Sept. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast. | |
| Yes, sir, Rebob. | |
| Greetings, my friends, and welcome back once again. | |
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| In looking at the news today, looking at the show prep stack, there are basically three things that uh that are that are big out there today. | |
| And uh one of them is the president's speech tonight on ISIS. | |
| And I must say, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how you go from last week not having a strategy. | |
| Well, wait a minute, it was the week before. | |
| Last week I wasn't paying attention. | |
| It was the week before, okay, two weeks. | |
| And well, I guess last week was the same. | |
| There wasn't any new enough. | |
| So how do you go from not having a plan to fight ICE, not having a strat? | |
| Well, actually, how do you go from, hey, they're nothing but the JV team, don't sweat it, to then not having a strategy to fight ISIS, and then you run around, you rush around to get a strategy to announce to the world on the eve of 9-11. | |
| You do all this in one week. | |
| How do you go from it's not important enough to have a strategy? | |
| It's not important to even consider them bigger than the JV team, to all of a sudden a national address to the nation on the eve of the anniversary of 9-11. | |
| And if you think there's still the JV team, why all this urgency? | |
| And even with all of this, do you know that this is all politics? | |
| Politics answers the question. | |
| How do you go from a week ago of having no strategy and no interest that the JV team to all of a sudden major, major important address to the nation? | |
| Well, it's the polls. | |
| Um it's also, I'll tell you what's going on here, folks. | |
| Like everything else, Obama is attempting to find a way to have the Republicans share, if not totally owned, but at least share in political culpability here. | |
| Uh the Republicans in Congress. | |
| That's one of the things that's being maneuvered by the regime is to make it look like a lot of this still is a hangover, a leftover from Bush. | |
| And the Republicans and their unwillingness to help and their unwillingness to compromise and their lack of ability or willingness to uh to participate, leaving our poor president alone on an island to deal with all of this stuff. | |
| And am I right? | |
| Is he not giving this speech from the Oval Office? | |
| I uh uh Well, where is it? | |
| Where's he gonna give the speech if it's some room somewhere? | |
| Is it in Washington? | |
| Oh, all like the East Room or some such thing. | |
| All right, I thought it might be at the war college. | |
| Okay, so that's going on. | |
| Details, of course, and uh expert commentary. | |
| Then are we getting to the point we're gonna have to execute Ray Rice at halftime of an NFL game, folks? | |
| You know, I this is this is becoming this is exactly what happens. | |
| This is exactly what happens when you try to appease every malcontent group out there. | |
| And I'm talking about the NFL leadership. | |
| I mean, uh everybody bending over backwards here to make sure nobody gets offended, and everybody's uh assumed to be treated with respect, all these different groups I'm talking about. | |
| The new Walter Crankite of this country, Harvey Levin of TMZ, is out basically calling Goodella wire. | |
| Good Ellis say, hey, I didn't see that tape. | |
| I didn't I did I really didn't see the tape. | |
| I really didn't know. | |
| And of course, I'll be saying, what did you need to see the tape for? | |
| Everybody knows what had to happen in there for the woman to be dragged out of an elevator unconscious. | |
| Anyway, that is continuing to just blow up all over the place. | |
| It it remains a major story on uh in the drive-by's. | |
| Goodell, the commissioner was on CBS uh this morning, yesterday, and today with a full-length interview with Nora O'Donnell. | |
| And I mean, everybody's running around. | |
| Please forgive us. | |
| Oh, we really got it so it's terrible we missed this. | |
| Oh, it's just so bad. | |
| We got it so wrong, but we're trying to get it right, and uh it's it's a cluster. | |
| It's a cluster, and I'm telling you, it's what happens when when when you uh are a f I don't know if fears I just it when you're politically correct, when you're trying to appease everybody instead of you know carving out a position, having principles and sticking with it. | |
| You can't please everybody all the time. | |
| In the meantime, I've got a soundbite here. | |
| I I knew this was gonna happen. | |
| I have been worried about this. | |
| I even since it happened with me, to tell you the truth. | |
| This guy Bill Roden, the uh columnist of the New York Times, I've got a soundbite of him today saying, we just got to give up this addiction to this game. | |
| We gotta stop loving this game. | |
| This game is just meaning the NFL. | |
| I mean, the long knives are now out for this game, and they they've been out for quite a while. | |
| Uh the left is uh has got this game in its sights. | |
| I have warned everybody about this. | |
| When I do, people think I'm a nut, a kook. | |
| Nobody can bring down the NFL. | |
| What are you talking about? | |
| Rush, you know, this is a problem. | |
| You see politics and everything, and you think that these political forces on the left have the ability to bring about change. | |
| What in the world is happening to our culture, folks? | |
| The left targets something it doesn't like, and they never give up, and they keep going until they ruin it. | |
| And I'm telling you, National Football League football is in their crosshairs right now. | |
| And one of the most important planks of liberalism, militant feminism, is the vehicle for which, or the vehicle which is being utilized in this latest effort to uh undercut the game. | |
| Now there's a third thing happening out there. | |
| And this, you might have to look a little harder to find this. | |
| But it involves the Republicans in Washington and lobbyists, and the funding of the government through the end of the year via a continuing resolution and some of the things the Republican Party has planned, which many of its supporters are going to consider to be yet again another sellout. | |
| And yet again another participation by the party in the expansion of government, the expansion of spending, and a uh firming up of the relationship between the party and K Street lobbyists. | |
| Uh there is there is much concern about this that's happening in our nation's capital today, but it is not anywhere on the radar because of the Ray Rice situation and the uh president's speech on ISIS tonight. | |
| Um but I'm gonna spend some time on that before our busy broadcast comes to a screeching halt later this afternoon to uh bring you up to speed on that because it's it's it's disconcerting. | |
| It's it's upsetting. | |
| It's it's it's uncalled for. | |
| We're we're here on the verge of a major victory, not because of anything we're doing, by the way. | |
| We're just the opposition. | |
| And we're we're on the verge of snatching a measure of defeat. | |
| We're we're gonna take some steps that are totally unnecessary to state to take, uh, involving the budget, involving spending, and letting the regime have some things that it wants, because actually the Washington establishment, both parties wants these things. | |
| But they are things, they are policies, if you will. | |
| I don't mean to be speaking cryptically, but I don't want to give it all away here, but they're things that you wouldn't do if you were planning on winning big. | |
| Uh and yet it appears these things are on the table. | |
| Uh continuing resolution during the lame duck, uh, getting some votes from Congress, members of Congress who are leaving at the end of this term, so they won't be able to be held accountable for their for their votes on this, the continuing resolution funding of the government, | |
| the revival and survival of the import-export bank, and it just a bunch of stuff that if we were serious about reversing some of the things that have happened in the last six years, we wouldn't be involved with. | |
| We wouldn't be doing so. | |
| All of that, plus the little ancillary items that are out there, such as this. | |
| Palm Springs, California, Coachella Valley Hascral, officially changed its scruel mascot to the Mighty Arabs on Tuesday. | |
| After the Screw Board unanimously adopted a new logo that's been approved by an anti-discrimination group. | |
| The new mascot for the mighty Arabs and the name change was unveiled during Tuesday night's Coachella Valley Unified Screw Board meeting in Thermal, California. | |
| It was approved during a closed session. | |
| Now, because the vote was held in closed session, all discussion occurred behind closed doors. | |
| The mascot vote was not on the meeting agenda, so despite it being a hotly debated topic. | |
| Tuesday night's meeting was sparsely attended. | |
| The superintendent Daryl Adams said the district will hold a news conference on September 19th to further discuss the switch to the new mascot. | |
| By the way, this story is in USA Today. | |
| It's kind of like the Redskins issue. | |
| But the scruel sought community input and participation. | |
| Look, I I can't explain to you why they want to be called the mighty Arabs. | |
| But they do. | |
| And so since they do, they had to come up with a mascot that didn't offend Arabs. | |
| So they got together and they got together with the community, and everybody uh participated here to uh make everybody happy. | |
| What with the creation of the mighty Arabs? | |
| Uh mascot. | |
| Uh they shaved the guy, and they took away the sneer from the face, and now everybody loves the mascot for the mighty Arabs at Cochali, a Coachella Valley uh Hascruel. | |
| I know it. | |
| It sounds weird. | |
| That's all I know. | |
| I don't know what preceded this. | |
| This is the first story I've seen on this. | |
| And the opening paragraph, it sounds like everybody's up to speed on this and totally cool. | |
| Coachella Valley Hascral officially changed its screw mascot to the Mighty Arabs yesterday after the school board unanimously adopted a new logo that's been approved by an anti-discrimination group. | |
| So I guess the Arab community was upset when they heard they're gonna be called a mighty Arabs. | |
| So they got in there and said, okay, if you're gonna do this, uh we gotta have a say so on the uh the mascot and the logo and the way it's drawn and so forth. | |
| And they did, and everybody's happy, but I don't know what uh preceded this. | |
| Also, President Obama, over the Labor Day weekend was in Westchester County, New York, and was turned down on several huge private golf courses. | |
| He was turned down at Trump International. | |
| He was turned down at Wingedfoot. | |
| They only gave, the regime only gave these golf courses a couple days' notice, and it's a big, big weekend for the members, some of whom pay sixty to a hundred grand a year in dues, in addition to whatever other expenses, and the management of these golf clubs did not want to tell the members, sorry, we've got to close the course for the president. | |
| New report from NBC claims that President Obama could not get a tea time during a recent visit to New York, so what he did was pack up and go back to Washington and then flew back to New York the next night for the private wedding of his White House chef and the anchorette info babe at MSNBC. | |
| Her name is Alex Wagner. | |
| President Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over to Labor Day weekend. | |
| Sources tell NBC for Eyeball News New York. | |
| Club managers apparently didn't want to inconvenience their high-powered and high paying. | |
| What the hell is that? | |
| So we've got it, we've got to rip into the members. | |
| High powered, high paying members over the Labor Day weekend by shutting down their courses to accommodate the president. | |
| It was August 29th, a Friday. | |
| Was in town for fundraising events in New York and Rhode Island, been scheduled to stay overnight in Westchester County in order to go to the wedding of the infobabe Alex Wagner and a White House chef Sam Cass at Blue Hill Farms. | |
| But he went home. | |
| They uh got upset and they went home and they flew back the next day, which is a huge logistical deal to change the travel plans and hotel reservations for all the people in the president's traveling party and then the drive-bys that are accompanying him to go home, spend the night in the White House, and then fly back the next day for the wedding. | |
| The only thing I'm just there's there's one reason not given for denying the president at tea time. | |
| And I'm just waiting. | |
| I'm just waiting if this story has any legs. | |
| I'm just waiting for somebody to bring up that one reason. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| I shall not mention it. | |
| They take a brief time out, my friends will come back and continue with all the rest of today's exciting excursion into broadcast excellence. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| Okay, just a little background here for those of you who uh like me, a little perplexed at a mascot, the mighty Arabs, the school mascot, the Arabs was named in the 30s to honor the once large Arab colony involved in the date palm growing industry. | |
| The screw took the position the name was a gift to the Arab peoples for their contribution to the uh economy to Coachella Valley. | |
| It was never intended as a racial symbol. | |
| In 2002, Haskell officials had a meeting to determine whether to rename the mascot. | |
| Out of concern, it might produce negative stereotypes against Arabs and Middle Eastern people after 9-11. | |
| But they decided to keep the mascot name, the Mighty Arabs. | |
| In November of last year, the Arab, I'm sorry, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee described the mascot as offensive and began an online petition to get school to change. | |
| So they had to redesign the mascot. | |
| That's what it was. | |
| And then they're the redesign and mascot. | |
| Everybody's happy now, except the nags. | |
| The National Association of Gals, that's our pet name for the now gang. | |
| Terry O'Neill, the head nag, has called for Roger Goodell to resign. | |
| Citing Ray Rice's assault on his now wife as just one of many examples of the league's failure to act against domestic violence. | |
| A statement from the from the chief nag reads this way. | |
| And for his successor to appoint an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking within the NFL community, and to recommend real and lasting reforms. | |
| So, folks, look at I don't mean to be patting myself on the back here, and uh but but was this not predictable? | |
| Was this not seen? | |
| Did I not? | |
| I don't even like saying it this way. | |
| I warned everybody, and now look. | |
| We've got week one under our belts in the NFL. | |
| We've got the first Thursday night game of this. | |
| Well, the second opening game was last Thursday. | |
| We've got the first regular season. | |
| No, it's the second, but the first one for CBS is tomorrow night. | |
| Interestingly, it's the Ravens and the Steelers. | |
| Maybe execute Ray Rice at halftime, I don't know. | |
| And make the Nags happy. | |
| Uh or maybe do it pregame. | |
| Either one. | |
| If not that, it's a public flogging. | |
| A stoning. | |
| There you go. | |
| A stoning. | |
| And let the Nags go out and leave it. | |
| We're gonna pander to them. | |
| Anyway, look at this. | |
| So now the nags are out there demanding. | |
| The only workable solution is for Goodell to resign and for a successor, his successor to appoint an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking within the NFL community. | |
| It's a football league. | |
| And now look at right in there, facilitating this all along has been the drive-by sports media. | |
| Because they glom on to these social issues. | |
| Oh, they love these leftist social issues. | |
| They love reporting all the suspensions. | |
| It's just unbelievable. | |
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| Just to reiterate, the National Association of Gals, the nags have uh demanded Roger Goodell resign, the commissioner. | |
| The NFL says the chief nag here, Terry O'Neill. | |
| The NFL has lost its way. | |
| It doesn't have a Ray Rice problem. | |
| It has a violence against women problem. | |
| Really? | |
| Really? | |
| Where is that? | |
| League goes all pink every October. | |
| Well, where is this violence against women stuff? | |
| Ray Rice and who else? | |
| Who? | |
| Give me a name. | |
| Who else? | |
| Remember those fake stats that the nags and a bunch of people put out every Super Bowl said that wife abuse, spouse abuse is at an all-time high every Super Bowl. | |
| Remember that? | |
| A flat-out lie. | |
| That was way, way back many moons ago, but it stood for a while. | |
| People thought it was true. | |
| It was later debunked. | |
| The only workable solution is for Roger Goodell to quit for his successor to appoint an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking within the NFL community, and to recommend real and lasting reforms. | |
| In the release, the nags listed Ray Rice, the San Francisco Ford owner defensive lineman Ray McDonald, Carolina Panthers defensive lineman Greg Hardy, and the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' examples of cases the league has failed to act on. | |
| The chief nag said that the NFL sets example for college, Haskell, middle school, even elementary school football programs. | |
| The example it's setting right now is simply unacceptable. | |
| New leadership must come in with a specific charge to transform the culture of violence against women that pervades the NFL. | |
| That's the only way to restore. | |
| Look, if they're serious about this, it isn't the NFL that they've got to focus on. | |
| If they're really serious about this, they've got to focus on. | |
| Well, you know. | |
| When where were the nags when Juanita Broderick said she was raped by Bill Clinton? | |
| Where were the nags when Kathleen Willie was stalked and hit on by Bill Clinton? | |
| Where were the nags when Jennifer Flowers and all of Bimbozic, where were they? | |
| Where were the nags when Paula Jones was called trailer trash by James Carville and said, this is what you get when you drag a dollar bill through a trailer park. | |
| Where were the nags during all of that? | |
| I'm telling you, there is a there is a there's an assault on football here. | |
| It's all part of this focus on concussions. | |
| And I am convinced that the people that run this league have no idea what they're up against. | |
| They really don't. | |
| They have no clue. | |
| And they have no clue how to deal with it. | |
| They deal with it like every other group of cowards deals with all these other attacks on the left. | |
| They pander, They try to appease and please and give them a portion or all of what they are demanding and want. | |
| And the thing that they don't get is that with the left, it's never about what they say they're angry about. | |
| It's never about that, and they can't be appeased. | |
| They can't never be pleased. | |
| They can never be made happy. | |
| They never are, no matter what they're given, no matter what compromises are made in their never happy with whatever they get. | |
| Be it a tax increase, be it nationalization of health care, they never end up happy with what they get. | |
| But this is about, this is about much more than that. | |
| And this was this has been so easy to see coming. | |
| It's been out there. | |
| But the people in the NFL think they're they're an impenetrable fortress. | |
| They're just so big and they're so popular. | |
| I mean, look at the TV ratings. | |
| Yeah, look at the TV ratings. | |
| They're not, they're down this year from last year. | |
| Now it's only the first week. | |
| But I've got a bad feeling about this. | |
| I got a bad feeling because I don't, I don't think they're afraid of the wrong people in the NFL. | |
| They're worried about the wrong people. | |
| And they do not understand really who and what they're up against, even now. | |
| They they they know goodell could resign. | |
| It wouldn't end anything. | |
| You just you just fuel the nags and they would start demanding more things. | |
| Because pretty soon what they're going to be saying is to hell with violence against women, the game itself is too violent. | |
| We don't need this in our culture. | |
| We don't need this kind of barbarism in our society. | |
| We don't need these kind of rewards for injuring people. | |
| We don't need these kind of rewards financial or otherwise for giving people concussions. | |
| We don't need these kind of rewards for turning students out of colleges that don't have degrees and don't have any education. | |
| We don't need to be rewarding any of this. | |
| This game simply is not what America is about in the 21st century. | |
| That's where this is headed. | |
| This game is too violent, it's too ugly, it promotes violence, it rewards it, celebrates it, and we are not a violent society anymore. | |
| And we're not going to be. | |
| And this is where, and right in there assisting with all this, unwittingly, by the way, have been the sports drive-bys who love leftist cultural upheaval wherever it happens. | |
| The drive-by sports guys are happy as pigs in slop to be reporting all this stuff. | |
| Oh, they can't, you can't hold them back. | |
| You go to any of your football sites right now that you check, and you do a comparison of how many stories there are on football, actual football games played last Sunday, roster, whatever you want to look at versus this stuff. | |
| And you're going to be shocked that over half of the news in the NFL is now not just about Ray Rice, but it's about the ugliness, the barbarism, the concussions, the life-threatening aspects of playing this game. | |
| The things it does to people, pretty soon they're going to explain wife beating and stalking by virtue of playing the game. | |
| Oh, yeah, football is going to end up being blamed for all of these national organization for women malcontent complaints. | |
| The game turns decent ordinary predator men into stalkers and violent rapists and muggers and purse snatchers. | |
| And we've got to do something about it. | |
| The game is going to take the hit for this when the game has some culpability in it, but it doesn't, it does this this cultural rot doesn't start with the game. | |
| It starts much earlier in life. | |
| And the league simply takes the people best qualified to play wherever they come from. | |
| And then they try to manage them however they can once they get there. | |
| And check this. | |
| Do a Google search on this. | |
| And you'll be surprised. | |
| Do a Google search on a search term that's something like NFL executives who say they can't understand why so many young men would throw away such a golden opportunity in life to play in the NFL to prosper to earn a good living. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they're football executives and coaches all over this country publicly scratching their heads. | |
| Why would these young men come to this university and get arrested for doing drugs and driving drunk? | |
| And why would they do it? | |
| You'll be shocked if you do this at the number of former coaches, current coaches, executives, uh studio commentators who are asking these questions. | |
| As if they don't know. | |
| As if they can't understand why this is happening. | |
| But it doesn't matter to the nags and whoever additional critics tend to be. | |
| It's just easier to blame the game for all of this. | |
| This unacceptable violent behavior against women. | |
| The game is going to be blamed. | |
| The game is going to take the hit, and the people at the upper echelon of the game do not know how to deal with this. | |
| Just like the Republican Party doesn't know how to deal with it, folks. | |
| They don't know how to deal with the on rush of liberalism. | |
| They don't. | |
| And neither does the lead. | |
| Back after this. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| Hey, I get how about this? | |
| Would you be surprised if Eric Holder and the Department of Justice decided to do an investigation of the NFL? | |
| Well, they did civil rights uh violation investigation of Ferguson, Missouri. | |
| Oh, by the way, speaking of that, folks, you remember back when the video of the gentle giant robbing the uh the quick shop in St. Louis came out, and drive-byers were livid, just livid. | |
| And we came to find out that it was the Department of Justice that had suppressed the video and asked the local cops in Ferguson not to air the video, the gentle giant stealing a box of uh swisher sweets. | |
| And a video came out, and a drive-by's were outraged. | |
| Remember. | |
| They were fit to be tied. | |
| It was discrimination, it was who knows what it was. | |
| But the same drive-by's hail the Ray Rice video because it changed everything and showed the real Ray Rice. | |
| But when a video came out and showed the real gentle gi uh uh uh uh uh uh No way, Jose, not gonna allow that, not gonna support it, but with the Ray Rice video. | |
| The media folk, the media, the media that depends on this game for its living is participating in this assault on the game. | |
| At least in my view, as I look at it from afar. | |
| Let me grab, let me go to uh uh line five. | |
| Let me grab Brett in Burlington, Vermont as we head back to the phones. | |
| Hi, Brett, I'm glad you called. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Hello. | |
| Rush, how are you? | |
| Just fine, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Haven't talked to you in many years. | |
| Yeah, you know. | |
| Two comments. | |
| One especially regarding the comments from this guy from TMC. | |
| Well, I heard them yesterday. | |
| I started thinking like you have taught me to think, and that is that this smelled like one not only hypocrisy, but you know, this this guy, I'm sure is a big lip. | |
| And it seemed like this, you know. | |
| I started thinking, I wonder if this is a a concerted. | |
| Now, wait a minute now. | |
| What what a second? | |
| You're talking about Harvey Levin, uh, the the guy I call the new Walter Cronkite. | |
| Yes. | |
| Harvey Levin. | |
| I mean, yeah, this seems like a concerted effort. | |
| It smells of the White House continuing their attack. | |
| This is round two of their attack on the NFL, because they didn't listen when Obama told them to change the name of the Redskins, and now they're saying, okay, you you're gonna ignore us. | |
| Well, here we come again. | |
| And now, here's the pro I don't think I I I think the I think there's two separate things. | |
| I I I I don't think I really I I don't think Harvey Levin is, okay, they didn't change the name, okay. | |
| So see what they do with this rights video. | |
| I I don't think that's Harvey's just trying to take over the news business. | |
| That's all. | |
| Well, here's here's my other comment is that this guy, what's he do is complain is that he, the head of the NFL, and he's so angry, the head of the NFL, uh, supposedly in his theory, knew about it. | |
| Yeah, covered it up, right? | |
| And now should be impeached because of it. | |
| But my question is where is this where was this guy when four Americans were killed and the American president? | |
| Well, now wait a minute about it. | |
| No, Harvey doesn't do that. | |
| Harvey does low information news. | |
| Harvey Harvey is TMZ. | |
| Harvey is the e-entertainment network. | |
| It's people magazine, and the NFL is a celebrity news event. | |
| Uh and so that's why Harvey's in on this. | |
| Uh well, Obama's a celebrity too, but but uh I the TMZ, they don't they don't do the political unless they run into me in LA and then they'll throw a camera in my face. | |
| And they ask me inane stuff, you know, and I just keep walking. | |
| But but look, the first thing you said out there, Brett, is that you got this guy Harvey is a big lip. | |
| So's the NFL, Harvey. | |
| The NFL, there's nothing rabidly conservative about the NFL, and certainly not the commissioner's office. | |
| I mean, they're just not. | |
| So in in your in your example would be Lib versus Lib, if you think Harvey, Levin, i.e., Walter Cronkite. | |
| Well, I say Walter Cronkite because the low uh TMZ is the gospel to a lot of low information news consumers, folks. | |
| TMZ is gospel. | |
| That's why I called him uh Walter Cronkite. | |
| He ought to appreciate that. | |
| That's a that's a compliment. | |
| But I don't think it's anything to do with the Redskins in terms of what TMZ is doing here. | |
| TMZ, Harvey Levin, Walter Cronckite. | |
| I guess firmly believes that everybody claiming they didn't know this video existed is lying about it. | |
| And the reason he's claiming it is two things. | |
| He thinks they have seen it, but the second thing, even if they haven't seen it, they had to know what went on in there. | |
| How does a woman end up unconscious in an elevator and dragged out of it if she's not hit, especially after the two people in the elevator apparently testified that that's what happened. | |
| So a lot of people are saying, why did it take the video? | |
| And that's essentially what Harvey Levin, why does it take the video anyway to take this in two games to six games to out of the league? | |
| And that's the answer to that. | |
| That's just another cultural thing. | |
| I want to warn you of something else that's percolating out there. | |
| And I don't know how far this is gonna go. | |
| But there are people who are saying that they have seen even more of the video from Inside the Elevator. | |
| Now you know, if you're keeping up speed on this, that Mrs. Ray Rice, well, at the time she was fiance, spit on Ray in that elevator. | |
| That has been reported. | |
| Apparently, in addition to her spitting on him, she hit him. | |
| The violence was going two ways in there, and even before they got on the elevator. | |
| And there is now just a ripple of undercurrent of people who are becoming aware that Janae Rice was not just innocently walking along and got belted. | |
| Nobody's saying, nobody's saying she deserved to get hit. | |
| Don't misunderstand. | |
| Don't misunderstand this. | |
| Because it's still operative. | |
| You never lay hands on a woman. | |
| I heard Ray Lewis say it. | |
| It's gospel. | |
| You never lay hands on a woman. | |
| And it's true you don't, even if you're getting pummeled. | |
| That's the cultural moret. | |
| The nags can demand equality all they want, but you still can't hit the girl. | |
| Not only can you not hit the girl, you remember what happened to Rick Lazio when he walked to Hillary's podium in a debate? | |
| All he did was walk over there to give her a paper to sign. | |
| And he was accused of assault and intimidation. | |
| So you don't hit the girl. | |
| Nobody's saying so, but this is a bit of an undercurrent that's beginning to now bubble up on this sordid, sordid tale. | |
| Just amazing. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| I'm gonna get to the ISIS speech tonight. | |
| And the stuff going on with the Republican Party is not gonna please you. | |
| It isn't gonna make you happy. | |
| But we gotta get into it. | |
| All that and more coming up after we take a brief time out here at the top of the hour. | |
| Sit tight, my friends. |
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