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Sept. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings my friends.
Welcome back to the EIB Network and your host Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's real anchor man, the truth detector, and the well-known beloved doctor of democracy.
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Now think about this, folks.
We just had a call, great caller, great guy, Gary in Georgia, Helen, Georgia.
Hey, Rush, you're not going to be able to do it about football too ingrained here in our culture.
High school, college.
They're never going to be able to touch it.
It's just too important.
Too many people.
It's too ingrained.
Used to say that about the Boy Scouts.
You say that about the Girl Scouts.
Used to say that about churches.
You say that about Hollywood.
Used to say that about Chamber of Commerce.
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
If I really stop to think about this, how many, the education system go back 50 years compared to what it is today.
The education system is why I write children's books now to get the truth of American history out there.
And they're damn good books, I might add.
But that's another story.
We've got liberalism has corrupted so much that people thought was untouchable.
Institutions and traditions that people thought, no way would they ever be able.
These are solid.
These are never going to change.
And I bet off the top of your head, you can think of some too.
Now, don't misunderstand me on this football business.
It's going to take them years.
And I don't care if they ever ultimately succeed.
The point is the effort that they make is going to drive people away from the game.
Do you think people really are football fans because they want to know the latest on whatever stuff's happening off the field?
Some people, you know, low information people who love prillient things, yeah.
But don't forget what sports is.
Don't forget what sports has always been.
You know what?
I remember, I'm going to tell you this story again.
I, when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, I was in the marketing department.
And one year after 1980, yeah, first or second year with the team, somehow I ended up with the marketing department in the meetings after the season.
They were in Scottsdale, in fact.
Every team sent representatives, and they were the marketing meetings, business side meetings of baseball.
And we had a number of people that come in and did lectures.
There was this one guy that came as a Harvard sociology professor.
And remember, we are there.
The whole point of this effort is to figure out how to sell more tickets.
We in the marketing department had no control over the number one weapon to sell tickets, and that's winning.
Winning will sell tickets better than any other campaign you can devise.
But you have no control over that.
So you have to come up with creative ways to make coming to the ballpark attractive when the team isn't winning or when it's thought they might not win.
So everybody's looking for creative ways to do that.
There were the giveaway nights and the mascots and all this kind of thing.
But this guy said something, I have never forgotten this, because of course I'm fascinated by the philosophical.
And he said, what is it about sports that sets it apart from everything else in our lives?
What is it?
And of course, we all raised our hands and we took a stab at answering the question.
None of us provided the answer he was looking for.
He said, well, yeah, that's true.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
No, you're dead wrong.
But the real answer is that sports as an adult is the one thing you can invest total passion without consequence.
Now, what he meant by that was, as you grow older, you become suspicious of people and you are guarded.
And you may not let yourself go all the way with certain people.
You may not want them to see who you are because you don't trust them.
So you're always holding some of yourself back.
You're always guarded, always suspicious.
You learn.
We all learn to be this way after we get taken advantage of by people we think we can trust that we can't, people who use us.
But he said with sports, you throw all that out and you can invest in your team with total passion with no consequence, meaning you're never going to get hurt.
You're never going to get rejected.
You're never going to get told to get out.
You're never going to get fired.
And for the most part, the more passion you show for your team, the more your team is going to love you.
He said, try that with a woman.
Or if you're a woman, try that with a man.
The point is, relationships, you've got to play a little game.
Can't act like you're totally into the person and it's no challenge anymore and they send you a packet.
Your team will never do that.
And I have never forgotten that because I think it is dead right on, particularly from a marketing standpoint, if you're working at a team trying to sell tickets and increase attendance, how to maximize that passion.
Well, part and parcel of that passion is sports, the ability to express that passion is the escape it provides from the humdrum of the rest of your life.
That's what sports has always been for fans, to one degree or another.
The more rabid, the more into the team, but still, you could have all kinds of things going wrong in your life.
If your team wins, it mitigates it somehow.
It just is that way.
In small towns like Pittsburgh and Kansas City, I marvel at how the performance of the local sports team actually can determine the self-esteem of a population of a city.
I've seen it over and over again.
Okay, now take the NFL and what's been happening to it last two years, but particularly now just the last six months, last three months, last three weeks.
It's not an escape anymore.
The NFL is not an escape from the humdrum.
You may not yet be unable to engage or express total passion, invest total passion without consequence, but it's not an escape anymore.
Turn on the SPN to learn about football, and you're going to have to sit there a while while you listen to the latest social upheaval or the latest cultural rot or the latest DUI or the latest this or that.
And the media seems to relish in reporting this stuff.
And so if this continues, my point is, if this continues and ratchets up, sports isn't going to be.
The NFL is not going to be what it once was to people.
An escape, it's going to be a reminder.
And that's not good.
And if the left's constant bombardment of the people that run the game, if their constant attacks on the people who play the game, even under the guise of cleaning it up, if the left never lets up on this, fans are going to say, I don't care.
I don't, this is not why I watch.
I don't care what you think.
I don't care about seeing pink flags being thrown in October.
I'm not watching this game for breast cancer awareness.
Any number of manifestations of this can take place.
They don't have to wipe the game out.
They don't have to destroy it in order to chip away at the interest fans have for it, particularly casual everyday fans.
It'd be a little bit harder to get rid of the diehard, obviously.
It's just going to take work now to stay focused on the actual sport of the sport.
You're going to have to make conscious efforts to avoid certain media coverage.
I saw a couple weeks ago a very, very big weekly column on the NFL.
And it always features a rundown of what's in the column because it's a long column, five or six full-fledged internet pages.
You scroll through it and click to the next one.
And the rundown, over half the rundown, had nothing to do with football.
It had to do with wife beating, DUIs, performance-enhancing drug suspensions, urine tests.
And my only contention is that as that continues, and you've got a media being suckered into doing all this, too.
It's just, it has to chip away at fan interest because this is not why people want to play fantasy football, for example.
Pretty soon you're going to need a fantasy football league comprised of players who are suspended first and longest, and you win the league by predicting that.
If you want to stay relevant with what supposedly is going on with the game.
But you just, mark my words here.
I don't expect the game to be wiped out.
And I don't think it's going to become flag football.
That would wipe it out.
But you're going to get fed up if more and more of the media attention on the game has less and less to do with the game.
Mark my words.
You're going to talk about I'm being a mayor of Realville.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press tweeted out a little less than an hour ago their latest poll.
And it has to do with national security and Obama's speech.
82% of Republicans are very concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism in the world, compared to 51% of Democrats.
Now, who do you think is living in Rielville there?
Obviously, the 82% of Republicans.
And I'll furthermore, I will suggest, I don't have the actual poll, don't know that I could even substantiate this if I did.
But I would bet you that this 51% of Democrats who say that they are not very concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism answered with a political context in mind that they wanted to protect Obama in their answer in this poll.
Because everybody knows they're being polled when they're being polled.
In other words, I don't know how honest they're even being.
They're just trying to cover for their party.
Quick timeout.
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Don't go away.
Did you ever think that the left would be able to make communities shut down nativity scenes in public?
U.S. national holiday.
I bet you didn't.
Back in the day.
Did you ever think the left would start saying that there's no such thing as Thanksgiving and we don't need to be celebrating.
It's an insult to the Indians.
I'm telling you, every institution and tradition that you hold dear is or has been under assault by the left for a long, long time.
It's just what they do.
Here is Dan, Tyson's Corner, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the program, sir.
Hi.
Rush, I've been listening to you for over 20 years and trying to call you, and I finally hit the right eight and two.
What do you think of that?
I think that it's our lucky day, and I appreciate your persistence.
And 20 years is a long time.
I really appreciate that.
It's over 20.
It's a long time.
That's a big deal.
I appreciate it.
Right.
Some of the facts that the media don't project is in the 50s when Syria and Egypt were part of the United Arab Republic, Russia has a warm water port on the Mediterranean, which they still have, and they're not going to relinquish that.
So that's a fact.
And then number two is that your fact about the Free Syrian army, the Kurds have been collecting, or excuse me, capturing weapons of the Islamics that they've been killing, and these weapons are ours, and the serial numbers have been welded over.
And as everyone knows, a lot of the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, have been funneling arms to the Free Syrians.
That's a fact.
That was in the post the other day.
And the last fact I'd like to give you is it's an old Islamic proverb, is that it's better to deal with the devil that you know than deal with the devil that you don't know.
And that applies to whom in this case?
It applies to everyone in the Middle East.
Who is who?
We don't know.
When you say the Saudis, can I ask you a question about people tell me, and I hear from people all the time, the Saudis are doing this, Saudis are doing that.
Who are the Saudis?
There's no wrong answer.
I'm just curious who you mean.
Well, I will give you a fact that two weeks after 9-1-1, Winston Churchill's grandson spoke to the National Press Club, and at that time he said the Saudis were the problem.
Yeah, but who?
Who are the Saudis?
I mean, we know that.
The family.
There's a lot of princes that get.
Royal family.
So King Abdullah on down.
No, no, no, no.
They are the Saudis.
Lot of the princes that comprise of the royal family.
There's a lot of princes that get the oil royalty.
Well, there's over 200 of them.
And it's all blood money, as you know.
A lot of it went to Osama bin Laden.
But those are some of the people.
Wait, now, wait a minute, though.
I find this fascinating because, and I'm not arguing with you, don't misunderstand.
It was just, let's see.
I get confused how much time in the past when I was off a week.
I think this happened the week before I left.
Might have happened while I was.
No, because I didn't pay attention to anything.
The king, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, held a party, a reception at his private residence in Jeddah, which is half the city, I think.
I mean, it's huge.
It'll take you two days to drive around the thing.
I'm joking.
But, I mean, the private residence at King is huge.
And King Abdullah is, and its ambassadors, new ambassadors to Saudi Arabia are the guests.
And I think John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, happened to be there.
Maybe not at this particular reception, but had been there either soon before or came in later, a day or two later.
But the king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Abziz Ben Aziz Al Saud, whatever, he told these ambassadors to go back to their home countries or to cable their leaders and to warn them about ISIS.
And he said, they are going to be in Europe in a month.
You remember this now?
They're going to be in Europe in a month, and in another month, they're going to be in America.
He warned them of this.
And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at this, Dan, and I'm saying, you're the guy sponsoring them.
Dan's right.
The Saudi royal family is the Saudis.
When you hear the Saudis, they are Wahhabism.
They are the ones who fund all the Saudi charities all over the world, or the Islamic charities.
They are some of the—now, they were not supporters of bin Laden.
As you know, bin Laden didn't like the Saudi royal family, tried to wipe them out.
And they themselves are targets of terrorist attacks.
But even at that, they fund a lot of this.
The Saudis are really radical Islamists.
On the one hand, on the other hand, they're our partner in all.
It's one of the strangest things.
And as I actually conduct a test, I ask everybody, it starts the Saudis doing this.
Who do you mean, the Saudis?
And most people say, well, you know, all the Imams over there.
Hardly anybody ever thinks it's the Saudi royal family.
They are victims too.
But they run that country.
They are totally in charge of Saudi Arabia.
Who are friends?
Well, who are our real friends in that region, the Israelis?
And then, you know, we have a fairly decent allied relationship with Pakistan because they have nukes, but that's always dicey.
Well, it's Obama, but it's always been dicey.
But when you say, who are our friends?
I don't really have a whole lot of real friends.
King of Jordan was.
Well, the Kurds are cool, but what do they have?
Kurds have tiddlywinks.
Mubarak was, yeah, but it wasn't cool to have Mubarak as a friend.
Why do we dump on our real friend?
Well, why do we?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Okay, no, I didn't forget.
Mentioned at the top of the program, there are three big things today, Ray Rice, which reminds me, which reminds me.
No, I didn't get to those Kareem Abdul-Jabbar soundbites from yesterday about the Atlanta Hawks owner.
And I've got a bunch of Ray Rice soundbites today, too.
But I've got this Republican Party thing that I've also promised.
Folks, basically what it is, and I don't, I just hate this.
I hate having to report this stuff.
I'm not comfortable.
What's going on?
I mean, if I had to boil it down to a nutshell, is the stage is being set for a huge bunch of crony capitalist relationships that will be forged during the lame duck session of Congress, primarily after the November elections.
And one of the ways this is going to happen is the continuing resolution.
We continue to flout the entire budget process.
So we're going to have a continuing resolution, and the threat is going to be bandied back and forth about another government shutdown to put pressure on Republicans.
But what is being contemplated now is to pass a continuing resolution only through December, which would make it somewhat small in scope, making it supportable.
The purpose of a continuing resolution only through December is to get the support of lame duck members of Congress, especially Republicans, to vote for more spending, and they might even roll amnesty into this, as well as other policies and programs before a new Congress is sworn in.
In other words, there's going to be a lame duck Congress after the elections in November.
The new Congress gets sworn in in January.
There is a stratagem that's been developed to ram a whole lot of things through in the lame duck session voted on by people who may be leaving office for whom there will not be any further accountability.
And it will cement ties with Republicans and Democrats to lobbyists on K-Street.
The whole crony corporatism, crony socialism, I call it, arrangement that has now taken place in Washington.
It used to be thought that big business was Republican.
They wanted government out of everybody's life, including their own.
They wanted to compete in the basis of merit.
They wanted to go out there and beat their competitors into the mud.
And they wanted the government out of the way, and they wanted to eliminate regulation.
And now it's the exact opposite.
Corporations have decided it's easier to get in bed with government and let the government take care of their competition by wiping them out with regulations that the cronies are immune to.
I mentioned this many, many weeks ago now when pointing out how, for example, Walmart, out of the clear blue, is doing everything to help Obamacare get passed.
Walmart?
I said, because they know their competitors can't afford it.
What better way to get rid of competitors to have to close shop because they can't afford Obamacare when Walmart can?
Costco is another one.
Costco, in support of raising the federal minimum wage because they claim they can afford to pay it to their people, but their competitors can't.
So this kind of crony relationship that really sprang to life with the Obama administration.
General Electric was one of the early signatories to this.
Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO, signed on on the premise of advancing clean energy with government grants and all this.
But he wasn't alone.
There were others.
You remember the left always ripped Halliburton, claiming that Halliburton had a relationship with Bush because Cheney used to run it, and we went to war only so Halliburton could profit?
Well, that was bogus, but that's the kind of stuff that actually is going on here.
And there is a stratagem to plan and set up even more of it in the lame duck session, and they could include amnesty in it before the new Congress is sworn in.
This kind of thing happened in 2010 before the Tea Party landslide election.
Well, after the election, but before the Tea Party Congress was sworn in.
Remember when the House, the Republicans, swept back into control with 50 or 60 some odd seats because of the Tea Party midterm victories in 2010?
There was a midterm or a lame duck session of Congress where all kinds of stuff was done.
Democrats and Republicans of the establishment alike got together and ran through a bunch of stuff before the Tea Party guys got there and had a chance to vote on it.
Speaker Boehner has announced the Export-Import Bank is going to be funded in the next continuing resolution.
You know what the Export-Import Bank is?
It's a welfare program for huge international corporations that use tax dollars to subsidize their exports.
Export-import bank is simply a way for big business to have government support in running their day-to-day affairs.
IMF is another one of the all of these massive funds of money.
And the corporate tie is paid for in support for candidates.
It's a backscratch kind of thing, but it is crony socialism or capitalism, whatever you're going to call it, to the max degree.
And the point is here that I have been advised by several insiders that there's all kinds of this that's being planned even as we speak.
Now, the way this is manifesting itself is that the House and Senate Republican leaders are telling everybody in private that the very best thing they're going to be able to do is to get a continuing resolution till December.
That's the best thing they can supposedly get.
That's it.
That's the max.
So the question is, why would Senate Republicans be telling Republicans in the House that, hey, all we need to do is pass this continuing resolution till December and go on?
They're being told that there's going to be a vote Thursday on this massive continuing resolution just got filed.
They're big.
They can't be read quickly.
You can stuff a whole lot of stuff into a . And nobody reads legislation anymore anyway.
Witness Obamacare.
The Republican leaders back in 2010, they promised, you put us in charge of the minority and we're going to make sure that there's time to read the bill.
Remember that?
Put us in the majority and we'll make sure the bill is read.
They were promising this to the Tea Party people because Tea Party people voted in Grave because nobody had read Obamacare and yet they'd voted on it.
It was a disaster.
And so the Republicans claiming to hear the voters, hey, put us in power in the part of the campaign and we will always give enough time to read the bill.
But this is Wednesday and the CR supposedly is going to be submitted and voted on tomorrow.
There won't be time to vote on it.
And the vote is to extend it only until December.
And again, the key to that is it's before the new Congress is sworn in.
And it's not just the Democrats, too.
There's some Republicans in the Senate who want a continuing resolution that only goes to December, despite the fact that virtually everybody is thinking the Republicans are going to take over the majority in the Senate.
So why not wait for that is the thing.
If the Republicans are going to have the House and the Senate, if you just wait till January, why do all this stuff before then?
And the answer is because it might not be able to get done if the new Congress, after the new Congress is sworn in.
So keep a sharp eye, folks.
The establishment is circling the wagons and doing what it can to, I don't know, enrich or protect itself against whatever happens in the election and what then might result from Republican control of the House and the Senate.
You know, Ted Cruz has a floor of the Senate yesterday.
There's a Democrats, Dingy Harry, have mounted a piece of legislation that's actually attack on the First Amendment.
They're attempting, and I'm not kidding when I tell you that the end result of this bill, I mean, this is Soviet.
This bill would prevent criticism of politicians, elected officials, and office holders in Washington.
You'd be under penalty of punishment.
And Cruz went to the floor of the Senate last night and said, you know what?
This means the end of Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night Live could be fined out of existence.
So he went to that idiot Al Franklin who used to write for...
Al, you're supporting this damn thing.
Do you actually think your budget Saturday Night Live should be criminals?
And Franken's usual answer was, I have a meeting.
I mean, this is the height of arrogance.
These people now think they are above criticism.
And some of this, not all of it, but some of it descends from Citizens United.
They're still fuming over that.
They're still fuming that the fact that corporations are people now and can donate to political campaigns.
So there's all kinds of ways they're trying to shut that down.
And any criticism whatsoever.
The Incumbents Protection Act or some such thing.
Here's Bob in Missoula, Montana.
As we head back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, Bob.
25 and a half years.
Hey, suppose that elevator door had opened, and rather than Ray Rice dragging out his unconscious fiancé, Janae, it had been the first openly gay NFL draftee, Michael Sam, dragging out his white boyfriend unconscious.
What would the media have said about that?
Well, gee, Bob, I don't know what would happen suppressed or if it did get out.
I don't know.
Obviously, in your scenario, there wouldn't be a woman involved.
Exactly.
And then, on the slight chance, if it did get out, they would have said, well, we need to give this couple the time that they need to reconcile their situation.
Well, look, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Theoretically, but Michael Sam didn't do this.
Let's not muddy the waters here.
Michael Sam didn't beat anybody up.
I understand the point you're trying to make: that some, no matter what, would be protected.
But a lot of people think somebody like Ray Rice would be protected, but he's not being.
But Michael Sam didn't do anything like this.
This is a hypothetical caller thinking way, way out in front of things here.
Folks, I tried to squeeze a lot of stuff in it.
There's just some stuff I didn't get to, and I just ordered it held over for tomorrow.
Some really good soundbite stuff.
The drive-bys are ticked off at Harvey Levin.
They're jealous.
They're mad.
We got those soundbites, and we'll get to that tomorrow.
See you then.
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