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Jan. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 14, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, I haven't weighed in on this Bob Gates thing much.
Just a couple things I said when his book came out, but there have been some things said that I, L. Rushball, need to reply to.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you back here at 800-282-2882.
Apparently, Bob Gates, the former Secretary of Defense for both uh George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
He releases the book.
And in the book, openly critical of Obama, and he openly praises Obama.
He does both.
And I think he praises Obama on purpose to give himself credibility for the criticism of Obama.
But he's shocked, he says, at the reaction he's getting.
Now, what the heck?
You put out a book, and in your book you assert that you hear the President and Hillary Clinton saying that their opposition to the war in Iraq is totally political, and you're shocked, people react to that.
And then in your book you say that the president really never was fully behind the Afghanistan strategy, never mind the fact that it was his war.
All during the Iraq war, Obama and the Democrats are saying this is a waste of time in Iraq.
We need to be in Afghanistan.
That's where it's all started.
Okay.
So Obama takes over.
We're in Afghanistan, and he's half-hearted about it, doesn't really believe in it, yet is committing American men and women to battle, risking their lives for something he doesn't believe in, and he's shocked that people are talking about then one of the most popular reactions one of the most frequent reactions I have seen in the left-wing media is boy, what a disloyal guy this Gates guy is.
How disloyal.
I mean, how about biting a fan at he of the hen at Fiji?
Why would you dare?
How could anybody say these things about our beloved president Barack Obama?
At least if you're going to do this, wait until Obama's out of office before that just is so clear the real reaction is why didn't Bob Gates resign when all of this was going down?
Why did Bob Gates wait and reserve all of this for a book?
Which, the timing of which is such that there's nothing that can be done about any of it now.
It's a new phenomenon.
We have journalists doing this.
They're embedded in campaigns, and they're not reporting in real time on the things they're learning.
And the real good stuff they're keeping for after the election for their own financial gain.
Rather than report what they have found.
You know what might impact the election results.
Now we all know that they're not going to do things that would harm a Democrat candidate.
I get that.
But I I just I just don't get this professed ignorance.
I don't know why people are attacking me on attacking my book.
The question is, whatever whatever happened to principal.
Okay, so you're your sensitivity's offended, your professionalism, your very worried.
You got a commander-in-chief who's not into it.
I think it's worth knowing at the time.
Maybe that's just me.
But I think that's kind of worth knowing in the time.
And if you're so offended by it and so bothered by it, why not just resign in honor and explain why?
Well, we don't want to upset.
He was elected by the American people.
It would be disloyal to the rot gut.
As usual, the people of the country come last in all of these considerations and equations.
You remember last week I had a pithy profundity for you.
Have you ever noticed that in socialism, the powerful become rich.
And in capitalism, The rich become powerful.
I can't tell you a number of people who said, wow, that's really, I hadn't thought of it that way before.
I know.
That's why it's a profundity.
Well, here I have evidence.
A little blurb here from National Review.
These days it really pays to lead a nonprofit university.
An unprecedented 42 private university presidents made more than one million dollars.
In 2011, topping the list is Robert Zimmer, president, University of Chicago, raked in $3.3 million in 2011.
Even in the middle of a recession, with colleges slashing workers and cutting budgets all over the fruited plain.
Compensation for college presidents continues to rise.
For instance, 2009-2010.
Former Yale president Richard Levin laid off hundreds of low-paid workers, including dining hall and maintenance staff while pulling in a salary of 1.6 million.
Now, these guys never get called on it.
Corporate CEOs get crucified for things like this.
But college presidents, good liberals in charge of propagandizing and brainwashing America's youths.
Not a problem.
These seven-figure salaries look obscene, approved as they often are by people.
The president of the college himself is appointed to the Board of Trustees.
So here we have, in socialism, the rich getting powerful.
The powerful getting rich.
And we have mostly millionaire members of Congress sitting in D.C. all fat and rich, partying with each other, all these university presidents, president himself getting rich.
Speaking of, I said that Archer Daniels Midland invented the veggie burger.
You should have seen the looks I got on the other side of the glass.
What are you talking about?
Archer Daniels Midland invented a veggie burger.
Well, let me explain it to you.
Back in the 1980s, Archer Daniels Midland was the sponsor every Sunday of this week with David Brinkley.
And occasionally they'd buy time on the CBS Sunday show and occasionally meet the press.
But they were in there every week on ABC, and they ran a great commercial about all the great things they were doing to create food and grow the food supply.
the wonderful things they were doing with chemicals and soybeans, you see.
This is amazing stuff.
Dwayne Andreas was the CEO of Archer Daniels Midland.
They were political donors.
They underwrote essentially this week with Brinkley.
And they were, and they still are giant food conglomerate.
In fact, Matt Damon made a movie trying to crucify them about what they were doing with corn or something.
I forget the name of the movie.
Fairly recent.
Archer Daniels Midlands commercial was a great commercial.
And in the commercial was a veggie burger.
And the veggie burger was created with video effects.
It flew from the right side of the screen to the plate in the middle of the screen.
And the bun, lower half of the bun went first, and the veggie burger kind of flew and landed on the bun that had lettuce on it, and it does a couple of, it's in slow motion.
And then the top of the bun hit.
The only problem is there wasn't.
You couldn't buy one.
They didn't exist.
There was no such thing as a veggie burger.
But they were doing commercials talking about how their work with uh with food and chemicals and uh everything they're able to do had created this health, and people started clamoring.
Well, Archer Daniels, people were going to the grocery store asking for the Archer Daniels Midland section.
There wasn't one.
They're food processors.
Their label, their brand's not on anything.
People started going to the grocery stores.
I want a veggie burger.
Where are they?
what do you mean?
It's on television.
It's every Sunday.
I saw it on TV.
Some company, ADM, Archer Daniels Midlands.
It looks delicious.
I want to try it because it was being touted as healthful, low calorie.
They had to invent it.
They had to actually create and produce the thing.
They created a demand for it.
It didn't exist.
They just had it in their ad.
I'm sure some of you remember this, the ad, as I'm describing it.
And that's how the vegetaburger came to be.
Now there might have been a restaurant around that that sold them, but you couldn't go to the grocery store and buy one, as the ad made it look like you could.
So they had to create one.
And uh they marketed, I forget, might have been Jolly Green Giant.
I forget what the brand was, but they were frozen.
They ended up being in a frozen food section.
They were veggie burgers, and they were good if you put a lot of mustard on them and a lot of ketchup and a lot of mayonnaise and a lot of onions.
Might have been morning, might have been Morningstar.
It might have been, it was, it was uh that sounds vaguely familiar.
Now, when I say there weren't veggie burgers, again, your local restaurant might have had one, or you people might have created, but I'm though there was the veggie burger as portrayed in that TV commercial didn't exist.
And that commercial, it this took years to happen, folks.
That commercial only ran once or twice every Sunday on the Brinkley Show.
And sometimes ADM ran a different commercial.
And the veggie burger was just, you know, five seconds of a 60-second commercial.
It was a commercial that touted everything that they were doing creatively with food to feed the world.
And it was fascinating case study.
People had never heard of ADM, Archer Daniels Midland.
They didn't know what they made, and they started going to stores asking for it.
Kind of like what we did with Snapple.
Except Snapple existed.
And so when this guy, our last caller says three execs from Archer Daniels Midland couldn't figure out their own health insurance policies.
And his point was nobody can because they don't know what they are.
They get a card, they know what their deductible is, maybe the copay, but they have no clue.
And it just reminded me about that Archer Daniels Middling.
Now, I mentioned.
Well, it is.
The veggie burger, yeah, it's a multi-billion dollar veggie burger industry.
And now there's all kinds of different brands of them.
And they still taste like cardboard.
That's why you still have to put mayonnaise and onion and tomatoes and stuff.
And the commercial did all that.
I mean, it looked like the biggest, it looked like a burger that you would get at Hell Sports Bar.
It looked like a burger you'd get at the Heart Attack Cafe.
And that's another thing.
When the Veggie burger finally made its way into the stores, into the frozen food section, they were these thin little patties.
That didn't look a thing like they did in the commercial.
But it was still a veggie burger.
I know they've got all that stuff.
I feed it to my cat.
I'm just kidding.
I don't do that.
The cat.
Don't get me started on cat stories.
Now, just so I don't lose my place here.
As you know, major league, the National Football League and the Players Associate came to an agreement on a on a massive lawsuit for benefits to players who'd played in the past Suffered head injuries.
It was $675 million.
And they're like 4,000 players that were party to the suit.
And everybody was celebrating when it was agreed to, the settlement was reached, all sides signed off on it.
Some players are not going to get a dime.
Other players are going to get a different proportion.
It was not going to be equally distributed.
Well, the upshot of this is that when the details first emerged regarding the proposed settlement between the NFL and the thousands of former players of the concussion litigation, some thought the league got too good a deal.
What do you mean 4,000 players and 675 million?
That's nothing.
That's chump change when you do the math.
Well, the judge Anita Brody, not to be confused with Anita Hill.
The Judge Anita Brody has rejected the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement a week after the formal motion was filed.
Judge Anita Brody has concerns, supposedly has concerns about the ability of the fund to cover all the benefits.
In other words, the judge has rejected the concussion settlement because it's not enough.
The development, it says here, comes as a surprise given that the settlement was brokered by a retired judge appointed by Judge Brody, and ultimately assessed by a special master, also appointed by Judge Brody.
Now it could be, according to reports, a simple matter that the judge is being cautious.
Especially since the worst case scenario would arise if 30 to 40 years from now, recently retired players develop Alzheimer's or ALS, they make a claim for compensation, and there isn't any money left.
Little did we know that this money was to cover future players as well, not just the 4,000 in the past.
So now a monkey wrench thrown into this.
It's not big enough, the judge says, reportedly, it's too early to conclude that this will derail the settlement completely.
But it looks like the NFL or the players thought they had this taken care of and moved on down the road, are now going to have to go back to it.
And in the midst of this, we have a story today in USA Today from Indianapolis.
By the end of a morning lecture yesterday, Sandra Chapman, PhD, had essentially told an auditorium filled with football coaches, that all the doomsday stuff they've been hearing about concussions isn't as bad as the media has made it seem.
She said what's being touted is way ahead of the evidence.
So it says here, welcome to the newest twist in the discussion of head injuries in football, commissioned and endorsed, of course, by the people whose livelihood depends on football.
But the bottom line is we now have a PhD, a female PhD, practically unassailable here, who says that everything you think you know about football and concussions can't be proven.
That these people have assumed way too much about injury, long-term effect.
None of it's provable yet.
You can't link a concussion to ALS.
You can't link it to Alzheimer's.
You can't link a concussion to anything.
All you can do is assume based on your common sense, but the but the science isn't there.
All the bad stuff you've heard, oops, gotta take a break.
Don't go.
I remember saying this isn't gonna be enough money.
These players don't understand 675 million divided by 4,000 and gonna be anything.
By the way, the Archer Daniels Midland Veggie Burger, it was 1989 when they started it all up.
And they had to close the veggie burger factory in 2007 because of lack of interest.
And they laid off 40 people.
The Matt Damon movie, which was made to blaspheme and destroy Archer Daniels Midland, was entitled The Informant, and it was a movie that the character that Damon plays blows the whistle on their price fixing tactics.
And I think it was true to life.
There was a guy, there was an employee and informant, and he ended up writing.
Well, it was uh it certainly wasn't Goodwill Hunting.
It wasn't that, but I remember watching it.
And I you know, it's to me that stuff is so obvious and transparent, but then I realize the low information crowds out there watching this stuff eating it up.
Do I have time?
I don't.
I don't have time to be fair with another caller.
And there's nobody up there that I want to be unfair with.
There is, by the way, I I can pass this on to you.
There's an AP story about Obamacare.
It has a statistic, and they downplay this.
It's at the end of the story.
Folks, you we all know that this Obamacare thing is a disaster, and it's going to get worse as the months go by.
As of now, of the people that have signed up, and that's even a floating number that nobody really has a good handle on.
Four out of five, every four out of five enrollees is getting a subsidy of one kind.
There's no way that this can sustain itself.
It just can't.
By the way, full disclosure, ladies and gentlemen, the USA Today story on the PhD.
Sandra Chapman, who says that this concussion stuff in the NFL is so overblown that there isn't enough science to know anything like what is being claimed.
There isn't enough science to link concussions to life-altering effects once one quits the game.
USA Today points out that Sandra Chapman, PhD, the concussion expert, is also a former Texas cheerleader.
Which means it's implied that we can't take anything she says seriously.
They're very, very, very careful to point out that she was a former cheerleader.
Which means what?
No, well, pretty good looking and that's exactly what you know.
It means in the liberal world, cheerleader means bimbo.
Cheerleader means lover of jocks.
Groupie.
That's that's that's in the liberal world, cheerleaders, they're not real getting out there wearing stuff like they wear and cheering for, you know, block that vibe, block that vibe, whatever.
They think it's just silly.
They think football's silly too.
It's very, very brutal and it maims people, and why would a civilized society even it?
There's also a quote from David Cutcliffe in the story.
He's the coach at Duke.
But more importantly, he is the Manning's coach.
That's right.
Coach Cutt is who Peyton Manning went to work out with when he was recovering from the neck surgery.
Well, Coach Cutcliffe says, in 38 years, this is in quotes, in 38 years, I don't have one former player who is not functional due to concussions, but I do have a whole lot of healthy players.
That's a case study, isn't it?
He says.
We're trying to make people think before they react.
So the official coach to the Mannings says in 38 years, he doesn't have one former player who is an idiot or an invalid or anything else because of concussions.
But he does have, after 38 years, a whole lot of healthy former players.
The left is saying we knew there was a reason not to like this guy, even though he's among the best at what he does.
Yes, the concussion thing in the NFL is political too, folks.
Just trust me, I know that's one of the come on, Russia's everything.
When you all you have to do, folks, is to find out who's behind something.
All you have to do to find out if it's political is identify who it is that is attempting to move something along on a pathway they think it should take.
And you will be answered correctly every time you ask that question.
So, yes, there can now the people involved.
The last thing they want you to think is anything political about this is a health issue.
This is why Limbaugh is such a this is why Limbaugh is dangerous.
Because he he just goes, these extremists, this is this would be their reaction.
I'm not going to back away from it.
Look at what they're trying to do here.
There's no science business.
It's like global warming.
There really isn't any science to prove it, but the left cares about it.
It's a compassionate thing.
What are we doing to our football players?
As Merrill Streep asked about our kids in LR.
What are we doing to our children?
Nothing, as it turned out, except making apples look better.
Here's uh here's Robert, Racine, Wisconsin.
Robert, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, you were talking earlier about the way the government is being run these days, that Democrats are walking all over the Republicans, and a couple of years back, the Republicans fought back in a way I think that they weren't themselves really uh aware of by sending Tea Party Republicans into the offices,
and now that the people have spoken and that seems like the uh Republicans are really fighting against the Tea Party people along with the Democrats, and then you got the media fighting against the Republicans and the Tea Party, and electing officials with all the corruption that goes on in the election cycles, what are we supposed to do to get things changed?
Well, there are any number of uh of things.
You know, Mark Levin suggests an Article V Constitution, with some new amendments to simply restate what already exists.
Uh others think you just keep electing Tea Party, just keep electing freshmen, keep electing people outside the current sphere of politics to go to clean it up.
People like Cruz, we need about 95 more of them in the Senate.
Uh, and a whole bunch more of them in the House.
I mean, these things sound impossible and hard to do, but that really is the solution to it.
So you you think that just by trying to elect against all of the uh Democratic infighting that's going against the uh Look I'll tell you what I think.
I I'm not a professional Republican or conservative political person.
I'm not a consultant or I'm not an expert in how to win elections, meaning it's none my business.
All I tell you what I believe, and it's gonna sound sophomoric and it's gonna sound uh impossible.
I I really believe that the overall solution, the real solution to this, is a just a continued focus on informing people, reducing the number of low information people,
converting them into people that are educated, informed, and it's daunting because the entire reason for the United States' existence and what makes it special has been so obliterated in the public school system for so many years that even now when you run around and start talking about the concept of individual liberty and freedom being lost, most people think you're crazy.
They still think they're free to do whatever they want to go smoke some weed, they can go smoke some weed.
If they want to take parents' cargo, they don't they don't see it yet, particularly young people.
And it's a it's a daunting challenge.
Uh, but I do know it's gonna take uh among any number of other things, it's gonna take an influx of different kind of people in the political system.
But you're probably gonna say, well, that's not possible because the people in it now have corrupted it so that outsiders don't have a prayer of ever getting in it.
Right?
Well, that was one of the thoughts I had because I've seen it right here in Wisconsin.
We had to reelect our governor twice because of all the corruption that went on in the state without having voter ID requirements.
They're still trying to destroy him.
Walked all over it.
Yeah, and they're still trying to destroy him.
Yeah.
And when all that was going on, did how many, how many speaking of people defending Christine, how many if you can recall honestly, how much of the Republican Party actually joined that battle to help Scott Walker.
Oh, it was minute.
It was on his own with and it what it what did it took to keep him in office?
It took you and me.
Took people, the people of Wisconsin being informed and and and being educated as to what was going on, and he was a large part of that.
He was in many ways the educating force.
He didn't give up.
He didn't he didn't get cowardly, he didn't get frightened, he didn't run away from it.
Uh it it it's gonna take really special committed people.
Well, that's one thing too.
Uh Walker has put out a book, and I hear a lot where people are saying that's a prelude to running for president.
Do you uh feel that he might do that or have any ideas on that?
None whatsoever.
No clue.
I I re I'm I really don't know.
Now, it's it's see, one of the requirements to run for president is to either write a book or have someone write a book or dictate a book uh or steal a book.
Plagiar Yeah, if you're gonna run for you've got to have a book out there.
Uh Obama took no chances and did two.
Two autobiographies by the time he was what?
15.
Uh so yeah, it's it's you you could say just net basis alone that it's uh it's an indicator that he's gonna seek higher office.
Does that bother you if he is?
Well, I wouldn't want to lose him as our governor this soon.
He's started some great reforms in the state, and I would like to Now doesn't that tell you it can be done?
Look at that state.
That state was owned by the Democrats and the Union.
Look now, it was bloody, it was brutal, it was personal, but he prevailed, didn't he?
Yes, he did.
Well, it can be done.
We did manage to keep him, and I lost one of my senators in my district, but uh at least we managed to keep the governor in in place, and like I say, I hope he sticks around for another term at least.
Well, but there's another factor here.
Not only did you keep him in office, but but he s he continued to be who he was.
He didn't go soft once he got reelected.
He did there was not there was not a a linguini in his spine at all.
There was not one speck of cowardice.
This he was committed to it.
It I it illustrates, it shows that it can be done, and in a Democrat stronghold, it can be done.
They tried twice.
You're right, they tried twice to get him out of office simply because he was there.
They concocted crimes, they lied about things that he was supposedly doing.
They created allegation after allegation after allegation, they tried stymieing him legislatively by leaving the state.
They tried everything.
Yeah, then that that's and even after all of the even with the Democrats behaving as badly as they did, it was still close.
And that's because of all the the uh the people who vote Democrat simply because there's money in it for them, or because they're not voting on issues or ideas at all.
Small people like myself could do to get the media back reporting the actual making it up on their own.
The media is not gonna that would be like you saying a guy like you is gonna change the Democrat Party.
It ain't gonna happen.
The media is the Democrat Party.
Don't hold that out as a measure of success or failure.
Because if you do, you're always gonna think you're losing and failing.
Because you're never gonna change the media.
You're never gonna get the media to be other than who and what they are.
But if you look, Wisconsin's not the only place this is happening.
In the strepublicans are winning governorships and have been in the states, and it is really troubling the Democrats.
It's really, and these governors, these Republicans that are winning, as they get into office and start doing their work, they are illustrating the absolute disaster that they inherited, and people are learning it and learning from it.
And that's why the Democrats had to go in and literally destroy Bob McConnell.
They sent they sent one of their agents in there, Terry McCulliff, who, in terms of being a governor, and he doesn't know he's got to get a phone call every day.
But he's just a placeholder for the Clintons in there.
And not only did they take McConnell out, they did it in such a way as to see to it that he couldn't get elected to the Senate.
They try to discredit him, destroy him.
That's all the Democrats can do.
They can't win on ideas.
They can't win on issues.
Because they uh uh Cucinelli, but yeah, Cucinelli.
But also McConnell.
They took McConnell out as well, but uh in terms of seeing to it that after he was governor, he was destroyed credibility-wise and couldn't seek the uh Senate seat that's held by by Mark Warner.
But the uh the Democrats can't possibly win in ideas because they know they can't even be honest about what they believe.
If they did that, they would lose big time.
So they have to go after people's credibility and reputations, and that's what they do.
And you know, some people don't have the guts like Scott Walker did to put up with it and and I want this hassle.
I just want to live my life.
Which I I've got to take a break.
I'm way long here.
And thanks for the call.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go.
So I got Paul from Indianapolis here, and I don't have time to take his call, but what he wants to ask me is what's up here with Hillary on women as victims?
Where does that come from?
When everybody knows that we're checkofying this aside, women are not victims.
I'll tell you what that is, Paul.
Democrats own single women and single mothers.
And the whole thing is to continue to make those women think they are being victimized by Republicans and the country.
It's they're just lying to them.
And that's all it is.
Just enough time to say thanks so much, as always, for being here today.
And we're back in 21 hours, revved up and ready to do it all over again, folks.
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