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Jan. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, did you watch any of the championship games over the weekend, the National Football League?
The overnight ratings say that you did.
A lot of people watch it.
I just wanted to remind you that I, L. Rushball, proven correct.
Both games, in fact, the standard football analysis picks and the environmentalist wacko pick methods both would have worked.
Both did work.
I was two for two.
And of course, the difference in the 49er game and the Seahawk game is clear that the Seahawks, as a team, are more pro-gay than even the 49erners.
And great to have you with us here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I tell you, my email lit up.
And I guess a lot of people's did.
With reaction to Richard Sherman, the post-game interview with Aaron Andrews after the 49ers Seahawks game.
Now, what happened was, actually, there's an element of this story that some may not know.
Richard Sherman's a cornerback for the Seahawks out of Stanford.
He played for Jim Harbaugh, who coached Stanford when Richard Sherman was there.
Sherman went to Stanford from Compton, California.
His dad has driven a garbage truck in Compton.
Compton is a place you get out of if you're lucky.
And Sherman did.
He went.
He was a wide receiver in Stanford for two years, became a cornerback, played for the 49ers coach, Jim Harbaugh.
Last summer, I guess it was, there was Larry Fitzgerald, a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, had a charity of it a golf tournament or some such thing.
And at that event, Richard Sherman and Michael Crabtree nearly got into a fight that apparently Crabtree started.
This is the best information I've got because what happened yesterday was Sherman had not been thrown on all day.
And the Fortniteers had one play left to win the game.
And Colin Kaepernick fired into the corner of the end zone for Crabtree.
The pass was deflected by Sherman and intercepted by a Seahawks linebacker, thereby sealing the defeat for the 49ers.
It was the third or fourth interception that Kaepernick had thrown, certainly the third in the fourth quarter.
So after the game, Aaron Andrews, working for Fox, got hold of Richard Sherman, and this is what lit up everybody's email.
Sherman was asked about the last play, and this is what happened.
I'm the best corner in the game.
When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're going to get.
Don't you ever talk about me.
Who is talking about you?
Crabtree, don't you open your mouth about the best?
I'm going to set it for you real quick.
And there's so many people who claimed that they were Seahawks fans are now claiming they're rooting for the Broncos in the Super Bowl because they just hate this.
This guy's become a villain.
He's become an arrogant egomaniac all about me saying these mean things about another player that nobody knows the history between the two.
And Crabtree didn't do anything to Sherman that anybody saw, so it didn't make any sense.
It was raw.
It was at the end of the, frankly, folks, I'm surprised we don't get more post-game interviews like this when the adrenaline is still pumping and the emotions are still raw.
I mean, these people are playing for the championship of the National Football League, the NFC conference, go to the Super Bowl.
This is huge stuff.
Stuff.
This is their life.
And they're all wound up.
And cornerbacks in the NFL are an amazing ego study.
The successful ones are the biggest ego freaks you'll ever see.
They think they're the best, every damn one of them thinks they're the best.
From Namde Asumo, when he was with the Raiders, now the husband of what's her name, Carrie Washington, to Darrell Rivas, to this guy, they all think they're the best, that nobody can touch them.
And even when somebody completes a pass on them, they don't lose their confidence because they're out on an island all by themselves.
They seldom get any help.
And it's a lonely position.
You get torched or you're great.
And the adrenaline flows.
And by the way, I want to tell you something about Sherman.
Richard Sherman, best as I can, I don't know him, obviously.
Richard Sherman is a really smart guy.
Richard Sherman's been writing a column once a week for a new website called Monday Morning Quarterback, which is the website Peter King, Sports Illustrated, started on his own when his deal with Sports Illustrated was expanded and gave him his own website.
Sherman writes a monthly, I think it's a weekly piece, and the guy's smart.
He's football smart, but he's just general.
He's got great grammar, great vocabulary.
That's why this outburst yesterday surprised a lot of people who know the guy because he really is a smart guy.
So they caught up with him later, the post-game show.
And you got here, let's see, Aaron Andrews talking to Strahan about this.
I think you, and Sherman, says, I think you scared Aaron Andrews.
You scared her half to death.
But you and Crabtree in the end zone, what was that all about?
Well, you know, I'm a competitor, and I don't like people saying negative things about me.
I don't like people, you know, running their mouth.
So I told him, good game and good try, but I'm the best corner in the league.
Hey, Richard, this is the big question.
You guys have been shutting down receivers all year long.
Do you have enough defensive backs to go up against Denver?
Well, we'll find out soon enough, won't we?
Soon we'll find a way.
I'm convinced that if people got to know Sherman, they'd like him based on the ability you have to get to know him.
And he really came out of Compton, California, solid family, despite that place being just an infested slum.
It's South Central L.A. He's really, from the way he writes, student of the game of football, he's really a smart guy.
Some people say, yeah, but Rush, this is who he really is.
Well, we'll find out.
But I, like everybody else, I was stunned and shocked.
But then again, I thought about it.
I'm surprised we don't get more of this in the post.
Snerdley came in.
He was all he never heard of this guy before.
He came in.
He was all livid today about this guy.
Well, it's a different country now.
It's a different world.
I mean, everybody's saying, this is not how you're supposed to be.
Let me give you a contrast.
I don't know how many of you noticed this who watched the game.
There was almost the exact opposite of this occurred earlier in the game.
A running back for the Seahawks by the name of Marshawn Lynch had a 40-yard touchdown run.
And when all of his teammates met him in the end zone, they wanted him to do a spike and a high-five and all kinds.
And he just, he said, nope.
Did you see this?
He shook hands with every teammate.
There were no histrionics.
There was no chest dumping.
There was no.
It was, hey, bro, we're going to make this look like we're used to this.
We're not going to get a flag.
We're not going to be, the game isn't over here.
We got nothing to celebrate.
I scored a touchdown, shook hands, and the emotion was kept at a minimum.
I guarantee it was as surprising as Sherman's outburst at the end of the game was surprising.
And the natural, you just don't do what Sherman did.
You don't make it all about you.
You don't go off on people like that.
It's a different, it's a different, aren't we told that there aren't any limits on this kind of behavior?
We've got to learn to adjust.
This is the way the country is now.
This is the way things have evolved.
Anyway, Sherman's made himself the big story of the Super Bowl.
But there's going to be something else that might come up during Super Bowl week involving Pete Carroll, a coach of the Seahawks.
I'm going to hold this in check to see if anybody else gets this.
I'm not going to be the first to lob this grenade.
I'll wait to see if this comes up.
Yes, a question from an official.
Mm-hmm.
Where is it?
Well, now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What do you mean when this elevates out in the street and an NFL player ends up dead?
Because of what Sherman did?
Well, but nothing happened.
It didn't happen.
No, no, this didn't happen.
There weren't any deaths in the streets after the game.
Whatever Sherman did didn't inspire any behavior you're talking about on the field or off.
By the way, he taunted Crabtree.
You know, you cannot make the choking, you can't grab your neck and emulate choking yourself.
He drew a 15-yard penalty.
Did that while talking to Crabtree after the play?
There's a history between the two.
Anyway, Sherman's made himself the story.
The only thing I want to say about it, I'm not condoning it.
I'm just, I was, I just, and I don't want to overdo this, but if you go read some of the things that Sherman has written about his job, the way he approaches it, about other people who play the game, I'm telling you, this is a smart guy.
And I'm not in any way defending or condoning this, and I'm not even trying to say I understand it, and I'm not going leftist touchy-feely on you.
I'm just sharing with you.
I was two for two on my picks, and they were proven correct in each game, even now.
I made the picks based on actual football analysis.
Had I gone environmentalist wacko in picking the games, and I realize some of you don't know what that is.
You haven't been around later on in the program, I'll refute, say, Broncos Patriots, ideal game to illustrate how you choose using the environmentalist wacko method.
The environmentalist wacko method, basically, it was started by me to attract people to the program when I love football and like to talk about it who didn't.
So, if I can draw a connection between predicting football games and the environmentalist movement, for example, it might attract people, at least make them not tune out.
So, I'll give you an example of what the environmentalist wacko pick would have been later on in the program.
Now, there's continuing controversy surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
I mean, it is all over the place.
First of all, we have learned that Jimmy Fallon called Governor Christie, gave him a heads up, that he and Springsteen were going to make fun of him.
I don't know what Christie said to Fallon.
Don't know that Fallon got through.
Don't know that Fallon actually talked to Christie.
Know that Fallon called Christie's office or Christie and said, Hey, Springsteen's coming on.
We're going to make fun of you.
Which I guess is supposed to make it okay then once you give the object of your ridicule a heads up.
Yeah, like Madonna and her son.
Don't even, yeah.
Now, there, if you want to talk about cultural decay and deterioration, that's what you talk about.
And that's been going on for a long, long time.
Now, here it is in a nutshell.
This is the latest with Governor Christie.
Dawn Zimmer is the mayor of Hoboken.
Somebody has to be, folks.
Dawn Zimmer is the mayor of Hoboken and she is claiming that back in May, the New Jersey Lieutenant Governor, Kim Guadagno, pulled her aside after touring a shop right that had been rebuilt after Hurricane Sandy and told her that Hoboken would not get any Hurricane Sandy relief aid if she didn't help push a.
real estate development project that Governor Christie wanted.
So the story is that Dawn Zimmer, the mayor of Hoboken, is pulled aside by the New Jersey Lieutenant Governor, Kim Guadnaño, female.
And it was babe to babe.
And Lieutenant Governor Babe said to the mayor, Babe, if you don't get on board with us, you're not getting any Sandy money.
Dawn Zimmer, the Lieutenant Governor is denying it.
It never happened.
The mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer, saying it did happen.
She is not conceding anything.
And she has provided MSNBC with an entry from her personal diary in which she recounted the incident.
Oh, speaking of which, the New York Times actually has a soap opera type story today about how Christie has fallen out of favor with the hosts at MSNBC, that they loved Christie.
They had a lot of hope invested in him as a Republican who could screw other Republicans.
And now there's been a falling out because of the scandal.
And it's actually written as though it's a breakup of a soap opera type relationship.
I will explain that in due course as their program unfolds.
Now, the lieutenant governor, according to the mayor of Hoboken, said it's very important to Governor Christie.
This is the diary entry that describes Lieutenant Governor Guadano as saying of the development project, it's very important to the governor.
The word is that you're against it, Dawn, and you need to move forward or we're not going to be able to help you.
I know it's not right.
These things shouldn't be connected, but they are, she says.
And if you tell anybody, I'm going to deny it.
So she's out telling the world that this happened.
And the lieutenant governor is denying it.
Zimmer said that she was given the same message four days later by Richard Constable, Christie's community affairs commissioner.
As the two prepared to appear on a TV program about Sandy Recovery, she said that Richard Constable told her that she needed to support the governor's redevelopment project for her city to get Sandy relief aid.
And now both women are denying, or not, Guadano and Constable are both denying what the governor, a mayor of Hoboken, is saying.
So what are we to do with this?
Who are we supposed to believe here?
Now, I guess one of the Trains of thought is the governor wouldn't be this stupid.
He wouldn't, wouldn't make himself this big a target.
He wouldn't tell the lieutenant governor to go out there and deny aid if the mayor didn't come forth and help with the redevelopment project or support it.
Nobody would do that.
So the tendency, I guess, is to not believe the mayor of Hoboken on the basis that Christie wouldn't do it.
Obama, oh, Obama with an 18-page, if you read it on the internet, it's an 18-page interview story with New York Magazine.
And he said that the Al-Qaeda, JV unit now.
Al-Qaeda, that so the Al-Qaeda unit that did all the damage in Menghazi was the JV unit.
Obama also said that he would not let his son, Trayvon Martin, play football while watching football, apparently.
In an interview that runs the weekend of the NFL Championship Games, Obama said he would not let his son, he doesn't have one, of course, but if he did, his son would have looked like Trayvon Martin, would not let him play football, pro football.
Folks, we got lots to do today.
You sit tight.
We'll be back after our first obscene profit break and continue.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was told, we were all told for a long time that having women in politics was going to put an end to political corruption because there wouldn't be any testosterone.
And having women in politics would end war, for example, and barbarism.
And women in leadership, there wouldn't be any predatory type behavior because women don't do that.
They not have a dominance of testosterone and they're not made that way.
They're nurturers and peacemakers.
And they are focused on relationships and making things work.
So I'm kind of, I'm sitting here a little confused reading of the contrétom between the female lieutenant governor alleging that the mayor of Hoboken is lying and then vice versa.
So I'm going to have to, it's going to take me some time to work through this because I'm and I believed all that.
Now I'm, my world's upside down.
I don't quite know how to process this.
Also got a question: why would a smart guy, if you say Sherman's so smart, why would he act like an idiot on TV after the game?
I think I might be able.
I'm going to take a stab at answering that.
I don't know.
This is tough trying to figure out which one of these women is lying.
One of them has to be.
So the lieutenant governor is blonde and the mayor is brunette.
Is that relevant in determining which one of them is telling the truth?
I don't know.
Just asking.
The lieutenant governor seems a little bit more at home with makeup than the mayor.
Is there anything to learn from that?
I'm just asking.
Well, and just in terminating who's telling the truth.
I mean, one goes all nasharal, and we may be able to conclude as an environmentalist there, and the lieutenant governor is a little bit more conventional.
I don't know.
I'm just, we've got to figure out who's telling the truth here.
There's a huge lie somebody's telling here.
This is big.
I mean, you got a mayor asserting that a governor told her she's not going to get any hurricane relief aid unless she joins the governor's redevelopment project.
And a lieutenant governor is saying, no, no, no, I never said that to her.
Well, that's how we, how do we determine who's being truthful here?
Okay, we could ask that who benefits the most from a lie, or is it who benefits most from getting away with the lie?
I mean, you got to get away with it.
And I don't know the answer to that yet.
I guess we're just going to have to watch this play out, but it's going to be really tough because we've all been told that women in positions of power would not do this kind of stuff.
That this is an exclusive province of men in politics.
Now, Richard Sherman, very quickly, and then we'll move on to other things.
Like, did you know smoking increases your chances of a child being gay in adulthood?
This is UK Telegraph.
A neuroscientist has claimed a woman's lifestyle during pregnancy is directly linked to the development of their children, influencing whether they may be gay and having an impact on their IQ.
And the more a woman smokes, the greater the likelihood the child will be gay in adulthood.
Does this mean that we will see various gay political groups moderate their position on smoking?
We'll have to keep a sharp eye.
There's that kind of stuff in the news.
This New York Times headline: for Christie and MSNBC, a messy divorce plays out in public view.
It's like a soap opera.
What's happening between MSNBC and Governor Christie?
But Richard Sherman, why would he is a smart guy, folks?
We have to define smart, obviously, but he's educated and he's well-spoken.
He writes extremely well.
He's very knowledgeable about the game, its history, and current strategical techniques and so forth.
If you read the stuff that he writes, you'd be impressed.
So why would a guy who's that smart act like an idiot?
Well, what is the root of it?
The root of it, I think, is that it's obviously ego, but it's rooted.
If you look at what he said, I'm the best corner in the game.
When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's a result you're going to get.
Don't you ever talk about me.
And Aaron Andrews is clueless.
She has no idea what he's talking about.
And she said, who was talking about you?
Crabtree.
And there's the root of it.
Richard Sherman thinks that everybody knows that he's got something going on with Michael Crabtree, the 49ers, and nobody knows.
It would be, I'm sure Obama, at the end of the day, thinks the whole country's thinking about him every day.
There's some people so lost in their egos that they really do think that everybody is fascinated what they're doing and knows intimately everything going on in their life.
And then, of course, Sherman thinks he was disrespected by being thrown on.
That is cultural.
And then there's adrenaline and the heat of the moment and everything else.
But as I say, he succeeded in making himself the story, first story leading up to the Super Bowl.
This New Yorker interview that Obama did, this thing is loaded.
Oh, yeah, by the way, folks, Hoboken has received some money in Hurricane Sandy Aid.
So there is that aspect to this.
Now, in this New Yorker interview, President Obama, President Barack Choomgang Obama, declared that marijuana is now worse for the brain than alcohol.
Now, he didn't issue a ruling on whether playing football was worse than both of them for the brain, but he probably thinks it is.
He actually said that he would not let his son play football now.
Now, that is irresponsible, but he said it, obviously trying to curry favor with somebody.
And now he says that pot is worse for the brain than alcohol.
And I guess, well, we know that he was in a choomgang, so he probably is speaking from actual experience.
He also said in this interview that the reason people don't like him, the reason his approval numbers are plummeting is because of racism.
Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine's website today.
There's no doubt, no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president, Obama said in the article.
So what?
White Americans have just figured out Obama's black in the last two years?
This is classic.
This is really classic.
It can't possibly be that people don't like Obamacare.
It can't possibly have anything to do with the fact that Obama lied to them numerous times for three years, that if they like their doctor, like their plan, they can keep it.
It had nothing to do with the fact that nobody can find a job.
Nothing to do with the fact the stimulus didn't work.
Nothing to do with the fact that he's engaged in crony capitalism.
Nothing to do with the fact that his green energy things have bombed up.
Nothing to do with the fact that he is usurping the Constitution at each and every turn.
Nothing to do with the fact that he's never accepted accountability for anything and has always blamed it on Bush.
Nothing to do with the fact that nothing is ever his fault.
Nothing to do with the fact that even after five years, he still governs as an outsider.
Nope, there's no doubt.
Some folks just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.
This is the same kind of ego I was just talking about.
This guy thinks he's the creme to the creme.
He's the best that there's ever been.
It cannot be.
In his world, by the way, his ideas haven't even failed.
Listen to this.
I'm going to read to you a brief excerpt from this piece by David Remnick in The New Yorker.
As Obama ticked off a list of first-term achievements, the economic rescue, the 44 straight months of job growth, a reduction in carbon emissions, a spike in clean energy technology, he seemed efficient but contained, running at three-quarters speed like an athlete playing at mid-season road game, playing a mid-season road game of modest consequence.
Now, folks, this is derangement.
This is derangement and delusion.
And the reporter, Remnick, just eats it all up, just buys it.
And I'm sure that a majority of the left as well do.
Obama ticked off a list of first-term achievements, the economic rescue.
There hasn't been an economic rescue, folks.
And you know it, and I know it.
The economy is in a funk with showing no signs of recovery, and it hasn't for five years.
There hasn't been an economic rescue.
And economic rescue is exactly what's needed by way of a new president.
But yet he ticks this office and we rescued the economy.
I guess that must be the stimulus.
And here's David Remnick.
Yep, okay.
So there has to be some reason then, because Obama's done great with the economy.
And the approval numbers are still plummeting.
44 straight months of job growth.
He said it.
He ticked it off.
The reporter quoted him.
The reporter agrees.
44 straight months of job growth.
Folks, there are 92 million Americans not working.
The number of Americans in the labor force continues to shrink.
The labor force participation rate is plummeting.
There haven't been 44 months of job growth.
There haven't been three months of job growth because there isn't any job growth.
But yet, Obama's sitting in the White House and he's telling himself all this wonderful stuff is happening.
Rescued the economy, 44 straight months of job growth, a reduction in carbon emissions.
There isn't a reduction.
Well, if there is a reduction in carbon emissions, it is for one reason, and that is the depressed economy.
Natural gas helps a little bit too, but Obama's energy ideas have been an abject failure.
Every foray into green energy, be it wind or solar, is a joke.
Speaking of which, I don't want to make anybody mad here.
But you know, Brad Pitt and his wife Angelina Jolie, they're big environmentalist wackos.
And they've been rebuilding houses in New Orleans under green guidelines.
And it turns out that the wood that they have been using that has been sanctioned and authorized as good wood in terms of the environment is rotting.
Yes, it's true, Mabel.
It's a sad, sad thing.
I've got the details coming up.
A spike in clean energy technology?
There hasn't been any of that, folks, other than natural gas, which is the result of fracking, which is creating more oil, despite Obama's efforts to stop it.
Now, this is, it literally is delusional.
So, but if he's sitting there lost in his own fantasy of what a great job he's been doing, great economy, great job growth, economic rescue, giant great strides on improving the economy, and his approval numbers are falling.
It has to be that Americans just don't like a black president.
It can't be Obamacare.
We haven't talked about that.
He probably thinks he's improved the health care in this country left and right.
By the way, another executive order on Obamacare outside the Constitution has been delayed for another year because to implement it would be very harmful for the Democrats going into the election.
I'll give you details on all this stuff, but I have to take a break right now.
Don't go away.
Be right back.
The mayor of Hoboken was asked, why did you wait eight months?
And she offered up an answer that many women who have suffered alleged abuse at the hands of a predatory man, say, she said, well, I was afraid nobody would believe me.
Why were you afraid nobody would believe you?
Because you're a Democrat.
Well, nothing else going on, everybody loves Christie.
He's the king.
He's crossing the aisle.
Here I come out and tell the truth.
Nobody believed me eight months ago.
So that's what she's saying, is why she didn't say anything about it until now.
Now, this business with Obama, I maintain this is serious.
I maintain this is psychologically serious.
You have to remember, he utters this stuff to the New Yorker.
It gets picked up by every left-wing publication.
And the low-information crowd is going to eat this stuff up.
So Obama's basically saying he's done great things.
He's rebuilt the economy, 44 straight months of job growth.
We've got all kinds of great new green energy things.
Basically, just lying through his teeth about the greatness of this country and how great he's been.
And none of it's true.
None of it is true.
And then he's asked to explain his plummeting approval numbers in light of all those great things.
It's got to be racism.
This, folks, I'm telling you, is, I think, potentially dangerous.
The implications here are, I know everybody in politics lies at one time or another, but this we have strayed so far from the truth in so much of our public life and political life that people are losing faith in all of it, which is somewhat understandable.
And when that happens, when people lose faith in it, they just tune it out.
And when that happens, it just paves the way for the totalitarians.
It just paves the way for people who want the statists who just want to assume control.
The greatest thing they can do is create such frustration and so forth in the public that they just tune out all this stuff because they don't believe any of it.
The people of this, this is not a racist country.
That doesn't explain Obama's approval numbers.
No.
You know, Mr. President, there are 92 million able-bodied Americans out of the workforce, and not all of them want to be, sir.
And there are probably a lot of Americans who dislike being lied to by you for three years.
Remember the lies about lower insurance premiums by $2,500 and keeping your insurance plan and your doctor?
Now, those are abject presidential lies.
And, Mr. President, I'm sure there are a lot of people who dislike the idea of you and your Secretary of State leaving the American consulate in Benghazi unprotected and undefended, four Americans dead, and you lie about a video causing the attack.
A lot of Americans just don't believe you anymore.
They've just totally lost faith in you.
You sick the IRS on decent Americans.
People find out about this.
But no, none of that, because Obama's living in this fantasy land where he's the greatest president ever.
And it's just those bitter clingers, bitter clinger, pro-life, racist pigs.
That's the only reason why his approval numbers are plummeting.
No, I was not making it up.
The wood that Brad Pitt's group is using because they want to be environmentally sound is rotting in New Orleans.
I'm not happy to tell you about it.
I'm just passing the information on.
We've got to take a brief time out here at the top, ladies and gentlemen.
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