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Jan. 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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It has never taken me this long to get a band off of a cigar.
Well, no, I'm only taking it off because it's up too high.
I don't want my mouth on the band.
I want my mouth on a cigar.
A mouth on a cigar.
All right, there it is.
What kind is it?
It's uh Florida.
Double Leguero chisel.
What in our kind would it be?
Greetings, folks.
Well, it could be an Arturo Fuente Don Carlos.
Robusto.
Or number two.
Anyway, folks, great to have you back.
And we've got one big exciting busy broadcast hour remaining here on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
There are other things going on in the news.
Jobless claims rise more than expected.
Our old buddies at Reuters here.
And this is classic.
The number of Americans and it's significant.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected.
It's always more than expected.
But the underlying trend suggested the labor market continued to heal.
The numbers are 300.
Let's see, what are the numbers?
They've got them, they've got them disguised.
What are the numbers here?
It's it's it's 380 versus 360 or 360 versus 320, or it's it's in a 300,000, so there's a $20,000, 20,000 claim difference in what was expected and what's real.
There are 20,000 more uninsurance employment claims, or unemployment insurance claims than were expected, but that suggests that the underlying trend is that the job market's continuing to heal.
Now, how is that possible?
How can more people losing their jobs suggest that the underlying trend shows the labor market continuing to heal?
And they do it with some made-up phony news that's that's ridiculous.
It's just becoming uh a joke-filled embarrassment to watch either the AP or Reuters report the uh the job news.
Just it's speaking of the job news, let me find somebody took a swipe at me, but not by name.
I'll put somewhere in the stack here.
You know, I've been I've been really pumping the fact that 92 million Americans are not working.
92 million Americans not in the labor.
And I'm not gonna waste my time trying to find it.
It'll come up.
I don't just don't want to waste your time.
And the guy tries to make the point, is there's another person that made an elected official, some Republican at Congress made the same claim, and the guy harps on that person, not actually me, and then claims that we are misrepresenting this number.
That we're we're saying in 92 million Americans that want to work who aren't and who can't, and that's not, I don't know what this elected official is saying.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just the total number of people not working is 92 million adults.
I don't know how many of them want to work.
My fear is that it's a rising tide that don't think they have to.
I mean, you go to North Carolina, North Carolina has eliminated the emergency extension of unemployment benefits, and their unemployment rates coming down pretty fast.
And you know why?
Why would you think that is?
Well, if there isn't somebody that's going to pay you not to work, how are you gonna get paid?
You're going to have to find a job, and lo and behold, who would have thunk it?
That's what's happening in North Carolina.
But here in the state of the coup speech, there's Obama tugging at people's heartstrings while telling us that his job market is robust and going gangbusters, and it's never been better, and the economy's roaring back.
We still have to send these unemployment benefits out to people even longer than 99 weeks.
Tugging on heart strings, compassion, guilt tripping people.
And you're never gonna send them back to work if you continue to pay them not to.
It's just that simple.
And that's what Obama wants.
Have you heard about this?
This is a serious allegation.
It's It's about Eli Manning and the New York Giants.
Quarterback Eli Manning and the New York Giants brass are accused in a lawsuit of creating bogus game-worn football gear to pass off as the real deal.
And the lawsuit claims that one of the forgeries is actually sitting in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
A helmet on display at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton.
Supposedly was worn by Eli Manning in the 2008 Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots.
That's the one where Tyree made the catch-on his helmet.
It is claimed that that helmet was never used in a game, that it's fake, it's been roughed up, it's been scuffed up, and it was sent there, but that Manning wants to keep his original gear himself.
And so he goes to the equipment manager and says, you know, scuff up some jerseys and rip them and cut them and tear them and then sew them back up and make it look like put some grass stains on them and stuff and make it look like used.
And then the lawsuit also charges the official dry cleaner of the Giants.
Somebody in Munachi, which is right down the road from the stadium, of being involved in this.
And says here the memorabilia ruse is so common among Giants players and staffers that team equipment manager Joe Skiba openly discussed Manning's fake game gear on an official Giants email account.
The lawsuit comes out this week, and the timing, of course, is not coincidental, because Eli's brother, Peyton, is a quarterback for the Denver Broncos.
Oh, speaking of, folks, somebody has done rip me off.
A guy has done ripped off the environmentalist wacko method of picking football games.
It's in the Chicago Tribune.
And it's uh guy's name is Rex Hupke.
Tips for a properly politicized Super Bowl Sunday.
Ideological divide carries over on game day.
And uh HR found this story for me.
He says basically this guy stole your environmentalist wacko football pick gimmick.
It's not a gimmick, it works, it's real.
And he said the the Broncos are the libs in this game, and the Seahawks are the conservatives.
According to the way this guy has done his environmentalist wacko pick.
Well, I'll explain it.
He says, if you're a liberal, you definitely want to pull for the Broncos.
And here's some of the reasons.
Peyton Manning is known for distributing the ball fairly among his receivers.
That's socialism.
Makes him this is so.
That would never be part of the environmental wacko pick.
You'd never do it that way.
Um a Bronco is a horse, and horses are an eco-friendly means of transportation, making the Broncos the Toyota Prius of NFL.
No, it's the exact opposite.
Well, not quite the exact opposite.
What makes a Bronco different than a horse?
Broncos have to be tamed.
Broncos have to be controlled by evil human beings.
Broncos are wild horses that have to be reined in from their natural habitat and turned into slaves for human beings who want to use them.
They have to be broken, bucking Broncos and all this sort of stuff.
So the Broncos epitomize evil conservatives using them.
They are they are the essence of nature.
They're in the wild and they're doing their own thing, and they are at one with nature, not hurting anybody.
They're behaving exactly as Gaea intended them to.
And then here come the Western settlers.
And where do with the Broncos even where'd they get here?
Columbus and the Western Europeans brought the horse in.
The Western Europeans, the scum of the earth anyway, are responsible for them being here, not even in their natural habitat.
at.
And so the Broncos and the environmentalist wacko method here would be utter victims and deserving of victory.
But that's just one element.
I mean, there's much, much more to it than just that, because you analyze who the Seahawks are in the environmentalist wacko method.
Now you might think, okay, well, Seahawks, how would Rush do that?
Well, birds flying, soaring through the air.
Also in their natural, because you got to, it's a challenge for the wacko.
He's got two animals here.
Animal rights always gets precedent over human rights.
But the Seahawks are frauds.
There's no such thing.
Go to Wikipedia, look up Seahawk, and you'll find the Seattle Seahawk logo.
There is not a bird called a Seahawk.
It's made up.
So they're frauds.
Frauds invented by evil human beings.
Anyway, I mean that's that but that just scratches the surface.
I just find it fascinating.
The guy in the Chicago Tribune has decided to look at the game this way.
Now, his is it.
Bronco is a horse.
Horses are eco-friendly means of transportation, making the Broncos the Toyota Prius.
If you're conservative, you don't want to use the Oh, oh, is another thing.
Seahawk is another name for an osprey, bird of prey.
It's not, but a little move of this.
There's also a uh there's one.
Yeah.
Um there's this guy even gets into politically correct snacks.
And if you are conservative, you will not eat Doritos or any kind of tortilla chip because they are corn-based illegal immigrants.
That's exactly right.
So according to this guy, you conservatives, your your Super Bowl snack will not include tortilla chips, Doritos, uh, any of that, because they represent Mexicans, illegal immigrants.
And uh you would not want to buy them.
You wouldn't want to have them in your house, uh, even if you are going to squish them and soggy them up and then put them in the oven and bake them, you still wouldn't want them anywhere near you.
That's it's a it's it's it's I look it.
I I have to applaud the guy's effort.
I'm gonna I don't know that if he's stealing the environmental wacko pick for me, because frankly, I haven't done one, and I haven't done an extensive environmentalist wacko picket.
I don't know how long.
Well, I'm I'll I'll tell you what.
This is Thursday, right?
So yeah, I've got to do it tomorrow.
Okay, I'll give you an environmentalist wacko pick and straight up pick.
And we'll see if if they dovetail.
And I'll just I'll go straight up rather than the points.
I don't even know what the line is right now.
So we'll just be a straight-up winner.
Just for the uh.
Oh, yeah, I'm not through with that.
I mean, this story is big.
The allegations are part of a civil racketeering, breach of contract, malicious prosecution, and trade libel suit that was filed in Bergen County.
Superior Court yesterday has been filed by the sports collector Eric Inselberg.
And in one startling claim, the suit claims that Barry Barone, who's the Giants dry cleaner, since 1982, used his Rutherford, New Jersey Park cleaners to beat up jerseys and other items at the behest of the locker room manager, Ed Wagner.
I mean, the guy names names here.
The Giants equipment manager, the locker room manager, um, Eli Manning, the Giants' ownership is dragged into this.
Uh and it says here in the New York Post that the lawsuit is Inselberg's attempt at retribution against the giants.
Among the many scathing claims that could tarnish Manning's image is an alleged 2005 incident, which he asked Joe Skiba, equipment manager, for an old beat up helmet, and then took the headgear, signed it, and put it on the market, falsely claiming it was a helmet used during his 2004 rookie season.
Now, I know a little bit about this from my days at the uh Kansas City, not this specifically, but about how this is all done.
And it is these are prized items.
Um I don't know how it is in the NFL anymore, but it wasn't that long ago that the players got two home jerseys and two road jerseys a season.
That was it.
And if they got ripped, they got sewn up.
You might think that they're limitless jerseys in those locker rooms and get dirty and whatever.
And now Michael Jordan, when he when he played with the Bulls, he wore a different pair of Air Jordans every night, and those shoes every day went to charity.
But it hasn't been that way.
Major League Baseball jerseys are the same way.
Now, it could be that the way with arrangements now that you know got deals with the manufacturers, it could be that players are wearing a brand new jersey every game, and that game jersey every game is going somewhere.
Charity or what have you.
Used to not be that way.
They used to only get two home jerseys and road jerseys a season and had to make do with them.
Uh, but even so, they're hard to get.
And the players do want to keep the real stuff for their own collections.
But this well, this is uh this serious, serious charge here against the Giants.
Um if they've got forgered forged stuff in the Hall of Fame.
Um, you know, I know a lot of people, I Giants, I can't of all I can't just can't see this happening.
All these.
No.
How are we going to get to the?
How are we gonna get to the bottom of it?
Investigation, where?
Uh well, I don't know that we're gonna be.
I don't know that I have the line of light of truth on this.
I let me think I brief time out, folks.
You just you sit tight, and uh, we'll be back right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
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Now, this this Giants thing, you know, uh folks.
The the what one of the ways this got triggered was that somebody who thought he bought a legitimate game-worn jersey was watching a Giants game, and the jersey Manning was wearing had things on it that his didn't.
Now, a locker room jersey in the NFL is nothing like what you buy, even if you go to the NFL or your team website and buy the full-fledged NFL replica jersey, which is 250 bucks, you're still not getting a locker room jersey.
They are tailored for each player.
They're size, tailored, trimmed.
They've got uh every jersey has the year that it was worn below the label, which is in the lower left hand at a lower left bottom of the jersey.
Well, it used to be, now that they don't tuck the jerseys.
That's another thing.
You go out and buy a real replica jersey, it's gonna go down to your knees when you put it on.
But the players don't tuck the jerseys In anymore.
Most of them don't.
The linemen do, but the quarterbacks receivers, they're not tucking them in.
So they're trimmed at the bottom and hemmed to make it look like they're perfect length.
They go right to the belt line.
They're made to look like they're tucked in, but they're not.
getting a locker room jersey is a really, really tough thing to do because there aren't that many.
Uh, the dolphins have a woman that is singularly responsible for tailoring them and wearing them or, or, uh, tailoring them to each individual player.
Sometimes they come from the manufacturer with the name plate and the number on.
Sometimes the teams do that themselves, the equipment manager.
But there are all kinds of uh uh things that in a in a game jersey that uh well even the stripes in a uh in a replica jersey bought the store are different.
You look at the Steelers.
I don't know how to describe this.
You watch a Steelers game and the sleeves on those jerseys are sewn so that the three gold stripes uh are plainly visible.
You go buy a jersey from the store, and those stripes are on the sleeve but closer to the elbow.
They're further down.
That's not a game, it's not a locker room jersey.
It's just they're just not.
And it's the same material.
If you're buying one that's the 250 job uh dollar job, it's the same material, it's the identical material it's used, and it is made to the same specs in terms of logos, marking, stripes, colors, and but it's not a locker room.
That that's why there's real value in this stuff.
Locker room equipment, game worn stuff.
It is big, big money in this stuff, and there's not that much of it.
You only got sixteen games a year of it count.
So this stuff fascinates me.
Bob in Osawatomi, Kansas.
Great to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
This is an honor, and we love you in the Midwest, and we truly think you're a gift.
Well, thank you.
Very well.
I really appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Oh, you bet.
It's the truth.
Um I had I had something on immigration, I'll be as quick and and I know that you can couch this better than I can, and perhaps you can see the error of my ways.
But uh I'm uh I'm strong on Paul Ryan, and I think this may be more brilliant than we think.
Um I uh I I read through and listened and found out as much as I could about this proposal.
And when you have Trumpka and Schumer come out and and and so so quickly against it, I think we may be on to something.
I I think what Paul Ryan may be doing, um, mo the vast majority of Americans uh seem to want some way of uh of getting their friends, the people in their church, some sort of uh a legalization card, but they but their sense of fair play won't let them move ahead of people, get amnesty, get citizenship, or or just get a free pass in.
It seems to me what they're doing is they're forcing Obama into a a veto that he doesn't want to make, and I think that's why Schumer is so scared of it, why Trump is so scared of it.
That they would veto it.
Yes, I I think what the Republicans are doing, or or else threaten to before it even goes anywhere.
And then the Republicans take the high ground and say, here was an immigration bill.
And I think immigrants will see it that way.
I think if any of us know any illegal immigration, now wait, I just want to understand.
Are you suggesting that they're proposing this without really thinking it's gonna go anywhere?
Or if it does go somewhere, they win.
It's a win-win.
If it doesn't go, they take the high ground, and the Democrats may bluff them out of their position.
If it does go, they win the immigrants.
You can't lose.
That is interesting, your take on this.
That rush this is this is why I think that.
First of all, you you you're making somebody legal, and we all realize that's tough to stomach this because here in the Midwest, most of the time.
Let me ask you a question, since you're you you seem to be inclined to support this.
Why do this now?
The the now does surprise me, except I think they may be picking an issue that was at three percent in most of the polls as having importance, because uh in other words, when you do a win-win, i it they're They're picking an issue that will uh that will flag that people will flag that they'll they'll take an interest in, and yet it's at three percent on their radar.
And so the Republicans are going to to uh show the hypocrisy of Obama and the Democrats, and they're picking an issue that's not huge.
No, it is huge.
The the three percent number in the polls is the number of people who think that is important and needs to be done.
I.e.
only three percent think we need to reform immigration law with amnesty.
Um we've already got the most generous immigration policy in the world.
But here's another thing.
I th uh there are a lot of people who you know what they favor immigration because they think it's going to help people escape poverty.
And they just do it on that basis alone, just from the compassion side of it.
And immigration is not a solution to poverty.
It's certainly not a solution to poverty around the world.
It's not the solution to poverty in Mexico.
You might say it's a solution to poverty for those who emigrate to the country, but not necessarily the illegal immigrants, because they're not they're not assimilating uh the the majority of them.
Now, as to your theory, Trumpka, I dealt with this at the beginning of the program.
Trumpka reflexively opposed the Republican plan.
Came out very angrily opposing the plan.
And I think the reason why is to maintain credibility with his base.
After all, these are the dastardly Republicans.
Trumpka and the Democrats have demonized these Republicans for decades.
So any idea they've got has got to be suspected.
Any idea they have has got to be wrong, cock eyed, mean spirited, racist, or whatever.
Trump, even if he likes it, cannot afford to agree with it right off the bat.
Uh but I don't I don't think that in any way this entraps the Democrats or Obama.
All it does, if it succeeds, is give them what they want.
And they are always going to get the credit for it.
No matter what.
The Republic this is the frustrating thing for me.
The Republicans are never, even if they pass this law, even if the Republicans are the one to make the ones that make amnesty happen, they're not going to get the credit for it in the media.
Obama is.
The Democrats are.
The Republicans are going to be reported as having gone along with this because of the inevitability of it.
It's the only way they could have survived.
They're not going to be given any credit whatsoever for this.
But I still think it's interesting that uh uh Bob here thinks there's something in this that Ryan's really brilliant on it.
We're missing, and I'm open to that possibility.
I mean, I I'm I don't close anything off, but it just doesn't look that way to me uh right now.
I it doesn't make it I don't know why we're doing this.
I don't know why we're doing it, period, and I don't know why we're doing it now, and I got a brief grab somebody 24.
It's not very long, it's Ted Cruz, it's from uh Bloomberg TV market makers this morning.
And he's talking to some guy named Peter Cook.
The question's longer than the answer.
Uh basically he's asked, what what do you make of this Republican plan?
Is this a move Republicans should be making?
Is it time to compromise with the Democrats on this?
I think it would be a mistake uh if House Republicans were to support amnesty for those here illegally.
In my view, we need to secure the borders, we need to stop illegal immigration.
And he's gone further, of course, as you know, you know, why we're doing it, period, and it's certainly not now.
If the Democrats are on the ropes, why do it now?
I just the thing that scares me about it, Bob, I just think it's the end of the Republican Party.
I look at California.
Not to mention the end of the country.
I actually care about that first.
And I gotta take a break.
Appreciate the call.
Thank you so much.
We'll be back after.
That is.
That is not good.
Uh Fox News Channel just brought out the Grim Reaper.
Harolo Rivera.
Rivera.
Heraldo.
To uh talk about the uh the the the lawsuit alleging scams in game worn game used gear from the New York Giants.
When they bring out uh what somebody die is a result of this?
Because that's generally when they bring Herolo out.
Somebody's dead.
I don't think that's happened, but it it's not a good sign when they bring Herolo out.
That's uh never is.
Say, folks, you may have heard uh over the course of past couple weeks, three weeks so um little kids have called here talking about uh Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and I've given them what's called we call Ted T. Bear.
It's a cute little bear.
It's on our rush uh uh two of my tea page, two if by t dot com.
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And Ted T. Bear, Teddy Bear, is this cutest little bears dressed in colonial outfit like me, like Rush Revere.
And it's greatest quality, got my signature on one paw, the American flag on the bottom of the other paw, got a tricorn hat, and is uh just the cutest little thing.
It'd be ideal Valentine's president.
And I just wanted to throw the idea out there.
It's uh I think we yeah we do.
We have a special on it until uh Friday at eleven fifty nine PM Pacific, eighteen ninety-nine while supplies last.
We don't have a whole lot of them, but they're great, and they're cute as they can be.
And well, put a I coco put a picture of one up at Rush Limbaugh.com so you can see.
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Here is Jamie Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Um, I want to talk about a couple of things, but I want to talk about my grandpa because a couple of days ago you were talking about how um the rich were demonized and put down, and he owns his own company, built it up from the bottom from the ground, and he gives away to charity, and he is just taxed, and I mean it's incredible how much he's taxed.
Oh I know the government.
And and he does not have a jet, and he doesn't have a boat, and he's not riding around playing golf at the country club, or he works, right?
It's what he did.
I know, I know.
He is eighty-eight years old.
And he works hard every single day.
Exactly.
That's what most of the rich do.
They work, they have to earn it somehow.
I know.
They're not the jet-setting partiers that uh TMZ and so forth would lead you to believe.
And that's why they're excellent role models or should be, instead of being demonized as suspects and blamed for why other people don't have as much as they do.
Exactly.
Well, it's great to hear you're proud of your of your granddad.
Well, yeah, I mean, I heard you talk about that on Monday and then on two on Tuesday after the president gave his speech, and I I couldn't watch the whole thing because I just turned it off and I'm like, I this is stick of the same thing.
I hear you, Jamie.
I there was too I didn't I only watched it because I had to.
I really didn't want to watch.
I mean, I f I feel such a disconnect from from this this the first president in my life I've really felt like I I don't even in common.
I just I feel like a total stranger.
Not I actually feel like I'm an enemy.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, and I mean I live in a red state, North Carolina with uh blue little dot, Chapel Hill.
Yeah, well you're in a blue city.
I'm sorry.
You're in a blue city.
Well, yeah.
Um and I can't really talk about anything because I don't want to cause any kind of backlash or whatever from my from my clients.
I'm I'm a trainer in a gym, and I don't want to cause any kind of you know, animosity towards me because of my political views, and it's horrible that I have to um be suppressed like that.
Well, you don't have to, but I understand why you want to.
So you're a trainer, huh?
Yes.
A physical trainer?
Yes.
Like aerobics and stuff or weights?
What do you what are you um I'm a personal trainer, so I'm in the gym.
I have clients and um they have they hire me as a private um trainer.
Are you a whip cracker?
Um you work 'em hard.
I mean do you I mean you you relent you push them beyond what they think their limits are.
That's good.
That's good.
Absolutely.
I'd never hire you 'cause I don't want to be pushed that way.
But um I also want to I'll talk about um Pat McCrory.
It's so excellent what he's doing um in North Carolina.
It's incredible.
I I'm just so happy that he's doing what he's doing.
Well I'm glad you called I really I'm out of time.
I have to go.
I wish I wasn't but that's it.
Thanks very much, Jamie.
Okay that's it folks so we've got the we're having a regular Super Bowl pick tomorrow.
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