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Feb. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And once again, if you're just joining us, the security flaw in um Mac OS 10's been fixed.
With a release of a system upgrade at 10.9.2.
Why having more sex boosts your intelligence?
UK Daily Mail research on mice finds that sex increases production of neurons.
Increased sexual activity floods the brain with oxygen, scientists says.
Previous studies have shown that sex also decreases stress and burns calories.
Next time your other half says they're not in the mood for a romantic interlude, try telling them it could make them smarter.
Of course, we see evidence of this in hookers.
Right?
Don't we?
Uh uh explain why hookers are so smart, able to outsmart people like Elliot Spitzer.
And there may be something to this.
Eating barbecued and fried food could increase your risk of dementia, says scientists.
Now the way to offset this is to be having more sex.
If if eating barbecued and fried food increases the risk of dementia, then just go back to the previous survey here from the UK Daily Mail is have more sex.
That'll boost your intelligence, as evidenced by the hookers.
And that way you can eat all the fried food and and barbecued food that you want.
Illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
The White House, you know, speaking, speaking of computer security, try this.
Now, this is from a website called NakedDC.com.
Naked.
It's naked, for those of you in the real end of it.
Naked DC.com.
The White House is going to watch your Twitter for signs of the flu.
This is what this website says.
The NSA might be close to giving up on their massive cell phone metadata collection program.
And the reason is there's just too much data, too much nonsensical information from random Americans that it's beyond being useful for anything.
Now, I I've never heard of this website, so I'm telling you this.
We do we find everything here, but it's it's out there.
They claim that it has been revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services is on the lookout for a new social media search tool that will allow them to monitor social media conversations in real time, in addition to the archives, so that they can look for people complaining of disease symptoms in order to better track outbreaks of disdict.
I don't know if this website's a satire site.
I don't know if this site had ever heard of them before.
But I thought, since people are worried about computer security, you may as well put it out there because they're there what they want to do, they want access to Twitter for at least the last five years for health reasons.
They want to be able to monitor Facebook and Twitter in real time to listen to people whining about being sick and not feeling well.
So they get a heads up on maybe disease outbreaks.
That's the claim.
Again, it's from a website I've never heard of.
But it's obviously a website that's out there, naked DC.com.
The an interesting test.
How many people believe it?
We got the NSA out there collecting all this metadata.
You know there are people who think that the government's monitoring their every move already.
You know there are people who think that, so this little bit of news, oh yeah, they're monitoring your Twitter so that when you complain you got a headache or the flu that they might be on the verge of getting an outbreak signal here and can get uh get into gear faster into stopping it.
Just telling you what's out there.
Now, this is from the Daily Caller.
This is what I'd call a trusted website.
A Harvard writer is claiming that free speech is threatening liberalism and must be curtailed.
If this Harvard University student got her way, free speech on campus would be abolished.
Professors with dissenting views would be fired, because radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy.
The First Amendment is a barrier preventing modern colleges from fulfilling their proper role as indoctrination camps.
Her name is Sandra Korn.
What is it with women named Sandra that makes them No, never mind.
She's a senior at Harvard.
She is a columnist for the Harvard Crimson.
In a recent column, she insisted that the university should stop guaranteeing professors and students the right to hold controversial views and pursue research that challenges liberalism because it is not challengeable.
And it should not.
You think this is a satire.
The column's subtitle, Let's Give Up on Academic Freedom in Favor of Justice.
Sandra Korn cited several instances.
Look at, I've got a picture of this bae, and I'm telling you, I think she means it.
You can you can you it's not infallible, but I mean you can you can spot a liberal when you see one.
You just can.
I can.
I have liberal dar.
I'm telling you that I can look at somebody and tell you what they are.
And I'm telling you.
See.
You damn right means you have you have you have any doubt?
Free speech threatens liberalism.
And where is this woman being taught?
She's being taught this is your elite private education on steroids.
And this is the type of journalist in training who would have no problem with a government monitor in her newsroom, for example.
Korn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Her rejection of intellectual freedom is common among left-wing activists at elite colleges.
Last week, another one.
Aaron Ching, sophomore at Swarthmore College, took a similar view when she criticized her university for committing the unforgivable crime of allowing a conservative to speak on campus, Christian thinker Robert George.
She said, I don't think we should be tolerating this conservative in his views, because that dominant culture embeds these deep inequalities in our society.
Look at this is not this is not really unique.
Look at the people who are pressuring newspapers to prohibit letters to the editor denying global warming.
What is it?
The LA Times already has announced that they're not going to publish letters from climate deniers.
There are two groups, get this.
There are two groups that tried with all kinds of public protest and spam emails and other attempts to force the Washington Post not to run Dr. Krauthammer's piece last Friday, in which he expressed doubt about man-made global warming.
A bunch of people demanded the Washington Post not publish it.
This is not unique.
This this is not satire.
This is not parody.
This woman, Sandra Korn, is real.
And she's serious.
That free speech needs to be abridged because it is threatening liberalism.
It means that liberalism cannot hold up to scrutiny.
It cannot, it cannot withstand the challenge.
If liberalism were infallible, if liberalism were so powerful and automatic, they would welcome challenges to it.
And they would welcome the attempt to persuade and to convert.
But instead, they're threatened by it.
I think it is a movement already.
Snerdley asked me, is this going to become a move.
It is a movement.
This is what the left is.
The left.
Why do you think they want to get rid of this program?
Why do you think they want to get rid of Fox News?
Why do they want to silence what is more what is Obama's modus operandi?
Eliminate the opposition.
This is already a movement.
This woman has just written uh column about it at Harvard.
It's it what appears to be an extreme view of eliminating the First Amendment as a way of silencing opposition.
But she's very honest.
The First Amendment, free speech, threatens liberalism.
Meaning liberalism cannot thrive in an open society.
Liberalism is totalitarianism.
Liberalism is statism.
It is authoritarianism.
It's all of a horrible isms.
And it cannot thrive when there is open debate.
It cannot survive challenges.
Got to take a brief time out.
The NFL's next when we get back.
Okay, we've confirmed it, ladies and gentlemen from the Washington Free Beacon.
The regime does want to monitor Twitter in order to get a heads up on disease outbreak.
So they say.
We even had it in the Limbaugh letter.
So we don't need that website, Naked DC.
I never heard of it anyway.
But we've confirmed it.
Now to the NFL.
As you know, the NFL came out the other day, the Fritz Pollard Association.
They want to penalize the use of the N-word, 15 yards, first offense.
Then you get kicked out of the game the second time you use it.
Mike Pereira, who is a former head of the officials in the NFL, now at Fox, says they don't need a new rule.
They've already got one.
There's already a point of emphasis in the league.
That kind of language is not tolerated, and it already is subject to penalty.
You don't need a new rule.
Here we go to the Fritz Pollard Association.
This was this morning on ESPN Radio.
John Wooten, who is the chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, was asked, what would we hope be gained and what purpose served by this penalty in the NFL?
What you're trying to do is to bring back an element of respect of what's going on in the great game that we have in the National Football League.
That's totally deteriorated.
What really prompts us to make the move was the incident here at the red skin evil game.
You've got to make players respect each other.
And if they're not going to do it on their own, then you got to put rules into effect.
Now, I've been racking my brain, and I haven't gone back to the web to look.
I don't know what happened at the Redskins Eagles game.
I do know that the Redskins, or rather, Eagles, a wide receiver named Riley Cooper, who was uh agitated, I think, at a concert, not during a game, started calling people the N-word left and right and had a couple, but I don't I don't recall what happened in a game between the Redskins and the Eagles.
Anyway, that's not the point.
The point is that Mr. Wooten wants to clean up the NFL.
It's totally deteriorated.
And what's not stated here is he does he's not happy with the current culture.
He doesn't like the N-word.
He doesn't like I'm I don't want to put words in his mouth, but you know what he means.
He thinks that the current culture in the NFL lacks respect for the game and for the people who play it.
And that he wants, you heard him say you got to make players respect each other.
And if they're not going to do it on their own, you got to put rules into effect.
And then he went further, and this is where he talks about we need to return to the way it was long ago.
I played in this league back when the uh racial segregation and turmoil was at its height in the 50s and 60s.
I played for the Cleveland Browns, and the theme that Paul Brown did each and every year was say very simply.
We don't have any black browns, we don't have any white browns.
We have Cleveland Brown.
That's what you got to make players understand today.
That if they are going to use this N-word for the worst, horrible, ugliest word in the history of vocabulary in this country, then you gotta make them responsible for the action.
I played in this league back when racial segregation and turmoil at its height in the 50s and 60s, and I played for the Browns, and even then, the coach Paul Brown said there weren't white Browns and Brown Browns and Black Browns that are Cleveland Browns.
So here's a guy who wants to turn the clock back to the good old 50s and 60s, back when morality was decent, and back when people respected each other, and back when there was a sense of decency and guardrails, and there was a sense of morality.
Now, of course, in the modern American left, that is antiquated.
That's old-fashioned, that's not modern.
That's not progressive.
You can't go back to leave it to Beaver.
You can't go back to uh Donna Reed show, you can't go back to the Nelson family.
Well, that was never real anyway.
That's just a bunch of white PR.
We can't go back to that.
We must have it wide open.
People can do whatever they want, say whatever they want, no guardrails.
Anything you want to do is fine.
That's that's progressive.
That's modernism.
Now, normally when you have somebody want to go back to the fifth, they get tarred and feathered.
Mr. Wooten was not finished, however.
On the field of play and the locker room and the cafeteria, wherever it has to do with NFL facilities, and that N-word cannot and should not be used.
When you look at a lot of our young people, black and white, they have no idea what the word really is about.
I don't want anybody telling me that they desensitized it.
How can that word ever be a word of endearment?
And these are the kind of things that you've got to make players and our young people understand.
Ryan Clark and the Steelers over the weekend and yesterday on ESPN's inside the or outside the lines, the N-word, said you the young guys are not going to stop using it.
It's just their culture, it's how they were raised.
And Mr. Wooden here says, I don't care.
That word can never be a term of endearment, but it is.
Is it not within certain...
To some people, it's a, I won't go so far as it's a compliment, but it's a term of endearment.
Hey, bro.
Hey, what up, bro?
It's it's it's used in that way.
And his point is that the young black kids today hearing this term, learning it, don't really know its roots.
Don't really know what it is.
And I'm sure he didn't say this.
I'm sure what bothers him is that it's horrible and reprehensible and intolerable for some people to use it, but for others, it's perfectly fine.
Because for somebody in his generation, it's never good.
It's never fine, and it never will be.
Michael Wilbon from ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, the N-Word.
This is during mail time last night on the show.
They read a letter, Kornheiser.
Should the NFL hand out a 15-yard penalty for using the N-Word on the field?
Here's Wilbon again.
You're going to have a league with no black owners and a white commissioner, so middle-aged and advanced-aged white men.
Say to black players mostly, because that's what we're talking about, you can't use the N-Word on the field of play, or we're going to penalize you.
I got a massive problem with that.
I don't think it's gonna happen.
I know there are black men of the same age, John Wooten being one of them, who say, no, you have to take this word out of the workplace.
I understand that, but I don't want it enforced like this.
Okay.
Fascinating.
John Wooten, black man, played in the 50s and 60s, the Cleveland Browns, doesn't want the word used.
Wilbon understands that, but he doesn't want the white power structure of the NFL behind the penalty.
He doesn't want that white commissioner, and he don't want the white owners doing it.
But they're not.
They haven't said diddly squat other than to agree with Wood.
Wooten is the guy, the Fritz Pollard Alliance got this all going.
It is a black organization that's trying to rid the NFL of this word being used.
But Wooton can't do it on his own.
So he needs the NFL to help out with a rules change on the penalties.
And the NFL power structure happens to be a bunch of white guys.
And while Wilbon understands it, hey, I understand John Wooten.
You have to take the word out of the workplace to understand that, but I don't want it enforced like this.
Uh 15-yard penalty or instituted by the white liberal plantation owners that run the NFL.
That's what Wilbon is saying.
A couple more on this.
Other things, more of your phone calls.
We're just we're at the peak here, folks, and don't go anywhere.
One more Michael Wilbon.
This again from Pardon the Interruption, the N-word on ESPN, Wilbon continued, after saying that he understands John Wooten and who's the black guy, uh, doesn't want the N-word used.
But Wilbon, he doesn't want it enforced with a bunch of white guys being the authority.
And then he continued.
It is not defaming in the context in which I and many others use it every day.
Just language.
Just talk.
I'm not a child of hip hop.
I use it every day with somebody else who uses it.
And I understand people who don't want to use it.
I respect that.
This is difficult.
This is complicated, and the NFL, which won't even stand up.
Roger Goodell didn't have the guts to stand up and say red skin.
Redskin's an offensive name.
So he wants to take out of play, but he won't take red skin out of play?
How gutless is that?
What kind of signal are you sending?
You know, does it I I'm sorry, I can't keep up.
Here's a guy who wants to use the N-word.
Wants to reserve for himself the right to use it with his buddies who also use it in ways that they all agree it's just language.
It's not offensive.
And he's not a Charlie Hip Hop, by the way.
Once everybody know that.
But don't ever, ever let me hear you say redskins.
Don't you ever say that word to me.
While he's out using the N-word.
What?
Isn't it...
Isn't it...
Well, yeah.
Well, but he's saying he don't want to hear red skins.
He says, How dare they take the N-word out when they won't take redskins out?
That's what he's.
So he's he he thinks that they're being discriminated against.
Um but again, here's here's uh go up and grab Sunbite.
What number is it?
It's Mike Pereira.
This is number seven.
This is the NFL official.
He uh he's on Fox Sports now.
He's the um uh rules analyst, is a former uh head honcho of the officials.
He was he was their boss.
He handed out the grades.
And uh he appeared on Fox Sports One's Fox Football daily the N-word.
And the host of the show said doesn't the NFL already have some language in place to penalize players for abusive language?
If you look at Rule 12 now, it has in there that any threatening or insulting language to opponents, to officials, to teammates, it is subject to a 15-yard penalty.
So the rules there, I don't think we'll see a rule change coming specifically, but I do think you will see a point of emphasis coming from this, that the officials, it will be put upon them to really flag any racial slur.
Anything that they hear that's a racial slur, period, will draw a 15-yard penalty.
It's not to me as a matter of can they legislate it with all that's happened lately, they will legislate it.
Now let me just reiterate something here, folks.
Because yesterday I revised a prediction that I had made, and I want to remind you of it.
I have been predicting for a while that the purpose of the left here was to actually destroy NFL football and college football.
And I thought the focus on concussions and injuries and suicide and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and barbarism and maiming, and then I saw these two sports writers apologizing for popularizing the game that maims people and destroys them and is nothing but barbaric.
I thought it was all leading to ultimately the demand that the game ends, because it's just not something that decent liberals could support or watch that it it just is too brutal.
It's just ew.
And we shouldn't be cheering it, and we shouldn't be applauding lifetime injuries, and I'm taking that back.
I now do not think that that's the objective.
Instead, ladies and gentlemen, the left has seen the success they've had taking over movies, the music industry, the television industry,
and they've they've targeted the NFL as their next industry to take over and popularize and use for the purposes of promoting and propagandizing liberalism.
They look at the NFL, they see it is the most popular activity in America.
It is the most popular spectator sport, certainly.
It is the sport that is the wealthiest.
It has the most money, it makes the most money, there's the most money in it flowing in and around all the various partners involved.
It gets the highest TV ratings when it is on in prime time of anything else on TV.
So rather than stamp it out, they want to take over.
And they're actually, they've already begun this.
The month of October is now totally pink in the NFL, for example.
Breast cancer awareness.
But all of this focus on the barbarism and maiming and suicide is all to promote liberalism and what it supposedly represents to people.
Yeah, health care reform is not about health care.
Health care reform is about controlling people.
Well, commandeering or conquering the NFL is about taking something very popular and making it a liberal entity so as to uh uh use it as a as a as a weapon in popular culture to liberalize and make progressive as much of the viewing public of the NFL as they can.
It's the next Hollywood for liberal domination.
And they're going to try to make it just as hip as the music industry is.
Speaking of which, look at what Jay-Z is doing.
Jay-Z is now all over the NFL.
He is a licensed agent for the NBA and Major League Baseball.
Take a look at something else.
Every time an NBA game is on a New Yorker LA, you see big entertainment stars for music and TVs, movies.
and and increasingly politicians are showing up.
Bill Clinton, Obama has wormed his way into sports big time with his bracket selection.
You can't watch a Super Bowl or a Sunday night game without getting sucked with politics from either Bob Costas or an interview with Obama.
I mean, there's no mistake.
There's no doubt what's happening here.
There is a liberal encroachment on the game.
And it's it's subtle.
And it's it's it's just to make the game and the whole enterprise appear to be part of the progressive movement.
And it's got it all.
It's got young athletes, sex appeal, huge television exposure, marketing exposure, turning the players into the same kind of celebrities that hip hop artists are, the same kind of celebrities that uh other TV stars are.
Huge opportunities to influence votes.
The the uh regime co-opted a couple of teams to promote Obamacare, the Baltimore Ravens being one of them.
You know, liberals own big entertainment, and a lot of them own NFL teams.
Jeffrey Lurie of the Eagles is a super progressive.
There are a number of them.
Uh Steve Tish, New York Giants.
So I I don't think they're gonna try to stamp it out.
I I think instead they are going to attempt basically to take it over and to make what happens in football as naturally progressive and liberal as what happens in movies or on television shows.
And the people who become stars in the NFL are gonna show up on TV and they're gonna have the same.
As evidence of this, look at out of nowhere, the big push for the acceptance of gay marriage in the NFL by two players who were immediately embraced.
Neither of them were big stars at the time, but they were embraced, and they were given all kinds of coverage in airtime.
Chris Cloy and Brendan Abandaio, um, getting his last name wrong, and linebacker for the for the Ravens.
And now there's uh, of course, the Michael Sam.
First announced gay to enter the NFL draft.
So it's it's it's it's clear it's happening.
They don't want to stamp out the NFL.
They don't want to eliminate it.
They want to conquer it.
That's what's in the process of happening.
I might also point out the National Football League has joined in the bullying of the governor of Arizona.
NFL is warning Arizona that you will lose the 2015 Super Bowl if you don't veto this uh this this uh same-sex bill, whatever it is.
So religious freedom bill, right.
Well, that's what some people call it.
Um NFL is tax exempt, it gives the government a lot of power over them, and therefore the NFL will find it necessary to kowtow and curry paper with the government.
And in case the government is Obama.
Herb in Somerville, South Carolina, really appreciate you waiting.
Uh uh welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, you're gonna have to forgive me if I shake a little bit.
I'm 87 and uh kind of shaking, trying to keep this phone still on my ear.
Uh I'm calling about the downsizing that I heard about yesterday, and it did raise a bit of concern.
I talked to you once before about an aid to the Prime Minister of Canada making some derogatory or disparaging remarks about President Bush.
Um, and but what I'm talking about this time has the is the downsizing.
That kind of concerned me just a little bit in this sense.
That uh the Monroe Doctrine, I often wondered about that.
It applies to the Americas, and we always think uh primarily of the Americas as sort of south of the border down through the uh Mexico down through that area.
What I'm thinking about is the Monroe Doctrine relative to Canada.
Uh Canada has been able to get by, I think really 37 million people, 330 million in America, has been able to get by because America's always been here.
The American military is our military.
I'm Canadian American.
I've been here most of my life.
Uh but the uh you'll have to excuse me if I kind of slip a little bit here.
But the American military is our military.
But on the other hand, it's been the world's military, too, whether they like it or not.
Because many of these countries uh are able to to uh Well, but it's not anymore.
That's the point.
The what?
It isn't anymore.
Well, I wished it were.
Uh it bothers me a little bit.
A little bit.
It it bothers everybody, it should bother everybody a lot.
I think it does bother you a lot more than you're yes, it does.
Uh I think of the Monroe Doctrine.
You realize how many Americans have no idea what the Monroe Doctor?
You're eighty seven years old.
Of course you're gonna know what the Monroe Doctrine is.
You're eighty-seven.
You're gonna know all kinds of things that aren't even taught anymore, Herb.
Which is which is the sad reality.
How many how many college graduates today are hearing Monroe Doctor?
Whoa, Monroe Doctor, what the hell is that?
And then you tell them what it is, and well, that's so long we can't enforce that anymore.
We don't have the right to enforce.
Who gives us the right?
That's what's being taught now.
Who gave us the right to enforce the Monroe?
Jane Monroe, well, who is he?
That's what's wrong with America.
We never had the right to enforce that kind of thing.
We can't treat other countries that way.
We can't set boundaries and say you can't cross them, and Obama's fixing that now.
He's downsizing the U.S. military.
He's gonna increase food stamp expenditures and other things, but he's downsizing the U.S. military because he wants to downsize the United States of America.
Herb, I appreciate the call.
We gotta go because I'm out of time.
Back after this.
Tomorrow, eleven million Americans are gonna see their health care costs skyrocket.
Eleven million more than we thought.
And I'll explain why Google doesn't care any longer about hiring top college graduates.
Dropouts are now more preferred at Google.
Explain why tomorrow.
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