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May 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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So I checked the email in the break, and there's uh surprisingly, and I say surprisingly, it's a number of emails.
Why aren't you talking about Michael Sam being picked by the St. Louis Rams?
Look, folks, uh the reason is that none of it is surprising.
If you go back and ratchet up your memory last week, I told you I was very, very confident he was going to be drafted.
In fact, I think I said there was no way he wasn't going to be drafted.
It was a fate accomplished.
None of what has happened in that storyline has surprised me at all.
The kiss doesn't surprise me.
The coverage of the kiss, the coverage of the event, the none of it surprises me.
And it was all very predictable.
Now, Sam is saying that he thinks he should have been picked in the second or third rounds.
But there's not a scout out there who has talked about it who has rated him that high.
They all said that most of the scouts said he's not draftable.
He's going to have to be signed as a free agent.
In fact, it's been amazing.
All these scouts who have been quoted anonymously have been really upfront about saying the guy can't play at the NFL level.
That has surprised me.
How many scouts?
Now they haven't been named, and the and the media reporters have respected their anonymity, but there have been a striking number of people.
Scouts, they say he just he's a tweener in terms of weight and size for the positions that he plays.
And they just don't think he can play.
Others have differing opinions.
They say, well, you know, that's stats from the combine.
And so this guy was an All-American, SEC All-American president.
Player of the year, whatever at Mizzou.
He can play.
He's got a big heart, got big desire.
You wait, he'll show him.
The I if you if you want to know the only thing you have to know about this.
Let me find it.
The only thing that you really have to know about this is in Time Magazine.
And it is by Sid Ziggler.
CYD is how he spells it, so I don't know how he pronounces it.
Sid Ziggler.
Time magazine.
Now, Time presents this as a news story, or it presents at least his pieces from a reporter, but he's not.
He is a PR flack who handled Michael Sam's PR.
So one of Michael Sam's PR uh team members has written a piece in Time magazine.
Michael Sam risked everything, and we all won.
Michael risked his career.
Today everyone won.
This wasn't just a football decision.
This was history in the making.
Michael's character, work ethic, skill shined through.
He is now the first openly gay, active athlete in our nation's bellwether of masculinity.
That's all you have to know about what this really is.
But I will continue.
The LGBT, the lesbian gay bisexual tranny community won too.
Many gay people were losing faith in the NFL today as the number of selections remaining dwindled.
This was written on Saturday.
So there were a lot of gay people on Saturday as the final picks were made.
Michael Sam was not named until the seventh to the last pick.
This guy says that there are a lot of gay people were losing faith in the NFL on Saturday and preparing to disavow it and move over to the NBA, where there's a gay player.
Some gay people tweeted they'd be switching interests to the NBA, where openly gay Jason Collins is welcomed by the Brooklyn Nets suddenly with the 249th pick in the draft, an openly gay player was welcomed with open arms by a team in the heartland.
The advancement of gay Rights, including the issuing of same-sex marriage licenses in neighboring Arkansas today, again this last Saturday continues.
Remember all this, the next time you hear that we have to keep politics out of sports.
And it goes on uh to talk about fact this bastion of masculinity in our culture just welcomed the kind of person many people believe is the antithesis of masculinity.
Sid Ziggler, the co-founder editor of Outsports.com helped break the Michael Sam story earlier this year.
Being way too modest there.
The guy is on Michael Sam's PR, which is okay.
Don't have a problem with it at all.
Not a I hope everybody hears me.
I have not a problem whatsoever with this.
The truth is that the reason I haven't discussed this because none of it's surprising to me.
Wouldn't you look at this and this this isn't either?
When you get right down to it, get this, folks, the latest, just in from the Gallup poll.
Voter enthusiasm is way down from 2010.
Did you know that?
Oh, yeah.
The percentage of people all fired up to vote has plummeted.
It's nowhere near what it was in 2010.
I've been waiting for this too.
A majority of U.S. registered voters, 53% say they are less enthusiastic about voting than in previous elections, while only 35% say they are more enthusiastic.
And this 18 percentage point enthusiasm deficit is larger than what Gallup has measured in prior midterm election years, particularly in 2010, when there was a record amount of midterm enthusiasm.
So for all of you who have been thinking that this November was going to be a replay of 2010 and maybe bigger.
And for those of you who thought that this was going to be a major wave election, tisk tisk.
The voters don't care.
There isn't anywhere near the same amount of enthusiasm.
I think my gut tells me that if you're talking about Democrats alone, this may be true.
But Gallup doesn't say that.
They say it spans both parties.
It spans all.
Republicans, Democrats, Moderates, Rhinos, Conservatives, Independents, don't know, all of them.
There's less enthusiasm.
The Republicans are a little bit more enthusiastic at Democrats, but even the Republican side's down.
When compared to 2010.
This, of course, great news for the regime.
This is great, uplifting news.
This is the kind of news that can really lift the hearts of depressed leftists.
We're out there thinking they're facing a landslide wave election this November.
No, it's not so bad.
Nobody cares about voting.
And what they'll tell themselves is that they have succeeded in depressing everybody.
It doesn't matter, so there's no reason to go vote.
the die is cast.
And that is, I think, probably one of the reasons the poll was taken.
And And one of the reasons it's uh reported.
Here's this is another weird thing.
Nancy Pelosi says that families of the Benghazi victims have reached out to her and other Democrat lawmakers and asked them not to launch another investigation into the terror attack in 2012 that killed four Americans.
Pelosi said, yeah, two of the families have called us and said, please don't take us down this path again.
It's really hard for him.
It's very sad.
This is like when Harry Reid, a friend of his told him that Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes.
Except Pelosi's identified.
Well, she's not identifying, she'll say two of the families.
Now ask yourself a question.
Why would families of the Benghazi victims call the Democrats and ask them not to hold the hearings, given it's the Republicans who control the House?
And given that it's the Republicans are the ones starting the committee.
Why would they call the Democrats and ask them not to do it?
And why would these families not say it publicly?
Maybe because they're distant relations, who are Democrat shills.
Maybe they don't even exist.
Who knows?
But why wouldn't they say this publicly?
Why would he just come and say we're tired of it?
We don't want to go down this road anymore.
This is really hard for us.
It's very sad.
This isn't going to bring our loved ones back to life.
Why call Democrats on the down low and ask them not to do it when it's not within their power?
And if it's so bad, why can't they just ignore the hearings?
Why they don't have to watch them.
If it's so painful, don't watch it.
There are plenty of other things to watch out there.
TMZ, Donald Sterling, Malaysian airliner crash.
There's all kinds of USA today says that the St. Louis Rams drafting Michael Sam could impact the law in Missouri.
It's raised, they say, some deeper issues about openly gay athletes in sports and in the workplace in general.
Senator Claire McCaskill.
Democrat posted on Twitter, Michael Sam could still be fired for just being gay, according to Missouri law.
Let's fix that in Jeff City.
That's the tweet.
That's the state capitol.
The board president of the LGBT community senator of Center Metropolitan St. Louis.
Dara Strickland is also a family law attorney.
And she says that an individual can be refused employment because of their sexual orientation under current state law.
She said you could apply for a job in Missouri at least.
There's no protection for being asked, by the way, are you gay?
And being explicitly told, you know what?
We don't hire gay people, sorry.
And she also says that you can be fired for being gay or being lesbian or tranny.
The Missouri Non-Discrimination Act would extend the existing Missouri human rights statute to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories.
So, according to Claire McCaskill, the Rams could still fire Michael Sam, i.e., cut him just for being gay.
She says that's the law in Missouri, and since he's been chosen, since we can't allow that to happen, we've got to change the law.
So that law will be changed.
And Michael Sam's not going to be cut.
That's that's my next prediction.
By the way, Obama congratulated Michael Sam from the White House, which surprises me.
President Obama.
What?
It surprises me deeply that Obama would congratulate Michael Sam.
Let me give you the tell you why in a minute.
President Obama congratulated Michael Sam today.
This again, this is from uh a couple days ago, after he made history as the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL when he was picked by the St. Louis Rams, the White House said.
President congratulates Michael Sam, the Rams, and the NFL for taking an important step in our nation's journey.
Now, the reason that I'm surprised is that Obama has said that if he had a son, he wouldn't let him play football.
It's just too dangerous out there on the field.
It's too risky, it's too rough.
And he wouldn't let his son play football.
I would think he would be worried about Michael Sam.
But apparently the cause overrides any concerns from well, he called Jason Collins.
He didn't call any of the other players that were drafted and have been so honored.
Uh article makes it an ABC news story, and it it it it's it's filled with over the fact that uh Michael Sam was not picked until the seventh round.
And for what was likely the first time, ESPN video featured a happy Sam kissing his boyfriend after getting the call from Rams coach Jeff Fisher.
So um now last week some NFL insiders predicted to ABC that teams would be reluctant to draft Michael Sam because of potential media attention, giving his uh given his sexual preference.
And that's the media circus.
Here's the thing.
This this is this is why I was confident that uh Sam was gonna be picked.
Well, no, I'm not gonna go there.
But look at if he was see, if if he wasn't drafted, then the league as a whole would be targeted by the media as backwards and perhaps in collusion and racist and bigoted and sexist and homophobic and backwards and all those things, if he hadn't been picked.
But that would have been okay, because it's not a single person that would have been accused.
It's just the league would have taken the hit.
But now that the Rams have chosen the play, now that the Rams picked him, now the league is i th they no longer have a burden here.
Well, not totally.
But the Rams now pick up the lion's share of the burden for what happens next or in the future.
This is why I don't think he's gonna get cut.
I think he'll play and play and play in the preseason.
And if he doesn't get a roster spot, he'll get the practice squad.
But he's not now that would involve being cut and re-signed to the practice squad.
Uh but that the media would be told that that's the plan.
But the Rams are well stocked at defensive end and outside linebacker.
Those are his positions.
They're well stocked.
I mean, they're three and four deep already, with people who can and are playing.
You couple that with the scouts reports, uh, who have also said that he's not uh pr pr particular good special teams.
I don't know how they know this.
Uh because I don't I don't know if he played special teams and how much at Mizzou.
But I just I don't I don't I don't see him yet cut.
You wouldn't that's its own media circus.
Here's Joe in uh Menemone Falls, Wisconsin.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hello.
Yes, hi.
Yes, hi, uh, I just want to inform you that my child went to school uh yesterday, and they I found out that it's uh National Children's Book Week.
I don't know if it's all Mason Wyatt or something like that, but or in Wisconsin.
But their feature book that they read to the children was uh your revere.
Is that right?
Well, it's so weird because he came home talking about a pocket horse named reindeer.
I was like pocket horse and reindeer.
I say, sure it's not revere.
He goes, That's what it is, repair.
He goes, he goes into a different time.
And stuff like that.
He's only five years old, and he he knows like everything about the book already, and he never talked about booking school.
You know, this one really got his attention.
Well, you're right.
This is uh national children's book week or some such thing.
You're uh yeah, you're right about that.
Well, that is really a great story.
he likes everything about the book.
He got a little confused about Revere and Reindeer, but but um he'd heard about it, and and his school highlighted it.
Did I hear you right?
Yes, they highlighted it as a feature book.
Instead of the ordinary book they read in school, they brought this one special for uh the children's book week.
No kidding.
Well, that's really my son is very excited.
Now he wants a talking horse.
He wants a talking horse.
And it's hard to get a five-year-old's attention, you know.
We read books to him in that home and stuff, and he only knows like uh the three-peak words, you know, like uh the blue tree, uh the bird in the blue tree, stuff like that, like three peat words.
Right.
This one is giving him several different words to uh pronounce and bring home and stuff like that.
It's pretty exciting for him.
Well, I think that's great.
I that's that's a that's a profound compliment that you're giving me, and I'm deeply flattered by it.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah.
So I don't know, I was like, you know, you're doing a great, great job out there in uh you're really inspiring young children because young children have uh bringing it like a sponge.
Well, that's what they is.
I really appreciate that.
There's a mission.
There's a mission with these with these books, and the mission is very simple.
It's the truth.
And it is an effort to make young people love this country and to be proud of it.
Because God knows there are countless blessings and reasons why we should all be thankful and love this country, and it's not taught anymore too many places.
So this is an effort to uh get the truth of the country's history, particularly its founding, out to young people to counter what they're being taught elsewhere.
Thank you, Joe.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have doing what I was born to do.
There it is.
Sterling says Magic Johnson, not a good example for the children of Los Angeles.
What, just because he has 400 kids?
What's Sterling's problem?
Or however many of it.
He said that you wait.
I knew this is going to take a while for that to get picked up.
They're just now focusing on that at sea.
They've been playing Sterling excerpts of an interview with Anderson Cooper all day, because it runs in its entirety tonight.
They're going to interrupt coverage of the Malaysian jet for their full-fledged interview with Donald Sterling.
And in this interview, he said, I don't think magic's a good example for the children of LA.
I that I knew it was going to take for a while that to be absorbed, because those are fighting words.
And Sterling, he was after, look, I'm not, I was baited.
I didn't mean to say that.
That's not who I am.
I just I was just trying to sweet talk this babe.
She was frustrating me.
I wanted sex.
That's all it was.
And I was baited into saying that I'm not a racist.
I don't really mean that stuff.
And his wife was over with Barbara Walters.
No, he's just, you know, I was sickened when I heard him say it, but he's in a he's an early onset dementia.
He doesn't know what he's saying, and I want the team.
And that's gonna really gum up the works because if she wants a team and he bequeaths it to her if he dies, or just hands it over beforehand, and she hasn't said it is racial stuff.
Oh, big, big mess.
So Sterling steps in it again by ripping into magic.
I told you, you know, everybody poo-pooed this.
And a bunch of left-wing media people wrote stories about my mad-hatted conspiracy theory.
But this babe was running around with magic, this v.
Steviano, which is running around with Dodgers players.
And it was in pictures with magic that Sterling went bongo.
What are you doing?
Uh and and she is Sterling knows that Magic's had designs on his team.
And he's probably paranoid.
And so forth.
And uh now magic's not a good example for the children of LA.
I mean, that's that's like saying Oprah's not a good role model for women.
That's just not gonna fly.
All right, back to the audio sound bites.
There's still we've got sound bites still people talking about me talking about Moochel Obama and the Nigerian girl hashtag Friday Night O'Reilly Factor.
Eric Bowling was filling in, had newsmax columnist James Hurson, and a Democrat strategist named Marjorie Clifton, and they were talking about me.
And this is how it went.
Russell and boy said, what's the message we're sending here?
Are we this powerless that that's all we can do is hashtag something?
And if we are, is that President Obama's fault?
We refuse to call terrorism terrorism.
We call it man caused disaster.
We refuse to acknowledge this group as a terrorist group.
I mean, Hillary Clinton in her tenure refused to acknowledge them as a terrorist group.
Awareness is step number one, and no one can criticize Hillary Clinton for the work that she's done for women and girls worldwide.
She created the Office on Women and Girls at the end of the day.
See, no one can criticize Hillary on this.
You can't criticize Hillary Clinton for the work she's done for women and girls worldwide.
She created the office on women and girls, so you can't criticize her.
Really?
Hillary Clinton created the office for women and girls.
Big whoop.
So you can't criticize her.
On this, I didn't know anybody was.
Is anybody criticizing Hill?
Is Hillary Gutton on this hashtag campaign?
If so, I didn't know.
Up next, yesterday morning on CNN's reliable sources.
During the Red News Blue News segment, the host Brian Stelter had this to say about a recently released National Climate Assessment and me.
It's time now for Red News Blue News.
A look at a story that becomes two different stories when it's told on left and right-leaning media outlets.
This week, one of the biggest stories of our lifetime, climate change, and the alarming study released by the Obama administration.
We've talked here on reliable sources before about how there's a pretty reliable scientific consensus on this issue.
But some conservative media big shots told their audiences this week that this is all just a political ploy.
Rush Limbaugh says Democrats are harping on climate change because, quote, there isn't a single issue they can run on in the midterm elections.
Because, quote, again, everything they have done has blown up on them.
Well, so far so good.
So let's go to the next bite.
Guess there's uh see, let's see, uh no, we're gonna skip the next bite.
Um it's just it's just more the same.
There's a news story out, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Melting ice is now causing global warming and something brand new that nobody suspected.
The earth is expanding because of this.
Global warming is causing the earth to expand.
And that supposedly, while impossible, is supposedly very bad.
Very dangerous.
The earth is getting bigger.
Okay, yeah, I'll plug I've got look it.
Go to Soundbites 18 and 19.
We got Sterling ripping in the magic here.
Um we have two excerpts of Sterling with his interview with with the with Anderson Cooper 22, and this is the first one.
I'm apologizing and I'm asking for forgiveness.
Am I entitled to one mistake after 35 years?
I mean, I love my league, I love my partner.
Am I titled to one mistake?
It's a terrible mistake, and I'll never do it again.
Why wait so long to apologize?
It's been a couple of weeks.
I'm so emotionally distraught.
And the reason it's hard for me, very hard for me, is that I'm wrong?
I caused the problem.
I don't know how to correct it.
Sounds on the verge of tears there.
Doesn't he?
Sounds like he sounds like he wants to cry and and can't.
Sounds like he wishes he'd start crying and just can't pull it off.
Anyway, Anderson Cooper says, okay, there are a couple of phone recordings just in the last week or two.
Have you uh come out of people who talk to you on the phone as seemed to be your voice who sold it to radar online and TMZ?
Do you have anyone you trust?
I don't give interviews.
The only one that I know that I talked to is Magic Johnson.
You have talked to him twice.
Did you apologize?
He knew the girl, he said.
He knew the girl well.
He did you apologize to him?
Well, if I said anything wrong, I'm sorry.
He's a good person, and he what am I gonna say?
Has he done everything he can do to help minorities?
I don't think so.
But I'll say it, I'll say it, you know.
He's great.
But I just don't think he is a good example for the children of Los Angeles.
There you have it.
Is that not convoluted or what?
He knew the girl.
He knew the girl.
Did you apologize?
Well, if I said anything wrong, I'm sorry.
He's a good person.
And what am I gonna say?
Has he done everything he can tell minorities?
I don't think so.
I'll say it.
I'll say it, you know, he's great, but I just don't think he's a good example for the children of Los Angeles.
Okay.
Uh stepping in it.
Phase two defined.
And we will be back, folks.
Don't go away.
And we are back, Rush Limbaugh, and the first day of plenty of days, a full week of broadcast excellence here back in our comfortable confines.
The EIB Southern Command, Lindsay Studio City, California.
Hi.
You're next.
Morning, Rash.
How are you?
Hello?
Yeah, hi.
Hi.
Um, you know, I'm always stunned by the selective hashtag causes these two have.
Because um Benghazi personally haunts me.
And I think sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and when I'm talking to people and they know nothing about Benghazi and I'm all I'm always stunned.
And I send them to the internet and I tell him to look at this picture.
Look at this picture.
When I saw a picture of Ambassador Stevens on the internet, I I can't tell you how that picture just haunted me that this man died alone, uh surrounded by these monstrous people who slung him over their shoulders like he was baggage, and reading the things that happened to him.
No, they were taking him to the hospital.
You've got the story all wrong.
The terrorists were shocked, and they were being good people, and they were trying to take him to the hospital for us.
That was the story.
You know, after they had been moved to outrage by a video.
They then attacked the consulate in Benghazi, and they were trying to save the ambassador.
That's what the regime said.
That was the original story that went out.
And by the way, folks, there's a new twist on what actually killed Ambassador Stevens.
Did you know that the McLaughlin group is still on?
It is.
Did you know that Elinor Clift was still on TV offering her opinion on things?
She is.
And so on the McLaughlin Group on Sunday morning, in a discussion about this new congressional select committee, Eleanor Clift, who writes for Newsweek, does Newsweek...
I didn't Newsweek is still around.
Just digitally.
Man, I didn't know any I I I I I didn't know McLachlan group was still on, and I didn't know that Elinor Clift was still on.
Well, is I don't watch Sunday morning stuff any folks like the Geithners, he was he was sent out there to lie, Susan Rice, and none of it.
It's all just PR buzz pap.
Anyway, Elinor Clift has advanced a new theory to explain what happened to Ambassador Stevens.
Every media organization has investigated this to death.
This animates the right wing of the Republican Party, and I would like to point out that Ambassador Stevens was not murdered.
He died of smoke inhalation.
So that is apparently what no one else knew.
Ambassador Stevens wasn't murdered by the terrorists who were attempting to rescue him and take him to the hospital for us.
He died of smoke inhalation.
Because the terrorists launched a bunch of bombs and started a fire, and therefore he wasn't killed.
He was done in by smoke inhalation.
And that that was on the McLaughlin group uh yesterday morning with an edited bite, so I don't know if there was raucous laughter or stunned silence following the comment.
I'll have more on this tomorrow, but you know, the the White House Obama, this is not a say all these liberal things that really don't do anything.
Obama goes solar in the White House.
They installed enough solar panels to power 22 100 watt light bulbs for 20 hours every day.
That's the extent of it.
That's not even going to light up a room.
Anyway, folks, thanks so much for being with us today.
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