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Feb. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Just a quick review, and then we move on to the National Football League, the N-word.
According to Eric Halder, the Attorney General United States, it's perfectly okay for state attorney general, attorneys general, to ignore their oaths of office and refuse to enforce a law that they don't personally agree with.
He said that and he advocated that to them.
It is perfectly okay for the owner of a gay bar in West Hollywood to not allow anybody he disagrees with politically admittance into his bar.
Perfectly fine.
It's perfectly fine for the president of the United States to alter, amend, or write laws on his own and to ignore laws he doesn't agree with.
That's perfectly fine.
But it is a crime for a baker to refuse to make a same-sex wedding cake, or a photographer to refuse to photograph a same-sex wedding.
That is a crime.
None of the other violations of official oaths of office are in any way, shape, manner, or form criminal.
I mentioned Grab Sun by the Levin.
I'm gonna get this out of the way.
I mentioned that I was also used as a bouncing off uh uh point on Fox News last night, and it happened during the uh special report with Brett Baer show.
And this is a portion of their media analyst, Howard Kurtz, and his report about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's age as a possible factor in the 2016 presidential race.
Now the age question is growing louder than just a whisper.
National Journalist Charlie Cook also questioning whether Clinton is too old to run.
And Rush Limbaugh picked up on the cook column.
We put a picture of Mrs. Clinton up at Rushlinbaugh.com and we simply ask, does America do the American people want to observe the aging of this woman in office?
Is this fair?
Other political senior citizens have faced similar questions.
John McCain was 72 when he ran, and Ronald Reagan, who is 69 when he took office.
It may be risky for opponents to blatantly challenge a female candidate about her age.
But Hillary's critics are also sending a more subtle message that the Clintons have been around forever and are old news.
And you know who's not letting go of this Rand Paul is not letting go of the fact that the last person that the Democrats ought to be using is Bill Clinton.
That he is an embarrassment, that he is uh harassed Monica Lewinsky, and he's doubling down on that.
Every chance he gets, he is castigating a Democrats for throwing Bill Clinton out front.
Um with yeah, with the supposed uh war on women taking place.
Now, I look it, I don't want to make a big deal about this, but we didn't bounce off Charlie Cook.
I threw that picture, Mrs. Clinton five years ago.
Charlie Cook wrote his piece last week or the week before.
Now I'm not trying to make a big deal of it.
I'm not there's no accusation here.
I'm just, you know, Howard.
In fact, the safest thing for me would be to say, yeah, yeah, Howard uh we're just bouncing off Charlie.
Charlie said it first, and I said, Well, but that sadly isn't how it happened.
We put that picture up and asked that question.
It has to be five years ago now.
And right.
It was it was part of uh Operation Chaos in 2008, presidential Democrat primaries.
So that's right.
Certain female anchors had a fit out there over it.
But anyway, just wanted you to let you know your host is everywhere.
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I don't have to.
Now I'm missing out on being paid for it, but nevertheless, I don't have to go on TV to be on TV.
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Now to the National Football League and the N-word.
We left off in this saga yesterday with the discussion of John Wooten, who is the uh head honcho at the Fritz Pollard Alliance.
Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in the NFL, some 75 years ago.
John Wotton made the remark yesterday that back when he played for the Cleveland Browns, it was during the days of segregation in the 50s and 60s, but he wants to take the league back to those days when it was compared to today, clean and pure as wind-driven snow.
It was morality on parade.
It was it was just a healthier and more wholesome game, and he wants to take it back there.
And he said, Well, really upset him.
What really got this notion going, he's behind the uh the impetus.
He's the impetus behind the uh requested rule change to penalize the uh usage of the N-word on the field during games.
And this has drawn much reaction from throughout the league, from players and media, who say it'd be impossible to police this.
And besides that, the black guys are saying, hey, it's our words, a term of endearment.
We're not a bunch of white guys telling us what we can and can't say.
Screw that.
And Mr. Wooten, however, is black.
But he said something yesterday that I had to go look up.
He said the incident that really spawned this latest effort to ban the N-word was what happened in Eagles' uh Redskins game.
And I said, What was that?
So last night I found out what it was.
That Redskins Eagles game last season was in November.
A tackle for the Redskins, Trent Williams claimed that one of the referees, the umpire, called him the N-word.
They're both African American.
The player Trent Williams claimed the umpire, Roy Ellison called him the N-word.
The Fritz Pollard Alliance said that Ellison's words, the ref was only reacting, that the player had called him the N-word first.
So it was an argument over who had first accused the other of being the N-word.
But the ref being involved, that's the final straw.
When the ref starts calling people that, even if it is another African American, that's going too far.
Trent Williams, for the record, denied the allegation.
He denied that he called the ref the N-word.
Said I'd have been thrown out of the game.
So we're now back to Ryan Clark, number 25.
Safety for the Pittsburgh Snellers.
Now, Ryan Clark said to the Pittsburgh media over the weekend that number 24 Ike Taylor, a cornerback for the Steelers, very, very close to the Steelers' owner, Dan Rooney.
And that Dan Rooney had gone to Ike Taylor, said, you know, you guys are too young to know, but you got to get the N-word out of here.
I don't want to hear it in the locker room.
I don't want to hear it on a field.
I don't want to hear it in the music in the locker room.
I just don't want to hear it.
You guys are above that.
I just don't want to hear it.
And Ryan Clark said that there was so much respect for Mr. Rooney because the black players know he's down for the struggle.
Rooney Rule campaigned for Obama, hired Mike Tomlin, African American coach.
Profound respect for Mr. Rooney.
And for two or three days, nobody used the N-word in the Steelers' locker room.
But then it started up again.
And it was the young guys and Ryan Clark said, hey, you know, it's just their culture.
We're just we're not, we're not gonna be it's how they've been raised.
We're not gonna be able to stop it.
Well, this has led to apparently some misunderstandings.
So Ryan Clark went on ESPN radio, the N-word, to clarify his remarks.
That was this morning on the radio.
And he was asked once again to tell the story about Ike Taylor and the Rooneys.
That at one point they had the N-word banned in the Steelers' locker room.
The story's kind of gotten some legs.
He didn't necessarily have it banned.
He brought Ike Taylor up who has a unique relationship with Mr. Rooney.
You know, he calls him Pawpaw, and you know, they got secret handshakes and different things like that.
I actually walked by during the conversation, and he was just telling him, hey, look, people fought against that word.
The origin of that word is demeaning.
He was there during the civil rights movement.
So he knows people who fought against that, and he's like, you guys shouldn't be using it.
He's like, you should understand that it wasn't meant as a term of endearment.
It wasn't meant to be used the way you guys are using it, and never as much.
So you guys should try to get away from it.
That was uh Ryan Clark describing Mr. Rooney talking to Ike Taylor, number 24, cornerback for the Steelers.
And in the next bite, Ryan Clark said, there's Rooney down for the struggle.
So he has earned the right to tell people, black people, what to say.
Mr. Rooney has total credibility here.
Down for the struggle, civil rights movement, and all that.
And then black players will listen to Mr. Rooney, but they're not gonna listen to a bunch of white referees.
Mr. Rooney has earned the right to speak on anything he wants to, but especially that word, not only being instrumental in the Rooney rule being implemented into the NFL, but by the way he treats us as people, not as athletes, but as people, by the way he treats Coach Tomlin, even though I don't necessarily agree as the term of a dearment, it's used in that way.
And a white referee comes in and says, I'm throwing the flag on you because I heard you use the N-word.
I would absolutely lose it.
A black coach would also be pretty upset if he got a 15-yard penalty because two of his guys were talking to each other and they threw a flag on him.
So where are we here on this now?
Well, in the Steelers example, I guess it's okay for Mr. Rooney to tell his guys no use it.
He's down for the struggle, he's uh he's got his bona fides.
But you're not gonna have a bunch of white refs throwing the flag on brothers for using the N-word.
That is intolerable, it isn't gonna happen.
And and Coach Tomlin would be a black coach, would be livid if a bunch of refs started throwing flags on two of his players talking to each other using the word.
Not even the other team, just talking to each other.
And I understand that the proposed rule would ban the word no matter who, what, when, where.
The what?
No, the solution is not obvious.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Okay, all right.
Maybe there is a solution.
Maybe each team should have designated players who are permitted to use the word.
Is that what you're saying?
Big designated referees.
Designated referees.
Well, no, wait, now wait.
Wait, you can't you certainly some white referees that were down for the struggle.
You certainly have some you got some white referees.
So you want a designated N-word referee, so you want to you're not gonna add that burden to existing referees, you're gonna have a new referee.
So you gotta add you're gonna have eight refs in the field instead of seven, and one of them is exclusively charged with listening for the N-word.
Wherever, whenever he hears, and he's accredited, he's down for the struggle.
Uh, He's got total respect.
Okay, 100% proof slave blood.
So when he throws the flag, there's no challenging it.
This guy's got the credibility to do it.
Problem solved.
You think that's the solution.
I...
Yeah, I think this is too draconian.
I I think you gotta start and incrementally do this.
I'd say each team's allowed three N-words a game.
Uh and that's against other players, the other team.
Uh and they can't be white, and they whites can never use it.
White player can never.
That is the throwing again.
White white person, there is no half white or half black.
If you're half white or half black, you're black.
So you are permitted.
But the white player never ever can't use it, but there'll be designated like two or three times a game that can be used.
Uh pre-game meeting, the referees uh inform the teams which one is the accredited N-word ref, and the teams tell the ref which players on a team of the accredit users of the N-word two or three times a game.
And then if you go beyond the limit, then the flag gets thrown.
Okay.
Reggie Miller, who is uh former guard for the Indiana Pacers, was on Dan Patrick the N-word uh on his uh radio show, who said, I've had I've had a hard time really understanding how anybody's gonna police this, Reggie.
You can't.
That's this is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life.
What the NFL is trying to do is subjectively try to tell the players clean your act up.
If at all, this is going on.
Now again, I'm sure the NFL has mics everywhere, right?
Is this being picked up on NFL films?
Why all of a sudden is this a big deal?
Bingo!
Well, it's the Fritz Pollard Alliance.
They can tell you why it's a big deal.
Happened between the ref and the Redskins player.
That's what they would say.
But you know what I find interesting?
Seriously, folks.
We are listening to quite a few people make the case for the use of that word.
That word is universally despised, prohibited, unallowed, and we are in the midst.
Look at what's happening here.
It is already the political correctness, law of the land.
You do not use the word, and if you do, all hell is gonna descend upon you.
And in the midst of that, here come advocates for the use of the word.
I'm I think it's an interesting sociological fact.
Gotta take a break.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
You know, folks, if if I ever did realize my dream, and if I ever be if I ever owned an NFL, I don't think I'd want to anymore, actually.
But if I did, if I ever owned an NFL team, I would be on the lookout for the best ventroloquist player I can find.
Can make it look like other people.
You know, ventroloquists, one of the things they can do is throw their voice, not only not move their lips, they throw their voice, they make it look like somebody else.
Can you imagine I could mop up?
I get half the other team thrown out in the first quarter.
Just get a great ventroloquist, one on offense and one on defense, and I could mop up.
I'll discuss this with Coach Belichick.
Might have some thoughts on it.
Here's uh Reggie Miller, one more bite.
Dan Patrick, the N-word question.
Let me break this down to the absolute core.
Would African American players want a white commissioner to tell them what they are allowed to say?
Number one, we didn't make up the word in the first place.
You made up the word.
Now you're gonna tell us we can't use the word.
It doesn't make any sense.
So no, they probably would not want a white commissioner saying, oh, you can't say that word.
Well, then you'd haven't made any racial progress at all.
If that I'm being dead serious here, if it matters, if this if it matters like this, then there's no progress that has been made.
Pure and simple, flat out, case closed.
If it's going to come down to that, yeah, I this whole thing really is fascinating, folks.
When you s look at what's being done here, there is literal advocacy for the use of that word taking place.
There are people advocating for the use of that word, yet let me utter it in the next 30 minutes and watch what happens to me.
One more sound bite, and we come up come up on a break and we'll come back get to the phones.
Sports writer Jeff Perlman was on the CBS Sports Network show Jim Rome the N-word.
And Jim Rome said, look, certainly it's a it's a workplace, people are gonna go to work and then they're getting paid and they should be treated with respect, but is it a workplace?
Like where you and I go to work.
Is a football locker room?
Is it like our office?
Is the is the field like our office?
This is Jeff Perlman here, a sports author.
What they really really need to focus on also are gay slayers, which are probably more prominent than racist slurs in the NFL as far as what you call another player.
There's a certain word that's used all the time, nonstop in locker rooms and all the sports that I think they really, especially with Michael Sam, need to crack down on.
So as I mentioned at the top of the program, it's not really the N-word, according to Mr. Perlman, I'm sure it represents thinking of many sports writers.
The real problem is the if word.
The real problem is that gay slurs, and everybody's using them.
And that's what the NFL's got to crack down on.
And we will be back.
Half my brain tied behind my back every day, just to make it fair.
And we have one more audio soundbite before we get back to the phones.
This is um yesterday, Clearwater, Florida was a uh candidate's debate, and you're going to hear Democrat Congressional candidate, Alex Sink,
a female, explaining why immigration reform is necessary right now.
Innovation reform is important in our country.
We have a lot of employers uh over on the beaches that rely upon uh workers, and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping?
And we don't need to put this employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.
Now, need I point out that if this woman were a Republican, she'd already be Todd Aiken.
So here you have Alex Sink, a Democrat in Clearwater, immigration reform, because we got a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely on workers, and especially in this high growth environment.
Where are you gonna get people to work to clean our hotel rooms and do our landscaping?
And we don't need to put these employers, i.e.
residents on the beach, in the position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.
There's there's about 24 seconds of honesty from this Democrat in terms of what they are thinking.
And now to the phones, as promised, and it's Jim in Gilbert, Arizona.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Chris.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I just wanted to bring up the hypocrisy about Apple.
Um, I live in Gilbert.
Um, I'm in one of the districts uh that Apple got um benefits from as far as tax breaks.
Um that's the reason they're coming to Arizona.
And now they're talking about, you know, the r the left talks about uh the politics and of the risk don't pay their fair share, etc., etc.
Uh Apple got up to 75 and 80 percent tax breaks from the surrounding municipalities, the cities, the school districts to create a foreign trade zone in Mesa so they didn't have to pay these taxes.
Well, actually, uh I understand that that's not really uncommon, and I find it take Apple out of this equation for a second and just look at what is necessary to attract business.
Look at what's necessary to get people hired.
Look what works.
Lower taxes, you know, forget it's Apple forget this issue you got going out there.
Forget let's look at this.
Let's look at the economics.
You lower people's taxes, you make it more probable that profit will be earned, and they'll come in there and they'll hire two thousand people, and they're still gonna be paying a lot of tax.
They are still gonna be supporting a lot of infrastructure.
The current level of taxation was too high, and it was unattractive.
And in order for this to be attractive to a company to come in, they had to make some adjustments.
It's not unusual.
It ought to be a lesson learned, and it ought to be something that just naturally happens.
Tax rates ought to be lowered across the board.
That is how you compete and attract businesses.
It is how you expand the tax base, and it's how you actually increase the amount of revenue that you get as a locality, as a community.
It works every time it's tried.
It's called the supply side trickle-down uh uh theory, and it works.
Now, as to the specifics, what what old Jim here is saying, hey, it's a little hypocritical.
Because Apple said they weren't gonna go there unless they got these tax breaks, and then they got the tax breaks, and now they're there, and now they're claiming that they're gonna leave.
I don't know if they're doing that, but I mean they're they're expressing uh uh their dissatisfaction with uh the governor and what she might or might not do with this bill.
And uh old Jim here is thinking, hey, wait a minute.
You know, who are you?
You guys come in, you get 75% tax break, and then you threaten us if we don't do something you politically demand and so forth.
Well, this is this is uh when I I think governments bring all this on them, they make themselves blackmailable.
If the level of taxation, as it if it were normally what it were to attract Apple, if that's what it was in the first place.
Apple might have still come in and demanded favorable treatment there might have been, but the tax level is so high that it's keeping businesses out.
And one of the ways that that a locality could limit its blackmailed profile, if you will, is to simply lower these regulations and tax rates, get it to some sense of normalcy, and then Katie Bar the door.
I uh it just to me it's standard common sense.
But these leftists, it's like in the private sector, you've heard the old saw, uh competition or other market circumstances exist in the airline industry, they will cut fares in order to increase passengers.
But the New York subway system, if they experience a decrease in ridership, will raise subway fares to try to make up the loss.
It's just cockamamy backwards.
But this is part and parcel of the left and uh how they are.
Now the I I think the the part and parcel here of Apple's deal.
Uh In fact, Arizona lawmakers are proposing another new tax break for Apple and its plant in Mesa.
All told Apple could receive tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks and other incentives if the latest and other tax measures are approved by the Arizona legislature.
The latest proposal offers a five million dollar state income tax credit for the manufacturing plant fueled by an adjacent renewable energy source.
So look at what is required in order to attract the business.
Now you could say, okay, the business rush, they're blackmailing the locality, because they go anywhere they want.
And true, but I'm saying if if it were if this level of taxation were not punitive and outrageous everywhere, then this kind of thing would be less effective.
Here's uh here's Anderson Jackson.
Oh, we have another child, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is Anderson in Jacksonville, Florida.
Hi, Anderson.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's great to have you on the program, Anderson.
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No, we're only on chapter four right now, but we read it every night and we love it.
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You already know you love it, and you're only on chapter four.
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You know, it's available for pre-order now.
It's uh Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And you know, it's Anderson, it's tough, you know, as the as the renowned author.
It's it's hard for me.
I mean, I I uh because Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is the first, and it's it's got a special place uh in my heart as the first book in the series.
And it is good, but you you know, you try everything you do to make everything you do better than the previous version of what you did.
Like every day here, I try to make the radio show better and better every day.
And as a write new books, try to make them better.
And I, without without saying anything bad about the book you're reading, the next one is really good too, Anderson.
I just want to give you a heads up.
If you like this one, you are going to really love the next one.
All right, we'll be sure to check that one out.
I love it.
I'll tell you what, Anderson, you probably don't have a copy of the audio version of the book you're reading now, do you?
No, sir.
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It isn't shortened uh or abridged, as they say.
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And you can it it takes about four and a half hours to listen to straight through, which you can listen to it a little bit of here or there.
If you're driving in the car with your parents, you could ask them to to play it then.
Uh and it's the same book and it's the same words, but read by me.
It it may be a little bit different to you, maybe um bring certain parts of it to life a little bit differently.
So I'd like to send you a copy of the audio version, if that would be okay.
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All right.
So what I need you to do is stay on the phone, and Mr. Snerdley will pick up and get your address so that we can send it out to you, okay?
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Sure.
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It goes on sale March the 11th.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones for going to Ashburn, Virginia and Chad.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
What Rush?
Afternoon, I guess.
I was wondering if uh NFL player identified as an African Americanist, so uh N-word would still be uh penalty quote.
Wait a way.
If if an NFL player identifies an African American in one NFL player.
But he identifies as black.
You you mean like uh incognito was said to have been an honorary black guy.
Is that what you mean?
Yeah.
So you got an honorary black guy in the team, can he use that?
He identifies as a black man.
How would he do that?
Like here's now white now.
I identify as a black man.
Yeah, but if I'm a child in California, I identify as a girl, that's all you need.
It's how you feel.
Oh.
So how you yeah, because you have to fill out the form now and then say feel like you're you're white, but I feel like I'm black, so I'm actually I identify as a African American.
Because what happens when uh if a player, let's say an offensive tackle, is going to be eligible to catch a pass on a particular play, that player has to report to the referee that he's tackle eligible in the play that's coming up.
And sometimes the referees will get on the PA system and say, number 78 has reported as eligible, but they have to do it.
So I what I was thinking you meant was that if a white player wanted to identify as black when he goes on the field, have to tell the official that uh he's identifying as an African American, uh, just the same as reporting in as eligible.
I hadn't considered that it could change from time to time, but that's uh that's an option.
Well, it's an interesting wrinkle.
That it it is with our feelings-based culture, um, I can see where it might be.
It it might it might happen.
Hell.
Heck.
The way it's going, anything could.
Thanks, Chad.
Nancy Medina, is it Medina or Medina, Ohio?
Hello.
It's it's Medina, Ohio.
And Rush, thank you so much for uh taking my call.
And it's so nice to follow Anderson from Jacksonville, Florida.
God bless him and his family.
Thank you.
I'll get right to my question.
Um, and it's about the the governor uh uh about vetoing uh the bill in uh Arizona.
And I just wonder, Rush, if you feel that that would open the door for liberals to force doctors to perform abortions, even though it's against their moral and religious beliefs.
Um I guess that's my question.
How far are the liberals gonna take the Well, now that is an interesting question because one of the undeniable truths of liberalism is that nothing is ever a solution.
It's always the starting point for something else.
So if they want this legalized, it's a very valid question.
Where does this go next?
Yes.
I I I think it's uh it's that you're you're very shrewd, Nancy, because nothing is ever solved.
Like this is portrayed as a problem of discrimination.
We need to solve this.
But it all it does is open doors where does it end?
It's like I'm gonna remind you something.
When the sodomy case in Georgia was decided, it was Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court who warned everybody that this decision was gonna lead to homosexual marriage.
And he was right.
In this case, if you can tell a Christian bakery that they have to bake a cake for a same sex wedding, then at some point can a doctor who is a conscientious objector to abortion be made to perform one against his religious views without being labeled discriminatory or worse.
And I think what your question points out is proper objective and motive here.
What really is going on with this?
It really isn't just about gay couples getting cakes from bakeries.
There's much more to the agenda than that.
And I think your question uh is is a great illustration.
I appreciate the call.
We must take a brief time out.
Marco Rubio literally shredded Tom Harkin on the Senate floor a couple of days ago, and I want you to hear it before the program ends today.
What would happen if a let's let a member of the clan walked into a black bakery?
I want a cake.
I'm just I'm just sitting here.
I'm just I'm just ruminating.
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