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Nov. 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
This is the award-winning, multiple award-winning, let's see there, the Marconi Award for excellence in syndicated broadcasting three or four times, and it could be every year, except for the rules.
Halls of fame, two different radio halls of fame, honorary member freshman class, 1994 Hall of Famous Missourians, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, folks.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
I don't remember when exactly it hit me that football, as it's played today, is in its last days.
It was recently, of course, but I can't pinpoint the exact day.
I forget what it was even that alerted me to this.
I think it was a cumulative events, series of events that led me to an instinctive conclusion.
And it is happening, and it's happening at a more rapid rate than even I expected it to happen.
And it is happening almost exactly as I predicted it.
This is a huge, see I told you so.
I want to read to you first from Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe yesterday.
Now, who is Bob Ryan?
You sports fans know, but Bob Ryan is the dean, the current dean of sports writers in Boston.
He's at the Boston Globe.
He is a revered figure in the sports writer community.
He appears frequently on all of the ESPN sports writer shows.
He appears on the Sports Reporters.
Is that show still on?
It's Sunday morning thing that they do.
He appears on Around the Horn.
He is a go-to commentator for anything happening in Boston, be it with the Patriots or the Red Sox or the Celtics or the Bruins.
I mean, he's just, he's not a quack.
He's a seasoned citizen.
He's been doing this a long time.
He's in the Will McDonough League.
Highly respected.
He is well thought of.
I mean, young sports writers always wanted to be Bob Ryan.
He's that kind of figure.
Now, he's also politically aligned on the left, but they all are.
So that's not a big deal.
The point is that Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe is not some quack.
Bob Ryan's not the kind of guy that would go on ESPN and say we need to get rid of the national anthem because it's a war anthem, like Kevin Blackestone did.
He's a serious sports reporter and analyst, serious, extremely knowledgeable of the game.
And again, in no way is Bob Ryan a quack.
And I don't mean to be damaging his career here by praising his work.
So the point is, when Bob Ryan writes something about sports, it's akin to the New York Times writing something and newsrooms all over America picking it up.
And I want to read to you what Bob Ryan wrote in the Boston Globe.
I saw it yesterday.
I don't know actually when he wrote it.
I saw it on Breitbart.
Popularity of football reflects poorly on America.
Now, after I read this, we're going to go back to May 7th of 2012 and relive from the grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites the prediction I made about what was going to happen with football and how it would be taken out, how they would do it.
And I predicted that it would be the media who derive their living from it.
The sports media who make their living covering this sport are going to be the ones wittingly or unwittingly who take it out.
That's the essence of my prediction, but it's far more detailed than that.
Bob Ryan, football has an enormous appeal to many people who are borderline psychopaths.
He's talking about the players.
He's talking about the players and the fans.
I want you to remember, too, when I was critical of a Chargers Patriots playoff game some years ago, which I said, my gosh, I felt like I was watching the Bloods and Crips.
Everybody came down.
How can you say that?
That's racist.
That's bigoted.
Everybody just descended on me with untold mountains of criticism.
So now here is the dean of sports writers.
I mean, really, everybody in the sports writer community just loves this guy.
I mean, he's that influential.
And he writes, football has an enormous appeal to many people who are borderline psychopaths in a manner that no other sport, and this includes the very virile sport of hockey, does not.
And I come to you, he writes, as an enabler.
And I suspect there are many more out there like me.
We are essentially troubled by the casual acceptance our society has of a sport that really and truly maims people.
That football is America's current sport of choice, reflects poorly on us as a people.
Now, this guy's made his living reporting on the greatness of people who've played for the New England Patriots.
This is a man who has told every one of his readers how player X, Player Y, player Z is great.
That's what he means now.
All of a sudden, Bob Ryan is suffering pangs of guilt over having promoted and enabled the popularity of football, which again has an enormous appeal to many people who are borderline psychopaths.
And then he writes this.
The simple truth is that football can never be made safe, even if the essential kill mentality were changed.
Football can never be made safe.
And it has never been more dangerous than it is now, thanks to a combination of there being larger, quicker, more lethal people delivering the blows and the lingering mentality brought to the game by coaches and players who cannot or will not change.
This is a profound 180, and you have to ask, what brought this on?
You realize how fast this is happening?
I don't know how long Bob Ryan has worked at the Boston Globe, but it's decades.
And all of a sudden now, he's suffering pangs of guilt.
The people play the game are borderline psychopaths.
It says horrible things about us as a people because we enjoy and promote a sport that maims people, really and truly maims people.
And he's troubled by the casual acceptance our society has for this.
This is happening at an even more rampant rate than I thought.
I want to take you back to my prediction.
Now, this prediction is twofold, and the last half of what you're going to hear has not happened yet, but it's the next shoe to drop.
The first half of this prediction, it's amazing, even if I say so myself.
Let's go back to May 7th, 2012 on this show, talking about the game of football and how and where liberal attacks on the game would take place.
What happened in a Coliseum and everybody?
What is the legend that Christians were given to the lions and that the crowd roared?
The crowd loved it.
And if you don't like that, go further back to the gladiators, wiping each other out, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Roman Caesar and his women sitting there, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Think Russell Crowe, if you're a Hollywood type.
Well, in both those cases, people were dying, and it was being cheered on the one hand at the hand of the jaws of lions, the other hand, the swords and other weapons.
Now, I guarantee you, this is going to happen, folks.
It's going to happen in the sports media.
It's going to happen in the sports media under the guise of compassion and an attempt to be sensitive and helpful.
The idea that it can't be mates and he's got to get rid of the game.
I'm telling you, it's a groundswell that's being spun into control or out of control, however you want to look at it.
What's going to happen is somebody is going to figure out here pretty soon that since 75% of the players in the NFL are African American, that's 75% of the concussions are being suffered by African Americans.
75% of the heart attacks, early deaths, whatever, African Americans.
And then somebody is going to say, maybe this week after I put it out here, how long are we going to put up with the sacrifice of African-American males for a bloodthirsty American audience?
How long are we willingly going to submit African-American males to maiming, concussions, early death, and perhaps suicide for what?
The bloodlust of the American population.
And they'll make the obvious connection to the old plantation days.
You watch.
That's what's going to happen.
It will be used as a further arrow in the quiver to ban the game.
Not something we have to protect because it employs so many African Americans.
My little prediction.
Now, the only aspect of that prediction that is not part of what Bob Ryan said is the African-American connection.
And it will be next.
It may be implied, but it will be next.
Well, Snurgy's asking you, what do you think the psychopath line is?
Do you think that's a representation?
Gangs?
I don't want to put words in Bob Ryan's mouths.
But psycho.
I think he's thinking of, he could be thinking of Richie Incognito as a psychopath, as a white guy.
It's not, I don't think, I don't think he means psychopathic is exclusively African American.
But you'll notice I used the word maim.
He used the word maim.
I predicted somebody would say that we are engaging in a game like the Romans used to sacrifice Christians and the lions at the Coliseum and everybody applauding it.
And he's asking for forgiveness.
He's enabled that.
It's the same thing today.
That's what football is.
That's what he's saying.
Football is on the way or it already has become that sport that really and truly maims people, troubled by the casual acceptance our society has, that football is America's current sport of choice, reflects poorly on us as a people.
Everything, it's a it's it's it's a I expected all this to happen.
I didn't expect it to happen within five years.
It is amazing.
You take what's happening here with Jonathan Martin and Incognito and the bullying aspect, and look at how quickly people in the media used to be die-hard fans are now writing the sports media writing this critical stuff.
It's the sports media that is casting aspersions on the game and feeling pangs of guilt over it.
And with Bob Ryan writing this is not like Anastas Mikoyan at the Charlotte Observer, not to insult the Charlotte Observer, but I mean, he's a big guy.
It's not insignificant.
And by the way, I predict here that somebody's going to say there's nothing we can do to make it safe.
He says the simple truth is that football can never be made safe, even if the kill mentality were taken out of it.
Football can never be made safe.
People that play it are larger, quicker, more lethal, and they're borderline psychopaths.
It's unlike any other sport in that regard.
It's attracting bad actors.
The fans supporting it are promoting and supporting bad actors.
The coaches look the other way when the bad actors dominate and triumph.
I mean, it is an astounding sea.
I told you so.
I fully expected it to happen.
Don't misunderstand, but nowhere near this soon.
And I'm just telling you, the next shoe to drop on this is going to be everything that Ryan has said.
Then they're going to get to the racial component.
75% of the league is African American.
You add that to every other criticism he wrote here, and it makes the game racist.
Even if the players are handsomely compensated, it's still the evil owners of whom there is no one African American.
Basically running a blood sport.
Fans happily paying to watch permanent injury and maiming.
You wait.
It may happen before the end of next week.
The rate this is going.
Brief timeouts, folks.
Sit tight.
El Rushwell.
This is what being on the cutting edge means.
Went back to the RushlandBaught.com website.
I predicted first made reference to the attacks on football, perhaps leading to its demise, on December 14th of 2011.
That's how far back it goes.
The see I Told You So Bite was May of 2012.
It's on.
I'm just, folks, I just know these people.
I'm not prescient.
I don't have a crystal ball.
I just know liberals.
Like with SUVs, I just know what they're going to do.
I know what strikes me about this is that here you have people who made their careers building this sport up and the people who play it and writing puff piece profiles are great all these.
Now, I mean, inside of one season, two seasons, it's stunning to me to watch how a piece of conventional wisdom or group think can totally overtake an entire industry or group of people, to where they all end up thinking and writing and reporting the same thing.
It's just so easily predictable.
Every concussion on the field now results in stories on potential suicide.
Every suicide relates back to possible concussions while playing.
It's in the cards, folks.
The die is cast.
To the phones we go now.
This is Ben in Westchester County in New York.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you for your patience.
Hello.
Rush, I've been calling you since I was a young man.
Now I'm a senior citizen.
Honestly, it's a great pleasure to be able to speak to you finally.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I'd add a couple of things, a couple of comments I'd like to make about Obamacare.
One, I think that it should be broadcast that nobody in America that's got so much as a social security number should ever go on this website.
If you have a checkbook, a credit card, anything, don't go on this website.
There's a couple of reasons for that.
Number one, you will be hacked.
So your identity is going to be out there.
Your identity is going to get stolen.
Your money's going to get taken, and so on and so forth.
Nothing good is going to ever come of going on that website and putting any information on it.
And number two, the second reason is that this website is backwards.
When I go on any website in order to buy anything, if I wanted to buy Rush Revere, I would go to a website, I would look at it, I would pull the item up, I would see the price, the cost of shipping, everything else.
And then if I decide to buy it, I would put it in my shopping cart and move it along, finally to a secure page, and then pay for it, knowing exactly what I'm getting and how much it's costing me.
Now, this website should be boycotted because anybody that goes on it has to put all their information in first and then find out that what was your other comment earlier that's why it was done on purpose.
Ben, it was done on purpose.
So people, the last thing they would see is the cost.
The last thing they would see is that they're losing their existing plan by design.
You named it.
On a cutting edge, El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have grabs down by 26.
So what is Wolf Blitzer doing today?
Well, back, let's see, seven years ago, when George W. Bush's approval number hit 36%, Wolf was having multiple orgasms.
By the way, I got a note from somebody.
Said, you're wrong about Wolf.
The only multiple orgasms he ever had were when he was a kid in Buffalo, when he was asleep.
So that's what somebody said.
It's just a note that I got from somebody.
Anyway, we love Wolf here, folks.
We just like to have a little fun.
But Wolf was going nuts here over Bush's number 36%.
I mean, every hour for three hours, leading every hour, practically coming out of every commercial break with breaking news, the Bush approval number 36%, and then bringing in experts of what it all meant today.
Obama's at 37%.
And what is Wolf Blitzer talking about?
I'm Wolf Blitzer here in Washington, along with our panel of correspondents and commentators.
The current president, the former president, they're getting closer to the grave site of President John F. Kennedy.
They will approach the eternal flame.
The president will place his hands on the wreath.
Taps will be played.
There will be a moment of silence.
It's a moment that all of us, of course, who lived through that era remember 50 years ago, but it's a powerful moment for the country right now.
And an excellent opportunity for us at CNN to ignore the mess that Obama is in and that he has created.
And by the way, you see, we're getting a block-by-block report on Obama's travels to Arlington Cemetery and the Eternal Flame.
He's now at 14th and E Northwest or whatever.
And now he's at, and now Obama and Clinton are just three blocks away from the Eternal Flame at the Arlington National Cemetery.
And JFK honored 50 years after assassination, this is a perfect, perfect event to cover.
Obama couldn't be troubled to go to Gettysburg, right?
Couldn't be troubled, couldn't be bothered with the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
Yes, he was working on the website, healthcare.gov.
Is that what they said?
Obama was working on the website.
Some flak said that Obama's busy working on the website.
Remember, folks, the big news on the website: 30 to 40 percent of it hasn't even been built.
Now, they had basically $650 million in three years to put together the website of their dreams: National Socialized Medicine.
The website of their dreams.
They had $650 million in three years, and 40, 30, 40% of it is not even done, hasn't even been built.
And the IT experts are saying it's already been hacked.
Do not input your data.
Stay away from it.
It's a massive data collection sponge for the government, and it's already been hacked.
It is something to stay away from.
Only 27,000 Americans have purchased something there.
The regime is making up this 106,000 number.
And the 40% that hasn't been built, that's the part that tells you what it costs.
So you never see what you're buying or what you're paying.
Here's Robert in Georgia, Iowa.
Robert, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, how are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Hey, with Brock's numbers falling the way they are, how can MSNBC plan to keep their numbers up?
I mean, they've got to be falling.
MSNBC's ratings you're asking me about?
Yeah, yeah, they're ratings.
I mean, they got to be in the tank.
They are.
You need a magnifying glass to read them.
I mean, they've been touting that Obamacare for so darn long, and then all Mika, all she's worried about is the government shutdown, worried that's going to hurt the Republicans.
I don't think that's going to be even a blip by the time this is done.
Well, the whole MSNBC thing, let's not forget one of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from it.
I figured, why?
I mean, it's genuine, depraved partisan politics insanity.
Genuine, extremist, radical ignoremuses on that network.
Why should I play what they say?
I mean, I can tell people what liberals think without having to play that and create interest in it and perhaps tune-in factor for them.
So what the hell?
And since I initiated my ban, their numbers, which were never great in the first place, have plummeted.
But the latest thing that happened on MSNBC, Martin Bashir last Friday got mad at Sarah Palin because she said something he didn't like about Obamacare.
She compared Obamacare and the Obama economy to the equivalent economic slavery.
And that just, the left owns that allegation.
They own slavery.
They are the one.
They're the only ones that got to talk about that.
She had no right.
So Martin Bashir probably made up a story about slave punishment in Jamaica, not even in the United States, and ended up saying that somebody ought to defecate in her mouth.
Or was it both?
Well, okay, so it was number one and number two, in her mouth.
And he said it with great pride.
He said it thinking that he had just made something profound, a great point.
And it sat there all weekend long, and there was not one peep from anybody at MSNBC suggesting that it was in any way inappropriate.
But over the weekend, something did happen.
And on Monday, or maybe it was yesterday, I forget which, he made a big apology.
And it was said to be a heartfelt and serious apology.
But it asks an even larger question.
Why is he still there?
You know, you let somebody, let's say, pick a name, pick anybody you want at Fox.
Let's say Dr. Krauthammer or Ted O'Baxter would suggest that somebody do to Obama what Bashir suggested happened to Sarah Palin.
What do you think would have happened?
Within seconds, there would have been, they would have been yanked off the air before their show was over.
Roger Ailes would have stormed down there and taken them off the air publicly, and that would be the end of them.
They wouldn't even have finished their show.
That's exactly right.
If Ailes had to sit there and do the rest of the hour himself, he would yank whoever did that off the air.
At MSNBC, what's the big deal?
Apology takes care of it, and that's it.
These are truly reprehensible people over there.
And again, if you look at, I think, the terrified state that the left finds themselves in right now.
And by the way, that's a self-contained state.
I'm not saying it means anything.
I don't want anybody to conclude that I believe that what's happening now represents a fundamental shift in the thinking of the American people.
I'm holding out hope that it does, but I'm not lost in this yet.
But what is happening is real, and I'm telling you, the failure of MSNBC, the fact that it has no audience that it's laughed about and has no respect, it's all in the mix with how every other leftist radical in this country looks.
Everything they believe, everything they thought would equal utopia, including the end of conservatism, hasn't happened.
Everything they believe in, they've gotten pretty much everything they want out of Obama.
The only thing they haven't gotten is Club Guitmo closed and card check with the unions and their carbon tax on global warming, everything else they've gotten, and it's done nothing but made a mess of this country.
Obama's economic policies have created 91 million people not working.
There is not one aspect in the average American's definition, not one thing of this administration's that's working.
Now, from the Obama standpoint, you could argue it's working exactly as planned.
If you want to transform the country, if you don't like the way it was and you're trying to turn it upside down, then what's going on right now, it has to happen.
But if you're just some dumb acolyte, some leftist brain-dead supporter who believes all this stuff, there's nothing good going on right now.
And even in the glitterati, even in the elites of the left, this is not supposed to be happening.
Their guy's never supposed to be 37%.
I mean, he's a messiah.
This is this, they're in uncharted territory.
And the reason for, well, it's not uncharted, it's happened before.
But the real problem for them is, remember, folks, the Democrat Party and the American left only survive when they successfully camouflage who they are, what they believe, and what they want to accomplish.
The only way they win election nationally.
Now, in certain states and districts, they can go out and be honest about who they are, but not very many.
You can count the Elizabeth Warren-type candidates on one hand, maybe, well, maybe two.
Boxer and Feinstein, maybe some places in Washington and New York.
But outside of that, they have to mask it.
And when they win the presidency, they have to mask it.
That's why the Limbaugh Theorem with Obama.
And right now, the curtain's raised.
And everybody sees because they're living it.
And people are finding out the whole thing is a lie.
Not just Obamacare, but all the promises are lies.
All of the assurances are lies.
There isn't this massive happiness in utopia out there.
Country is more divided and partisan than people can remember.
Got to take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Ha, how are you?
Rushlin bought talent on lawn from God.
My adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
This is Margaret.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to let you and your audience know that the word is getting out there.
I'm a former Democrat, and what you so brilliantly describe as a low-information voter in that I am college educated.
I listened to NPR.
I read the New York Times.
I felt like I knew everything I needed to know.
But even through all that, the lies and BS that Obama tells, especially about Benghazi, just started to really bother me.
And I felt like I really wasn't getting anyone in the media speaking the truth about this man.
Can I ask you a serious question?
Of course.
I mean, I'm not trying to be provocative or any of the, don't misread the tone.
I mean, I'm genuinely curious based on my opinion of Democrats.
Why did Benghazi bother you?
I mean, if you're a committed Democrat, the last thing I would think you would want is for Obama to be humiliated on that.
You'd be interested in helping cover up for him.
That's right.
I understand what you're saying, but I just, it's hard to explain.
It was just a gut feeling.
I felt like I was just being bamboozled in a way that, I don't know, just woke me up, I suppose.
It was a gut feeling.
Well, what was it?
Was it the four dead Americans?
Was it Obama blaming some poor guy that did a video?
What was it?
It was the blaming of the video.
I thought that was so cheesy, and it just felt wrong to me.
The fact that they seem so cavalier about those dead men, it just, you know, sometimes I think you just, something just hits you wrong.
And you start paying more attention to maybe what's not been said or reading between the lines and whatnot.
I guess that's not a really good way of explaining it.
It just hit me wrong.
And I felt that.
Is it safe to say, if I heard you correctly, I guess you qualified yourself as a low-information voter, yet your daily dose of the New York Times and NPR.
What did you conclude that after spending so much time with the New York Times and NPR, you really didn't know a lot?
Yes.
That's profound.
Because most people that read the New York Times, listen to NPR, think they know everything and that anything.
Oh, I know.
Anything else is irrelevant and maybe not even true.
Right.
So something happened to you that made you, and that doesn't happen much.
I mean, a New Yorker who's devoted to NPR and the New York Times, I can't think of what it would be to shake up.
For you, it was Benghazi.
Yes.
But now what about Obamacare?
Where were you on that?
Well, I believed in it.
I believed that it was what he said it was.
And basically what happened was after the whole Benghazi thing, I just felt like I needed to hear somebody provide an alternative hypothesis as far as who Obama was.
So I started listening to your show in February.
I wasn't expecting to like you very much because I've always heard that you were a kook and all this stuff.
And I was actually...
But I'm loved and adored in Sacramento.
I mean, that's my adoption.
Oh, I know.
And I was, for so long, I was like, oh, my God, I can't believe Russia's from my hometown.
How terrible.
How embarrassing.
Oh.
Oh, no, I know.
But I started listening to your show, and I realized, because I figured you would be the one who would speak openly and truthfully about Obama.
Even though, now wait a minute.
That's fascinating.
Because up till then, you thought I was a kook and you believed whatever is said about me.
But then all of a sudden you say, well, maybe this kook limbaugh, this extremist, misogynist, racist, sexist limbaugh will tell me the truth about it.
I figured you would offer an alternative view of Obama that no one else was offering.
I figured at least I would know, at least I could commiserate with somebody who was being turned off by Obama.
I'll tell you this is, you know, folks, Margaret, I can't thank you enough.
I appreciate your call.
I think Obama's approval, as I said, they're falling for real.
Nobody talked her into it.
She's something happened.
For her, it was Benghazi that all of a sudden the blanket universal support broke down.
And I think this has been happening to, it has to have been happening all over the country.
You don't get to 37% approval.
Well, the media can do it in four years as they did to Bush, but it's happened to Obama relatively compared to Bush overnight, and it's real.
Got to take a break, folks.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
Folks, as I said, Jay Leno, in addition to having George W. Bush on the program last night, went and took their man on the street crew out there to ask people about Thanksgiving.
And it's not pretty, what I got.
It never is.
But this is especially ugly.
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