural decay taking place both on and off the field in sports.
And how the sports media never talks about it, never criticizes it, and in effect, endorses it.
And it bothers him.
It bothers him just like the cultural rot because the liberalism bothers us in areas outside of sports.
But he writes about it frequently, and he often pulls no punches, and he's uh fearless.
He is not afraid of what's gonna be said about him after he does things.
I mean, he will write a piece ripping Robinson Canoe and a Yankee broadcast team and the Yankees and Major League Baseball For paying a guy all that money to dog it if he doesn't hit a home run.
This guy routinely hits the ball and then stands at home plate watching and turns a routine triple into an out at second base, turns a routine double into barely making it to first base before being thrown out because the guy just doesn't run the bases.
So he doesn't execute the fundamentals.
And Mushnick calls him on it, and he calls the announcers on it.
He said the announcers treat this guy as a great hero, a great guy because he could play baseball great guy, because he earns a lot of money, he's a great guy.
And but it's not he he gets into teams, the Jets, the Mets for the way they rip off fans with personal seat licenses, and he's always um he's always jabbing Roger Goodell for saying that PSLs are good investments.
So there's no such thing as you know, PSL having to buy a license for the right to buy season tickets.
You know, they double dip you.
He can he continually writes about families being ignored, best customers in baseball and football being ignored.
Season ticket holders, families.
They get the schedule, they plan a summertime trip to New York to watch a Sunday afternoon game with the Mets and say whoever, the Cardinals, then ESPN comes along and says we want the game, it's at 8 o'clock.
And the family has to cancel because it's a school night, they can't go to the game, they can't afford a hotel, they can barely afford the game.
And so the fans, he writes in defense of the fans, is the baseball sold out to TV.
He laments all this stuff.
He he writes of when it used to not be this way.
Uh same examples given for football games that are flexed late in the season to Sunday night games on NBC.
Um games that don't start at one or four o'clock, but later and so forth.
And and but he often he constantly take note of every college football team that adds black to its uniform colors.
He says black is a gang color.
And he says the teams are acknowledging the gang culture.
And he points to the Detroit Lions with, well, there's no black in the Detroit Lions history.
What are they doing with black jerseys, the third jersey or black stripes?
He says it's an acknowledgement of gang culture, Crips in the Bloods.
This is common.
This is a and he's worried about it.
And he's worried nobody else comments on it.
He's worried about the message that all of this is sending young people who idolize players and teams, so forth.
So and one of the other themes he writes about is okay.
So an athlete is great on the field, doesn't mean that they're great people.
And he'll cite Lance Armstrong and how the media totally fawned, totally bought it all, and turns out the truth.
Look at, and he does the same thing with A. Rod now.
The latest example, that was Adrian Peterson.
Adrian Peterson learned that an alleged son of his beaten to near death last Friday in South Dakota.
Yeah, but at the time the kid hadn't died.
It was, it was, it was uh it was in the hospital on life support, and and Peterson left Minneapolis and went to South Dakota to see his son.
His alleged son.
Some people are making the case he didn't know for sure if it was his or not.
And Mushnick writes a piece that details all of the legal skirmishes and problems Peterson has had and many of the other children he's had out of wedlock.
And he refers to Peterson's the women who have given birth to Peterson's kids as his baby mama, and he does so in a critical way.
He thinks baby mama is become an accepted term Which glorifies single parenthood, which Mushnick thinks is bad for society and culture.
Here is how he wrote about that.
And by the way, the drive-by sports media is livid at Mushnick for this, because they think it's totally fine to write a glowing character piece of Adrian Peterson after his son was beaten up and then died.
And they think that Mushnick is terribly insensitive and totally, totally off the wall and out of bounds in writing about anything critical of Peterson because his kid died.
How do you do that?
Does it matter?
His kid just died, Phil, what in the world are you doing?
It proves that you're insensitive, that you're an old man, that times have changed, the world has passed you by, you're a racist pig.
What in the world are you doing?
And the reaction was much like that throughout all of the sports writer community.
Now, here is Peterson being written about by Mushnick in this baby mama fashion.
The suspect in the beating murder of Peterson's two-year-old is the boyfriend of Peterson's baby mama, which is now the casual, flippant, detestable and common buzz phrase for absentee wham bam fatherhood.
Well, obviously, Phil doesn't approve of absentee fatherhood.
And he doesn't approve of it being glorified, and he thinks baby mama, it is used in common part.
Oh, that my baby mama over there.
Even husbands refer to their wives as their baby mamas.
And didn't Moochell My Bell at the 2004 Democrat convention come out and call Obama her baby's daddy.
And I want to introduce you to my baby daddy.
And a Barack came out.
Well, Phil finds all this stuff just.
I'm just as a reader of his stuff sometimes, I think he looks at this as a deterioration of cultural standards that he thinks used to be pretty good.
And so he wrote a piece just because Peterson is a great athlete doesn't make him a great guy.
And he cited some of Peterson's failings as such.
Thus it was unsurprising Peterson's downside went ignored.
In 2009, he was busted for driving 109 miles per hour in a 55 mile an hour zone.
He dismissed that as no big deal, which was doubly disturbing because Peterson's older full brother was killed by reckless driver.
You would think he'd be sensitive to it.
Last summer, Peterson was in a club when he and friends were told that it was closing time past 2 a.m.
Apparently Peterson and Powells felt that they would decide when it was time to close.
The police report noted three cops were needed to subdue Peterson.
He spent the rest of the night in jail, arrested for resisting arrest, a charge that was later dismissed.
Then again the passage on baby mama business.
The suspect in the beating murder of Peterson's two-year-old is the boyfriend of Peterson's baby mama, now the casual, flippant, detestable common buzz phrase for absentee wham bam fatherhood.
The accused Joseph Patterson previously was hit with domestic assault and abuse charges.
Now with his resources, how could Peterson, the NFL's MVP, have allowed his son to remain in such an environment?
The answer to that is that it's being reported Peterson didn't know until recently that this was his son, and he'd never met him.
So he has an out on that.
Did he not know or did he not care where his son was living?
Did he not care to know where his son was living?
Did he not Know to care where his son was living.
Peterson couldn't have provided his son a better life, a longer life.
Money can't buy love, but having signed a 96 million dollar deal, he couldn't have provided his child, apparently his second from a baby mama, a safe home.
And then there was the concluding paragraph, which one really set them off out there in the Redskins need to change their name league.
Maybe Peterson's son is just one more stands to reason murder victim.
Just another child born to just another baby mama.
One more kid, never had a shot anyway.
Maybe by now, even if we can't accept it, we can expect.
Well, again, I can't tell.
I should have I've got four different reactions here from large and small websites.
Phil Mushnick wrote the most offensive sports column in the history of the earth.
Phil Mushnick is a horrible person for his Adrian Peterson article.
The New York Post column about Adrian Peterson is the worst.
Phil Mushnick rips Adrian Peterson's character in possibly worst column ever.
And I would venture to say that every one of these people reacting is in Phil's view, probably, I don't know him.
I say Phil.
I've played golf with him one time, and that's long, long time ago.
I don't he's not a friend.
I don't, he's an acquaintance at best, but I would think that these people are making his point because they're they're they're ripping him and coming to the defense of this and are asking for sensitivity, and my God, do you have to say these kind of things right now?
So from Phil's point is why are you guys building these guys up into characters and personalities that they aren't just because they're successful athletes.
But that has been a standard of sports writing.
That's been a standard.
I'm even I, you know, noted political expert in wizard.
Even I, as a consumer, reading the sports, watching the sport, I've noted every star athlete is also one of the greatest human beings ever.
Whatever the life story is, in fact, the harder the story, the greater the person.
And they've all had art.
It kind of goes back to uh Keith Abloh's piece yesterday describing Obama as considering himself a victim of everything.
So anyway, since Mushnick's peace has uh since it first ran, we have learned now that there are five additional Adrian Peterson children.
And just to see, I don't know that Phil has reacted to any of this.
I don't know if he's written anything in response to it.
Oh, it's our old buddies here at TMZ.
Let's see, what's it?
Yesterday.
He's fathered seven kids, not five.
And then they got a picture here, and Adrian Peterson's baby mama.
Day's not over yet.
Adrian Peterson, baby mama.
Our Adrian Peterson baby count was off by two.
They write it, TMZ, at least according to one of the NFL stars, baby mamas, who tells us that A.P. Adrian Peterson actually has fathered seven kids, not five.
TMZ broke the story about baby number five today, but Erica Scion, a former dancer who met Peterson in Houston a few years ago, called us to correct our maths, and the numbers are pretty shocking.
As for how good a dad he is, Erica says he dutifully pays his child support, but he could definitely stand to spend more quality time with the kids.
So that's it.
That's the update on the on the what we really need to do here, and I didn't do it.
You really need to read the reactions to this.
That's that's where you learn where the modern pop culture is.
Right back, folks.
I'm sorry, be right back after this.
Don't go away.
My friends, we have an update.
We have breaking news.
Well, it's not breaking news.
Have you noticed everything on Fox Now's breaking news?
Even at midnight.
The story that ran at 8 a.m. that day is breaking news.
If you notice that, anyway, we have an update.
Another column in the same vein as Phil Mushnick's has been written by a woman named Susan Rimers at the Baltimore Sun.
And the sports writer community is outraged at her as well.
Her piece, where is the outrage for Adrian Peterson's version of Parenthood?
That's the title of the op-ed that she wrote.
Where is the outrage for an NFL player who apparently fathered five children, now seven, Susan, according to TMZ.
Five children by four women, none of them he was married to.
And not just the sports writer community, but the commenters, the people of the reading this in the Baltimore Sun are just calling her some.
She's a piece of excrement.
She needs to get together in Mushnick and they need to nuke each other.
I mean, it's just it's hilarious.
It's it's hilarious.
I got an email.
Oh, gee, look at this.
I don't have time to tell you about this.
I I got a great email.
Mort from Dubuque has an idea about how the NFL can tackle both the insensitivity here and the problem at the same time.
I'll share that with you when we get back.
I'd say the utterly profane and obscene comments being posted to Baltimore Sun of Tweets about Susan Reimer's piece on Adrian Peterson.
And not all sports writers, in fact, most of them are from just tweeters, reader average people.
They're not sports writers.
Some of them may be, but the general population, certain segments of it fit to be tied over what Phil Mushnick wrote and now Susan Reimers.
Okay, it was it's it's Mort from Kia Cut, not Dubuque.
I get him confused.
Is that Rush?
In light of the Adrian Peterson baby mama realizations.
There are other NFL players of Antonio Cromarty, who on remember that an HBO episode of Hard Knocks, he couldn't name all eight of his children.
And so Mort says, look, this is an obvious problem in the NFL, and perhaps throughout the culture.
And maybe the NFL in November following breast cancer awareness month could do Fatherhood Awareness Month in November.
And come up with a color that every player or every team has certain players wear, could be light blue, whatever color you would associate with fatherhood, and then have the symbol not be a colored ribbon, but a punctured or broken condom.
You actually have that logo made of a broken condom and you have it sewn on the jerseys.
Complete with the color.
And then we're tackling the problem, the the way our society does.
We go at it in a purely symbolic way.
Said Rush, it's waiting to happen.
It's it's ideal for you to make reality.
Now, Mort says he doesn't mind my mentioning his name.
It's his email.
But it is, I mean, it's it may be.
No, we're interested in helping here.
That's it may be time for this.
It may be time for this.
I mean, obviously, this is happening, and we can continue reporting the stories, and everybody can feel bad and feel sorry, and oh my God, how can this be happening?
But what's needed now is action.
Uh could get any number of people of spokesman for this.
But you may not even need that.
Fatherhood awareness month, every November.
Think, think of the attention you could call to this in the Thanksgiving Day Games.
The massive audiences on the Thanksgiving Day Games.
Um I just wanted to put the idea out there for the NFL, since we're trying to help.
And coming on the heels of breast cancer awareness month.
It's a natural fatherhood awareness month in the NFL.
I'll bet the NBA might be interesting.
Maybe Major League Baseball.
Who somebody just told me in the end behavior, somebody with 11 kids?
Is retired.
Retired.
11 baby mamas, okay.
Clearly something needs to be done here.
Clearly.
Consciousness raising, awareness needs to take place.
And they're showing us the way with breast cancer awareness month in the NFL.
Here's um Edie in Raleigh, North Carolina as we go back to the phones.
Hi, Edie.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me.
You bet.
I just a little backward on myself.
I'm 48 female.
Um, I got active in politics for the first time alongside the Tea Party and um studied and learned.
I personally got to know the candidates that were running as a precinct chair of one of the largest voting precincts in North Carolina.
And I want to tell you that myself, along with many other conservatives, feel betrayed by the establishment Republicans right now.
And we feel that if it wasn't for our hard work, that they would have never had 2010.
They would be obsolete now.
And that we gave it to them and we can take it away.
Yeah, that kind of talk really irritates them because it it says that you have power and they don't like that about you.
The establishment doesn't want you Tea Party types to have power, and they don't want you to think you do.
So when you run and say, okay, we gave 2010 to you, and we can take it away.
That that just that just steals them in their resistance even more.
And they say, okay, go ahead and try it.
Go ahead and try.
But you're right about 2010.
That was, folks, that was the Tea Party.
The Republican Party had nothing to do with it.
And I remain to this day bamboozled.
Why the Republican Party, seeing what happened, did not make a beeline for that group of people and try to connect with them and bring them into the fold.
And the same thing with with Obamacare.
You have a majority of the American people opposing that is a made-to-order connection, waiting for the Republicans to make, and they didn't do it.
Don't ask me why.
We've been through that.
I've given you every possibility.
Now, by the way, Edie, thanks for the call.
Here's a fascinating piece about a Yale professor from the Independent Journal Review, whatever that is.
Yale professors' surprising discovery.
Wait for it.
Tea Party supporters are more scientifically literate.
And this Yale professor couldn't believe it.
It's his own study.
It's his research.
And when he got the results, he couldn't believe it, and they made him mad.
He writes about it.
Yale law professor Dan Cahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups.
When he ran into a shocking discovery, Tea Party supporters are slightly more scientifically literate than the non-Taarty population.
When composing histograms of the scientific inference abilities of liberals and conservatives, he discovered that those who describe themselves as Tea Party supporters came up pretty well based on National Science Foundation standards.
The shift to the right on the gray columns in the chart.
I hate this.
I don't have the chart.
I wouldn't bother showing it to you.
Charts don't work on the radio.
In other words, let's sum it up for you.
Thank you.
Tea Party members appear to be slightly but solidly more scientifically literate than non Tea Party members.
In fact, Tea Party members tend to be more scientifically literate than other self described conservatives who have slightly negative scores overall.
Now, these findings should give both liberal and Republican establishment types pause over their caricatures of Tea Party constituents.
And this the reaction that this guy got, it is it says here was remarkable.
And here's here's how he described it.
Yale professor did the study.
Is I have to confess, though, I found this result surprising.
As I pushed the button to run the analysis in my computer, I fully expected that I'd be shown a moderate moderate negative correlation between identifying with a Tea Party and science comprehension.
But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with a Tea Party.
All my impressions came from watching cable TV.
And I don't watch Fox very often.
And reading the paper, New York Times every day, plus a variety of politics focused internet sites like the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And he said, I'm a little embarrassed, but mainly I'm just glad I no longer hold this particular mistake in view.
Here's a Yale professor watching cable TV, reading a New York Times, thinks X of the Tea Party.
Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, lunatic, extremists, dangerous, out of control, probably spittle dripping, missing the two front teeth, gun racking the pickup on the way to church Saturday night for good parking space as they pray to the Lord for anti-abortion beliefs.
That's what he thought of them.
And then he finds out they know more about science than anybody else that he surveyed.
And he couldn't believe it.
And then he had to say to himself, I realize I don't know a single one of them.
And I don't know anybody else who knows a single one of them.
All I know about him is what I've been told.
So a Yale professor, for whatever it's worth here, discovers he's been misled and lied.
I guess it's a good thing he went ahead and reported this.
He could have buried it.
He could have been a good liberal professor and just put it in a drawer.
Well, left it on Dropbox, so nobody could see it.
But he reported it.
Quick time out, my friend.
Sit tight, be right back.
So uh Mr. Snerdley, it has uh been suggested to me an alternate symbol for Fatherhood Awareness Month.
And that would be a um a ribbon made out of child support checks.
A ribbon made out of child support checks in the shape of you know the dollar bill.
We had a deficit reduction ribbon we did with a dollar bill.
As a and instead of using a punctured or uh used broken condom.
The only problem, folks, I got with with the the uh a ribbon made out of child support checks is there's no doubt's a shortage of those.
So you'd have to, you'd have to create some fake ones.
Symbol.
We're just trying to help here.
Fatherhood awareness month in November, the NFL.
Right on the heels of breast cancer awareness month.
We could use bounced child support checks if we run out of child support checks.
There might be more of those.
Anyway, we will continue down this path, my friends, but we must stop now for 21 hours.
Have fun, whatever you're gonna do, try to enjoy it.
We'll be back here on open line Friday tomorrow.
See you then.
Do I have a whole okay?
Then the clock, you guys were gonna, I'm not I'm not gonna bitch.
I'm not gonna complain.
But if I tell you what time this clock says, you would know that I'm getting out of here on the right time.
Okay, well, now I got a vamp for 35 seconds.
That's not a problem for me, my friend.
I can do that in my sleep.
Anyway, let me take the time, the moment just to thank you all for being with us each and every day, and especially um during this time.
I know that it's probably tempting.
You know, I'm tired of this.
You say I just don't want to listen to it anymore.
Doesn't seem to matter.
And and that's that's why try to always stay focused on the on what's possible and the positive.
And having fun on things outside the stuff that's going on in Washington, too.
And we'll do more of that tomorrow and open line Friday.
You get to talk about whatever you want.
Don't forget.
We'll see you then.
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