All Episodes
Previous Next
Sept. 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:29
September 9, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Talent on loan from God.
L. Rushbow, your guiding light, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the doctor of democracy, all combined, one harmless, lovable little fuzzball bundle here at the Limbaugh Institute, the telephone number if you want to be with us, 800-282-288-2, the email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Janae Rice, who is the woman who was decked with the left hook in the elevator at the Ravel Casino in Atlantic City by then fiance Ray Rice.
She uh banged her head on the railing inside the elevator, was knocked cold, and then she was dragged out of the elevator by the fiance Ray Rice, who has now been fired by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL.
She is standing by Ray Rice during what she calls this horrible nightmare.
Via the Baltimore Sun, she posted the following message to her private Instagram account.
Quote.
I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend.
But I have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself.
No one knows the pain that the media and unwanted opinions from the public has caused my family.
No one knows the pain that the media and unwanted opinions, it's options here, from the public has caused my family.
To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing.
To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off for all of his life just to gain ratings is horrible.
This is our life.
What don't you all get?
If your intentions were to hurt us, to embarrass us, to make us feel alone, to take all happiness away, you have succeeded on so many levels.
Just know that we will continue to grow and show the world what real love is.
Ravens Nation, we love you.
Now, I am by no means, ladies and gentlemen, equipped to deal with the psychology of this.
But there is a there's a cautionary tale here for everybody that's on social media that so desperately wants fame and is vomiting everything about themselves on all of these social media sites, desperate to get on a reality show, desperate to have TMZ call them.
No one knows the pain that the media and unwanted opinions from the public has caused my family to make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing.
To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off of for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.
So she thinks this was all done to get ratings.
I think the media is using them for ratings.
It's And so forth.
And I'm I'm reminded it was, I guess it's now the week before last.
Remember when the NFL due to public pressure at the original Ray Rice suspension only being two games, there was an outright.
I mean outrage.
It was in the media primarily.
And so the NFL's okay, okay, okay, you may have a point.
All right, we new policy.
First occurrence of wife beating is a six-game suspension.
And then the next occurrence of wife beating is you're gone for a year.
And a woman called here and said, that is not going to work because these women marry these guys for the paycheck.
They marry these guys for the lifestyle.
And if now they are going to be responsible for penalizing the paycheck and ending the life, they're not going to report it.
If that's what it means.
And so I I look at Janae Rice standing by her man here, at least today, last night, yesterday.
And it it kind of makes the point that the um the woman made when she reached us on the phones.
A couple of more audio sound bites I want to get to.
First off, Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, was on with uh, I guess Charlie Rose on CBS this morning.
And Charlie Rose said, some are looking at this and saying that in fact this is a tough, defining moment for the NFL.
And uh Robert, I mean, you're part of the NFL.
Anyone that witnessed that video yesterday has to be outraged and really disgusted to see someone associated with us doing something like that.
Anyone who's a real man doesn't hit a woman.
I know our commissioner has taken some heat, and I spoke with him yesterday when this came out.
He had no knowledge of this video.
And, you know, the way he's handled this situation himself coming out with the Mia Calpa in his statement a couple weeks ago or ten days ago, and setting a very clear policy how we conduct ourselves in the NFL, I thought was excellent.
It looks like the owners are going to be standing by Commissioner Goodell here, and uh media will jump on and demand like the real rodent impeachment.
Uh a couple people, ESPN have demanded that that six or seven people involved here.
The owner of the Ravens should be forced to sell a team.
Ozzie Newsom should resign.
He's a general manager of the Ravens, Coach Harbaugh should resign.
Goodell should resign.
I mean, the ESPN's all over this, with all the people who ought to quit and skedaddle.
Uh then Gail King, friend of Oprah, and co-host of CBS this morning said to uh Robert Kraft, well, right now he's suspended indefinitely.
What would indefinitely mean to you?
Well, I don't think he'll play another NFL game.
I'll be shocked if some team would pick him up, but that's not my But you wouldn't pick him up.
No.
No.
No, you'd be shocked if any other team did.
Now, get may I mention a name, ladies and gentlemen?
That name would be Michael Vick.
Now somebody needs to refresh my memory on something here before I get too far out on this.
Michael Vick, as you know, was caught running a uh a dog fighting ring.
And it was reported that the dogs in the dog fighting ring that lost the dog fights were put to death.
And it was so outrageous and so horrible that Michael Vick went to jail over all this.
He went to jail, came out, immediately began a rehabilitation campaign, and eventually found his way back in the league some three years later with the Philadelphia Eagles.
And he has stayed above board.
He's played well enough that he's still in the league.
He's now backing up the starting quarterback for the New York Jets.
Now here's what I don't remember.
Were there any pictures?
Because a lot of people, hey, hey, Rush, if if Vic can come back, and he was killing dogs and treating them inhumanely and doing all that dog fighting stuff, running gambling rings and stuff.
If Vic can come back, why can't Ray Rice?
And my answer was, were there any pictures of Michael Vick mistreating the dogs?
I don't remember.
You don't think there were no pictures of the dogs' necks being broken, no pictures of the dogs being shot, no pictures of that.
Do you remember?
Not when Michael Vick himself, but people other people in his group were seen doing it, but he wasn't.
So where where where I'm getting well, I saw pictures of the dogs.
I mean the dogs were scrawny and and they uh they were pit bulls.
It was not pretty.
But I just don't remember and the reason I ask is uh the the difference here is there are pictures, there is video of what Ray Rice did.
Look at this this is it's it's it's non-profound, but it is interesting.
Everybody knew what went on in that elevator, but without seeing it, two game suspension.
Yet everybody knew.
He knocked her unconscious.
But there weren't any pictures.
So knowing, but with no pictures, two game suspension, then the video, then the pictures.
And he's fired and he's out of the league indefinitely.
Now, Vic came back and is with the Jets after two or three years with the Eagles, but I don't recall if there were any pictures.
I if there were no pictures of what Vic did, then it easily or uh a little bit more easy or it's it's not as difficult to overcome if there are no pictures.
No, you remember why we went into Somalia, folks, that led to Black Hawk down.
Do you remember why we went into Somalia?
No, it was a New York Times newspaper.
And there was a front page of black and white still shut on on the f above the fold in the New York Times of a starving black Somalian kid with insects flying around.
And the picture accompanying the news of how the warlords in Somalia were mistreating the general population, stealing all the food, starving everybody or so.
Nothing happened.
The news reports were out there for weeks and weeks about what was going on somewhere.
Then the picture hit.
And George H. W. Bush was forced to send an invading army to the beaches of Somalia to try to apprehend and get Mohammed Farah Sahib Skyhook Adid, who was the warlord committing all just that one picture.
If it weren't for that picture, we'd have never gone into Somalia.
And that was that was be fi uh uh 1990 or whatever, uh George H. W. Bush.
So I'm just asking, I don't know if if if uh if Rice can overcome this, what with that picture?
That picture's never gonna go away.
The picture is I mean, if Ray Rice years from now, whatever, I think it's unlikely because he plays running back, and there's a surplus of running backs in the NFL.
There's more than you need.
They're everywhere out there.
And by the, you know, he's 26 now, and he didn't have a good year last year.
Uh after he after he's out of the game for however long, by the time he comes back of at least minimum one year of inactivity, trying to come back into a league where running backs are plentiful, uh, and you add the fact that this picture,
this video is gonna trail him as long as he's in public life, no matter what amends he makes, no matter what steps he takes, these pictures inside that elevator are going to be following him everywhere he goes.
I don't know how he comes back from that.
I don't know how that video is ever subordinated to irrelevancy.
And I don't know that if there were pictures of Michael Vick actually whatever happened to those dogs, I don't know that he would have come back.
I don't know.
I'm just speculating.
But in in Ray Rice's case, there the just the football facts of this, in terms of a comeback, make it a little bit challenging and problematic.
A brief time out, we'll come back and return to your phone calls because I know all of you want to weigh in on all of it.
Okay, back to the phones we go now, people have been patiently waiting.
Randy in Durham, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, Randy.
Hi.
Mega Ditto's rush, first time caller, longtime listener.
Just wanted to comment on the Ray Lewis thing.
I I don't believe any any man should hit a woman.
Now wait, wait, wait, Ray Lewis or Ray Rice.
Ray Rice.
Ray Rice.
Ray Ray.
Excuse me.
Right.
Excuse me.
I don't believe any man should hit a woman, but if if you're in an elevator and you're getting hit and spit on, and you have a lapse of judgment, you know, and hit her with a left cross, I I I just don't think it should cost you your career.
I mean, if Jim Brown played in the NFL today, uh he wouldn't make it two or three seasons.
Why?
Jim Jim Brown was always hitting women.
He was Jim Brown?
Well, I I didn't know that.
Well, it's uh I you uh look, you you uh so you think that there might be justifiable reasons why Ray Rice getting spit on and shouted at hit his fiance?
No, I I think it was a lapse in judgment.
You know, I I mean uh everybody makes some quick snap decisions that they regret.
Have you ever been hit by a woman?
No.
You haven't?
No.
So you don't know what you would do if you had been.
I honestly don't.
I I have been punched in the stomach before and hit a guy back.
Yeah, it was a good one.
Well, that's a guy, that's what it's a guy then.
You're supposed to do that.
Yeah.
You're not supposed to lay hands on a woman.
She can, but you can't.
Um well I've I've got some emails from people who say, you know what, I don't understand, Rush.
Why should this guy lose his career over something he didn't do at work?
I've heard that.
I've heard that from a lot of people.
Why why she lose his career?
Not suspension final.
Why is he losing his career over something that happened in private and was not something that happened at work?
Well what would you say to that?
Um, it's not private anymore.
There's a camera in an elevator, and everybody's seen it thanks to Walter Cronkite, Harvey Levin.
Cameras are watching us everywhere in this day and age, but uh the this whole thing is all about political correctness.
And uh you can you can see it with uh the guy, the Atlanta Hawks guy.
I mean, um everything is about political correctness, and and it's it's really getting to the point of being sick.
Uh I I don't see why it should cost uh a football player or a baseball player or a basketball player his career.
And that this guy down in Atlanta with the Hawks.
I mean, my goodness, what what did he do that was wrong?
It's all about political correctness.
But I wouldn't be surprised if you saw uh uh Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton out saying that white guy would have did it, it'd be a little different story.
Uh if a white guy did what?
Uh uh say a white guy hit the woman.
They're they're penalizing that they're gonna come out and say they're penalizing this guy so hard because he was black.
That's that's the next thing that's gonna happen.
Oh, you think that will happen?
Do you think the the the uh reverend uh Jackson will champion the cause of Ray Rice?
Um I uh we shall see.
Now that would be interesting.
Yeah.
Um depending on how far this goes, I wouldn't be surprised.
But yeah, I mean the other thing I want to say, Rush, is uh, you know, it is it's also on camera.
He picked her up and drug her out of there and took her back to his man cave.
If he would hit her and left her in there, yeah, I think they should end his career.
But he did have feelings for the woman.
He picked her up and took her home.
That matters.
Uh I Well, he show her some respect at least by dragging her home back to the man cave.
Well, uh, you know what, I'm beginning I you know what I think's happening here?
I think, Mr. Snerdley, we have been.
I think we've had a couple seminar callers here who've been attempting to entrap me.
I think so, yeah.
I I think we've had a couple people that want me to say, yeah, damn, you're exactly right.
I think that's exactly what's happening here.
I I uh there's no question in my mind.
Hey, hey, if he left her there, okay, get rid of him.
But he dragged her home.
At least he cared enough to do.
Do not try this at home.
Uh wait.
Now, as for the owner of the Atlanta Hawks, Bruce Levinson, we've we've got Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
And he's I get to his sound bites after the break here, but Kareem Abdul Jabbar, where did he sit with my glasses on?
He was on C Anderson Cooper 29 last night.
Uh Kareem Abdul Jabbar talking about the Hawks owner Bruce Levinson reporting himself for having written an offensive email and his decision to sell the team.
This is unheard of.
Self-reported offensive racist email that he wrote.
This guy, this guy well.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, get this.
You'll hear this coming up in the audience.
I haven't got time to play it for you right now.
Well, I do, if I hit it right now, and I didn't, so I'm out of time.
Uh certainly not enough time to add commentary.
But he says that Levinson needs a chance to defend himself.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar thinks that Arthur Levinson isn't a racist.
He's just feeling guilty.
And needs a chance to defend himself.
Now, you know, I'm a student of of words and the fact that words mean things.
How in the world can somebody who has accused themselves deserve a chance to defend themselves?
How does that work?
He accused himself.
He admitted.
And Kareem thinks he's being denied a chance to defend himself here.
You'll hear it, and much more, including more entrapment phone calls coming up after this timeout.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, L. Rushbow, serving humanity simply by showing up, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Well, Nike has just fired Ray Rice and uh Ravens fans and stores are dumping Ray Rice jerseys out of the uh retail outlets.
Ravens are offering uh uh jersey exchanges.
People have a Ray Rice versus come in and dump it and get a replacement.
Get a Terrell Suggs jersey instead of Ray Rice.
You know why I got a Ray Lewis Memorial jersey.
And then uh Nike has uh has let Ray Rice go.
This is gonna be bad.
Uh and there's a whole bunch of characteristics about this that you know nobody is gonna bring up in terms of trying to explain it.
But we'll get to the Kareem Abdul Jabbar soundbites on Bruce Lambert.
I can't believe people don't know what's really going on with this guy, but I will hold back until we hear from uh well-known uh intellectual uh Kareem Abdul Jabbar on this.
Uh let me grab some calls here, then we'll get to Kareem.
Uh Gino in the Bronx.
Glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
I finally made it to Radio Talk Show Heaven.
I'm on the Rush Limbaugh show.
As I was telling Mr. Snurley when he took my call, I used to be a probation officer 20 years ago.
And guess what case came up 20 years ago of a famous NFL Hall of Fame football player who committed the ultimate domestic violence case of all time?
None other than, of course, O.J. Simpson, and of course, Nicole Brown Simpson, and the Goldman kid who got murdered, slaughtered, ramboed knifed by OJ, and O.J., of course, beat the rep. But he didn't beat the rep in the civil case a year later.
It was when he was working for NBC Sports, the left-wing media sports outlet that defended this monster up until the day that they found him liable for the wrongful death of Nicole, his ex-wife, and the Goldman kin.
And then, of course, they were the apologists back then, 20 years ago.
But you're not hearing from them today, 20 years later.
I wonder why.
Is it because domestic violence now has gotten to the point where it's a worse charge than murder, rape, arm robbery, drug dealing, or any of the other crimes that the mutants on my case owed were convicted of, including domestic violence.
If this case had gone straight to a criminal court, chances are Ray Rice would still be with the Baltimore Ravens.
The case would have probably gotten uh adjudicated with nothing more than a conditional discharge.
Well, now wait a minute.
The prosecutor didn't even care to bring charges on this.
And you wonder why he didn't, right?
Well, a lot of people are wondering why he didn't.
Well, let's put it this way.
The mutants on my case here in the Bronx and later on in Brooklyn, they if they were found to be first time offenders the way Ray Rice was, they would have disposed of the case, nothing more would have happened.
He would have done some time at Riker's Island.
Maybe if he had a prior criminal record, he'd go to Attica or El Myra, a state prison.
But otherwise, this guy would still be in the NFL, he'd still be playing.
And the apologists for O.J. Simpson, who have been mum and quiet, including the feminists who also didn't bring up hell about it.
Now, twenty years later, they want this guy to lose his job and lose his life.
What's the difference?
What's happened?
What's your theory?
Well, take a while, guess what happened.
Domestic violence and other so-called liberal causes has gotten to the point where if you are called a racist, whether you are or you're not, that's worse than being a murderer or homicidal maniac, the way O.J. Simpson was.
But of course, if you don't get convicted, if you get acquitted by twelve Numpscoes on a jury, the other six Numpsco on the libel case held him liable.
So anyway you look at it, it all comes down to one thing.
If you are a conservative, if you are anybody that has any type of of justifiable case that you can get acquitted of, you're given the benefit of the doubt.
But this guy has already been convicted in a court of public opinion, not a court of public law.
And if it would have been any one of the mutants on my caseload, chances are it would have been a juicy adjudicated, he would maybe do probation and he'd be unfortunate enough to have me as his probation officer, because I'd make sure I'd bust his ass any time he got a re arrested.
So Ray Rice could have been still been playing.
He could be playing on Thursday night.
And it wouldn't have mattered what the NFL did.
But because they have this politically correct Bolshevik infested thought police that want to crucify this guy, he's not going to be playing in the NFL anytime soon.
At best he'll be playing in the arena football league or maybe the Canadian football league.
But in two years from now, if he gets reinstated, assuming he's a good boy and he doesn't do anything wrong, and his wife he doesn't go back on Twitter proclaiming uh how their family's now been destroyed, because of course she's not going to get a hold of his millions unless, of course, she hires Raul Felder or Gloria all communist red to do the divorce proceedings and take what he's got, what he still has.
Maybe at that point he might play again, but chances are he's gonna be mopping off floors at the local McDonald's where he lives, and he's lucky if he'll even get that job because they're gonna crucify this guy.
Yeah, that's happening.
That's that's that's so you your distinguishing between the court of public opinion and a court of law.
That's correct.
And you but are you are you of the opinion that the public is not as outraged by this as the media is, and it's the media that's just gone crazy with political correctness.
Are you afraid that our whole culture is not buying into it?
Well, all of the above.
I mean, the media for sure has gone hogwild one hundred and eighty degrees in the opposite direction.
Now they're willing to take this guy on, but meanwhile, the other uh more infamous uh players in NFL.
Yeah, but let's wait a minute now.
Gino, we got to draw a couple distinctions.
Ray Rice was never hired by Hertz to run through airports.
He was never in police academy movies as a lovable character.
He never won the Heisman Trophy.
He was not uh uh NBC sideline sports commentator.
Ray Rice was just a football player.
O. J. Simpson had built up a reservoir of love and respect and adoration, and you're right, there were all kinds of people defending him up until the very last.
And then, of course, 15 years later, he proves his true colors by being uh convicted of four counts of armed robbery, supposedly to take back his memorabilia that he claims was stolen from him, but meanwhile, it was taken away from him because that was part of the deal that he had to pay back the Goldman and the Brown families.
Right.
So of course, you know, OJ was given every possible break under the sun, and until that final conviction in a Nevada state jury that were smart enough to throw his sorry ass in jail, then everything was okay.
But this guy is getting crucified without even having a prior criminal record.
He is a so-called first-time offender.
We're the liberals out there that always say, well, if he's a first-time offender, he should get a second chance.
Well, I think what happens here is that feminism trumps racism.
There you go.
You got it right, you know, that's why you got a c uh a talk show for the last twenty-six years, and I don't.
Well, uh, well.
After all, you're the greatest radio talk show host of all time, and I'm the greatest radio talk show caller.
Well, that's all time.
I was just gonna say you're you you rank up there at the all-time high.
Thank you, sir.
Talk show callers, Gino.
And you've now earned yourself a free chicken parmesan dinner from me, and that goes for Mr. Snurley, too, because he put me on the air.
Well, I appreciate that.
And uh come up to the Bronx stores to come and get it, because I don't deliver it to Florida.
Well, fine.
And I you know, y whatever it takes.
You just keep a sharp eye on the sorry asses out there, keep protecting us.
You got that right.
All right, see you later.
We'll be back in just a second.
Margie, Indianapolis, great you waited, and welcome to the program.
Margie, are you there?
I'm there.
Don't they ask I key.
Welcome back.
Okay.
Um I've been meaning to call you about this for many years, but this is the first I've had a chance.
Um my husband used to make me go and talk with our stock guy.
Didn't understand a word he said, but I was glad I went that day.
Um everybody was upset because they lost their money.
You mean you're sto you're investment guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, so he said, um, oh, I know everyone wants us to succeed except Rush Limba.
I about jumped out of my chair.
Everybody what what everybody wants us to succeed except me?
Yeah.
That's what this guy said.
Yeah.
Well, the economy to accept Rush Limba.
What was he talking about, this this this this mutant?
What?
What was he talking about?
Well, the economy, because you know, that's when uh everybody was upset.
It was probably it was over, you know, four or five, six years ago.
Was this when I said I hope Obama failed?
Yes.
Yes.
And you hope Obama failed.
And I about jumped out of my seat and I said, Wait a minute, that's not true.
That's not true.
Rush just wants Obama's policies to fail because they're bad for the country.
I I have no idea what else I said because I was so upset.
Well, I appreciate you defending me like that.
What did this what did this mutant say?
You know what?
I can't I don't remember, but we got out of there, and I said to my husband, we're getting our money out of that guy.
He's insulted my good friend Rush Limba, and I will not stand for that.
And I love Rush and that's a lie.
And there's a better reason than that.
The guy's an idiot.
Yes.
You don't want this guy in charge of your money if he's that stupid.
No, that's what I said.
Why would we want him, you know, and he's not a conservative.
And besides, he's got it all wrong about Rush, and he's lying.
You know, it's a lie.
It was the power and and you were right.
Look what he's done to us.
Well, Margie, uh, you know, Margie, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
And I can't I I I can't thank you enough.
I don't get I don't, you know, I don't get defended like that.
Well, maybe a lot of you do, and I just don't know about it.
But uh but uh and if you do, I appreciate it.
But I don't get defended much because everybody says I can handle it.
Oh, Rush doesn't need to be hand.
So I appreciate you uh you doing that.
Uh no time for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar audio.
We'll have to do it tomorrow.
But basically the Atlanta Hawks guy sees that Sterling got two billion for his team and wants to see what he can get.
That's what he's going with.
I saw enough of the Apple Watch uh intro that it does look compelling, I have to say, looks like a marvel of engineering.
Does more than any watch does more than any a hundred watches combined, it looks like.
Still don't know if I want one because I already know I'm out of shape.
▲
Export Selection