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Sept. 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I'm going to get into the latest here with uh the Ray Rice situation, and there's some really some interesting things there.
So sit tight for this.
I just want to continue one thing.
A carryover, if you will, from the previous hour.
We had uh media drive by anchors and analysts expressing grave concern.
The New York Times, very worried Obama's in over his head with ISIS, sees the world in a way he wishes it was rather than the way it really is.
You know, I know the root of this, too, by the way.
The Middle East is blowing up, and Obama went out at a fundraiser and said, you know, everybody thinks the world's on fire and the world's blowing up, but it's gonna be okay.
It always is.
These kind of things happen, but it always ends up that they end up okay.
Something like that.
There was a collective gasp from the drive-by media.
A collect that you could could not believe it.
These are people that are conflicted about the United States role in the world.
Uh they they're quite uncomfortable with the the uh use of power, the projection of power, uh yet they like the ability to do so.
And Obama's basically saying, hey, it's none of our business.
They can do what they want over there.
It's no Obama really believes, hey, if if if if the Iraqis want a nuclear week, if the Iranians want a nuclear weapon, we've got one, why can't they?
In other words, who are we to tell these people what they can and can't do?
Who are we to tell Syria?
Who are we to tell ISIS?
Who are we to tell Al Qaeda?
That's what he really believes.
Because he thinks the U.S., well, we kind of deserve some of this.
But his acolytes on the left, that's that doesn't sit well with them.
So there's some concern over that.
Uh and then the ABC News Washington Post, remember these people live and die by polls, and the polls are not good for Obama.
As a Gallup poll last week, he said 38%.
They've all ignored that.
But the ABC News Washington Post polling has Obama at 42%, and they're paying attention to that.
Very, very, very, very concerned about it.
Because they don't want the Republicans to win in November.
No matter what.
The primary objective of the media and the Democrat Party is the elimination of the Republican Party as a viable opponent.
I know there's always gonna be one, but they would like to relegate the Republican Party to permanent minority irrelevant status.
That's victory to them.
More so than anything to do with ISIS or the Middle East.
It's really shellacking and wiping out the Republican Party.
And so they see these polls that show the American people unhappy with Obama, unhappy with the way things are going in the country, and they now are seeing polls that show it could be a wave Republican election, and they are worried.
Here is Stuart Rothenberg.
This is at Politico.com, sees a wave election upcoming for Senate Republicans in November.
In a roll call, a roll call column published on Monday, Rothenburg said that he's expecting the Republicans to gain at least seven seats in the Senate and earn a November victory more dramatic than several pollsters have suggested.
Then there's old standby, Nate Silver.
And Nate Silver of the 538 blog.
This is the Wonder Kind at the New York Times who uh predicted all these polls and results, election results, and left to uh basically do work for ESPN.
But he's out crunching the numbers.
And last week he was worried there weren't enough polls to crunch, there weren't enough numbers to crunch, but now he's got some, and he says there's a 65% chance the Republicans will win the Senate, holding the House apparently not even a question.
And uh Silver says that all they have to do is win uh open seats, states that uh Romney carried in 2012 and it's over.
And Rothenburg is pretty much saying the same thing.
So they're beginning to get panic because remember, they haven't been taking polls, and even as recently as the week before last, they were relishing reporting that it didn't look like there was a wave.
In fact, the Democrat senators look like they might be making a comeback, and then Obama helped out by delaying Amnesty till after the election.
And now it's descending into a downward spiral.
Let's go to John King at CNN.
Last night, the Situation Room.
The fill-in host, Wolf Blitzer's not there.
Fill in host says to John King, you've been looking at these numbers, John.
They're pretty stunning out there, right?
It is stunning, Brianna, in how quickly and how profoundly American views about terrorism and their willingness to use military force have changed.
Right now, what's the most important issue facing the country?
Terrorism has jumped to number two if you look at the numbers here at 14 percent.
Now you might not think 14 percent is a lot.
The economy at 30 percent is number one, but if you go back to September 2012 or September 2010, just three percent then said terrorism was the number one issue.
So clearly these barbaric videos have convinced the American people this is a serious threat.
Fifty percent now say the United States should be ready and willing to use military force.
Okay, so it's a second bite here.
Uh where King continues, and this is the part that has him in hysterics or near hysterics.
Here's what's uh damning for the president as he prepares to give this speech Wednesday night.
Sixty-seven percent of the American people do not think the commander in chief has a clear plan to deal with ISIS.
How are things going in the country right now?
Badly, 55 percent.
That's up a bit from April.
That is a recipe for a big Republican year, Brianna.
Uh, the president's poll numbers are stagnant in the 40s.
The president's poll numbers are personally weak.
People think the country's heading in the wrong direction.
Uh, that is a recipe for a Republican big ripple, if not a wave, come November.
There it is again, folks.
A wave elections.
So we've got three different people well, two different people talking about the possibility of a wave election.
And they're not even talking about the unemployment numbers.
Don't forget now, the media thinks that there's a recovery going on.
The media is is totally disconnected from real life in this country where it comes to careers and advancement and raises.
They pay very little that they look at the unemployment rate coming down or staying stagnant, say no harm.
They have no idea what it's like for people.
They are looking at ISIS and some of their own polls to show that the American people fed up with the direction of the country, and they're genuinely worried.
I don't think they know how bad it is, is my point.
I don't think they know how bad it is going to be.
And it is they're starting to get a feel for it.
And it is a very disquieting thing for them.
Even in the congressional polls, the Gallup poll on congressional disapproval, even in that poll, it is seen that congressional disapproval hurts the Democrats more than the Republicans.
Even though the Republicans are seen running the House of Representatives, uh, there is a tremendous amount of concern, and it's just they've been in denial, folks.
The drive-by's and a lot of their acolytes in the news consuming public, the people that pay attention and get all excited about soap opera.
There's been a state of denial, in a sense, that Obama could rally them any time, because this is a presidency governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
It's why they get so excited every time Obama's gonna go out and make a new speech.
Like he's gonna do tomorrow night on ISIS.
But ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force, not the aggressive use of speeches.
We don't win wars and establish ourselves in a dominance with doctors, nurses, and clean water and all the rest.
A brief timeout, we'll come back.
I'm gonna grab some of your phone calls and we'll uh we'll swerve into the latest on the Ray Rice situation and lots of other stuff too.
Sit tight, my friends.
We've barely begun to scratch the surface.
Okay, let's get started on the phones.
We'll start in Indianapolis.
Hi, Jay.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a privilege and honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Well, the reason I was compelled to call today is because I'm a general manager of the past ten years of a restaurant here in Indianapolis.
I have 24 employees.
Now the frequency in which I'm going to speak about is very low.
But something was said to me by an employee, a female employee three days ago, who said I have to quit on September 30th.
And I said, Well, what's significant about September 30th?
Mind you, I just hired her about a month ago.
She said the words following.
They are going to cut my assistance.
This is the second time I've heard this in two years from women with children.
I think the system is completely broken.
The last young lady said I have to quit because they give me more assistance not to work.
And I just wanted to leave you that with that today.
There has to be a solution.
We're encouraging our people not to work.
Why do you think this is, Jay?
I really don't know.
Do you think it's you think it's the result of government incompetence, bureaucratic incompetence?
Do you think m uh that there's a purpose behind this?
Well, would you like my solution on a long short note?
Um, basically, I think you hit on earlier is that they're getting fed.
Now, I'm a I'm all for public assistance when you need it.
So there has to be some kind of long-term plan.
If these folks are given six hundred dollars a month in uh food assistance, they should allow to be able to spend that food assistance at grocery stores to their liking.
After six months, if they've not enrolled in education or got a job of some kind to improve their lives, then they should have a grocery store store like the commissary, where the bare necessities are there for them.
Macaroni and cheese, bread, milk, eggs, meat, etc.
So it's not a long-term thing.
Maybe make it a short-term thing with say, if in six months you've enrolled in education or you've got you you've you've got employment now, let's continue what we're on.
If not, we're gonna put you into a different part where it's not so uh pleasant to be on assistant.
It's not so you know, glorified to be on assistance.
Well, it sounds like uh sounds like you're on to something here.
Jay, can you uh can you name for me uh uh uh a politician, uh candidate uh party who uh they can't?
Of course, they're creating a society where dependencies are worth it.
You know, it's it's worth having a few children just so you can get sued.
Well, back when, you know, if you had six children, well, then you had to make ends meet by cutting things out of your lives.
And we've incentivized just to we'll take care of you, we'll take care of you.
And absolutely, it's the Democratic Party all day long telling these people it's okay, we're gonna be there for you for the long term.
It's supposed to be short term.
Well, we're now up to 99 weeks and counting in unemployment compensation benefits and extensions.
And when you listen to Obama talk about the need to extend the extended benefits, uh, you listen to him talk about how bad the economy is and how rotten it is.
It's almost as though he's got nothing to do with it.
It's almost as though the economy and the economic circumstances uh nothing to do with what he's doing.
Nothing to do with his policies.
There the objective here, and you know it as well as I do, is to create as much dependence as possible.
And uh but there's a there's a second component to it.
Along with the dependence comes subservience.
And that is by that I mean the dependents are are supposed to also be subservant to the Democrats.
They are they're supposed to be appreciative and behaviorally programmable so that they recognize where these benefits are coming from, and that there's only one way to continue them, and that's vote for Democrats.
And the way the Democrats set this up is to blame all of this on Bush and Reagan and previous Republican presidents.
The reason you can't find a job is trickle-down economics.
The reason you can't find a job is tax cuts for the rich.
So we Democrats feel for you.
And we understand your pain, and because we haven't found a way to totally eradicate those horrible Bush and Reagan years, we're going to take care of you.
And they do.
And they provide people not just food.
They provide them cell phones.
They provide cell phone coverage.
As you pointed out, people can earn more on assistance than they can working.
So they quit.
And who is it that's warning them of that?
It's the very government that provides them their benefits.
Well, you, you know what, you if you keep working after September 30th, you're no longer going to qualify for our benefits here.
The um the problem that we're all up against is that the Democrat Party measures compassion this way, and compassion's a major branding and selling point for them.
Uh and they have uh no desire to reduce the number of people on assistance, multiple kinds of assistance.
Their desire is to increase that number.
It's uh it's been judged that it's easier to buy votes than to campaign for them and win them on ideas.
Simply buy them.
Hey, look, it's tough to beat Santa Claus.
It's really no more complicated than that.
And the Democrats have adapted well to being Santa Claus.
And then there's a vacuum.
Look at what the Republicans are doing.
The Republicans are patting themselves on the back right now for how well they're doing in the polls, because they're not saying anything.
Republicans are being very quiet.
They're adopting this philosophy that when your opponents committing suicide, you get out of the way, let it happen.
So the Republicans are not pushing back.
They're not they're not standing for anything different.
They're not proposing alternatives.
They're not engaged in in anything that would change the status quo.
They're simply relying on this dissatisfaction to cause people to change who they vote for.
But that sadly isn't going to mean that people have changed their minds.
I've learned that way too many times.
In the 1994 elections where the Republicans took the House, it really wasn't because people changed their minds.
They just decided to change their vote.
Uh the Republicans, even as we speak today, are not giving people reason to change their minds about things.
They're just a silent alternative.
They just they represent change because people are fed up with the status quo, six years, second term, big whoop.
Uh but there's no there's nobody standing for what you're talking about.
Not at an elective politics, I'm talking about.
Clearly, in conservative media, it's uh it's all over the place.
Uh Jay, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
This is James in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Great to have you, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ.
Uh fair taxes, too.
Um The Democrat Party is pretty much always telling us how.
Men and women are equal.
You know, women should be on the front lines for the infantry.
Yeah, Hillary Clinton dodging bullets and Bosnia.
Make any SEAL team proud.
Uh I don't see what the big deal is with colcocking.
I mean, if she had cold cocktail, we wouldn't even be we wouldn't have even heard of that.
So I just don't get it.
I'm confused.
Now, James.
Uh James, clearly you are being facetious here to illustrate a point.
Uh you clearly don't surprise you haven't come up with that one yet.
You don't you clearly don't support Ray Rice or anybody else knocking a woman out.
I mean, even if she spat on him, as is reputed to have happened.
See that I'm just confused, man.
Maybe I'm a low information voter.
I mean, look.
I'm being told that men and women are equal.
Right.
Women should be on the firing lines.
You know, look, Hillary Clinton.
Women had Hillary Clinton dodging sniper fire, snipper fire there.
That's exactly right.
Right, right.
Put them in the foxholes out there.
Exactly right.
Train her to be cops and firefighters and so forth.
Look at look at all the TV shows that you watch.
You got a female hot-looking chick detective.
You got some goofball male detective.
And you know, this now that isn't it.
I can't tell you the number of TV shows I watch where these five foot four-inch models overpower 300-pound bodyguards.
It is routine out there now.
It's routine in TV shows.
Where it is happens.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, we're being uh what this illustrates, let me tell you, James, what this illustrates is.
What I've always said about feminism, it's artificial, it isn't real, because men and women aren't equal.
If feminism was actually what they are portraying it to be, there wouldn't be this kind of outrage and shock.
If they really meant men and women are equal, if they really meant what's good for the goose, good for the if they really meant all that.
But they don't, because the outrage that's occurred here is natural, it's as it should be, and it points out the in the the differences that exist by nature between men and women that they can't change.
And welcome back, Rushland bought talent on lawn from God.
Okay, now swerving into the Ray Rice NFL circumstance, uh, it's kind of amazing out there.
It seems, ladies and gentlemen, that it is uniformly negative toward the NFL and Roger Goodell right now.
The uh the conclusion in the drive-by's, and this is not just the sports drive-by's.
The conclusion in the drive-by is in the media, they don't believe the NFL didn't know that video existed.
The video inside the elevator, it was there.
I mean, the elevator video was there, somebody had it, TMZ got it.
The new Walter Cronkite of American Media Harvey Levin at TMZ got it.
And so people are drawing conclusions.
Well, the NFL had to why didn't they request it?
But beyond that.
As I said earlier in today's busy broadcast, everybody knows what had to have happened in there.
The two people involved admitted it.
And strangely, both apologized for it.
But I mean, if the elevator does open, and here's Ray Rice dragging his unconscious fiance out of there, everybody knows what went on.
But it's fascinating.
It wasn't until anybody saw it that the two-game suspension was judged to be insufficient, and now he's banned.
Indefinitely from the NFL and fired by the Baltimore Ravens.
And now all these people are charging cover up.
The NFL had to know it.
What did they know?
When did they know it?
Why did they try to make it so that this guy could continue to play despite all that they do to promote women being involved in the league?
It it is the NFL, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is not accustomed to this kind of negative attention.
Uh uh some ESPN people have been vicious uh toward uh toward Goodell.
And a lot of this has been brought on by Harvey Levin himself, who said last night that uh TMZ said that they had proof the NFL knew about the Ray Rice video inside the elevator, and that they were going to release additional information on that today.
And they said that the NFL, specifically the commissioner Roger Goodell may have some serious questions to answer Today about the because TMZ plans to release additional information on the fiasco.
Well, the information they released was that law enforcement had the video.
The NFL said we didn't know it existed.
So everybody said, well, why didn't you ask for it?
This is a casino.
There isn't anything in a casino that is not videotaped.
Cameras are this is a casino.
Everything that happens in a casino is monitored by somebody somewhere.
There are cameras everywhere.
Certainly the public areas.
The elevators, casinos, the hallways where guest rooms are, they're there are cameras everywhere.
And therefore there's video tape or uh uh video evidence of it.
And yet there didn't seem to be any interest in getting it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Harvey Levin last night on Fox Eyeball News 5 in Washington.
The question the NFL claims they didn't know about this particular video before today.
Well, what do you know, Harvey?
I now believe they actually turned a blind eye to it.
And it's a shameful story that the NFL knew that this surveillance video existed.
They knew that this casino had surveillance video.
I know they knew that.
They didn't do anything to look at this video.
The prosecutors had this, the police had this.
I know other people had this video too.
And it was no secret that she was pulled out of an elevator unconscious.
And the NFL, it almost feels like they didn't want to know.
And that's really bad.
Now remember this is TMZ, and to the low information viewer uh viewer, this this along, Daily Show, and this is this is gospel.
Uh this is gospel.
Bill Roden, who is uh columnist at the New York Times, was on CBS this morning today.
They're talking about all of this.
And here's what Bill Roden said.
We find out that Roger Cadell knew about this video and saw it.
You really have to start thinking about impeachment.
Because this is completely unexcepted.
I mean, it's beyond unacceptable.
Oh no, no, there it is, the dreaded I word, impeachment of the commissioner Roger Goodell.
Mentioned now by William Roden of the New York Times.
Sports media getting revved up here to impeach goodell.
They all love Bill Clinton, keep in mind.
They love Bill Clinton, they love Al Sharpton, they love all the uh Reverend Zach.
And Goodell didn't do anything.
Ray Rice is the guy that did something, but boy, if he knew it and tried to cover it up, oh boy.
Oh, and then they're just, I'll tell you, they're not gonna stop till they get to the uh to the bottom of this.
Here's Howard Kurtz on America's Newsroom this morning on Fox.
Martha McCallum talking to him said, the idea has been put out there that maybe Condoleza Rice is a person for the job, commissioner of the NFL, and she somewhat jokingly has said in the past that she didn't want to run for office, but that would be her favorite job.
Big football fan.
If the job were to become vacant, which is a possibility, I think Condi Rice would be an interesting choice because she not only brings the credibility of having been a high government official, but as a woman, you can be assured that she would not take this lightly.
Ouch.
So if we had a female commissioner of the NFL, none of this would have gotten as far as it's gotten, according to Howard Kurtz.
If we had a female commissioner in there, you can be assured she would not take this lightly.
I don't think anybody is taking this lightly now.
Remember at the at the beginning of this, the NFL fell back on the notion that we don't have a policy for spousal abuse.
We got a policy for performance enhancing drugs, and we got a policy for substance abuse, and we have a policy for driving under the influence.
And we have a policy for all these other training.
By the way, folks, we've had now an opening weekend of the national football.
Is anybody talking about the games?
They aren't, are they?
They're talking about wife beating, spousal abuse, suspensions.
And the media is gleeful, by the way, in reporting this stuff.
Yeah, there's a member of the San Francisco Fortners uh who um is now accused of wife beating or spousal abuse.
And you've got all the DUIs and all the uh all the others that this suspensions galore, and the media simply relishes this.
And there were some pretty good uh athletic performers, pretty good game performances on the weekend, and very little of that is being discussed.
But the NFL's always have a policy for this.
So they they were flying blind, two games for Ray Rice, despite everybody knowing what happened in the elevator, and there was an immediate outrage.
Two weeks, that's not nearly enough for come on beating up a woman.
No, no, no.
Then they saw the video, and now he's gone.
Never to return more than likely.
John Harbaugh, the coach of the Ravens, after practice last night, held a press conference.
Reporters said Coach Harbaugh, what was it like to see that video of Ray Rice decking his fiancee?
You know, it's uh it's something we saw for the first time today, you know, all of us.
And uh it changed things, of course.
You know, it made things a little bit different.
And a lot of people, why?
You had to know what went on in there.
You had to know what happened in there.
She didn't get drunk and fall over.
Everybody knew he beat her up.
He said so.
So why does seeing it matter?
Why did that change things?
This is what uh people are asking.
Another reporter said, Coach Harbaugh, you came into the league as a head coach when uh when Ray, Ray Rice came in the NFL.
You had a strong relationship with Ray Rice.
This has to be personally kind of devastating to you.
When someone that you care about does wrong, you know, and is faced with the consequences of doing wrong and rightfully so.
Uh it is it is tough.
It is hurtful.
And my pain is for both of them as a couple, you know, and going forward.
My hope is that they can make it work.
And I hope they can weather this part of it too.
And I'll be praying for that.
You know, and if I can help in any way, you know, my wife and I can help in any way, we will.
And he wasn't the only one.
Coach Ditka on ESPN's Monday night countdown, Trey Wingo said, Coach, what do you need to hear from the organization?
What do you need to hear from them?
It's a tough call.
I want to say one thing.
I don't know uh Ray at all.
I'm sure he's not a bad guy, but he made a bad mistake.
Hey, two lives are ruined.
I mean, these two lives are ruined, basically.
His earning power is destroyed.
That's an important thing.
Oh, Ditka is skating close to the edge again.
Skating close to the edge, you're gonna be if you get a little too close to the truth out there, gonna have to back off.
Sympathy for the couple not yet called for.
Media collective not yet ready for sympathy for the couple.
Coach Harbaugh went there, and now Coach Ditka.
And there's one other person to hear from on this, and that is Ray Lewis.
And we'll get to that after this.
Welcome back, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Uh, Mr. Snurtley, what was you uh what were you gonna name of the Apple announcement?
Well, I'm not I'm I'm not surprised.
Everything so far in the Apple announcement is exactly as sources that I trust have suggested would be.
We've got two phones, 5.5 inches, 4.7 inches, and they're great.
I told you it'd be out a week from tomorrow.
It will be.
Uh the new phones will be out, both sizes on Friday the 19th, pre-order on the 12th.
And yep, right now they're into Apple Pay.
This is the new wallet that they're going to make credit cards absolute.
They're now get uh obsolete.
They're actually making a serious move into mobile payments.
And I have no idea, I'm not even I'm watching right now.
I don't know how it's gonna work.
I'm assuming that there's gonna Be a special enclave on a special chip in the phone.
Or the watch, whatever the hell's going.
Whatever.
That your credit card numbers and data will all be everything on the magnetic strip and your card number will go in that enclave.
It's only on your phone that nobody can get to.
And then there'll be an app on the phone that will talk to the payment acceptance device at the establishment, the restaurant or the store or whatever.
And what they're going to have to do in order to keep all of this really secure is use a token, a one-time token that actually transmits the data from your phone to the receiving device at the at the business.
And once the tokens used, it's invalid and is gone to the ether, and therefore people nearby can't steal your credit card data.
They're going to have to do something like tokenize this.
They just can't put your credit card numbers over there, even NFC or Bluetooth, whatever.
So that's the spectrum how they were they're going to do it.
And if they pull this off, they've got 800 credit cards on file with iTunes, and they've already made a deal with American Express and some others, so they they could pull this off.
That might be what is the historic aspect of this, according to ABC.
Ray Lewis, Monday night countdown, ESPN.
Susie Colbert, you were longtime teammates with Ray Rice.
You were a mentor to Ray Rice.
When you saw the video, when you saw it for the first time today, what was your reaction, Ray Lewis?
I'm disappointed.
You know, this is personal for me.
So I'm torn because this is a guy, a young man that I I really took up under my wing and tried to mentor to make sure that he had a successful career and stayed away from things like this.
But seeing this video, let me be very clear with going through this myself personally.
A man should never ever put his hands on a woman.
Bottom line, there's no comparison of me and Ray Rice.
It's night and day.
It's night and day of anything we've ever been through.
And that's why both situations are totally different.
Well, now uh what Ray is referring to there is he was charged with murder in uh in Atlanta in a nightclub, and he plea bargained that down to obstruction of justice.
And he said, hey, don't confuse hey, hey, don't don't confuse me with uh with uh with uh what happened here.
You know, accused of murder and wiping two totally different things.
By the way, Ray, I I just if it were me, I wouldn't uh uh well.
The mentoring obviously depending on your perspective, you did work or didn't.
Okay, folks, another exciting hour of broadcast excellence is now in the can, and it's on the way over to the limbaugh broadcast museum.
It exists in uh virtual form at rushlimbaug.com.
We still have some more people weighing in on the Ray Rice situation via audio sound bites, and we will uh get into that and much more.
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