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Feb. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, the media is all a Twitter.
The Ted Wells report on the Miami Dolphins had just been released.
And there was indeed racial and homophobic slurs.
There were insults.
There was harassment.
There was inappropriate touching.
And it wasn't just Incognito.
It was other offensive linemen.
John Jerry is the name of one guy.
Mike Pouncey is another.
And this sort of contradicts some stuff from earlier in the week, which looked like it was going to exonerate Incognito.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen.
A pattern of harassment in the locker room at the Miami Dolphins.
Jonathan Martin investigation being bullied and so forth.
And it's still in the early stages of reviewing this thing.
Just came out.
It's over 140 pages.
And apparently, the report says that Jonathan Martin was subjected to a pattern of harassment that included racist slurs and vicious, vicious sexual taunts about his mother and his sister by three Miami Dolphins teammates.
The report said that Richie Incognito, offensive lineman John Jerry, and the center Mike Pouncey harassed Martin, as well as other offensive linemen and an assistant trainer.
And there is a transcript of a text between Mike Pouncey and Incognito, where they talk about Martin being a snitch for blabbing about all this.
And there's a text from Incognito to Pouncey.
Yep, you snitch, you stitch.
Meaning, they're going to bloody the guy up.
Now, for all the talk about it being racial, Mike Pouncey's black.
Jonathan Martin is black.
Pouncey is accused of being one of the harassers.
It's interesting because earlier this week, Incognito went crazy on Twitter, acting like the report was going to totally exonerate him.
I mean, he was tweeting things out like, where do I go to get my reputation back?
Where do I go to be apologized to?
Because apparently the early indications were that everything it said about Incognito was not true, and the media had piled on.
And now it turns out that all this stuff that happened earlier in the week, not true.
And it looks like everything we thought we knew at the beginning of this turns out to be true.
But as I say, it's just the early stages of the media getting their hands on the report and going through it.
A program observer has a question.
What's the question?
Well, I don't know about allegations of physical violence.
I haven't gotten that far, but there were allegations of inappropriate touching.
In a related story, Michael Sam, the first openly gay player, as you know, is going to soon be joining the National Football League.
So I just, I'm just telling, I don't know any more than I've told you.
I mean, here's another passage of the report.
Be candid, we struggled with how to evaluate Martin's claims of harassment given his mental health issues, his possible heightened sensitivity to insults, and his unusual bipolar friendship with Incognito.
Nonetheless, we ultimately concluded that Martin was indeed harassed by Incognito, who can fairly be described as the main instigator.
And by Jerry and Pouncey, who tended to follow Incognito's lead.
And the Washington Post has posted on their website a PDF of the whole 148-page report.
In addition, the report says that Jonathan Martin, in an attempt to fend off some of the treatment, joined in treating other people the way he was being treated, sort of like trying to be one of the guys.
And that's what is meant in the reference to his heightened sensitivity to insults and his unusual bipolar friendship with Incognito.
Anyway, folks, that's it.
That's the early report on it.
Looks like everything that was alleged in the very beginning here turns out to be true.
And if you were paying attention to anything on Twitter earlier this week, this is going to come as a surprise to you if you believed what was on Twitter earlier in the week.
Because clearly what was on social media earlier in the week, Incognito was out running around acting like that he was going to be totally exonerated in this report.
And he was, you know, doing a Ray Donovan.
You know, where do I go to get my reputation back?
So that was obviously preemptive.
And he may not have been accurately informed as to what the report was going to say.
Even he got so nuts so he got mad at his own lawyer or agent and put the lawyer's phone number up on Twitter and asked people to call him bug his own lawyer because his lawyer was telling him to shut up and stop tweeting this stuff.
Yeah, I know, it sounds like, actually, it sounds like my seventh grade junior high school football locker room in a way.
I'm just kidding.
Don't.
It was just kidding, media.
Just kidding.
Start an investigation of junior high school in Cape Girardo.
Find out what went on when I was there.
No, no, no.
Just teasing.
It's Openline Friday.
And of course, for those of you new to the program, what that means is that on Friday, when we go to the phones, it's a little different.
Monday through Thursday, people have to talk about the issues of the day that I care about.
Friday, not necessary.
Whatever you want to talk about or ask about is fair game.
And again, the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
This is Valentine's Day.
Here is a tweet from the New Republic.
Happy Valentine's Day from the New Republic.
If your other half bought you a Valentine's card, be sure to say thanks for the 18 and a half grams of CO2 it created.
In other words, if you got a Valentine's card, you better be aware that that card is contributing to global warming and the destruction of the planet.
What a bunch of miserable people.
What an amp.
These people, I've always noted liberals do not enjoy life.
They do not laugh.
They're incapable of it.
They are constantly in search of misery, constantly in search of victims, and accordingly, constantly in search of demons and villains.
You put a liberal in the room and you've just taken all the joy out of the room.
Whatever joy and happiness is there, you throw just one liberal in there and you have poisoned the atmosphere of the whole room.
It's just people so concerned.
You know what I don't get?
And here's, and by the way, the New Republic has a whole story about this.
Valentine's Day is an environmental travesty, the carbon cost of greeting cards.
And it's by a guy named Jeffrey Ball.
I know how many grams of pollution is the New Republic if somebody gives you a subscription to that.
It's a dead tree publication.
How much CO2 is in the atmosphere because of the New Republic?
Valentine's Day and environmental travesty.
I mean, here, you know, every day we have to listen to what a bunch of stodgy, old-fashioned, unhip, stuck in the mud creeps Republicans and conservatives are.
And yet, as I say, you have a fun time going on, and a liberal walks in and you've just ruined the atmosphere because all they bring their misery in with them.
They bring their unhappiness.
They bring their search for inequity, inequality, and victimhood.
They're constantly on the lookout for it, and they're constantly on the lookout for villains.
And they also bring in all their stereotypes.
Just a bunch of depressing people trying to dominate everybody's lives by spreading the misery around to everybody else.
Here's a pull quote from the piece.
One estimate claims that making and transporting the average paper holiday card produces 18 and a half grams of carbon dioxide, roughly 600 times the 0.03 grams that it says is generated by the average email.
Another puts the carbon footprint of an average greeting card at 60 times the footprint of an email, one-tenth of the first estimate.
And another pull quote: it's even crazier to buy said piece of cardstock, drive it to the post office, and have the mail truck it to an airport and then fly it to its destination.
They're sitting around thinking about this and all of it in slavish devotion to a hoax.
We're nearing a rarity, and that is all of the Great Lakes freezing over.
Doesn't happen very often.
And the left is trotting out physicists, not climate scientists, but physicists, to point out that it is global warming causing this.
Would you like to hear how, would you like to know how global warming is freezing the Great Lakes?
All of this hot air, all of this warming is causing instability in the jet stream and the polar vortex.
And the warm air is actually causing the cold air to go to where people live.
Normally, the cold air only is where people don't live.
And that's how they explain it.
It's sort of like saying, If you put a frozen TV dinner in your oven and turn it up to 350 degrees, in five minutes, it'll be twice as frozen as it was before you put it in there because the heat of the oven will cause all kinds of cold air to find its way into the oven and keep your frozen TV dinner frozen even while the oven is heating up to 300.
That's how much sense it all makes.
But you still, you can't, aside from that lunacy, I mean, the idea that they have to rain on Valentine's Day.
You know, the thing is, folks, they're serious.
The people of New Republic are serious.
This is not at the onion.
They're just a bunch of miserable people and trying to spread that misery and that search for victims and the search for demons.
They take it with them everywhere they go and they try to spread it.
We need to add a new location, folks, to Port St. Lucie.
And what was it?
You remember Port St. Lucie walked into McDonald's.
There were no McNuggets called 911.
And a couple of other examples.
Here is from the great liberal Northwest in Washington County, Oregon, Emergency Services Dispatch website, Facebook page.
It's a 911 call.
A guy called 911 because his wife's zipper was stuck.
And he was doing the only thing behind her back he ever did or does, and that was zip her up.
The zipper got stuck, and the guy called 911.
911, Police Fire Medical.
Yeah, we got a problem here.
My wife is struggling in her jacket.
Can't get it off.
She's struggling in her office.
In her jacket, I want a 91 up here immediately.
Okay, what's going?
Is she not breathing?
She's all right.
She just can't get her jacket off.
She's fine.
She just can't get her blank, blank jacket off, and I want 911 here.
My wife's zipper is stuck.
It's things like this that make me rethink my overall optimism about the future of the country, folks.
By the way, the fire department did show up.
They did show up, and they say they rescued the woman from her stuck zipper.
And they saved the jacket, too.
So the fire department shows up.
They rescued the woman from the stuck zipper and saved the jacket.
Now, what does it say about this lunkhead husband?
That it takes the fire department to unzip his wife.
It's just unbelievable.
It was back on February 12th that Richie Incognito tweeted the following to Jonathan Martin, Miami Dolphins.
Dear John Martin, the truth is going to bury you and your entire camp.
You could have told a truth the entire time.
So that was a couple days ago.
And the report comes out today, and it does not exonerate incognito, which he clearly thought it was going to.
It's either that or he was advised to get out in front of the bad news, portraying it as good news.
I mean, who knows?
You get a media consultant or lawyer involved today in the attempt to manipulate the low-information news consumers.
And I guess anything could happen because the theory might be that the low-information news consumer believes the first thing he or she hears about something.
That could very well be the theory.
So let's just assume here that Incognito's team have to know.
They have to know what this investigation shows.
And therefore, they have to know what the report is going to say.
They have to know that Incognito is going to get creamed.
They have to know that two other players are going to be involved.
They have to know that it's going to be reported that Martin was bullied.
Okay, so two days prior to the report, and they don't know when the report's coming out.
It was the best guess anybody had was it was coming out yesterday.
And this would be the famous Ted Wells report that just came out a half hour ago, maybe an hour now.
So maybe they got together, so okay, you know what?
Let's go out there and let's start tweeting like mad that I'm innocent, that Martin lied, and that Martin's going to get buried by the truth.
And let's just saturate Twitter with our version and then make it look like the report's lying.
Now, where would anybody get that kind of theory?
How would that kind of theory be created?
The theory being people are going to believe the first thing they hear.
No matter if the second thing is what is quote unquote official, people will believe and react to the first thing they hear about something.
I would think that the incognito crisis management team, if there is one, is probably studying crisis management in the Democrat Party, specifically with the Clintons.
The Clintons clearly had that strategy.
You put something out first and you put your version out first.
Whether it's true or not, you put what you want out first, or if you want to be truthful or if you're going to lie, if you want to create whatever impression, you put it out first because that's what people will inherently believe.
The old theory that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed.
That kind of thing.
So it'll be interesting to see here.
Now, it's going to be a tough row for Incognito because the media is just predestined to hate the guy.
They just despise the guy.
And so it's going to be very, very difficult for Incognito to convince even the low information crowd that he didn't do it when the report says he did.
Because now the media is going to be going wall to wall.
ESPN, all these other places are going to be going wall to wall what a racist, sexist, bigot bully Incognito is.
And they are going to basically drown out and just overwhelm his tweets of two days ago.
Again, which said the truth is going to marry you, John.
The truth is going to bury you and your entire camp.
You could have told the truth the entire time.
So it's fascinating to watch how people manipulate things to me.
I just love it.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rushland Bought.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to be fair.
It's Open Line Friday, and we try to get to the phones earlier than usual.
We normally don't get to the phones until at least the second hour.
But on Friday, we try to squeeze a few in the first.
And I'm going to try to do that.
I want to now go to the audio soundbites.
This morning on Fox, Martha McCallum played an audio soundbite of me, your beloved host.
And it was from, it could have been yesterday, the day before, I talked about it both days, in which I was, as I watched it, I actually looked like I was beside myself, talking about what do we do?
We've never encountered this kind of lawlessness before.
We've never encountered a president who just makes the law up as he goes and specifically for his own political benefit, ignoring Congress, ignoring the Constitution.
And nobody knows what to do.
I mean, we haven't been confronted with this.
I mean, there are people that, like Levin has his idea of the Article V Convention with the state legislatures convening a constitutional convention.
It's a great idea, but that's not going to stop Obama next week from doing what he's doing.
It's a great long-term solution, so forth.
But I'm looking at it in the context.
I mean, how do you stop this?
This guy's got three years here.
And he's openly taunting everybody.
He's making the law up as he goes.
Whatever he wants it to be is what it is.
The Democrats in Congress are in total support.
Our Constitution doesn't matter.
Anyway, they play this soundbite.
And then they bring in Juan Williams to respond to it.
And Martha McCallum says, so Juan, what do you think of that?
I can't even understand why Mr. Limbaugh is so upset because when I look at the actual numbers, you see that President Obama has used an executive order to go around the Congress.
I think it's less than half of the time of Bill Clinton and just over half of the time of President George W. Bush.
So it just doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, unless you're just trying to demonize President Obama and say he's lawless and he's a bad guy.
How lame was that?
How seriously, Juan, you know as well as anybody that nobody here is talking about executive orders.
He's not using an executive order to change Obamacare every day.
He wakes up and he decides he's going to delay the employer mandate for businesses up to 99 employees, 50 and 99, for three years.
He didn't even use an executive order.
He just stood up and announced it.
He may not even announce it.
They issued a statement, send carne out there, whoever to say it.
He can't do it.
The law is the law.
He is fundamentally ignoring and altering the text of the law and for the express benefit of himself and his party politically.
I still have to tell you something about that.
I hope I expressed this right.
I think the motivation for Obama doing it isn't, I'm not that interested in it.
It is the actual commission of the act that just floors me.
I have never in my life had a president do what Obama's doing.
Repeatedly.
Simply delay a portion of a law or change a portion of a law or add something to the law.
Never seen it.
I've seen executive orders, but I've never seen what Obama's doing.
Now, the other half of it is the motivation.
And this is what kind of surprises me.
The inside the beltway intelligentsia seems to be more upset at the motivation than the actual commission of the act.
To me, the president arbitrarily delaying portions of a law is all I need to know it's not right.
And it's not only not right, that it's seriously wrong.
That is, it's institutionally threatening.
I mean, it's really serious.
The inside the beltway crowd, though, seems to think that the reason Obama's doing it is what makes it bad.
And the reason he's doing it is to help himself politically.
And I've heard a number of the commentariat inside the beltway say, you know, that just isn't fair.
You can't go changing a law to help yourself politically.
And I've heard other intelligentsia members, you know, when you put it like that, I totally agree with you.
Ron Fournier was like, Ron Fournier saw nothing wrong with what Obama was doing until Dr. Krauthammer pointed out to him, but wait a minute, he's only doing this to help himself politically.
If he wanted to help himself politically, he should have to change policy or whatever and change the minds of the voters.
But you can't just, and Fournier, you know what?
You put it that way.
I agree with you.
And I'm sitting here scratching my head because it sounds kind of sophomoric to me.
What do you mean it isn't fair to change the law to help yourself politically?
Why does the motivation even matter?
We have a president who's acting as though the Constitution doesn't matter.
He's king.
He's playing dictator.
Now, granted, the motivation is not good.
I'm not trying to diminish the motivation.
I think the motivation adds to it.
But let me put it this way.
If Obama were delaying the mandate for three years, but not trying to help himself politically, would it be okay then?
No.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not looking at Gift Horse in the mouth.
I will take the Inside the Beltway commentariat's opposition to this.
The motivation is this little area of side interest to me.
So anyway, Juan Williams, in trying to defend this, whoa, look at the executive orders.
I mean, Bush signed more.
This is not about executive orders.
And they know.
This is about the substance of what Obama is doing.
And that's one of the lamest attempts at defending what Obama is doing.
And then to say, it just doesn't make any sense unless you're trying to demonize Obama and say he's lawless and he's a bad guy.
I don't know why else you would say this because he's not doing any more executive orders than anybody.
This is not about executive orders.
When's the last executive order Obama issued to change Obamacare?
And how many changes?
How many waivers have been 2,500 waivers?
Everything Obama has done after this law was signed has been to limit its impact because it doesn't work.
It's devastating.
The news on healthcare.gov and how many people have signed up and how many people have paid.
It's an abject mess.
And it's a mess about something that is crucially important to a lot of people.
And don't forget, let's go back March 31st, 2008, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I mentioned this yesterday, and a lot of people have cited this.
I think it's not worth much, but it still is interesting.
Here's Obama as a senator campaigning in 2008.
I take the Constitution very seriously.
The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.
And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America.
All right, so what do we do with that?
Obviously, he's lying through his teeth, obviously just saying what people wanted to hear back then.
He didn't want Bush to have that kind of power.
He'll be glad to usurp it and take it for himself.
But how many members of the Obama cult who voted for him are going to change their mind about him if you play them that soundbite?
You know how many?
Zero.
Zip, zero, nada.
None of them.
And even if they're not cult followers.
How is this supposed to work?
Obama's out there violating the Constitution.
He's grabbing power, tyrannical dictatorial power.
He's eliminating areas of the law that harm him.
He's adding punitive parts of the law.
And then all of a sudden, we're supposed to replay a soundbite.
Hey, wait a minute.
He said that he disagreed with this.
We play the soundbite for people and they're supposed to go, oh, wow.
You mean he's lying?
Okay, I'm through with Obama.
Is that how it's supposed to work?
Because it's not going to work that way.
Still interesting to play the bite.
Don't misunderstand.
But it isn't going to change anything.
And besides, Juan Williams, it's not the quantity of executive orders that matter.
It's the substance of them.
It's what's in them.
It's the quality of the executive orders.
These are serious changes in the law of the land, like doing away with the immigration laws or not enforcing the immigration.
This is serious stuff that he's doing.
It's not executive orders to cut down 10 more trees than they were going to cut down at Jellystone National Park.
I'll tell you what, the scary thing is, folks, he's not even using executive orders anymore.
He's beyond that.
Executive orders now don't even matter.
He's just pointing his finger at something and saying, do it.
Did he use an executive order to sick the IRS on the Tea Party?
Guess what else we've learned?
We've learned he lied, and the White House lied to their teeth about Obama not knowing the status of healthcare.gov before it launched.
We now know that Sebudius visited the White House and told Obama about this 13 or 14 times.
Well, now the question about that is, who believed in the first place he didn't know the status of the website?
Who in the world would believe that?
But we were asked to.
We were asked to believe Obama doesn't know anything.
He's too busy being smart.
He's too busy being a leader.
He's too busy focused on jobs and the economy and the recovery.
He didn't, he can't be bothered with the minutia of the status of a mere website.
That's so beneath him.
He didn't know.
I mean, they ask us to believe that.
This is the issue that arguably Obama personally cares more about than anything else because this issue is really what succeeds in transforming this country away from its founding.
The commandeering of 20% of the U.S. economy, the healthcare industry, and putting it under federal control gives him so much control over every individual citizen and life that that alone succeeds in his objective of transforming this country.
And to say that he didn't care how it was going, that he didn't know what the status of the website was.
Now, I will admit there are elements of this that he doesn't want to be bothered with.
He doesn't care whether it's working or not.
The idea that he knew it wasn't working, I don't believe he didn't.
I can't believe that he didn't know that he knew, but he doesn't care.
He's looking 20 years down the road when we're a single payer, which is really where he wants to go.
And the more chaos now, the better, as far as that objective is concerned.
He doesn't care about individual stories of pain and suffering.
He doesn't care about people losing their interest.
He doesn't care about that because that's, you know, sadly, those are the things that are going to have to happen for this transformation to take place.
There's going to have to be some pain.
I mean, there's already been 200 years of pain because of the way this country was founded.
It's only understandable there's going to be some pain while we quote unquote fix it.
You know, so if Mr. and Mrs. Enos Lobodnik don't have health care for a year, tough toenails.
He'll get it fixed down their roads.
No big deal.
He's not going to worry about that.
But I don't believe that he didn't know about the website not working.
And now we know that he did because Sebelius is in there all these times.
And there were even news reports that Sebelius didn't even tell him.
Oh, of course not.
And we're supposed to just blanketly, blindly accept that.
Why would she tell him?
He's so busy doing other things.
He's delegated that.
He trusts her.
He doesn't need hourly, daily reports on this data.
There's no reason Obama would know.
Right.
Every day, multiple times a day, is an assault on our common sense and intelligence.
Obama had talks with Sebelius 18 times before Obamacare went live.
That is from thehill.com.
Sebelius met with or attended calls and events with Obama at least 18 times between October 27, 2012, and October 6th, 2013.
That's a year for those of you in Rio Linda.
Here he is.
I'm going to Brian in Tampa.
I want to get a phone call in because I promised we would.
And you're it, Brian.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Great to be on the show, Rush.
Thanks for letting me call in.
Yeah, you bet you.
I just wanted to just talk to you about the root problem.
Look, I agree with you 100%.
We have a dictator as president, but I think the real problem is where's the money come from?
Where does the money come from, this massive expansion of government?
And you've got to follow, you know, my dad always told me, follow where the money goes.
And, you know, so I look at Bernanke leaving office and Yellen stepping in.
And here we have another Keynesian economist coming in for print, print, print.
So I guess I just wanted to hear some of your input on, you know, what people can do to educate themselves to learn about our economic system and learn about the Federal Reserve and central banking in general, because you're not going to be able to squash this whole curve of the roles of government from the ground up.
Educating people on the central banking system.
That would be a massive undertaking, and there's also an agenda attached to that.
Would prefer to focus on something that's elementary about this.
That didn't go out, did it?
That we don't have the money.
The answer, Brian, is we don't have the money.
Where's the money coming from?
We don't have it.
They're printing it or they're borrowing it, but we've got a national debt of 17 approaching $18 trillion.
We don't have the money.
The Federal Reserve is printing money and essentially sending it over to Wall Street in the form of bonds and the purchase of securities.
And it's propping up the markets because those are the people that the regime wants to take care of.
Those are the money donors.
Those are the money supporters.
And the stock market is a way to create an illusion of a solid economy, a solid country, and growth.
They're all with Main Street anymore.
But we don't have the money.
You can ask where's Obama getting this money to raise the minimum wage?
He's making it up.
We're going in debt.
We don't have it.
We're nowhere near having it.
It's outrageous.
We got a pretty interesting call up there coming up next.
And I, just based on the looks of it, I may take this call early in the next hour.
Am I reading this, right?
What this guy wants?
All right.
I may have to be very careful in answering this guy's questions to boot.
We'll see.
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