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Sept. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 15, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I feel like throwing a flag in myself.
Just a second.
Did you see the first half of that football game list?
There's like 34 flags or 18 was unbelievable.
Just the first thing that uh hit my mind today, folks, but I'm telling you, my mind cannot contain what the show prep shows for today's program.
I'm literally bursting here.
There's all kinds of stuff.
It's exciting times.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Before we get into the latest with the National Football League and the latest with Obama and ISIS, what a stack that is.
And some of the other things.
I have three things I want to mention to you here.
First up, um, my brother is going to be on the program today in one hour.
My brother has a new book, David Limbaugh has a new book called Jesus on Trial.
Now I happen to have uh intimate knowledge of my brother's quest to prove to himself the tenets of Christianity.
He's been profoundly well, it's it's it it doesn't cover it to say interested.
Uh he's been devoted to this for most of his adult lifetime.
And what he has done in his book, and I don't want to tell you too much about it here because he's coming up, but he had he's a lawyer, and as most in my family are, and he has taken his legal training and used it in an investigatory or investigative way to do everything he can in his mind to prove to himself that Christianity is true,
and he's gone to the Bible as his primary source.
And uh he's he's been on a bunch of TV shows and radio shows since the book came out.
Uh and I thought, well, you know, it it might smack of nepotism, but I'm gonna have him because it's fascinating uh to listen to him explain how he has been able to satisfy.
Most people only have their faith.
Uh, even with their faith, uh, people are nevertheless seeking a sign.
Pascal went nuts.
The philosopher Blaise Pascal went nuts trying to find proof and couldn't, and so he philosophized various ways to convince himself Christianity was true.
Begged God for a sign.
Lots of people do.
The thing is, we never know if we're given signs or not.
We don't know what to believe, what not to believe.
It's a fascinating subject.
Uh this quest to go beyond faith, or to confirm the faith and find what you believe is incontrovertible truth.
And that's what he's done in his uh in his book, Jesus on Trial.
So we'll have him up here in an hour.
Uh a housekeeping thing, a year ago, well, a little over a year ago now, the beloved punkin the cat passed away.
After 14 years kidney failure, which resulted in her refusing to eat because she knew the vet told us anyway, that eating would poison her.
Instinct told us so she wasn't eating anything, just withering away, and there was nothing to be done.
So we put her to sleep and waited a couple of months and went out and got a new pumpkin.
An Abyssinian, different color.
Pumpkin was a ruddy.
This one is a tawny, and it's completely different cat.
This one we named Allie.
It's an Abyssinian, but a completely personality-wise, a lunatic.
And an absolute insane lunatic cat.
Totally different personality.
So much so that we have not let her live in but two rooms of the house.
The bedroom and my library.
Library, for those of you in Rio Linda.
The reason is Not that we fear she will get lost because we plugged up all the things that she could sneak into and get lost, you know, down in the foundation of the house.
Uh we've got all those tunnels and secret passageways plugged from long ago.
But shortly after getting, I guess three months after we got her.
I'm sitting in my library on the and there's a two-story, two-floor library that's open from floor to ceiling, and the second floor has a banister that it runs all the way around.
It's it's a it's a rectangular square room.
The banister runs all the way around.
The banister's about the hand railing.
It's about I don't know, three, four feet off the ground.
And I'm sitting down there on my couch one day, I'm looking up and she's on that banister, which the banister's two or three inches wide.
I mean, how the hell did she get up there?
And I'm saying, oh my gosh, don't, don't make, I hope nobody comes in the door and makes a startling sound that that scares her because I didn't want her to losing her balance.
She'd fall 20 feet.
I said, gee, whiz, how did this happen?
Prior to that, she had she had wormed her way through the uh the vertical I don't know, I don't know how to describe what the vertical bars in the in the banister to get to the inside ledge up there, which is about six inches.
There's plenty of room there.
But she jumped up four feet from the floor, had to, there's no way to climb and nothing to climb on.
She had to jump up there.
And if she had lost her balance, she'd have come plummeting down 20 feet, and I would never have known it till she hit.
So I said, okay, roping off the upstairs, made a temporary cardboard door preventing her from going upstairs.
So she'd been living in two rooms.
So we decided over the weekend that this poor cat cannot live her life in two roofs.
So we're gonna open it all up.
Uh late this afternoon, early this evening to let her out of the bedrooms, open the door, and just see what happens.
Because if she falls, she falls.
I mean, I can't watch her 24-7.
And so doing that, and when I say insane, I mean funny insane.
Just just a crazy uh person, place fetch brings me things for me to throw, so she'll go get them.
And then when I've been down to pick them up after she's brought it to me, she she darts at me like she's trying to get it from me before I can get it.
She it says this the funniest cat.
So we're gonna open up her world this afternoon, and I'm gonna be sitting down there waiting in baited breath, because it's it's not just the library, there's a there's uh inside the front door, the same circumstance exists.
The second floor for you, and she could.
And I've comforted by the fact that I have read stories of cats surviving falls of much.
Well, they land on their feet, they've got spines of linguine anyway, you know, they can but I thought of getting pillows and a bunch of stuff to put down there on the floor in case she slips.
And you know, you can't say anything.
You can't you can't tell a cat, get off of it.
She won't listen.
I mean, it's just it's impossible.
So that's what we're gonna do uh this afternoon, late this afternoon, unless unless something comes up.
But poor thing, I mean, can't live her life in two rooms.
You gotta let them go at some point, right?
It's like a kid turning them loose, let them go at age 18.
You've got to let them go.
Same thing with a cat.
Uh and the third thing, this is I'm just gonna.
I need some help from you people, you tech experts in the audience, because I'm at my wit's end.
I've asked, I don't know how many people, and there's nobody that has the answer to my question.
Nobody.
Now I haven't been able to get to the people who do have the answer that would be at Apple.
I don't know who to call at Apple.
I don't know how to get, I don't I don't know where I would go if I called Apple.
I don't know who I would ask for, and I doubt anybody pick up the phone.
But here's the question.
Apple makes at when they're at peak production on the assembly line, five hundred thousand iPhones a day.
Yeah, f in a 24-hour day, they can make 500,000 iPhones.
That means in a quarter they can make 45 million phones.
If they've got the guts, if they if they've got all the equipment that is needed to make a phone, if they've got enough supply in the supply chain, but that's the that's the peak.
And they've been, they've got two phones coming Friday.
They've been in production, one of them since July, and it's questionable when the larger the five and a half inch phone got started on mass production.
It's rumored that it's in shorter supply than the 4.7-inch phone.
Anyway, when they started manufacturing these phones, and there are millions already made and boxed up.
This is the millions that are made, they're boxed, they're in cellophane.
However, the operating system is still not ready to well, it will be tomorrow.
Wednesday, the operating system new iOS 8 is going to be released to the public on Wednesday.
My question's very simple.
When you've got millions of phones already manufactured, while your operating system is still in beta, how do they get the new operating system on millions of new phones that are already finished, the manufacturing process, and are boxed up in a warehouse and all shrink wrapped?
How in the world is that done?
I have asked for years, I don't know how many people, and the best, well, it's mass Wi-Fi.
Oh, it can't be Wi-Fi.
There's no way to guarantee that Wi-Fi on millions of phones transfer the operating system.
And when you get your phone and open it and start it up, it better work.
You can't have an operating system that's not properly installed.
I've even said, okay, is all this beta release of the software a joke?
And have they actually finished the final product back in June or July and it's ready all the way back then, and they put it on the phones on the chip when it's manufactured?
Because if it's not, if the operating system really doesn't finish its beta testing period until late August, how do they get the new iOS 8 on millions of phones that are already made and boxed up in a warehouse ready for sale.
Now, I know how they mass produce CDs and DVDs.
You know, you have a home recorder and you want to dub a DVD, you burn it, and what can it take?
An hour, depending on what you're putting on a DVD.
Well, they can't do that.
They mass produce them, they stamp them.
They just run them through a stamper just like they used to make vinyl records, stamp the damn things, lickety split and go through, but you how do you do that on the phone?
So nobody that I've talked to, and I've talked to some wizards, you know, nobody's even thought about it.
That's how weird I am.
Nobody's even thought I even asked Snerdley.
I figured if anybody would know something as obscure as this, Snerdley would know it.
And he had never thought of it.
He had never pondered it.
Now Sterley says it's a brilliant question.
I don't think anybody cares.
This is the thing.
They just you get the phone, you open it up, everybody's all excited on Friday, get their.
Hey, they turn it on.
In fact, I've got I've got a public hit called How It Works.
I looked at how it works.
There, I can't even get close in a search term to how it works, even understands what I'm asking.
I've I've Googled, I've Wikipedia, I've done everything I can think of.
I know how to structure search terms on the internet.
I cannot, I can't even get an answer that's even close to what I'm asking.
Nobody knows.
But there has to be a way to get the new operating system on gazillions of phones in a very, very short period of time.
Because those phones are made while the operating system isn't ready to go yet.
It's still in beta testing.
Okay, that's that.
Now we got a number of different ways we can go here.
For this to give you an example.
The NFL story has blossomed and expanded even beyond what it was when we were last here Friday.
Over the weekend, or maybe it happened on Friday, a um uh female infobabe on Sports Centered, Kate Fagan, said that the only hope that we have as a society to fix this mass problem of wife abuse.
The only hope we have, we have to reprogram the way we raise men.
We've got the audio sound bite on this.
I've got the story.
We've got to reprogram the way we raise men.
That's exactly right.
We've already done that, Ms. Fagan.
We have already reprogrammed the way men are raised.
And we have done that drastically, I think.
That's what I mean when I talk about the chicken of everything.
You can take a look at the enrollment at major institutions of higher learning.
It's 65% female, 35% male.
One of the reasons is men don't want to go there anymore.
But this is a manifest.
You remember old buddy James Brown, who last Thursday on the CBS pregame show, addressing men, said that it's time to shape up or ship out.
And he said we have got to stop this this business of making fun of men who throw like girls.
And we've got to we've got to dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls sissies.
You know why?
Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist.
So if you have ever made well, that's what this ESPN babe says.
It's a classic.
We've got to stop this making fun of guys.
I think it's part of it's to protect Obama because he's the one that's well known for that.
See, I'm in trouble even pointing this out now.
Um I mean, that's just that's just the tip of the iceberg of stuff that's I mean, it's juicy, folks.
It's it this is gonna be fun today.
It's gonna be good.
We got a lot going on.
There's more ice than ever at the South Pole.
The Antarctic ice sheet has reached record levels in the midst of so-called climate change and global warming.
That's the same thing at the North Pole.
Arctic ice sheet levels are at record levels.
The North Pole is supposed to have been melted by now, according to Al Gore.
Remember, it was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got uh got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole, South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice, and it took three icebreakers and a helicopter to rescue them.
And yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.
It's an ongoing, never-ending battle to find a way to have the truth permeate the noise.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back and roll right on right after this.
America's real anchor man and doctor of democracy.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network, the Minnesota Vikings have announced that Adrian Peterson will play Sunday.
He will play against the uh the New Orleans Saints.
He was suspended uh for one game this past Friday because he whooped his four-year-old son the way he was whooped when he was growing up.
Adrian Peterson has a number of sons.
They're not sure how many, and I don't know how many women have provided them, have mothered them.
Uh one of his sons that he only learned last year was his died.
That's how he learned it was his, was uh.
It was it's terrible.
Stepfather.
Um at any rate, the the Vikings suspended Adrian Peterson.
He was uh he was indicted for child abuse and negligence Because he spanked his four-year-old son with a switch with a uh a branch from a tree or from a from a bush.
I had that happen to me.
I had to go cut the branch.
I'm not kidding.
I had to go cut the branches from a birch tree in the backyard.
I'm not kidding you.
What did I do?
I cried for crying out it hurt.
Oh, I don't remember what I had done.
I think I lied.
I I don't remember what I had done.
And I'm there was it had to be, you know, 12 or 13.
But anyway, this uh this is uh this is just a no no today.
You just don't do it.
Adrian Peter, it's the way I was raised.
This I'm disciplining my son.
I I don't think I've done anything wrong.
Anyway, the Vikings, this is gonna create a whole new fever pitch firm in the sports media now that they've activated him for this coming Sunday's game.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
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So Adrian Peterson's gonna play Sunday.
Now, the ownership of the Minnesota Vikings, the Wilf family, Ziggy, and uh and Mark Wilf said, as evidenced by our decision to deactivate Adrian from yesterday's game, this is clearly a very important issue.
On Friday, we felt it was in the best interest of the organization to step back, evaluate the situation, and not rush to judgment given the seriousness of this matter.
At that time, we made the decision that we felt was best for the Vikings and all parties involved.
To be clear, we take very seriously any matter that involves the welfare of a child.
At this time, however, we believe this is a matter of due process, and we should allow the legal system to proceed so we can come to the most effective conclusions and then determine the appropriate course of action.
This is a difficult path to navigate, and our focus is on doing the right thing.
Currently, we believe we are at a juncture where the most appropriate next step is to allow the judicial process to move forward.
We will keep monitoring the situation closely and support Adrian's fulfillment of his legal responsibilities throughout the process, though he's reactivated for Sunday's game against the Saints.
He will play.
Which means that from now until Sunday through the game, the drive-by's will be focused on that aspect of the Minnesota New Orleans game.
Yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee Titans hosted the Dallas Cowboys.
I have a story here from ESPN.com.
Titans play questionable music is the headline.
Ready for this?
Before the Cowboys Titans game at LP Field, a warm-up soundtrack blared through portable speakers that the Titans wheel onto the sight lines.
Fight night by the group Migos, played about 35 minutes before kickoff.
The worst of the lyrics were blotted out, but the song's themes were still questionable given the recent developments concerning the NFL's trouble with domestic violence.
Don McClacklin, the Titans executive VP of administration and facilities, which means he produces the game and runs the event, said we review everything we play on game days and uh and play radio versions, but clearly with the subject matter included a song should have been flagged and eliminated from the playlist.
So they played a song called Fight Night during the pregame warmups to get the players all revved up.
And the song includes this passage.
Hit it with the left, hit it with the right.
I'm a knock the pee out like fight night.
Beat it with the left, beat it with the right, I'm a knock the pee.
Only they're not saying pee out like fight night.
And the drive-bys were offended.
The sports media thought this is highly offensive and inappropriate, and there's a story about pregame music between the Dallas Cowboys and the Tennessee Titans.
You know, folks, that's another thing.
When I worked for the Kansas City Royals, I was in charge of pregame music, and I knew.
I knew to be very, very careful what songs to play.
this is ridiculous.
But anyway, it's just a sign.
It is just a sign of the sensitivities and the focus, the change of focus for NFL sports media today.
Now let's go to I want you to grab soundbite.
Let me find it here.
Grab soundbite number 12.
Let me see if there's anything else.
Just soundbite number 12.
This is Friday on ESPN Sports Center.
The anchor, Kevin Nagundi is speaking with ESPNW columnist Kate Fagan about the drive-by's are upset as they could be on Thursday night that a bunch of female fans for the Ravens wore rave rice jerseys.
The media is still ticked off about it.
They're still writing about it today.
Sports columnists are still asking why, women of Baltimore, why would you wear a Ray Rice jersey?
Why?
Do you know what you're doing?
Why would you do it?
They were talking about it Friday night on Sports Center.
And the uh the anchor asks the ESPNW columnist Kate Fagan, how would you change this culture, Kate?
But it's clearly we need to change this culture.
And how would you do it?
Holding the NFL's feet to the fire should mean getting them to throw the kitchen sink at domestic violence, to invest millions of dollars in grassroots organizations, in going into middle schools and high schools and colleges and talking to young men about dealing with anger about how they treat women.
I think that's where you're gonna see change.
Going into the school systems and the younger spaces and really reprogramming how we raise men.
Well, there you have it.
It's as simple as that, folks.
Why didn't we think of this before?
Oh, we have.
We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, I have made mention of something I found incredible a lot of times.
I'm gonna remind you of it again.
A Time magazine cover.
Back in the mid-1990s, 19, 18 years ago, the cover story on that issue of Time magazine had the following headline and paraphrasing it, but it's real close.
Shock.
Men and women are actually born different.
When I saw that the first time, I was astounded.
I've been I I cite it often, because I need to ask you a question.
What must you think?
What must you believe if you come across research that tells you men and women are born different?
And if that's a if that's a surprise to you, if that is a shock, if that bit of news is worth an entire cover story, what in the world must you have believed first?
That men and women are the same.
That men and women, boys and girls are not different.
And if you believe that, if you're an editor at Time Magazine or writer at Time Magazine, and you are shocked to look at real documented research as men and women are different, what in the world did you believe beforehand?
And how did that come to be?
How did it come to believe be that you think men and women are the same?
Well, there's a simple answer to the question.
Feminism.
The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning.
Manifested itself in crazy ways.
Parents would try raising their daughters in blue rooms with G.I. Joe, and try raising their sons in pink rooms with Barbie to see what would happen.
And they were shocked.
The little girls started looking for outfits to redress G.I. Joe in.
The little boys started conducting wars with Barbie and her friends.
And the parents were shocked.
See, they they believed that it was Conditioning and not nature that made men the predatory brutes that they are.
They really did, and they still do.
Modern era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.
It's all social.
It is all about social cliches and pressures.
That if you just leave boys and girls alone, they're gonna grow up and be identical.
They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they uh find things interesting.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
And it was it was I mean, if it's worth a cover story that men and women are born different, what in the world must you believe in?
Who got you to believe it?
And I'm telling you it's feminism and liberalism and all these things that seek to make everybody the same.
To make everybody equal, to have equal outcomes, to make sure nobody's uh offended or humiliated, and to make sure nobody's really that much better than anybody else, because it isn't fair.
All these differences.
Okay, so now we come back to Kay Fag, Innity SPN, who says we need to reprogram the way we're raising men.
You notice we never ever, nobody ever discusses the possibility that we might need to reprogram the way we raise women.
Why?
Because that's already perfect.
There isn't any problem with little girls.
And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women.
I mean, they are model citizens.
It's the guys that create all of the problems in our culture.
And so it's the guys that have to be reprogrammed, not the women.
You ever notice that?
I've never run across anybody who suggested that women need to be reprogrammed.
I don't even think I don't think I've even come across anybody who wanted to teach a girl how to throw right.
They just accept it's what it is.
But I honestly, folks, it's always reprogramming men.
It's always men who seem to provide or be at the root of all of these cultural problems.
And if we can just make men less like men, and more like, I guess, women, then we would be rid of a lot of these problems.
So this effort to reprogram men's been going on a long time.
It's not something that we need to start now.
We're in the middle of it, and I think it's one of the reasons there is such confusion between men and women and the roles they're supposed to play, because they're at war with nature.
They have both been, and men especially have been told that how they naturally are is bad.
Their natural tendencies, natural proclivities, bad.
You gotta rein that in.
You gotta dial that back.
You need to really raise your conscious level and be aware of how others see you and dial it back because it's just too predatory, brutish, what have you.
That's how you end up with female male enrollment now at major institutions of higher learning.
65% female, 35% male.
And I have a story here, kind of dovetails with this.
You you won't believe this.
At Ohio State, oh the Ohio State University, you have to know the rules before you decide to kiss somebody.
Both sides have to know the rules.
Not kidding.
I'll give you details as we get back.
Look, I'm gonna have more on this.
We need to reprogram the way we raise men later on in the program.
I but I wanted to use that as a uh transition to this Ohio State story, but there's believe me, folks, I got plenty of analysis on that.
Don't think I'm I'm letting that go.
At Ohio State University to avoid being guilty of sexual assault or sexual violence, you and your partner now have to agree on the reason why you are making out or having sex.
It is not enough to I'm not making this up.
You know what, by the way, I've I got a great idea for a new either cable TV show or syndicated TV show called NFL court.
We take on Judge Judy, but we only deal with crimes in the NFL.
I'll be the judge.
Judge.
Judge Rush, NFL court.
I'll be happy to do it.
And we we get to the bottom of this and we take care of it in a season.
And it wouldn't be any positive result of being on this show.
You on this show, you're gonna have bad vibes and bad press and bad buzz and bad PR.
We'd stamp out the crime in the NFL like that.
NFL court, Judge Rush.
I don't have to be the judge.
I'll be happy to give the idea to anybody else.
At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of sexual assault or sexual violence, you and your partner have to agree on the reason why you're making out or having sex before you do it.
It's not enough that you're going to agree to make out or have sex.
You have to agree on why you're doing it with your partner.
There has to be agreement, and this is a quote from the policy regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this activity will take place.
We've already begun this business of reprogramming the way we raise men.
Snardley thinks that I'm I'm I'm I'm satirizing this.
Snerdley thinks I'm doing a brilliant parody.
I'm not, this is for real.
There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex while men only need a place.
Does this policy reflect that juvenile mindset?
Such a requirement baffles some women in the real world.
A female member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of any two intimates in the world agreeing as to why.
This comes from the website College Insurrection, by the way.
Oh yeah.
I'm not unless they're running a great parody, but I've seen it too many places.
Stop with that with agreeing on the agreeing on the why takes all the romance out of everything.
Takes all the seduction.
Seduction used to be an art.
Now, of course, it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.
Here's what consent is at Ohio State after you and your partner decide that you're gonna make out or have sex, you agree to do it, then you agree, you have to agree on why.
Consent is the act of knowingly, actively, and voluntarily agreeing explicitly to engage in sexual activity.
Consent must be freely given and can be withdrawn at any time.
You have to be sober, not coerced, imaginative, enthusiastic, creative, wanted, informed, mutual, honest, verbal.
The absence of no does not mean yes.
It must be asked every step of the way.
It cannot be implied or assumed even in the context of a relationship.
Circumstances in which a person cannot legally give consent, no matter what he or she might say.
The person is severely intoxicated or unconscious as a result of alcohol or drugs.
The person is physically or developmentally disabled, the victim is under the age of 13 or is elderly.
So as long as the girl's 13, she can give consent for sex, provided it's creative and enthusiastic.
Uh consent must be freely given, can be withdrawn any time, and the absence of no does not mean yes.
How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that no means yes if you know how to spot it?
I'm probably let me tell you something.
In this modern world, that is simply that's not tolerated.
That would not be people aren't even gonna try to understand that one.
I mean, it used to be a cliche.
Used to be part of the advice young boys were given.
See, that's what we got to change.
We, we, we have got to reprogram the way we raise men.
So now, notice why do you think permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out why?
Why do you is all these not lawsuits just waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken?
I don't know how men can be held to that Ohio State agreement policy anyway, because everybody knows in sex men don't think with their brains.
Not the one in their heads, anyway.
Since this so silly.
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