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Sept. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now we're back to normal.
The president making a speech at 12 noon.
And why is the president making a speech at 12 noon today?
He's at the Central Command.
It's all because of polling data.
You know, greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number.
800-282-2882, the email address Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
So I don't mind admitting this is the time of year that I end up feeling like I did when I was 10, 11 years old, 8 years old, Christmas time.
New Apple stuff starts today.
By the way, just a quick little pit of advice here.
For those of you downloading iOS 8 today, now listen to me on this.
After you've downloaded iOS 8 and you begin the setup process, at some point you are going to be given the option of signing into iCloud Drive.
Don't do it yet.
It's not meant to work properly until they release the new Mac operating system.
And I don't want to get into a long, convoluted explanation, but if you use iCloud to sync documents and other things between your phone and your computer, you will lose that sync ability if you activate iCloud Drive today.
So you can wait on it.
You can wait till October 21st is when Yosemite's coming.
So you're going to wait till then.
It's no big deal.
But you can't reverse it if you activate it.
You can't turn it off and go back.
So that's, I mean, I could give you a bunch of tips, but that's just the biggie.
Now, I have a number of emails, and I've been curious about this.
People have been saying, Rush, you haven't really been talking much about Obama and the new war on ISIS and Iraq and Syria.
And I paused and I reflected, and I had to agree that that's probably true.
I mean, I have not gone wall to wall on it.
I certainly haven't spent the time that you can see spent on it on cable news.
And so I asked myself, why?
And I think it's not that I don't care.
Please do not think that.
It's that I just don't believe anything going on right now.
I think all of this is smoke and mirrors.
This, you know, I just, I had to actually think about it, and I decided, I concluded that my instincts took over without my even being aware of it.
I just refuse to be drawn in to the daily media soap opera.
Because I'm telling you, all of this, what's going on right now is an effort by the Democrats in the White House and the media to prop up Obama's chops as a foreign policy president who is not bothered at all by engaging in military activity.
It is an effort.
They're trying to suck everybody in to get them talking about that aspect of the, as always, it's about Obama.
Will Obama do this?
Will Obama listen to the generals?
Will the generals overrule Obama?
Will Obama over it?
I just get tired of it.
Three weeks ago, three weeks ago now, Obama didn't care about any of this.
They were the JV team.
ISIS was.
Three weeks ago, he was not concerned about this at all.
Then the polls started coming in and started being reported, and that changed everything.
And today there's a CBS New York Times poll out.
And that's why Obama is making a speech at Central Command today.
57% of Americans say in a CBS New York Times poll, 57% of Americans say that Obama is not tough enough in dealing with ISIS.
And he can't even call them ISIS.
He has to persist in calling them ISIL.
He didn't even have a strategy two weeks ago.
And he admitted it.
He said, we don't have a strategy.
It wasn't on his radar.
Iraq going back there, not on his radar.
And I have spent a lot of time this week and last week explaining to you why.
I don't need to rehash all that, but five years of incessant impugning of the entire engagement in Iraq during the Bush presidency drove the Democrat base literally insane with rage.
And so Obama is handcuffed now.
He couldn't keep troops in Iraq.
He can't go back to Iraq.
I have, folks, I have never heard, did you ever think military policy would come down to a matter of footwear?
What are you?
Boots on the ground here, boots on the ground over there, boots, boots.
It's embarrassing, is what it is.
Because the bottom line is, I know that he's been dragged into this.
He's not really behind this.
This is all done for every reason anything is done in the White House.
Buzz, PR, image.
So he didn't have a strategy a few weeks ago.
He doesn't appear to have one now.
He can't figure out if we're at war.
He can't figure out what to call the enemy.
Even his generals don't think Obama's tough enough.
At least that's what we're hearing from their testimony.
He's 41% to 50% on dealing with terrorism, meaning 41% approval, 50% disapproval.
This is in his House Horgan newspaper poll.
Barack Obama is more ticked off at Israel and the Tea Party than he is at Hamas.
He's not ticked off by any of this.
How can you be ticked off when you hear about a journalist being beheaded and then 10 minutes later on a golf course yucking it up?
I mean, the truth is right before us.
The truth is staring us in the face.
And that's what all of this media attention is designed to change.
And that is, you're not supposed to believe what you see.
You're supposed to believe what you're being told.
Great warrior, certainly willing to go back to Iraq.
Certainly willing to do whatever it takes.
Certainly here's this.
I don't know, folks.
I've just grown weary of being captured by the daily narrative, template, soap opera, whatever you want to call it.
From the Cairo speech to using NASA for Muslim outreach, not controlling the border, calling the Fort Hood massacre workplace violence, backing the Muslim Brotherhood to use the military to fight Ebola.
I mean, we got more troops fighting Ebola than we're sending in here to deal with ISIS.
I just, sorry, to get knee-deep in strategic analysis of this, I think, is to fall prey.
We all know the man doesn't care.
We all know he's not competent.
We all know that he doesn't really respect the military.
We all know that he's being dragged, kicking, and screaming.
We all know this is being done for the poll aspect of it.
And write that the New York Times poll.
Let me just share with you some of the details here.
A New York Times CBS news poll shows that President Obama's approval ratings were similar to those of George W. Bush in 2006 when Democrats swept both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.
Well, how many people know this?
I had the revealing statistic for you yesterday.
Obama's at 38% in a Gallup poll.
It hasn't been reported at ABC-CBS NBC.
George W. Bush at 38%, and it's all Wolf Blitzer could talk about for five hours in one day.
And then everybody picked it up, and that's the only news we got.
Bush's approval numbers at 38.
Well, so's Obama.
But nobody knows it because they're not reporting it because they know it would be devastating.
And on the heels of all that, here comes the New York Times mentioning this.
But even in the text of the story, we don't hear any numbers.
All we have here, New York Times CBS poll shows Obama's approval ratings similar to those of George W. Bush in 2006 when the Democrats swept both houses.
Deeply unpopular Republican Party is nonetheless gaining strength heading into the midterms as the American public's frustration with Mr. Obama has manifested itself in low ratings for his handling of foreign policy and terrorism.
And I just gave you the numbers.
Now, this second paragraph of the story, a deeply unpopular Republican Party is nonetheless gaining strength.
This is another thing that this is such an opportunity being squandered.
And I've addressed this through the past couple of days.
I don't mind repeating this.
This is such an opportunity being squandered.
You listen to the rhetoric coming out of the mouths of Republicans, and it's formulaic.
And I'm telling you, it's all consultants speak.
The consultants are running the Republican Party, and they're doing so from a position of pure defensiveness.
Don't offend anybody.
It's the Roger Goodell syndrome, and it's taken over the Republican Party.
Don't say anything to my offending.
And that NFL.
It didn't take long, folks.
It didn't take long.
Right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Here it is.
The Reverend Odaks has criticized the NFL for not including any African-American women when it brought on three domestic violence experts as consultants.
As you know, the NFL said Monday that Lisa Friel, Jane Randall, Rita Smith would serve as senior advisors.
NFL Director of Player Engagement.
And for those of you in Riolinda, it doesn't mean players getting married.
The NFL Director of Player Engagement is the director of the people who they engage, they come in contact with, they chat with, they tweet, whatever, the players.
Nobody's talking marriage here.
Anyway, her name is Deanna Garner, and she is African-American.
She is the director of player engagement education.
She helps lead the league's domestic violence program.
She is African-American, but she isn't new.
And the Reverend Odakson says this effort is incomplete and not diverse enough.
About two-thirds of NFL players are African-American.
According to the Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sport, University of Central Florida, the Reverend Jackson says, where's the jury of your peers?
He calls this a shameful insensitivity that compounds the credibility crisis.
Now you got Anheuser-Busch threatening to pull its advertising because it's uncomfortable with what's going on.
Yeah, but look, you know, we got to be real, real, real careful here.
That's the problem with this subject.
You got to be just real careful.
I mean, here's, what does Anheuser-Busch make?
Now, what's the primary ingredient?
What is that may need be the proper way to say barley, huh?
No, no, but, but what, why do people drink it?
They don't drink it because of the best hops and the best barley.
They don't drink it because it's the top choice of the brewer's art or whatever.
They drink it because of the alcohol, right?
Okay, well, is there a relationship between alcohol and I don't know that?
Well, I'm just asking, is there a relationship between alcohol and, I don't know, like nightclubs?
Is there a relationship between alcohol and well, I mean, this way you've got to be real careful here.
That's all I'm saying in talking about this.
You've got to be real, real careful here.
Adrian Peterson, gone until the legal system handles his case.
Sorry, you're out of here, Adrian.
We tried, but we just can't do it.
Radisson Hotels has said they're not going to keep sponsoring the Vikings because of all of this.
It just keeps coming.
And there's some new statistics out.
I had it in the stack yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
I feel badly about that.
But somebody's run the numbers, the cases in the NFL of spouse abuse, DUI, and all that.
It's way below the national average.
I'm not, I mean, it's way below the national average.
The incidence of DUI driving under the influence, for those of you in Rio Linda, the incidence of spouse abuse, wife, is below the national average in other categories.
Help the who?
Not going to help the myth.
Oh, no, no.
Well, the reality doesn't matter here in that sense.
They're not going to say, well, you mean the NFL actually does better on spouse abuse and DUI than the population at large?
Yeah.
Well, that's not.
That's still happening in the NFL, and the NFL people idolize it, and people are addicted to it, and so we can't, that isn't going to matter.
It's not going to change anybody's approach to what's happening.
Blacks and Hispanics have doubts about media accuracy.
This is the Associated Press.
So it says here, new study shows a large majority of African Americans and Hispanic news consumers do not fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic that could be troubling for the news industry as the minority population of the U.S. grows.
Okay, can I ask this stupid question?
Stupid, if it's true, let me see who did the survey.
Pop it up, it dabbled.
Media Insight Project.
Never heard of them, but we'll accept it.
Not putting them down when I say never heard of them.
I'm just being on.
Never heard of them.
Couldn't care.
We'll just accept it.
And the result, blacks, Hispanics have doubts about media accuracy when the media is reporting on them.
Well, then, why don't they question everything the media reports on them?
If they question the accuracy about the way the media is reporting on them and their communities, might they expand on the premise and question the accuracy of the media reporting on Republicans or the Warren Women or the you pick a tea party?
I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
This first segment goes by too fast.
You know, I wish I said a time machine.
Just stop everything except this show.
No, stop everything.
Whatever.
I don't have time to even finish that.
Okay, so Obama's in Tampa.
He's at MacDill Air Force Base.
He's talking to the troops.
It's a volunteer force.
When you volunteer for the U.S. military in this day and age, what are you likely volunteering for?
You're pretty much expecting to see combat, right?
I mean, in this day and age, ISIS terrorism.
Heck, did you see the story where Putin is flying practice nuclear bombing runs toward the U.S. coast with their bear bomber?
He's taunting us.
Well, we're focused on all this other stuff.
Putin, keep a sharp eye out for Putin.
Anyway, so he's down there and he's talking to the troops at MacDill.
And he said, and I don't want you to be concerned.
I will not commit you to fighting another ground war in Iraq.
Man, what are they supposed to stand up and cheer?
This is why I don't take the guys seriously.
Folks, I'm telling you, what the left did to the U.S. military, their effort to destroy everybody in the upper echelon of the Bush White House and the United States military high command for five years.
I can't tell you how that still frosts me.
I mean, it bordered on unpatriotic, and I am not exaggerating.
Five years of calling people liars and attacking the troops, people like John Kerry and John Murthy, and any number of other Democrats, accusing them of terrorism and rape of women and children in their homes in Iraq.
It was just, it was outrageous.
And Obama deems his success, his elective success, electoral success, as so tied to the total impugning of the Iraq war that he has to still now, years later, tell uniformed military personnel, I will not commit you to fighting another ground war in Iraq.
What about the people who did?
What about the people who did and lost their lives and their families?
Does this man want to continue to try to tell everybody that all of that was worthless?
Then why does he continue to award medals of valor and honor to people from that war if it was so unjust, illegitimate, and all of that?
This is just, it's gone too far here.
I mean, to go down to MacDill Air Force Base and to tell uniformed military personnel, don't worry.
I know you hated Iraq, and I know everybody hated Iraq, and don't worry.
We're not going to send you back to what?
What kind of commander-in-chief even thinks this way?
And the answer is one that's just purely, totally political.
My God, folks, it really is infuriating.
El Rushmore's serving humanity, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I mean, it's also this assumption.
Here's Obama and MacDill.
And he's telling an audience of uniform military personnel, Air Force primarily, don't worry.
He didn't say don't worry.
The quote is, I will not commit you to fighting another ground war in Iraq.
As though everybody agrees that it was a total waste of time.
And as though everybody agrees there's no value in preserving what was won in Iraq.
This is the, folks, this is why I don't want to talk about this stuff.
It just offends me.
This is incompetence on parade.
It really is.
This is so narcissistic to think that everybody, and I can't enforce enough how talk like this has to make families feel of the people who died serving their country or were severely wounded serving their country in Iraq.
And here's the commander-in-chief every day he has a chance telling everybody it's a total waste of time, didn't mean anything.
And don't worry, it was such a waste of time.
I'm not going to send any of you guys back there.
What are we doing then with ISIS?
What is the whole point of this?
Let me give you the hard numbers in the CBS New York Times poll.
You don't have to read the story.
I'm just giving the hard numbers.
Obama approval, disapproval on the issues.
Immigration, 30% approve, 60% disapprove.
Immigration.
Say amnesty.
Say after me.
Amnesty.
30% approval, 60% disapproval.
Do you realize how dangerously close we came to these to the Republicans in Washington signing on to this?
30%.
What is Obama known for?
When it comes to immigration, what is he known for?
Opening the borders, saying, come on in, ramming amnesty to five or six, 11 million people.
30% approval.
I say again, this issue has never been one that a majority of Americans supported.
It was more trichonology, folks.
It was a giant trick trying to make everybody think that everybody in this country wanted the 11, 12 million illegals, whatever the number is, to have amnesty.
That's why I keep there is no credit to accrue from doing this.
30% approval, 60% disapproval on immigration.
On terrorism, it's 41% approval, 50% disapproval.
On foreign policy, 34% approval, 58% disapproval.
And on the economy, 40% approval, 53% disapproval.
These are all all-time lows for Barack Obama in the New York Times CBS News poll.
And then the other question, the other remaining question, is Obama tough enough in dealing with ISIS.
57% say no.
It's outrageous.
Grab a...
That is a nice...
He's not a nice guy.
That's another thing.
He's not a nice guy.
And he's not a cool com.
This guy's a bully in his own right, his own way, and he's certainly not cool.
He's cold.
Look, rather than go through another different hour and a half before I grab some calls, that's just not fair to people.
I invite them to call here and then they end up on hole for that long.
So let me start on the phones and we'll just start peppering everything here.
And believe me, as it gets mixed together, it's going to make total sense.
We're going to start with Chris in Philadelphia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
Have had it.
I have a simple point, and I'll try to put it as succinctly as I can.
We know Mr. Peterson, Adrian Peterson, has a child, at least two, and maybe others.
My point is, with him suspended, with him losing his sponsorships, and maybe suffering a loss of his career, who is going to support these children?
Haven't they suffered?
And aren't they going to suffer again?
So let me reverse the question on you.
Are you suggesting that maybe we should look the other way at his form of discipline in exchange for the kids and his family being set economically?
No.
What I'm suggesting is that people think about the ramifications of what they're doing.
Oh, come on.
That isn't going to happen.
You're right.
Don't misunderstand.
That isn't going to happen.
Look if the what is the saying, the trains left the station on this?
Adrian Peterson may not know it yet, but he's along.
He may never play in the NFL again.
Ditto Ray Rice.
I mean, the die is cast here.
These guys are now the embodiment of evil because these guys represent, they are symbols of a political agenda that has been given a big bunch of juice here with these incidents.
So children are going to suffer again because he can no longer support them.
No.
No, no.
What you will be told, the children will be safer than ever with him not in their lives, with him being punished for brutalizing them the way he did.
They are going to be much better off.
It has nothing to do with economics, they're going to say.
It has nothing to do with depriving him of earning a living.
Look at the same, you can say the same.
Remember, we had a, when Goodell changed the policy from two games suspended to six for spouse abuse, a woman called here and said, you know what, Rush, that's too much because the women aren't going to report it now because they don't want to be without the paycheck.
And if their husband earns the paycheck and gets cut, fired, suspended because he hit her, they're not going to report it.
The women are going to, because they want the paycheck coming in.
That's why they married the guys.
And you could almost extrapolate that here in a way.
I think the woman had a point that at such a lengthy suspension, some of the women who are abused might now actually choose not to report it in order to protect the paycheck and their economics.
And now, if there are other players who happen to discipline their children in too harsh a way that's not approved, maybe the mothers will not report it anymore.
Exactly.
If this is going to happen.
Now, your point's valid.
But nobody's thinking about that.
I want to add one thing about this.
I don't know how long, but it's been a while that I have.
I hate to keep saying things.
I told you I said this, but I feel the need to remind you.
You're the old saw that there's nothing really new that's going on out there.
I mean, it's all since Genesis.
There's nothing new.
It's just that with the media the way it is, we know about more incidents of bad things happening than we used to.
And a point of illustration be the Ray Rice circumstance.
Okay, we see a video of him dragging his wife out of the elevator.
Okay, two games.
Boy, you're a mean guy.
Don't ever do it again.
Then the video of him actually clocking her, and that's it.
That's the end of everything.
Now, we see it.
The incidents have always happened, but when we didn't see it, it wasn't as big a deal as when we do see it.
Now, how many people, how many millions of Americans are on social media seeking fame and wanting everybody to know everything they can about them?
Well, this is what you get.
This is what you get.
I'm not, no, no, no.
Do not misunderstand.
I'm not in any way defending Adrian Peterson.
That's not the point here.
Point is, it happens a lot.
There's nothing new.
There are people that discipline their children in ways that you don't know because you don't see it and you don't hear about it.
But look what happens to people when it is discovered.
And amidst all of this, we've got a subset of our population desperately seeking fame, notoriety, and so forth.
Tweets and social media and all of this.
Well, this is one of the prices you're going to pay.
If you want everybody to know everything about you, at some point the warts are going to be known too.
And things that you never dreamed anybody would ever see will be seen.
Things that you never conceived people would know will not only be known, they'll be seen.
So you've got to be really guarded about this thing.
You have to be really guarded about your privacy and things.
I guarantee Adrian Peterson, this is the last thing, I'll bet you he ever expected to come his way in his life.
Everybody imagines pitfalls.
Everybody, whatever degree of success anybody has, they always think, okay, what could go wrong?
What do I have to prepare for?
I'll guarantee you, this is the last thing that he otherwise he would have come up with a different way of meeting out the discipline.
And greetings, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
And as to our previous caller, Chris in Philadelphia, I felt like I gave him short shrift.
I didn't intend to do that.
The trains left the station.
The fact that the children of Adrian Peterson, and there may be seven of them, I mean, he's in a contest here with Ray Lewis, who has the most kids by the most women.
I think there are four, Ray Lewis, maybe five kids with five women.
And Adrian Peterson, I think I just saw seven kids with four women.
And last year, about this time, one of his kids that he did not know was his was killed by the boy's stepfather.
It's horrible.
It just, it's.
You can't talk about it, but it's horrible.
Now, Congress has the answer.
This is Chris in Philadelphia.
Okay, what about kids, Adrias and Adrian Peterson's kids?
I mean, if he gets suspended and can't play and doesn't earn the money and Nike doesn't come back, what about his kids now?
And Chris, what I was going to tell you is that Congress has the answer.
As always, the federal government is the answer to all of these economic problems.
Corey Booker wants to take away the NFL's tax-exempt status and give the money to the victims of domestic violence.
Do you know the NFL is a nonprofit the way it's structured?
People are stunned when they learn this, but it's structured as a non-profit.
It's worth, it's an enterprise worth $9 billion, but it is structured as a nonprofit for tax purposes.
So Corey Booker has come along.
He wants to strip the NFL of that tax-exempt status and then take the money that they would then have to pay in taxes and give that to the victims of domestic violence.
That is how Corey Booker and Congress want Adrian Peterson's kids to be taken care of.
Ray Lewis has six children with four women.
That's what it is.
Six children, four women.
And you know what?
I read a story.
Ray Lewis, Baltimore Ravens, now a star commentator on ESPN, was asked once, what's the best advice you give young players coming into the league?
He said, wear a condom.
I'm not kidding.
That was number one piece of use a condom.
Well, I'll Google it.
It is what it is.
Reggie Bush.
Reggie Bush out of USC.
Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints.
Reggie Bush with the Detroit Lions was on the radio today talking about corporal punishment of children and the Adrian Peterson circumstance.
I got what we call whoopings, you know, whoop of belts and stuff like that.
For me growing up, it was normal.
I most definitely disciplined my daughter.
I have a one-year-old daughter.
I definitely will try to, well, obviously not leave brutes or anything like that on her, but I definitely will discipline her harshly, you know, depending on what, again, what the situation is.
Okay, so now Reggie Bush has just painted a bullseye on himself.
He's now become a target.
All the interest groups focused on this are now going to be keeping a sharp eye on Reggie Bush every day.
And they're going to have people body watch on his daughter when she gets old enough to leave the house on her own.
Mark my words.
Now, some people might say, hey, Rush, what this is, the players are starting to push back.
And yesterday we had this on by the Michael Wilpon, who was on the radio Monday, who said, hey, we need more of these whoopings like Adrian Peterson was handing out.
I got whooped.
I had to cut my own switch.
There was a lot of that going on when we were kids, and it's how we were kept in line.
And the fact that there's no discipline among people anymore is because they're not getting whooped.
Now, he can say it.
Very few other people could.
Here comes Reggie Bush saying, oh, yeah, I got whooped like this, and I'm going to discipline my daughter.
Now, I am not going to bruiser her anything, he said.
I'm not going to leave any bruises, meaning you'll never know.
But I'm going to discipline her harshly.
I guarantee you.
There are people who have heard this already and are already making plans to spy on everything about Reggie Bush's family and home life now, because he made himself a target.
And it's like Gary Hartpence, when he's having the affair out there on the island of Bemini, challenged the media to, okay, you think I'm having an affair?
I dare you to prove it.
And they did, and he was.
Jameis Winston, star quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles.
Name's going to have to change.
It's offensive.
They do a Tomahawk chop, too.
They're one of 2,900 sports teams, universities, and so forth with African-American mascot names.
Anyway, they got Clemson coming up this weekend.
Jameis Winston suspended for the first two quarters of the upcoming game against Clemson.
Suspended for the first half because what was it?
He was observed shouting an obscenity on campus.
Sexual obscenities.
Okay, well, I haven't a chance to read the article.
I won't get a chance to read it till it breaks.
But he apparently was shouting sexual obscenities on at anybody or just shouting them out there for any okay, shouting them to somebody, but it was overheard because he was shouting them.
Somebody reported him, probably to the head coach, probably to the media.
Hey, I start quarterbacks out there calling somebody whatever.
And he's suspended for the first half.
They don't want to lose the game against Clemson.
They figure he can win it if they get behind in the second half.
But nevertheless, everybody's got to get in on this.
We'll take a brief time.
It's getting absurd.
It's been absurd for long.
The point is, all of it's been absurd for a long time.
And I keep waiting for all this stuff to bottom out and common sense to finally surface and rear its head and shame all of this just insanity.
And it doesn't happen.
We keep descending even lower.
Political correctness, even though I can't find anybody who believes in it.
I don't know a soul who believes and supports political correctness, and yet it wins every damn time.
Fastest three hours in media.
First hour is already in the can.
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I'm downloading it on my remaining device that didn't have it.
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