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Sept. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends.
Welcome to the cesspool known as the Democrat Party and everything it touches.
It's great to have you here, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone numbers 800-282-288-2 at the email address Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Look, I know that it's probably not a hundred percent.
But all of these people in the NFL.
I mean, what political party do you think they vote for in support?
Well, no, wait, none.
Now wait, just just before you Snerdley's in there going, no, no, no, don't go there, don't go.
Wait a second.
Whenever there is a school shooting somewhere, the first thing the media does is try to establish a Tea Party connection, right?
Brian Ross, ABC News, and a school shooting in Colorado.
First thing he did was go to a roster of Tea Party members and try to whenever there is an incident like this, any kind of a mass murder shooting, what have you, the media does everything it can to link all of those to either talk radio or the Tea Party or conservatism or what have you.
So I think it's only tit for tat here to be asking how do all the people involved in all of these scandals, what is the likelihood that they vote Democrat?
Would have to be pretty good.
I'm sure there are some exceptions, don't misunderstand.
But I mean, they they're up there with this phony, totally manufactured war on women, yet who is it that's really conducting one?
Who is it that really apparently doesn't have a whole lot of respect for women?
It's a bunch of people that vote Democrat, is it not?
Bunch of people that likely vote Democrat.
I'm telling you, folks, I'm I've you know you know all those times remember when uh Gabby Giffords was shot at a public appearance out in Arizona.
They in the media tried to link it to me and something that Sarah Palin had on her website.
Try to link stuff like this to talk radio.
I every time it happens.
They salivate over the possibility.
But it really hit the point of of ridiculousness when Brian Ross actually went on Good Morning America and and and said that it is likely and highly possible that one of the shooters at some incident in Colorado was a member of the Tea Party.
He didn't wait for any of that to be produced by fact.
He started with that premise.
He was hoping that was going to be the case, or somebody who assigned him to look at it did.
Don't really know, could have been an assignment editor, producer, what have you.
But this is not supposition.
I mean, we can we can pretty much figure out by virtue of demographics and race, statistical analysis, how some of these people are voting.
And who they've voted for.
Remember uh it was the Republican convention, I think it was in Houston in 1992.
Remember when uh when Woody Allen it was revealed, had had an affair with his stepdaughter.
I remember back then a bunch of people said Democrat Party has Woody Allen social values or whatever.
And everybody, you can't say that.
Why not?
He votes Democrat, why not?
He's a liberal.
I mean, why you know you guys make it up about us all the time.
And I know what some of you are saying, Mr. Limbaugh, this does not advance the notion of comedy and cooperation to simply play tit for tat.
I'm not trying to advance comedy and getting along with the other side.
I'm interested in beating them.
And the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules.
Anyway, just an observation.
Jameis Winston.
Let me give you the history of this guy.
This guy's got a future in the NFL.
He can be big star.
He has uh stolen crab legs from a public.
Remember that?
He has been accused of rape.
That was pretty much all of last year.
He won the Heisman Trophy.
Unrelated, I'm sure.
Uh he has uh shot off a BB gun uh at random and for no apparent reason.
He has been pursued.
Currently being investigated for a sexual assault complaint involving him that was originally filed with Tallahassee cops December 7th, 2012.
The state prosecutor in Tallahassee declined to bring charges against Jameis Winston, citing problems with the investigation and saying the evidence was unlikely to lead to a conviction.
What he did was, I can't repeat what he said, but he was in the student union.
I have a story right here.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
On Tuesday, Florida State students began flooding Twitter.
Several witnesses saw the reigning Heisman Trophy winner allegedly stand on a table in or in the immediate vicinity of the student union and started yelling sexual obscenities.
He was mimicking a popular internet video.
The phrase is of a sexual nature, it says here.
Well, it's it's more than that.
I can't repeat what he said.
I can't, I don't even want to give you clues to what he said.
It's just, it's and Winston, by the way, has apologized for his uh selfish act.
He's I want to apologize university, my coaches, and my teammates.
I'm not a me person, but in that situation it was a selfish act, and that's not how you do things around here.
I want to apologize to my teammates because I have now made a selfish act for them.
That's all.
That's what he's quoted as saying here.
I want to apologize to my teammates because I have now made a selfish act for them.
That's all.
He basically shouted from the tabletop what he wanted to do to some woman or group of women and where he wanted to do it.
On their bodies, not room.
Or what have you.
So that's it just keeps, it just keeps it just keeps going on.
Welfare recipients.
From the Washington Times, welfare recipients can use debit cards for marijuana.
It's the first of two stories.
The story from September the 9th.
Welfare recipients cannot use their debit cards at liquor stores, but they can at marijuana dispensaries in states like Colorado that have legalized pot.
Jeff Sessions revealed it on Tuesday, September the, what would have been, the ninth.
The Alabama Republican announced that he was drafting legislation to close the welfare for weed loophole after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to him that marijuana shops were not off limits to EBT cards.
They've replaced uh food stamps, by the way, for other federal benefits.
See, so here, this is the way the the low information crowd would look at this.
Okay, so here comes a plan.
You can use your food stamp card.
You can use your welfare debit card to go buy weed, and here comes a stick in the mud Republican.
A killjoy Republican.
No wonder everybody hates him.
No wonder everybody hates the Republicans.
Shouldn't the GOP instead of shutting down?
This is harmless.
It's just people having fun.
It's people already on the downside of an economic morale.
They're just seeking a little pl, a little escape from the drudgery of their day.
And here comes mean Republicans denying them a little fun, saying they can't use their debit card for weed.
Shouldn't the Republicans take this opportunity to reach out to the potheads and show them that they love them and they mean them no harm, and they don't want them to have a miserable time.
Maybe the Republicans ought to take the lead and demand that EBT cards can be used to buy pot.
And furthermore, pot should be sold over the counter, just like birth control pills should be sold over the counter.
That is here's Jeff Sessions doing the right thing.
What do you mean, welfare cards used for pot?
Shut it down.
But you can imagine the reaction.
So the latest news is the House of Representatives has passed a no welfare for weed bill.
Now the bill last week got very little mainstream media coverage.
The fact that you could use your your EBT or your debit card to buy marijuana.
Didn't it didn't get a whole lot of play.
But the House has now passed legislation to try to put an end to that.
Because everybody killed Republican is just a bunch of killjoys.
No wonder everybody hates them.
They're just a bunch of I mean Victorian disciplinary judgmental, no fun, boring white people.
So the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday could make it a little harder for people to use government welfare payments to buy marijuana in states where the drug is legal.
A Democrat senator by the name of Dick Turban, a number two Democrat in the Senate, yesterday blamed House Republicans' opposition to amnesty for the lack of trained doctors in African nations struggling to contain Ebola.
Senator Dick Durbin claims that amnesty would have helped to contain Ebola.
Let me ask is there anything Amnesty can't do?
Well, you look at all the problems we have in America, and it seems like every one of them can be solved by amnesty, if we would just have the courage to do it.
Amnesty has now become sort of the opposite of global warming.
I mean, whereas global warming is the source of every evil, amnesty is now universal panacea.
He can even help stop Ebola.
If we had just passed amnesty, we'd be able to more easily deal with Ebola.
What Durban is saying is that there would be more doctors in West Africa fighting Ebola if the gang of eight amnesty bill had passed.
Durbin claims that the bill contained language making doctors stay in their native African countries longer before coming to the U.S. And the second point is that passing amnesty would allow more doctors in the U.S. to go to Africa without jeopardizing their immigration status.
So in other words, Durban seems to believe there are a lot of illegal alien doctors.
And that if we'd just had amnesty, they'd be free to come and go, and they wouldn't have to worry about going to Africa and not being able to get back into the United States.
And if we had passed the amnesty bill, the doctors in Africa that want to come here would have had to stay there and wait a little bit longer and thus treat Ebola.
But since we didn't pass amnesty, we have to now send 3,000 troops to Africa to contain and fight Ebola.
Now this is ludicrous.
It's insane.
And yet it gets reported.
This is the Washington Times.
It's going to be reported, CNN will have it, MSNBC, Washington Times, New York Times, uh Washington Post, they'll all report this as though it's legitimate.
And Dick Durbin will get credit for great compassion, far-reaching understanding.
Yeah, if we just passed Amnesty, look at all we could have done to stop Ebola.
But since we didn't, we are threatened by an outbreak, all because of the Republicans' racism and bigotry.
Meanwhile, I take you back to the New York Times poll that came out just today.
You look at Obama, he is in record low approval numbers on every issue item that matters.
And on immigration, 30% approval, 60% disapproval.
Amnesty, immigration reform, contrary to what the Republican and Democrat Washington establishment would have you believe, has never been supported by a majority of people in this country.
Never.
Not in 86, not in 2007, not in 2004, it isn't supported by a majority now.
And that is why Obama has Not done executive amnesty, because he knows that whoever is deemed responsible for it is going to get severely criticized and be highly blamed.
And since he couldn't engineer the Republicans to be on the receiving end of all that, he announced a delay.
I don't think he ever intended to really do this, unless somehow it could be arranged that the Republicans get blamed for it.
To the phones we go as we get back to the content portion of the most listened to radio program in America.
Ken in Lavonia, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Glad you waited, and great to have you here.
Anybody there?
Nobody's is uh is this Ken?
Yes, yes.
Yeah, I wanted to comment, uh Rush, that uh we're seeing uh history repeat itself again with Obama, that uh the same mistake that he made in Egypt, the same mistake he made again Libya, he's now getting ready to do in Syria.
Uh Barack Obama, as we know, wants to uh uh arm as he called them the moderates of the moderate rebels in Syria.
Right.
Uh however, the uh both the uh Orthodox Church in Syria and others in the Christian community have correctly identified that there is no such thing is no such group as the uh moderates.
That's exactly right.
That is another left-wing leftist democrat party term created in America to apply to certain people that they have now just chosen to apply to people that are really cutthroat, mean SOBs, but we're gonna join forces with them.
So they're moderates.
Well, the thing is, Rush, what we've seen is that these uh so-called moderates, as uh uh Obama calls them, they are already in the process of exterminating the Christians in Syria.
And uh it happened in Egypt, he sided with the rebels, it happened in Libya, he sided with the rebels.
Right.
Uh these all part of the Arab Spring extremists, uh they want to exterminate the Christians and anyone that's not like them, and Barack Obama wants to support these extremists.
You are very brave in pointing this out.
Uh there aren't a whole lot of people willing to say it the way you have.
Well, it's the truth.
I mean, uh, we can look at their ideology, uh, we can see what they believe in, and uh, these people have no tolerance for anyone that's not like them, and uh look at the beheadings, and uh here we go again, like I said, in Syria, where the Christian community has made it very clear that these uh individuals that Barack Obama label as moderates are not at all moderates, and they are killing uh not only Christians outright, but uh destroying the uh churches that are left.
No, that's exactly right.
Uh Obama tried to tell us the Muslim Brotherhood was moderate.
Um it's it's a trick.
Well, I trick's the wrong word.
It's a technique.
Well, it actually is a trick.
It's it's an attempt to fool people.
Just like are you I'm sure you are.
You remember how uh the mullahs in Iran are called strict conservative blah blah blah blah blah, or the Nazis were the hard line conservatives of German polit.
It is an effort by the Democrat Party to tar and feather their political opponents in this country, and by the same token, bestowing the term moderates is designed to keep you from understanding exactly who it is we are partnering up with.
And it's designed to keep you in the dark about what the truth about what's happening in these countries is.
There is a slaughter of Christians going on in Libya, in Egypt, in Syria.
And it is being done by militant Islamist groups who've made no bones about it being their intention.
What is our big beef with Bashar Assad?
Assad?
Well, I don't know that...
You mean when we drew the red line on it?
The belief was that in Syria...
There's a civil war in Syria.
And the belief was that the people that are fighting against Assad were thought to be carpenters and fishermen and...
just everyday ordinary Syrians who were being gassed and mass murdered and poisoned by the brutal Assad regime.
When in fact that's, you know, ISIS is doing this, making it look like that it's a civil war made up of just average Syrian citizens in an uprising.
In fact, Assad is not the guy doing all the reprehensible things he's capable of.
And his dad really now, Hafez Al-Assad was a brutal guy.
Basher is more GQ.
And his wife is Vanity Fair.
Still brutal, but nothing at all to compare with his uh with his with his dad.
But this was I I I can't, I I don't know what the thinking of the regime, what Obama specifically on Assad is.
Well, Syria is a terrorist state, and they're aligned with Iran.
They have, there's no question about that, but there's something deeper here.
That that's that's not I gotta be rookie.
That that's that's the fact that Syria is Iran is the leading terrorist state, and we're not doing we're not doing anything to punish Iran.
We're we're in talks with them, negotiations over the development of nuclear power and weapons and so forth.
Syria is a client state of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, so forth.
I'm up against it on time.
A quick timeout, my friends, we'll be back in resume after this.
Yes, my friends, welcome back.
El Rushmore and the EIB Network, America's real anchorman.
Truth detector, doctor of democracy.
Now, I mentioned earlier in the program that uh a bunch of different stories here on the statistical breakout of DUI, spouse abuse, uh sociological crimes like that in the NFL compared compared to the U.S. population at large.
And numerous uh surveys, numerous study data reveals that the incidence of these occurrences in the NFL are far less than in the general population.
And here's just one story.
This is from Comdigenews.com.
Red State had a story on this yesterday as well.
Let me read to you this one.
The National Organization for Women, affectionately known here as the NAGS, National Association of Gals, called for the resignation of Roger Goodell this week.
They said the NFL has a violence against women problem.
The NAG president Terry O'Neill said in a statement, the NFL has lost its way, doesn't have a Ray Rice problem, it has a violence against women problem.
But does it really?
The data say no.
It does not have a big problem.
And more than that, the data say that NFL players are half as likely, half as likely to commit domestic violence as men in their twenties and 30s in the general population.
A 15-year-old academic study by Alfred Bloomstein and Jeff Benedict was one of the first to look at this issue.
In a paper titled Criminal Violence of NFL Players Compared to the General Population, they compared arrest data for NFL players and other men for a variety of crimes, including uh non-domestic assault, domestic violence, rape, kidnapping, homicide, DUI, drugs, and property offenses.
Bloomstein and Benedict found that of the 342 black players in their sample, 97 of them, or 28 percent had an arrest for one of those crimes.
There were 77 whites in the sample, seven of them, or 9% had an arrest.
Now, those numbers might seem high until they are compared with arrest numbers for the general population.
The FBI's uniform crime reports provided the arrest data for the general population, the arrest rate for assault for black men was 6,990 per 100,000.
And for whites it was 2,209.
The corresponding rate for NFL players, black and white, was less than half the rate for the general population.
So the whatever the offense here, domestic assault, domestic violence, uh non-domestic assault, rape, kidnapping, homicide, DUI drugs, the incidence rate in the NFL is less than half what it is in the general population.
More recently, USA Today published its USA Today NFL arrest database.
Yes, you heard me right.
USA has something called the USA Today NFL Arrest Database, which goes from the year 2000 to the present.
And that's just after the Bloomstein Benedict study and it all the way up to today.
Benjamin Morris at the 538 data lab used these data with the Bureau of Crime Statistics Arrest Data Analysis Tool to compare arrest rates for NFL players in the general population.
He looked at the 25 to 30 age group, because that most closely reflects the age of NFL players.
And what he found was that again, NFL players have arrest rates far below the general population.
Their arrest rates for domestic violence are half the rate of the general public.
Just as Bloomstein and Benedict found 15 years ago.
In addition, it was discovered that NFL arrest rates for DUI were about 25%, the general population rate.
For non-domestic assault, about one sixth.
For sex offenses, about one half.
And for nonviolent gun-related offenses, about one half.
Overall, arrest rates in the NFL are only.
Are you ready for this now?
You you take this number, contrast it with what you have been led to believe the past 10 days.
The overall arrest rates in the NFL are only 13% of those for the general public among men aged 25 to 30.
And yet, what are we on the verge of doing?
You can find these numbers anywhere.
I just, I've I found two websites that reported these numbers.
Well, there's the third now, USA Today.
They're not hard to find.
They're out there.
And yet, I mean, this is an illustration of the power of focused, intense agenda-driven media.
And what is the agenda here?
The agenda is liberalism and its own sociological revolution.
And what's driving this?
Women, feminism, liberal feminist women are driving this.
Disguised as agents of political correctness.
And so everybody is being told that the NFL is a hotbed for all of these crimes and abuses and aberrant depraved behavior.
The NFL is being told that it's dirty and filthy, and the commissioner is incompetent and it's got to get thrown out, and these players need to get thrown out, and this league needs to straighten up, or we're going to do something about the NFL.
The Reverend Jackson has chimed in now because the NFL under pressure is doing what usual big corporations do.
They pander to try to head off the criticism at the pass.
So they've hired four women who are experts to one degree or another in spousal abuse and other social crimes to come in and advise the NFL on what they've got to do to straighten up, when in fact, the truth probably is that for most of the NFL players, the NFL is the first formal discipline they're ever subjected to.
From the moment they Try out for a team, either being virtue of being drafted or signed as a free agent.
They have to comport to specific behaviors met, handed down by the coaching staff to even have a prayer.
They have to show up on time.
They have to be respectful of authority.
They have to follow directions.
They have to be where they're supposed to be on time.
That's one of the biggies.
They have to be able to memorize the playbook.
They have to be able to do anything when called on to do it, or they get cut.
And their dream is taken away from them.
In many cases, the NFL is the first formal exposure to real discipline a lot of young men who come to it have ever had.
The NFL does plenty of pre-season seminars for rookies to tell them what they're going to face, how to manage their money, how to deal with fame.
Don't know how successful it is.
You'd look at weeks like this and say not very successful, but they try.
They do it, but they do not have autocratic control.
They're always going to be subservient to the legal system.
Now, I'm not saying this to let them off the hook.
What happens is that, as usual, there is a political agenda driving all this.
All it took was the Ray Rice incident.
And every element of this agenda got in gear and was off to the races.
And then here came the Adrian Peterson story, and that just added fuel to the fire.
Now, where is the corresponding outrage and attempt to remedy or fix all of these kinds of behaviors in the general population?
We don't see it, do we?
And in fact, whenever anybody suggests it, they are told to shut up and mind their own business that you don't understand where these kids have come from, and therefore you have no business in either judging them or advising them on how to shape up.
But when they get to the NFL, there are certain things they have to do if they want to make the team.
Now, I don't want to be misunderstood.
When I say that it's the maybe the first exposure to formal discipline, I mean that as a positive.
And I know some of you are, well, what really?
Discipline?
How come so many of them are beaten or what?
That's not the discipline at the facility.
When the team has control of them as employees, very rarely do you see these guys engaging in this kind of aberrant behavior at the team facility.
Very rarely do you see it, you do see it during games, and the NFL for years have been worried about it and have been trying, that's why so many more penalty flags are being thrown, folks.
They're trying to keep control of the game.
They know where their players come from.
They know the cultural circumstances.
They're doing I'm convinced the league is doing everything making within the bounds of political correctness and not making themselves targets of racism, bigotry, and what have you.
It's a business to them.
They've got to make sure the product is as well the best it can be, number one, uh, in terms of athletic ability and so forth, but they've they've got to make sure that sponsors are going to be willing to stay associated with it and so forth.
That people are going to slip through the cracks, as is happening here in this particular season.
But look at the disproportionate amount of rage and anger directed at the NFL.
Now, may I remind you that it was just, was it last year or the year before, when I, who am totally tuned into this, very conscious and very aware, I was able, my instincts alone to sense.
It started with this concussion business that there were forces out there that were out for this game that had that had targeted this game In a political sense.
This is what's the toughest thing to make people believe.
Because football, sports is for everybody an escape from politics.
But this is a pure political agenda now that's gotten itself intertwined with the NFL.
Make no mistake about it.
We had a caller, I think it was yesterday from Southern California.
Great point.
Liberalism in the media fails at CNN.
Liberalism in the media fails at MSNBC, fails in terms of ratings.
I'm not denying they have societal impact.
I wouldn't be that foolish.
Liberalism failed as Air America.
Liberalism works in media, in the news business, in Hollywood, in publishing, music and so forth, and sports talk radio.
Sports talk radio is where you find actual condensed undiluted, pure liberalism dribbling bilge.
And the danger there is that the fans they're getting away from politics by caring about sports and statistics and so forth.
But you can't escape politics.
Anywhere in America today, you simply can't, if you are an engaged person who contacts, comes in contact with some form of media, you can't escape politics because politics is what liberalism is.
Liberalism is not compassion, it's it's not sensitivity.
Liberalism is not caring for the disadvantaged and liberalism is pure politics and the quest for power.
And they do a bang up job of disguising it.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue after this.
Don't go away.
Let me add one thing to my description of liberalism.
In addition to everything else that I said, it's all politics disguised as something else.
It is brute force.
Liberalism is brute force.
It is bullying.
It is intimidation, it is threat.
It has all kinds of characteristics related to brute force as its primary way of implementation.
Because at no time in this nation's history or present has a majority of Americans ever really embraced it, knowing full well what they're doing.
Liberalism has to mask and camouflage and hide itself in order for mass appeal.
But when they take the mask off, when they're feeling confident, it's brute force as a form of implementation, because they haven't found a way to sell it in the arena of ideas.
Here's Steve in Fort Worth, Texas.
We had back the phones.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Steve, are you there?
Look, I don't have time to wait for people to come back.
Where are we going next?
I hate this.
This is Scott in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Scott, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Res.
Thank you so much for taking my call 24-year dittos.
And I can't believe after 24 years of listening faithfully, I'm calling about the NFL.
Yeah.
Maybe in the past, one of the stick to the issues people.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And yet here I am calling about the NFL.
I find it such an interesting job.
Well, it's ironic, but it's sweet justice.
Anyway, I'm glad you got through.
Well, thank you.
I I find it such an interesting juxtaposition that with all that's going on with the Ray Rice's Adrian Peterson's, and like you mentioned earlier in the past, people like Ray Lewis, all of those uh with all of those problems that they have, and yet no one on the planet remains more radioactive to an NFL owner than Tim Kibo.
Someone who is the exact opposite of everything that's going on.
Everything he stands for is exactly right, but there is I hate to say this, but there is a difference.
Now but look, I don't want to destroy your moment here because it's a brilliant point.
I mean, Tim Tebow is a model citizen to every.
I mean, he is the antithesis of the NFL wishes it had a league full of Tim Tebows who could play.
Tim Tebow is insistent that he's going to be a quarterback and nothing else.
And the experts, the coaches have determined he just can't play that position at the NFL level.
He doesn't want to be a tight end.
He doesn't want to be a linebacker.
He wants to be a quarterback.
Now, interestingly about Tebow, he's just been hired at Good Morning America.
And everybody loves him.
Tim Tebow has been embraced open-armed by ABC News at Good Morning America.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Now RG3, Robert Griffin III was wearing a Jesus t-shirt for the post-game press conference on Sunday Washington.
They made him turn it inside out.
They say it was because it was not a Nike shirt, and players have to wear the approved apparel of the league, Nike stuff.
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