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Sept. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Man, this is a great one o'clock cigar.
Maybe because I didn't light it till two o'clock, but whatever.
Ah, man.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
You are listening to the five-time winner of the Marconi Award, National Association of Broadcasters, Marconi Award for Excellence in Syndicated National Network Broadcasting.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
It's a great honor for me, and I thank everybody to broadcast business for bestowing it the fifth time I've won this award award.
It's the I'm only the second recipient, the second five-time recipient, joining the legendary Paul Harvey.
Good day to have won the award.
It's bestowed by the broadcast community, and so it's meaningful.
But you are the ones that have made it possible.
Open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about, Hunky Dory, Fine and Dandy, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Okay, let me get started with things here because lots to cram here into our final hour.
I checked an email during the break.
Rush, you know, I liked what you said about your reaction to the CBS Thursday night NFL pregame show.
But do you really think that it's ruining the game?
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that it will.
But they don't have to ruin it to damage it.
You can't find, I'm sorry, I don't care how rabid you are, you can't find a more rabid football fan than I was.
But I'm telling you, I'm not.
This season, something's happened and it was not purposeful.
I'm just not.
I don't want to watch that stuff I watched last night.
That's not why I tune in a football game.
Football for me is still something I wish I could have done.
Therefore, it's a fantasy.
It's an escape thing for me.
It's a way to spend some hours forgetting everything.
It's not that anymore.
Now it is this.
Football players are batterers.
There's an endemic, a pandemic.
There's an epidemic of spousal abuse in the NFL.
I saw it on TV last night.
I also heard that it's an epidemic all over the country, and they were all doing it.
And we're all participating in it.
And it's just horrible.
It's terrible.
It's rotten and so forth.
And once you start battering the league as a league of spousal abusers, well, the politics is going to follow.
We got a microcosm of society here, a small population of people in one sport in football who are being tarred and feathered here.
You got senators signing a letter calling for a one-strike ban on players, no second chances.
This is a serious issue that's being politicized for whatever, who knows whatever reason by subjecting it to football.
You know, if they're serious, if they're serious about this, we got to stop making heroes out of people like Ted Kennedy.
If they're serious about this, we've got to stop making heroes out of people like Bill Clinton.
If you want to engage in spousal abuse, if you want to beat up women and prosper, become a Democrat and run for office and get elected and you'll be protected.
These are the same people that want terrorists protected at Club Gitmo.
These are the same people that want open trials in New York City for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11.
But I'm being told the worst reprobates in the world today are playing football for the National Football League.
By the same token, Bill Clinton is the star of the Democrat Party.
There isn't any consistency here.
There's all kinds of abuse of women taking place throughout our society.
But the only place we seem to care about it, the National Football League.
If it happens at the hands of a Democrat politician, well, we're either not going to know about it, or we're going to sweep it under the rug, or we're going to try to understand that he's right on abortion, and so it excuses whatever else he does to women.
The 24-year-olds won't know why I said this.
Mr. Snerdley is saying a 24-year-old, the millennials are losing me because they don't know why I'm including Bill Clinton in this.
I guess that's right, because they were told that a BJ in the Oval Office is no big deal.
That's right.
You think they know what Ted Kennedy did?
They don't know about Chapiquittick?
You don't think they know?
That's probably right, too.
Okay, well, a woman died at Chappaquittick.
I don't know how many women accused Bill Clinton of abusing them.
And the women were destroyed.
The Clinton camp for you millennials had a unit called Bimbo Eruptions, and its existence, its purpose was to destroy the reputation of women who accused.
If we're being consistent, go after Janae Palmer, not Ray Rice.
My whole point here, if we're going to say about Paula Jones, well, that's what you get, dude.
You drag a dollar bill through a trade-off, and it's what you're going to get.
You're going to get trash.
Fine.
Then let's say that about Janae Palmer.
Let's be consistent here.
Do I need to go through the list here of Democrats who've engaged John Edwards?
Do we need to, that they tried to cover up and keep that under the rug?
All because these guys have the right view on abortion.
Maybe that's what Ray Rice needs to do.
Join, what is it?
What is it?
The family planning bunch Planned Parenthood.
Start raising money for Planned Parenthood.
Get out of jail card.
And if it's this bad, you know what?
Every NFL wife who's been abused should step forward.
We've got to get to the bottom of this.
We've got to solve this.
Bill Cower said so last night.
Deion Sanders said so.
James Brown said so.
One incident is too much.
The league cannot stand for this.
There is a reason they're targeting football here, folks.
What I don't get is why the media, well, I understand it.
It's their livelihood too that they are assaulting.
And this institution is an institution that makes millionaires out of young African Americans.
You would think it would be appreciated and loved.
Maybe that's why it's a target.
Who knows?
In the meantime, to hear about this, a Washington, D.C. public school teacher handed out an assignment.
The assignment was for her students to compare George W. Bush with Adolf Hitler.
The school was complained to by parents.
The teacher was made to apologize, but they won't identify the teacher by name.
It is McKinley Middle School.
Teacher recently instructed sixth grade students to compare George W. Bush to charismatic genocide perpetrator Adolf Hitler.
On Wednesday afternoon, D.C. resident Matt Ashburn tweeted a photo of the homework assignment, which instructed kids to compare and contrast the former president and the fascist dictator.
The teacher's identity is being withheld by the school and the public school system.
Melissa Salmanowicz or Salmanowitz, whatever press secretary for the public school system, said we will not release a teacher's name.
When asked if additional disciplinary action had been taken or will be taken against the teacher, Salmanowitz said that the public school system does not comment on personnel matters.
Here's the assignment.
This is what it read.
And there's a tweet, a picture of the homework assignment.
This is what it says.
Now that we have read about two men of power who abused their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their actions, the assignment reads.
We will use this in class tomorrow for an activity exclamation point.
The worksheet included a fun Venn diagram, which you can check out below.
It's overlapping circles.
Where did George Bush and Adolf Hitler interact and what did they have in common?
That was the homework assignment for a bunch of six graders in the Washington, D.C. public school system.
See, tortured, Bush abused power.
This is all this.
This teacher, I guarantee you, is a far leftist driven insane by members of her party, never-ending criticism of the Iraq war.
I guarantee you, that's what this is.
Similarities, George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler.
You know the reaction the left has when you compare any of their people to Hitler.
You can't do that.
This is outrageous.
These are the people that made movies on how to assassinate George W. Bush.
These are the people that wrote books about it.
And the media told us: well, yeah, it's a little out there, but we must examine it for the literary and artistic value, they said, of these two things.
There's a movie and a book on how to assassinate George W. Bush.
Michael Shoss writing in Town Hall, Democrats are trying to kill funding for schools with Native American mascots.
Political correctness is apparently more important than educating children.
At least that's the message I take away.
This is Mr. Shaws writing from a Colorado Democrats' plan to defund schools that have unauthorized mascots.
Wielding the self-righteous tomahawk of political correctness, Democrat Joe Salazar has decided to leverage Colorado's kids as a bargaining chip in his effort to rid the world of offensive Native American mascots.
Under this plan, the legislator, Joe Salazar and Thornton, schools will be required to seek permission from Native American tribes for their Western-themed mascots or go without any state funding.
There are almost 3,000 schools at various levels with Native American mascots.
The editorial board of a college newspaper has declared that Braziers are racist because they come in colors named nude.
And the reason a nude-colored Brazier is racist is because not all women's skin is white.
If a black woman goes to the store and sees a Brazier in the color of nude, she will be offended.
It's racist because she is black and the brasier is flesh-colored.
And so this is racist.
According to the editorial board of a college newspaper, how would it make you feel the fashion industry and society at large has based its ideal of nude on Caucasian people, that the color of your skin doesn't count as nude, asks the staff editorial, published by the Oklahoma Daily, the official newspaper of the University of Oklahoma.
The same board used the same reasoning to conclude that nude makeup, flesh-covered clothing, and band-aids are also racist.
Not kidding, folks.
This is college university journalism.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Mike, Niagara Falls, New York.
Hi, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, congratulations, Rush.
It is a pleasure and an honor to speak with the five-time award winner.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Yes, I believe that Roger Goodell and his current NFL problems or the problems of the NFL is a classic case of liberals and the media devouring their owner, throwing them under the bus as soon as one cause trumps another.
And I think Roger Goodell has only himself to blame on this one.
Well, I think the twist is, is in the original sentencing of Ray Rice, I mean, they've had, you know, domestic violence going on forever in the NFL, as purported by the media.
Well, but they've never had a policy for it.
And that is key here.
Okay.
And he went with the two weeks because I think in light of everything that's happened recently over the past year, starting with Trevon Martin, Donald Sterling, the Ferguson shooting, he didn't want to be seen as coming down too hard on the case of Ray Rice and then having the Sharptons of the world drop on his head.
So he had to do something to appease people.
So a two-week sentence, go to classes, be a good boy.
That was good enough.
Now, all of a sudden, the second video comes out, which I don't think he had any idea was going to.
He knew what was going on before this.
And now, all of a sudden, he's been jumped on by everybody because, of course, the domestic violence is going to trump the racist one in this case.
And he has really taken it on the chin.
Okay, so let's review your theory.
Your theory is that we have the most politically correct commissioner in all of sports under assault by the political correctness police.
And what he did, he sees what's going on.
He sees Trayvon Martin.
He sees what happened in Ferguson with the gentle giant.
He sees that Obama jumps into these cases.
He sees that Eric Holder jumps into these cases.
And so here comes Ray Rice.
No policy in the NFL for punishment of spousal abuse.
So he fines him $500,000 and suspends him for two games because he doesn't want to appear racist in coming down hard on a black guy.
Is that your theory?
Exactly.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I'm nervous and trying to say it, but that's exactly it.
And now the second video comes out, and he's going to take it on the chin because they're throwing him under the bus.
Well, there is a legitimate argument about this video because it existed, and there's so many questions.
Goodell claims he hasn't seen it, but the AP has proven to the media that somebody in the NFL office got it.
Well, and you have pointed out on so many occasions how highly up that security force is.
They knew this was happening in the video, and I would be surprised if they saw it, and they passed this information on to him.
But he had one cause to go with, but now he's getting bit by the second one.
The only argument against that is that these are smart people.
They have to know this video is going to come out.
And if they know this video exists and they know it's going to come out, and from the minute that suspension of two games was announced, the political correct police went baddie.
It wasn't enough.
And then so he responded to that criticism when the tape hit by making it sick.
No, he changed the policy for future violators to six games.
Then the tape goes public and he gets rid of Rice.
But the crux of your theory is that he knew what was going on from the get-go, but wanted to go easy on Rice to be seen as understanding and not persecutory of a black guy.
And now using the liberal defense of, I didn't really know what was in the other tape.
Well, that's see, that's going to be tough because the here's why.
He can't win with that defense because somebody in the NFL did see it.
And then the question becomes: well, if somebody, it's a woman on the tape that the AP played the press.
There's a voicemail.
Woman acknowledges receiving the tape, the video.
So somebody in the NFL got it.
If they didn't run it up the chain so that Goodell would see it, then what does that say about the way the office is being run?
If they did run it up the poll and Goodell saw it and is denying it, that's another problem.
But still, your original theory.
I can see why you might think that.
Back to the phones we go.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh to Hayes, Kansas.
This is Tom.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you with us.
It's a pleasure, Rush.
Hey, I've got about three thoughts here.
Number one, this whole war on women thing.
I just can't see how that can even work, especially in the marriage place, because you look at it, 99% of the guys that are married have got to agree with their wives.
Wait a minute.
What women, the war on women think?
War on women.
Wait a minute.
You don't see.
To make the marriage work, it seems like about 99% of the time, the husbands have got to agree with their wives.
If they don't, there's ramifications.
So there's no war on women right there.
Oh, you see, there is no war on women.
It doesn't matter.
The low information.
Look, the women bought into it.
Women did vote against Republicans because of it.
It did work.
And that's the, I've got a story coming up.
Obama and the Democrats are losing the female vote.
I'll tell you why in just a second.
But the war on women as a political thing is thought to have worked with some women.
It's insane, but it's thought to have been successful.
Oh, it is.
It's just amazing.
And then, number two, with Commissioner Goodall, I think that in the back of his mind, if he were to have started firing these players involved in domestic abuse, it's been going on for years that we know about.
Some of it we don't hear, but most of the ones that we do hear about seem to be the black players.
I wonder if, in the back of his mind, if he were to have been firing these guys since day one when he got in there, that the media, everybody else around him, would have considered him a racist.
You're the second guy, the second caller in a row we've had advanced the theory that Goodell went soft on Ray Rice because he's black.
And in the current climate, the gentle giant, Trayvon Martin, Sharpton Jackson running around, that the path of least resistance for Goodell is a short suspension, big fines.
Problem with that is that 79% of the NFL is African-American players.
The second problem with that is that Goodell, when it comes to any other kind of suspension, he has shown no mercy.
This guy suspended players a whole year.
Jonathan Vilma of the New Orleans Saints was thrown out of the league for a year in this bounty business that Saints had.
Other African-American players with substance abuse violations.
And by the way, it's all been by the book.
The NFL has a book.
There is a manual that meets out what, and it has to be negotiated with the players union, what the punishments are for various stages of violation.
First-time offender, some offenses can't be dealt with by the NFL until the legal system deals with it.
It's really pretty tightly controlled.
And in the manual, there wasn't anything for domestic abuse in the NFL, which I find amazing.
James Brown told me it's an epidemic last night.
James Brown CBS is an epidemic.
It's all over the league.
Apparently, it's not been happening enough for the league to have a policy on punishment for it.
That's why I think all the wives in the NFL have been abused, have a duty to come forward.
Right.
Anyway, that would be, if you're right, and I don't think the evidence is there because if Goodell was going to go soft on players because they're African American, there'd be evidence of that.
And there isn't.
This guy, Time magazine put this guy on the cover, the commissioner of the NFL.
They put him on the cover with the title, The Enforcer, after suspending coaches and players for a full season from the New Orleans Saints.
So I don't think he's shown any reluctance at all to deal with players regardless.
I just think this, there wasn't a policy.
I don't think, because what you're saying is that if it had been a white player, he would have suspended six games from the get-go.
And I don't think that's the case.
Only time will tell.
He's got more problems than that.
Gary Myers, leftist, far-left sports drive-by writer for the New York Daily News, one of the people who said that I was unfit to be in the NFL, has a story today claiming that the owners are really not inclined to fire Goodell.
They're more worried that he'll quit, saying, look, I got enough money.
I don't have to work anymore.
I don't deserve and need this kind of abuse.
I'm out of here.
Goodell made $44 million in salary and bonus last year.
He's built this business, a $10 billion business.
The owners love him.
That's a good question.
What is the end game and how does it go away?
It doesn't go away.
What else does this is my point?
The games for every, what else does the left glom onto that they ever let go away?
It doesn't go away.
They're creating an image of the people who play this game, and they're doing it eagerly.
You got an owner who's a racist because of the name of his team, and he won't change and make the media happy there.
So, you got a Redskins owner who's a racist pig.
They're not going to let go of that till they get the name changed.
And even after they get the name changed, then they're going to go after the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves.
They don't let go of this stuff on this spousal abuse business.
This is the feminists.
This is the female vote.
They're never going to let this go.
That's what ticks me off about it.
This is what I saw.
Yes, you're talking about the fans.
The fans' emotion will run dry.
They'll bleed the emotion dry.
They bleed the emotional people, but have they let go of global warming?
Have they let go of anything?
They don't let go of anything.
So this will manifest itself in whatever other kind of ways.
Eventually, this particular case of spousal abuse will be dealt with.
And whatever happens to Goodell is going to happen whenever this investigation ends and whatever it turns up, there'll be an adjudication, but the die will have been cast.
The image will have been set.
And the media is just going to become cops examining all kinds of behavior by the players, off-field and on-field, to make sure it comports with what the left thinks American culture ought to be.
I don't know.
This is what ultimately bothers me about this.
They don't let anything, there is no endgame.
There's no endgame to liberalism, period.
You can't deny that all of this has, it's not all political, but it certainly has political components and it has political energy in it.
And political points of view are what, in some part, are driving this.
Not totally.
I mean, spousal abuse is real.
Spousal abuse by itself is not political, but it can easily be converted.
This is what concerns me, as I say.
And then the last thing we need is the freaking Senate conducting hearings into this.
You can see it already.
I challenge you to go to any of your favorite football website and find football news first, second, or third.
Anyway, we'll see.
I just don't think there's an end game.
You can't have a pregame show like that last night and there be an endgame.
That's a starting point last night.
That's another thing, another El Rushbo, undeniable truth of life.
The left never solves problems.
They just create new ones.
No problem ever gets solved.
Everything that becomes a problem creates new problems that they discover that have to be fixed.
And that's because they can never be happy.
No matter what they get, no matter how much, how big the budget gets, how many tax increases they get, how many, it's never enough.
Don't doubt me.
Never enough.
Now, I don't mean to have been teasing you this long.
Obama losing the confidence of key parts of the coalition that elected him.
It's Karen Tumulty at the Washington Post.
Women disapprove of Obama and the job he's doing by 50 to 44 percent.
That is a 16-point drop since the inauguration of Obama.
Kimberly Cole was part of the coalition that voted in 2008 to make Obama the 44th president, gave him another four years in 2012 to deliver on his promises of hope and change.
Now, the 36-year-old mother of three young children in Valencia, California, is among the majority of Americans who have lost confidence in Obama's leadership and the job he is doing.
He's lost his way, says Kimberly Cole, and she worries that Obama lacks the resolve needed at a time when things at home and abroad are looking scarier.
What was her first clue?
Why did Kimberly Cole not recognize this six years ago?
I know, got caught up in all the hoopla, hope and change.
It's going to be utopia.
I understand.
I just, but a part of me doesn't understand it.
But I understand sometimes it takes people a long time to see the truth.
Honestly, another one, Carlene Richardson, 44, counted herself a very strong supporter of the president, but now she feels like Kimberly Coles.
Honestly, she said, I just feel that what I bought into is not what I'm getting.
I'm starting to wonder whether the world takes us seriously.
You understand?
I read things.
I don't like this.
I don't applaud.
I get frustrated.
Yeah, parts of me take it personally.
If they just listened six years ago, but I know people have to experience things themselves.
Women surveyed said they disapprove of Obama by 50 to 44% margin.
That's an all-time low in the Washington Post poll.
It's almost the reverse of the 55 to 44% breakdown for Obama among female voters in 2012.
By the way, this 16-point drop is not since 2008.
It's since 2012.
It's in two years.
Actually, folks, it's in a year and a half.
The approval rating among women has slipped 16 points since the second inaugural January 2013.
That's big.
Brief timeout.
We've got much more.
I've still got this Bruce Ackerman story from Yale University.
You know what?
He's upset that Obama is not respecting the Constitution, if you can believe that.
Opinion, Bruce Ackerman at Yale, Obama's betrayal of the Constitution.
Not Obamacare, not executive orders on immigration, none of that.
No, no, no, no.
President Obama's declaration of war against ISIS makes a or marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition.
Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.
For now, the president seems grimly determined to practice what Bush's lawyers only preached.
He's acting on the proposition that the president has unilateral authority to declare war.
In taking this step, Obama is not only betraying the people that voted for him twice in his promise to end Bush-era abuses of executive authority.
He's betraying the Constitution he swore to uphold.
Isn't it fascinating?
This guy's been betraying the Constitution for six years, and Mr. Ackerman has never noticed it.
All the executive orders threatening amnesty, $5 to $6 million to $11 million illegals, executive orders and waivers on Obamacare, nah, no big deal.
But ignoring the Constitution on going to war with terrorists.
Now, we're not going to put up with that on the far left.
No way, Jose.
That kind of constitutional violation, we aren't going to put up with.
I find all this hypocritical and fascinating.
And Obama is in a hole and a trap that he dug himself by spending five years trashing everything Bush Cheney et al. did.
A caller we didn't get to say, how can Goodell fire somebody?
He can't do that.
He didn't fire Ray Rice.
He suspended him for a year.
Technically different.
Didn't fire him.
And the Players Association is not objecting to it.
So that's going to hold.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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