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Sept. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And we're back in the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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Yes, and even IOS 8, which I'm only gonna say one thing.
Something I just told the highly trusted and loyal staff.
You're gonna need to find somebody to give you a tutorial on this.
This is without question, the most comprehensive, detailed upgrade Apple has ever offered to its iPhone iPad software.
It is fabulous.
It is fantastic.
There are things throughout this that if you just wait to discover them, could take you six months to go through them all to find them all.
And that's not even talking about the stuff you're gonna be able to do if you have a Mac when they update that operating system in October.
Uh it's it really is massive what they've done here.
And you'll see once you install it and start uh and start using it.
Anyway, telephone number if you want to be on the programs 800-282-2882 in the email address Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
One of the things I teased yesterday.
It's from the Wall Street Journal.
Tens of thousands of people are likely to lose their health insurance at the end of this month because they missed a deadline to confirm that they are legally residing in the U.S. The regime announced this.
I mean, the regime itself made this news public.
We're talking in total here about 115,000 people whose citizenship or immigration status wasn't verified by healthcare.gov.
That this was all part of the regime.
I saw this on the tech blog last night.
The regime announced that healthcare.gov is still not secure, not finished, and that they can't guarantee your privacy on it.
And this is one of the uh fallouts from this is that citizenship immigration status was not verified by healthcare.gov.
Uh 115,000 people had not contacted the government by a September 5th deadline to send in additional documents according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service, because they didn't know they had to.
You see, most people think that Obamacare's free.
Yes, it's a beautiful thing, that all they have to do is go to uh uh the exchange, whatever that is, or to healthcare.gov and sign up, and it's free.
They don't know excrement from Shinola about reporting to this government agency or that or confirming something here, confirming something.
They don't know anything about that.
These are people that don't even really care how their phones work, and they're supposed to be able to transverse one of these massive government websites.
So the government now is set to inform insurers to terminate at the end of the month the coverage, a hundred and fifteen thousand people bought through healthcare.gov.
A provision in the Affordable Care Act bars people living in the U.S. without authorization from obtaining coverage through the site.
See if you are uh undocumented or an unregistered undocumented alien democrat, you can't get Obamacare.
You cannot get coverage.
Through that site, federal officials also said they would send notices to about 279,000 people whose income can't be verified, and they're gonna give them until September 30th to submit further documentation.
Those people won't lose their coverage if they don't respond.
But the tax credits that offset the cost of their premiums could be suspended.
And these issues stem from technological flaws in the healthcare.gov website that persisted, well, from the start-up to the present.
It continues to be a mess.
And again, I would just like to Make a point a president who told you for three years, 3132, whatever it was, different times, you could keep your doctor if you like it, keep your policy if you like it, keep your plan if you like, keep all if you like it.
None of that turned out to be true, did it?
Same president says, no, no, no, we're not gonna have any boots on the ground in Iraq.
No, no, no, we're not going back to war with ISIS.
No, no, no, you're not gonna get a tax increase.
No, no, no, your premium is not gonna go up.
Folks, it's such you know, it it's it's pointless to say, but it was so unnecessary.
Hi, sweetie.
Who's not surprised.
UK Daily Mail Online.
Let me tease the story with this pull quote.
Mr. Snerdley, listen to this.
When a gunnery sergeant tells you to take off your clothes, you better take off your clothes.
What do you think this story's about?
When a gunnery sergeant tells you to take off your clothes, you better take off your clothes.
This is about male rape in the United States military.
It is from the UK Daily Mail online.
It's a good thing this isn't a problem in the NFL, or we would have, you know, we could have solved it with a hashtag and a color and a and a ribbon by now.
When a gunnery sergeant tells you to take off your clothes, you better take off your clothes.
That's a quote from somebody in the story.
Male victims of military rape tell their heartbreaking stories.
Men who enlist in the U.S. armed forces are ten times more likely to become victims of sexual assault than in the general population.
Now, I don't know what the incidence of male rape in the NFL is.
We don't have those numbers.
But we do know that men who enlist in the U.S. armed forces are ten times more likely to become victims of sexual assault than in the general population.
Though women are more likely to be the victims of rape in the military, male on male rape is still a serious problem, sweeping the U.S. armed forces.
In a recent article in GQ, more than a dozen veterans and current servicemen came forward to tell of their sexual assault and how the military institution failed time and time again to bring their predators to justice or get them the psychiatric help they needed.
When a man enters the military, he's ten times likier to be sexually abused.
And in 2012 alone, there were an estimated 14,200 reports of male rape.
It says here this is problematic since men are much less likely to report these incidents, leaving their attackers in positions of power and keeping the pain inside to boil over into other relationships.
The power structure within the military also makes these attacks more prevalent because men in lower ranks may find it hard to report their attackers if they're superiors.
A former Marine, Sam Madrid, name change, not his real name, is the quote here.
When a gunnery sergeant tells you to take off your clothes, you better take off your clothes.
You don't ask questions.
Before Don't Ask No Tell was repealed, it also meant the possibility of a dishonorable discharge for engaging in homosexual behavior.
Okay, so let's have some allowances here.
We know that the U.S. military is the focus of evil for many in the world.
We know that the American left doesn't particularly care for it.
We know that various subgroups of the American left as well don't particularly care for it.
And so we know their efforts to impune it.
We know that during the Iraq war, well-known Democrats like John Kerry, all he had to do was hear of a baseless allegation that Marines in Hadith had terrorized young children and raped Iraqi women in their homes, and he believed it.
He was off to the races.
So was Jack Mertha.
It was John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, who was speaking someplace in Pasadena, who impugned members of the military by saying it's the only thing they can do to escape their horrible lives in the South.
The only way they could get an education.
I forget his exact quote, but it was either it was something about uh if you can't into college you do something stupid like going to Iraq or some such thing.
So my point is we know there are people that would love to discredit the media.
And there could be some exaggerations in the story, it could be some attempts.
We also know that there are people who would like to impugn homosexuals.
There are a lot of people in the military who don't agree with uh with gays being allowed in, uh, known and so forth.
There could be any number of things that are that are driving this story, but I guarantee you that somebody has an agenda behind this story.
Somebody, I don't know who yet, but somebody, there's an agenda here to try to spread the word that there is all kinds of gay rape going on now in the U.S. military.
Far more than is occurring in the general population.
There's a uh study that has just been completed from the American Journal of Political Science, and it has revealed that conservatives and liberals smell different.
Now, I have known this for quite a while, because as you know, I know liberals like every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand, I know them.
And researchers led by Brown University political science scientist Rose McDermott found that conservatives and liberals smell differently.
While the difference is small, it is apparently significant enough that we subconsciously prefer the scent of those who vote like we do.
She says, it appears that nature stacks the deck to make politically similar partners more attractive to each other in unconscious ways.
Now this does not explain the Carville Madeline Union.
Uh, but that may be an outlier and an exception.
But did you know there were people studying this?
Have you ever been able to smell a liberal snerdly and realize by virtue of what you're smelling that they are different from you and therefore might be liberal?
Only in New York.
Hmm, interesting.
When I read this story, I started thinking, how do the liberals I know smell?
And I said, is there anything common?
And then I remember, no, it's all subconscious here.
The researchers say you act on it subconsciously.
You uh you don't really know.
It bears further study and research.
Now, I ran across this story in a website called the weak.com.
I love stories like this because they serve to validate.
And again, believe me, what when I tell you, I'm very uncomfortable saying to all of you, remember when I said X, or I've been telling you, I told you about I really am uncomfortable saying those things because they can be misunderstood as egoistic.
And believe me, ego has nothing to do with this.
People learning and believing and accepting the truth is is what I'm about.
So let me just ask you, how many of you recall over the many years of the EIB network me telling you that the Democrat Party and liberalism is made up of a whole bunch of different factions, and that what unites them is they're all liberal and they all believe in the expansion of government.
How many of you remember me saying that militant environmentalism is simply the new home for displaced communists after the Soviet Union fell?
How many of you remember me telling you that feminism is simply a branch Of liberalism disguised as an effort devoted to equality for women.
I've said this for decades now.
And so in the latest issue of the week.com, here's a story.
Is feminism just another word for liberalism?
It's by somebody named Damon Linker.
It's an amusing cover.
Under the standard, the New Republic logo on a white background.
We have Beyonce, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Louis C.K. and a handful of other smiling pop culture and political icons of the moment dressed as cheerleaders, lifting letters high into the air that spell feminism.
And beneath the image, the subtitle of the cover story, The New Republic is, it has conquered the culture.
Now comes the hard part.
And so this is a story about how feminism is just another word for liberalism.
That's all feminism is, is disguised liberalism, and it is.
But here's a group that's finally onto it.
The only thing missing in this story is as Rush Limbaugh has been saying for 25 years.
And I don't throw that in egoistic reasons.
I'm interested in the truth.
Now the the New Republic is a liberal journal of opinion.
And so it's uh it's not criticism to say that the authors of the story are liberals or right that way.
I mean, that's that's who they are.
But they go overboard here.
I mean, they're happy about it.
It's a great, they've come, they've come to a realization that they're very happy about.
Wow.
Feminism is just, it's just another word for liberal.
As though they didn't know all, they're in the movement and they didn't know what feminism is.
They've just figured it out.
And because of what's happening in the NFL right now, they think feminism has won and conquered the culture.
The hard part now is actually quote unquote governing and dominating the culture.
Anyway, I gotta take a timeout.
We'll be back.
Much more straight ahead as always.
Don't go away.
Okay, time to go back to the phones as people continue to wait patiently and respectfully to appear on the program.
This is Paul in Columbia, Missouri.
Welcome, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
Oh, it's great to be here, Russ.
Pleasure and honor to speak to you.
Ditto's from Columbia, Missouri, the future home of the government's tax and spend hall of fame.
I hear they're located in the bottom of one of our new parking garages here.
But anyway, to get straight to my point, uh a little earlier in the show, you mentioned the fact that the NFL is a tax-exempt organization.
And they knew that for a long time, but I kind of started to put two or two together here and realize that uh a few weeks ago Burger King was just lambasted for being unpatriotic and a horrible company for moving their headquarters to Canada where the taxes aren't quite as high.
Not non-existent, but not quite as high.
So we get Burger King Lambaster for that, but yet we have the NFL to get by with no taxes and nobody saying anything about that.
I kind of wondered your thoughts on that.
I don't think anybody knows that the NFL is tax-exempt.
I think I think most people are going to just learn this for the first time, and they're not going to understand it.
They're gonna see uh multi-billion dollar corporation not paying taxes, and I guarantee you they're gonna be outraged by it.
It's not gonna take the media to make them outraged.
They've the media did that.
The Democrats have uh have done that through class warfare and class envy for the last 50 years.
All it takes is the revelation that some big firm isn't paying any taxes, and bam, we're off to the race.
Unless that firm is a good, well-known liberal firm that stands for global warming and climate change and green energy, uh, or unless they stand for tax increase, and then they get a pass.
Exactly.
So is this something that we might see on the horizon that could be, you know, like uh uh the end of the NFL.
Maybe not the end, but at least uh a downturn in in popularity.
No, what I Tell you what the the NFL is more concerned about its uh uh antitrust exemption.
Uh it's the same thing in Major League Baseball.
The antitrust exemption allows the NFL to operate as I always get this.
It's it's either as one entity, even though they're 32 different businesses as part of, or as 32 different.
But I think it's that they have an antitrust exemption.
They're they're protected uh in in a lot of ways that other industries aren't.
That's what they're desperate to hold on to.
And that is what is always held over their head if they don't do what Washington wants them to do.
And I fully expect that to be used in due course if efforts to look at make my point.
Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins.
I don't care what poll you look at, there is not a poll of the people of this country that shows a majority even care about it, much less think the Redskins ought to change their name.
So how is the campaign to get the Redskins to change their name being implemented?
Brute force, bullying, intimidation, threats.
The media and all the other agents involved in forcing this change are trying to intimidate the owner, pressure him, threaten him, bully him, what have you.
Some point they're gonna dangle this this tax exempt status, they're gonna save the commissioner or somebody.
You know, if you guys don't fix this, this guy to change the name of that team, we're gonna be serious here about removing that status.
Now they're not I don't I don't know th their tax exempt status is legal.
I mean, they've applied for it, they structured that way, and they run their business that way.
They are ripe to take a hit over it among low information voters, which also happen to be among their biggest fans, so customers.
Be right back.
Here is Joy in Griffin, Georgia.
I'm glad you waited, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rosh.
Hey.
Thank you for taking my call.
I love your show.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'm glad you're out there.
Love it.
Recently there was an incident in one of the major hotels in Atlanta.
It uh a judge was arrested for domestic violence.
He beat up his wife.
He was from a neighboring state.
And I didn't think I mean, other than it being a sad situation, I didn't think a lot more about it until this thing came up with the NFL.
This rice fella.
And I got to thinking, how many professionals out there, other than Pro Ball, like the Wall Street crowd, the stock market, the attorney, the doctors, the guy on the up on the street corner here, that lives across the street from you.
The mainstream journalist.
Journalists, yeah, I could go on.
I just didn't write down my list, but I could go on and on and on.
How many and you actually addressed my comment in a previous segment of yours about the percentage of NFL players that are that do this type of thing.
Do you remember what the number is?
I I think it was somewhere around 13%.
Thirteen percent.
The incidence of of d abuse, uh non-sexual abuse, DUI, all that, thirteen percent of the general population rate in the NFL.
Thirteen percent.
Yeah, I I mean you've answered my quite that was my comment because I I I said, well, I would hate to be in front of this bench with this judge if if I'm the victim and I'm trying to prosecute somebody that just beat me up, you know.
And d how far does it go?
I mean, i would he be fair in his in his deliberation?
I don't know.
I don't who knows anymore.
I I agree.
Who knows?
I didn't I never really thought too much about this until this right thing came up.
And I I don't know why they're blaming Goodell.
Is that it?
Roger Cadell.
I mean, I I feel sorry for that fella.
He was just trying to do the right thing.
They didn't even have a rule at the time that he gave him the first suspension.
Doesn't I mean uh I don't know.
I'm j I'm I don't know.
Okay, so this is a good point.
So you are watching this, you're watching it from afar.
You seem to have uh an abundance of common sense as you're absorbing all this news.
And you just said, I don't know why why they blame him Goodell.
He didn't do anything.
So do you have an answer?
Did you were you able to come on an answer for yourself about why they are targeting Goodell?
I mean, Goodell's a good liberal.
He's politically correct.
I mean, he would seem to be uh doing everything.
I think it plays right into the war on women, which is a false war.
I think it's just an they'll they'll they'll run over or run put anybody under the bus to forward their agenda.
Bingo!
Bingo!
War on women exactly right.
The Democrats need turnout this November.
Sure.
Exactly.
So Goodell, who has twin daughters, who is married to Jane Skinner, the former anchorette on Fox News, Roger Goodell, who has established Pink Month in the NFL in October.
Roger Goodell, who has been over back, but you know what?
Let me tell you something.
This is something I'll bet, I'll bet I'll just bet.
During the Masters, there was a picture on the AP wire.
It was of Roger Goodell in a green jacket.
He's a member.
Now, members at Augusta National are it's it's a uh they can tell people they're members, but they don't broadcast this.
It was learned that Roger Goodell.
Now, you know what the feminazis think of Augusta, even though they've started letting in women like Condi Rice is a member there now, and Lynn Swan got in.
Uh but it's it's uh it's it's a closed place.
When they found out that Goodell's a member there, I'm sure some people filed that away, because that's a definite politically correct no.
And there he was pictured.
Minor factor, just it's something that adds up.
One of these little incidents that it gets thrown on the pile.
But Goodell, I mean, Rod Roger Goodell has has bent over backwards to make this league responsive to critics and so forth, and yet you have so nailed it.
It's the war on women.
It is feminism has become the controlling agent of liberalism.
And so what better way to advance the war on women than to take down the commissioner of the National Football League, or to sully his reputation and and and make him the face of this bastion of Macho, brute, predatory, mean men.
Because the war on women requires it.
Very, very perceptive, Joy.
So glad you called.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, here is Jane in Portland, Oregon.
Jane, glad you waited.
You're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I absolutely had to get on as soon as possible because as the wife of a retired NFL football player, I'm married to John Arnett, who spent ten years in the NFL.
We are as wives in the Wait, wait, did you wait?
Did you say our net or our Ness?
Our net, John Arnett played for USC, the Rams, and the Bears.
Right, right, right, right.
Okay.
Right.
And in fact, before I let you off the phone, or you let me off the phone, I'm I'd love it if you'd say hello to him.
He's been listening to you since you were in Sacramento.
Oh, cool.
And yeah, just very loves you.
Every morning.
Every morning.
Um, I am a bit of an activist with the retired players' community, and in fact, and I don't want to take the conversation this direction, um, although it fits in.
I was a part of some of the activism to draw attention to the issues of concussions.
I will say that it got completely out of hand and taken over by people with other agendas.
And you've alluded to it, or you haven't alluded, you've directly spoken about it many times.
In regards to the Ray Rice issue and Adrian Peterson.
I don't know if anybody's noticed, but no one is really talking to those of us who actually live these lives of professional football players.
Although my husband is retired, we we live in this community and with this culture.
People aren't really talking to us.
I've noticed a few shows that brought on some of the younger wives who have made statements like, well, I would stand by my man, and um, as horrible as it is, and we don't know Ray to be violent, we don't know Adrian to be violent.
I would stick with him.
Those conversations are not sought out by the media.
I obviously there's an agenda here to dis to destroy football, to destroy the NFL, in our opinion, and it's outrageous and infuriating to those of us who are part of this family.
Have you noticed that when someone does something atrocious or horrible in the Hollywood community, that person is singled out, they're dragged over the coals, and then they're redeemed and forgiven, and they go back to having their career.
No one goes after Hollywood as a whole.
No one goes after all of the all of the entertainers, all of the television stars or what have you, because of the transgressions of one person.
And in fact, we use that as a vehicle for sensationalism, and I'm going to repeat myself for redemption and forgiveness.
But not here.
They want to take away a man's livelihood.
I am not sitting in judgment of Ray Rice and his wife.
I don't know them.
I don't condone domestic violence.
It's something I've actually worked as a volunteer to Jane.
I I need to interrupt you for a question because I've got my time is dwindling.
Who has hijacked the the the concussion um I I'll call it a movement for the sake of question?
Who's hijacked?
Okay.
Um well, to be to be very general in a statement, it's people who don't like the NFL and people who don't like football.
It isn't people from within the organization.
We as retired football player families never said that football was dangerous in the sense that it needed to be discontinued and banned.
We simply talked about the fact that there needed to be care given to those with concussions, which seemed to be a very common occurrence.
And quite frankly, I think the NFL may have even not necessarily managed the their reaction entirely properly, but I'm just one person.
You know, my attitude is if you're going to go after football and decimate football, because in concussions, then we need to stop people children from playing soccer.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
It's also a great point that you make that they're not seeking out you who have lived this uh life in the NFL for any comment on this.
They're seeking all these outside psychiatric experts and political experts to analyze it.
Put John on the phone real quick because I have to I have to make tracks here, and I want to say hi.
Absolutely let you know, but I have to tell you, we wise the band together and we've got a little blog talk thing called called The Real Football Wives, and we're gonna start speaking out.
We're pretty feeble in our organizations, but we're sick and tired of this thing always.
Well, good for you.
Amen.
I think that's fabulous.
Here's John, hold on.
All right.
How old are you?
I'm great, John.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Well, you know my buddies, you know the breath boys, don't you?
And I, you know, I have a lot of when I lived in Man M beach, we've spent a lot of time together, so I they spoke very highly of you, and uh I listen to you every day, Rush.
Well, I appreciate it.
John, that's it's mutual.
Uh people I know who know you have said the uh have said that that's why I was uh my hearing.
I wanted to make sure it was Arnett, not our nest that I was hearing, because I've heard both names.
Yeah, well, I just a little bit older.
I don't know whether I'm any wiser, but I'm a little bit older.
Well I'm sure you're both.
Anyway, it's it's great to talk to you.
It really is.
I I um uh what a way to finish the program.
And your wife uh is fabulous.
Like I can tell.
I can just sense this.
Uh talking uh about I mean, she's loyal and she is uh obviously committed to the truth about this.
I mean it's it's it's great.
How many people do you encounter at the moment who are acting proud of the NFL rather than embarrassed of it?
Uh or thinking excuses have to be made for it.
So anyway, that's uh that's great.
So Jane and John, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it.
I have to run a quick brief time out.
We'll be Back and wrap it up after this.
Don't go away.
So I hear John Kerry now testifying about uh the war on ISIS, and he said that uh great victory comes after serious discussion.
Great victory comes after serious discussion.
How well that's absurd.
It's it's just uh and there's a story from Reuters, United Nations war crimes investigators for Syria, have cautioned world powers, meaning us, preparing military action against Islamic State fighters that the laws of war would apply to them, and they must do everything possible to protect civilian populations.
But ISIS is not a uniformed uh military from a nation state, therefore they're not subject, they're outside the Geneva Conventions.
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