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Feb. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, no, I've not forgotten.
I got the Chris Christie sound bites from Friday.
I held them over, and I've got them coming up here.
It's kind of sad, is the reason I want to play them.
And again, to illustrate who liberals are.
I mean, I will do that every chance I get.
I'm not talking about Christie.
Anyway, greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the most talked about radio talk show in America.
And I think without question, the most impactful media outlet in all of media in terms of affecting what other media have done.
Yeah, you know, sometimes in a sad way.
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Let's continue here with ESPN's Outside the Line special report, The N-Word, a special program that was aired last night on ESPN.
One of the guests on the program was Michael Wilbon, the co-host of Pardon the Interruption.
And they're talking about the banning, the potential banning and penalization.
Wait a minute now.
Penalizing.
Any player uttering the N-word on the field during games.
Bob Lay was the host.
He said, hey, to Wilbon, the NFL is proposing to criminalize this word.
What do you think about that, Michael?
The use of this particular word, the objection to it, the embracing of it, the emotion wrapped around it is more complex than any word that I can think of in the English language.
And so when a league of owners, who are very, by the way, removed from the use of the word, last I check, how many black owners in the NFL right now?
When you have that situation, I'm not sure that they should be framing the discussion.
You already referred to my position on this.
As I've said to my dear friend of 35 years, Tony Kornheiser, you don't get a vote in this one.
Whitlock and I go back and forth on years about this.
Hey, you got to stop doing this.
That's fine.
We can do that, in my opinion.
We can do that because we're talking about ownership of the word.
So I need to translate this for you.
Wilbon is African American.
A Whitlock is talking about African American.
They can use it.
They can debate it.
They can talk about it.
And they can tell you you can't use it all day long.
You, Kornheiser, white guy, you don't have a vote.
You can't say a word.
You can't use the word and you can't comment on those of us who do.
And therefore, you lily white NFL owners, you don't know about this word.
You don't know about its complexities.
You don't know how it's used, a term of endearment, as an insult, as just a greeting.
You don't get to tell us what we can say and can't say.
But we can certainly tell you what you can and can't say.
That's the right that he's reserving there.
What?
Well, they're in the process of telling him what he can and can't say, but he is telling them that they have a right to.
They're not black.
Therefore, they can't use the word and they can't comment on those who do.
But the people who are black not only can use it however they want, and they can also tell you that you can't use it if you're white.
And it's simply because they own the word and you don't.
Wilbon and Whitlock own the word and Kornheiser doesn't get a vote.
So Kornheiser represents the lily white NFL owners and the commissioner and everybody else.
So I told you this was going to be the case.
And at the point that I was trying to, Wilbon gets it.
It's a bunch of these liberal white, you name it, plantation owners, basically, who are now from on high telling these guys what they can and can't say.
And the reaction is: who you and who you think you are.
You can't tell us.
We own the word.
It isn't your word.
Another question from the official program observer.
What is it, sir?
Well, now, see, here's it.
When you ask why now, what all of a sudden has moved this to the forefront?
Well, the first gay player in the NFL is still on the come.
He's not there yet.
It's got to get drafted.
And then has to make the team.
So the first gay player on the come, Michael Sam from Mizzou, is black.
And maybe, maybe they're just trying to get a hold of this before it gets out of hand.
And maybe I'd like to ask Wilbon about this.
Maybe.
No, this can't possibly be.
I was going to say, maybe the people making this rule do not know that the black guys use it all.
Maybe they think only white guys use it against it.
They can't possibly think that, right?
They have to know.
Okay, so then if they know that, then they are actively censoring 75% of the players.
Well, they're censoring all the players, but 75% think they own the word and can use it.
Now, Wilbon, let's go back November 14th, 2013, on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, the N-word.
Tony Kornheiser speaking with Wilbon about the Clippers, LA Clippers, Matt Barnes.
He is a forward.
He had to apologize after he was fined for using the N-word in a tweet after he was ejected from a game.
You remember that?
This guy, you don't remember that.
I'm sure nobody else does either, but I've got it right here.
It says here.
Forward Matt Barnes of the Clippers had to apologize after he was fined for using the N-word in a tweet after he was ejected from a game.
And Kornheiser said to Wilbon, Barnes has apologized via Twitter today.
What do you say about the issue of the use of the inflammatory N-word?
People can be upset with me if they want.
I, like a whole lot of people, use the N-word all day, every day, my whole life.
Publicly, I wouldn't do that, but I have no issue with it.
I have a problem with, and excuse me here, white people framing the discussion for the use of the N-word.
They better not sit there like plantation owners and tell black people how to use a language that was forced on us.
Oh.
Oh, okay.
So the N-word forced on them, and now they own it.
And so you got to have these liberal plantation owners telling these guys what they can and can't say.
See how this is shape?
Wilbon gets it.
Wilbon actually gets what's going on here.
But he loves the liberals anyway.
He is one of it.
It doesn't matter.
But he's on this one.
He's a little ticked off at him.
Now, it was also Wilbon who explained how Richie Incognito could be an honorary black guy in the Miami Dolphins locker room.
This goes back to November 6th of last year on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, the N-word.
I think they just ought to call every show on ESPN, whatever it is, Sports Center, the N-word.
Pardon the Interruption, the N-word.
Outside the lines, the N-word.
Monday night, countdown, the N-word.
But this was on pardon the interruption, the N-word, November 6th of 2013.
And they talk about the reporter, Armando Seguero in the Miami Herald saying that multiple black players and the Dolphins consider incognito an honorary black guy.
He was accepted by the black players, the honorary black guy.
And Wilbon was asked by Kornheiser, who doesn't have a vote on the N-word, if that rang true to him.
It doesn't ring true.
It is true.
This goes back to slavery.
House in and field in, okay?
When they were separated and seemingly the people in the house were closer to who?
The white man.
This is about relationship.
This is about how you're perceived.
This is about blackness, okay, culturally and spiritually, not about the actual color of your skin.
There are people always in all black subcultures who are white, who are more accepted as being blacker than black people, who may be, as we say, blue-black.
Can we possibly keep up with this?
Is there any way we can self-police on this?
So let's see.
We got white people more accepted as being blacker than black people, blue-black.
And then you have people like Clarence Thomas who aren't black, but they are, but they're Uncle Tom whites.
And Richie Cognito is an honorary black guy.
Then they went around, that's when they asked Bradshaw and Collinsworth and all these other old veterans, and they were stymied.
They'd never heard anything like this.
They had no clue that these kinds of divisions existed in the locker room back after this.
Okay, so I checked the email as I always do during the obscene profit timeout.
And there were a couple of people who said, Rush, it's somewhat interesting.
Why do you spend so much time on it?
I'll tell you exactly, folks, this is what liberalism does to a culture and society.
It literally rips it apart.
And it takes the, we're talking about the National Football League, but we're not, are we?
We're not talking about football.
We're talking about policing speech and dictating behavior.
I, at one time, I'm going to modify a prediction.
I at one time thought that all this was aimed at eliminating football, taking out the NFL.
I don't think that anymore.
I think what has happened, the left sees a gigantic propaganda vehicle here.
The most popular sport in this country that has Boku dollars, lots of commerce going on.
It is the most watched television event whenever it is in prime time.
As such, it is seen now as a giant propaganda opportunity for the left to advance their agenda.
And that's what all the focus on the meanness is and the injuries and the unfairness and the inequality and all the pink stuff, breast cancer awareness month while prostate cancer goes ignored.
And now this, now the National Football League has become a, it's like the military, has become a social laboratory playground for the left to inculcate every little cultural thing they want to do to the country.
So now it is a big deal that the first gay player is coming out.
Now, it's a big deal.
We're going to get rid of the N-word.
Instead of wiping the game out, I think they're going to take advantage of the opportunity of its massive popularity to use it.
And it's still going to be, they're still going to destroy the game by turning it into nothing more.
than a liberal social laboratory, like they've done with the military, or tried to do with the military.
So the reason we're spending all this time, we're talking about the National Football League, and look what we're talking about here.
Who owns the N-word for crying out loud?
How insulting is this?
How beneath this is?
I mean, to elevate this word and to say that it, you know, to try to even quantify it as, well, it's worth a 15-yard penalty and then being kicked out of the game.
I mean, and you look at the various points of view that are springing up now.
And so the experts are who?
The experts are the media, sports writers.
And what are they doing?
They are claiming exclusive rights to opinions about it.
It's liberalism on parade.
And I just, you know me, the more people who can be informed and educated to understand what this crap is, may be the only opportunity we have of ever really reversing it.
Now, that's not to diminish the importance of elections, but that's the end result of the proper information and education taking place.
Now, we've had another major retirement announcement.
John Dingleberry is leaving the United States Senate 50, oh, the House, yeah.
Dingleberry leaving the House, 58 years in the House of Representatives.
He has been there so long, he may as well live there.
But why is he leaving?
Why is Henry Waxman leaving?
Why is George Miller leaving?
These people are leaving because in their tea leave opinion, they're going to be in the minority and probably for quite a while because these midterms, believe me, these people, they've got their internal, not just polling data, but focus group data as well.
And they don't want to be there in the minority.
They're not there to engage in the back and forth of collegial debate and all that.
They are there to wield power.
And you don't do it from the minority.
And they don't want to have to waste time stopping power.
If they can't wield it, they don't want to be there.
And I think there's nothing else Dingell's going to do.
We know he's not going to go play shuffleboard.
He's not going to go play solitaire.
He isn't going to go play.
He just doesn't want to be there if he can't wield power.
Pure and simple.
Same thing with Waxman.
Same thing with George Miller.
Now that alone, sadly, it doesn't mean everything.
Because what kind of Republicans are going to win if we get establishment Republicans who think there's nothing really wrong with the country other than they're not in charge, that there's no crisis, they really don't have a debt crisis.
It's not really a financial crisis, really.
I mean, if we get a bunch of Republicans who just want to trade seats and be in charge of the big government, okay, it's one thing to get rid of Democrats, that's great.
One thing to get rid of liberals, but if you don't, it was John O'Sullivan, former editor, National Review, former aide-de-camp, Margaret Thatcher, who once said, I'm paraphrasing,
an organization, a group, a population, whatever group of people that is not actively demonstrably conservative will become liberal.
Meaning that conservatism is a specific pursuit and it is a specific mindset and it has to be fought for, maintained, taught, educated.
It's a shame, too, because all it is, conservatism is simply freedom.
Conservatism is simply self-reliance, self-responsibility.
It is the principle by which this country was founded, or the set of principles.
Liberalism, though, is easy.
It's gutless choice.
All you've got to do is pretend that you care about things.
And you are assumed to have a big heart.
And anyway, so just because, my point is this, just because liberal Democrats may be vanquished does not mean the alternative is going to be conservatives in power.
So Dingell is retiring after 58 years divided by two.
How many terms is that?
It's just incredible.
He's the longest serving member of Congress to retire at the end of his term.
It's like the family business.
His father had the seat for 20 years, and now his wife is going to run.
I thought about, well, I don't know that for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised.
He won the seat at age 29 after the death of his father, who was a Depression-era new dealer.
And while she won't announce her candidacy on Monday, his wife of 38 years, Debbie, a Democrat National Committee member, will almost certainly run.
So they want to keep the seat in the family.
Here's Rick in South Indiana as we head back to the phones.
Rick, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, Russia.
I've been listening to you for a long time before the Clintons came in.
But I was going back to your thing on the FCC where they're trying to monitor the content of what everybody's saying.
And I would like to see them, like before every show, people come on, that they would do what you do and say your accuracy rating is 97 point or 99.7.
Well, that's an opinion audit, which is a much different thing than an accuracy rating.
But I get your drip.
You think they ought to be subject to the same thing.
Yeah, I think that every person that comes on has a news show should say, you know, so people know exactly where they stand.
They wouldn't dare.
Rick, let me tell you something.
This is not an exaggeration.
One of the traits now, just short of being a hallmark, is how much the so-called mainstream media get wrong.
It's incredible how much they report that actually is wrong.
It's almost become standard operating procedure.
And it's because they've thrown objectivity overboard to be objective.
Evan Syatt, conservative lecturer, made the point, to be objective is to be a bigot.
And they've thrown it away.
Back after this.
Michael in Hastings, Nebraska.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
Same here, sir.
Just real quick, I wanted to say that my kids have really loved the Rush Revere book, especially my 10-year-old.
He just, I couldn't believe how fast he read it.
And we've got the next one ordered and can't wait for it to get here.
Can I tell you a cute little story?
I was not going to mention it, but you have reminded me.
Catherine, I had 20 family members here this weekend.
And I have a young nephew who's 10, going to be 10.
His name is Will.
Now, I've known Will for 10 years.
And Will has been aware of me probably for six of those years.
You know, maybe seven.
And I'm, you know, I'm Uncle Rush.
I come into town and I take over whenever I get there.
And I'm sure Will, happy to see me, but just as happy when I leave because the house gets back to normal.
But all of a sudden, Will came up to me and asked me if I would autograph Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims on Sunday.
And I said, only if you will let me take a picture of you reading it.
And he agreed.
So we took a picture of him in the living room.
He's reading the book.
But it was the cutest thing.
My nephew, of all things, wanted an autograph from me on his copy of my book.
He finished the first one.
We gave him, we have an advanced copy of the second book, which comes out March the 11th.
Since I wrote it, I have some advanced copies.
And he started reading it.
It's what he did on Sunday morning before leaving for the fair.
So yeah, here I've been 25 years, Rush Limbaugh here, Rush Limbaugh there.
But now I really rate because of Rush Revere and the brave, because I know Rush Revere and Liberty.
And it was the cutest thing.
So I just, I'm ecstatic when I hear stories like yours, Michael, your son liking the book.
I can't tell you how thrilling that is for me.
I really mean that.
Thank you.
Well, they really have.
And I mean it.
I hope there's a lot more coming down the road.
But anyway, what I wanted to say was I was thinking about the protests in Egypt and how hard the mainstream media worked there to find protesters that would give President Obama credit for their movement.
And I was just wondering if we've seen the same thing in the Ukraine.
Have they found any protesters in Kiev that would name Obama in their own?
That is a fascinating.
Folks, one of our all-time favorite sound bites is of CNN's Nick Robertson in Egypt in Tahriri Square, which is actually a circle.
Remember during the Arab Spring, all of these Egyptian people are protesting Mubarak and Nick Robertson goes in there and asks a bunch of them how grateful they are to President Obama.
Mustafa, I'm sure you would thank President Obama for worrying over jobs for the young people.
And Mustafa said, we don't know what the hell he thinks.
He changes his mind every other day here.
We're not doing what we're doing because of Obama.
Well, I see we can hear lots of love for President Obama.
And we go on talking, Syed!
Syed, I'm sure, would you use your message for President Obama?
Who?
We're trying to eat and stay alive over here, bud.
What do you mean?
Obama's got nothing to do with this.
It's the funniest set of soundbites.
And it's three different people that Nick Robertson speaks with.
And when it's all over, and all three of them have basically said Obama means what we're doing here.
Nick Robertson ends up by, as you heard, President Obama on the minds of everyone here in Territories.
It's just the most sycophantic, kiss-ass report.
So what old Michael here is wondering, well, were there any reporters over in Kiev asking the protesters how much Obama meant to them?
And I didn't see any, did you?
I didn't see Nick Roberts.
I didn't see any cable news reporters in Kiev asking them if they were wanted to thank President Obama for making their revolution possible or for supporting them in solidarity.
Didn't happen.
That's a great juxtaposition.
In fact, where is the I just had it set aside here somebody 53% is the number of Americans who think that the world no longer respects President Obama.
Yeah, that's 50.
Yep, yep, here it is.
For the first time, a majority, it's political, by the way.
For the first time, a majority of Americans think Obama is not respected among world leaders, according to a new poll that found opinion has plunged dramatically in the past year.
53% now say Obama is not respected on the international stage.
That's up from 43% a year ago.
This is a Gallup poll.
And so with polling data like this, it probably would stretch credulity, the credibility for Nick Robertson to go to Kiev and ask him there how much they are grateful to President Obama for their revolution.
Great question.
Got to take a break.
Back after this.
Man, it must have been really bad when our silver medal winners are guests on TV shows.
I know we got out medal over there in the Putin Olympics, but I didn't know it was that bad.
Our silver medal.
No, I'm not trying to put anybody.
I'm just making it down.
It's an observation.
You normally don't see silver medal winners.
I guess I stepped in.
No, I don't.
I'm not.
If you'll recall, I told you before these games began that I thought the real story was going to be lack of medal, gold medal performance by our team.
And I turned out to be sadly right now.
Here are the Chris Christie carryovers from last Friday.
I think this is really sad.
And I mean that.
Governor Christie, I don't care what you think of this, loves Bruce Springsteen.
New Jersey just loves Springsteen.
Has been to, did I read right over 100 Springsteen concerts and performances?
And during Hurricane Sandy, when Governor Christie was walking the beach with Obama, Obama arranged for Springsteen to call Christie together with Obama.
And I think it was in the Oval Office.
And Christie talked about how that was one of the happiest days of his life.
Now, you can think about that whatever you want, but still, he was perfectly open and honest about what a big deal that was.
You say he idolizes Christie, and Christie called him, and he proudly told people about that phone call, a couple of Jersey guys, and they're going to work together.
And then the Bridgegate thing happened, and Springsteen, knowing full well how much Christie idolized, goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and writes a song, and they start making fun of Christie over the Bridgegate thing.
And this bite here, this is Thursday last week in Middletown, New Jersey, it's a town hall meeting.
And here's Christie with a member of the audience.
When you go home tonight, would you please destroy all your Bruce Springsteen CDs?
He's not a friend of yours, Governor.
The CDs could be destroyed.
I have it all on my iPhone now.
I still live in hope that someday, even as he gets older and older, he's going to wake up and go like, yeah, yeah, all right, he's a good guy.
It's all right.
You know, we could be friends.
He told me we were friends actually a few year and a half ago.
This is just here.
You go again.
Springsteen, reputed to be this wonderful leftist, very feeling, compassionate, understanding.
And it goes on to help Fallon and starts making fun of Christie.
And it hurt.
I mean, it devastated him.
Say what, you know, if Bill Buckley had started making fun of me and so forth, it would have been the same thing.
I mean, he idolized Springsteen, the musician from New Jersey and all that.
And here is, this is Springsteen mocking Christie on Jimmy Fallon's show this January 14th.
Governor, let me in.
I want to be your friend.
There'll be no partisan divisions.
Let me wrap my legs round your mighty rims and relieve your stressful condition.
You got Wall Street Master stuck cheek to cheek with blue-collar truckers.
And man, I really gotta take a leak, but I can't.
I'm stuck in Democrats.
Christie's for me, New Jersey Traffic Jesus.
And of course, the audience hoots and hollers and loves and so forth.
You might say, come on, Rush.
I mean, it's Christie's going to take a joke and so forth.
But that was meant to cut.
You know, that wasn't a bunch of couple guys telling jokes about each other.
That was an attempt to capitalize on whatever political damage Christie was experiencing.
That's why I'm telling you, these people on the left have all this, get all this credit for compassion.
And here's a guy who went out of his way to tell Bruce Springsteen his happiest day of his life when Springsteen called him for crying out loud.
When he got to talk to Bruce Springsteen, and then Springsteen dumps all over.
It's a lesson to be learned.
Now, it's called a man-in-the-middle attack, and you have to be on a public Wi-Fi system in order to be vulnerable.
Or if your private Wi-Fi system isn't password protected, you could be vulnerable.
But don't panic.
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