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Sept. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Anybody else out there happens to be saying Rush Limbaugh documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
And here we are at the fastest three hours in the meeting.
We're already at the third hour.
Tomorrow is going to drag.
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I still have uh a roster of really interesting slash funny slash provocative audio sound bites about the the latest upheaval in the NFL.
Another domestic violence case, Jonathan Dwyer.
Arizona Cardinals uh played the past four years for the Steelers.
It's a running back.
Uh his case is from back in June, but it has surfaced.
Uh Adrian Peterson has uh gone from the team indefinitely till his case has been adjudicated in the legal system.
The Panthers and Greg Hardy, the Fordiners and Ray McDonald, and whatever else is waiting to pop.
Uh Gloria all red demanding that the commissioner resign.
So here's Lee Steinberg.
Lee Steinberg, a famous, famous sports agent.
You all know the Jerry McGuire story.
Here is he's the uh the formative character, the model character there.
He was on CNN last night with Don Lemon, who's uh we got some interesting Don Lemon's outbites coming up.
Lee Steinberg, a well-known agent, uh first client, by the way, Steve Bartkowski, who was a quarterback at uh UC, University of California, Berkeley, and after that successful venture, Steinberg built up a huge, huge stable of uh of clients.
It was Steinberg, in fact, I remember it was a rush to excellence tour in Houston back in the early 90s when the Oilers were still there.
And I happened, it was a it was a Saturday night appearance.
I stayed over because the Oilers were playing the Fordiners.
This was during the uh Joe Montana, Dwight Clark era.
And uh I had not met Steinberg.
He was in a press conference, a press box, and he came up, introduced himself to me.
Nice as he could be.
And uh just sat down and we're watching the game, and the the Oilers had built up a huge first half lead on the Fordiners.
And Steinberg said, Don't sweat it.
They've got it all under control.
You're gonna see a second half come back that you're gonna be talking about forever.
And he was right.
Forders just look like a different team the second half.
Anyway, there was a really hard-hitting uh pretty serious injury, and Steinberg turned to me and said, you know, these guys, these guys are so tough.
He says, you know, you and I. We wouldn't last.
We wouldn't last a play out there.
Especially if we're on the offensive line.
Now something you know instinctively, but you don't stop to think about.
When he said that, I actually stopped and thought about because I did play one year of organized football in junior year in high school.
Oh, it's my senior sophomore year.
And I mean, that's nothing.
I mean, it was tough at the time, but it was nothing.
But he he was right.
It's it is tough.
It's so I've always had a uh you a different perspective of the game ever since then.
Anyway, Lee's had his ups and downs, but he's now back and is opining on these things.
And Don Lemon said to him last night, okay, it seems to be common defense now.
Many people have raised with corporal punishment.
It's the way it happened for these kids.
They were raised this way, it's the way they're raising their kids, and they don't they don't see what's wrong with it.
They in fact they think it kept them in line.
And that it's just uh, you know, I does it does it hurt the NFL that players speak out and defend Adrian Peterson for the way that he is raising his child?
The players will get this right, the league will get this right, and we'll see a program just like what they did with breast cancer, and they'll take over a leadership role.
And they'll become uh a leader here in a dynamic way.
All right, so what Lee Steinberg is saying here is that there's gonna be spousal abuse month in the NFL to go along with breast cancer awareness month in the NFL.
Now, they there is a color for this now.
I think it's purple, isn't it?
Isn't it?
I'm not joking.
Is it that isn't there a color that that's supposed to ribbon that's supposed to signify consciousness raising of spouse?
Well, look it up.
You got time to look it up in there.
I'm hosting the show.
I think it's right.
Anyway, Steinberg, get this.
They will get this right.
The league, they'll see a program just like they did with breast cancer, and they'll take over a leadership role and become a leader here in a dynamic way.
Let's say that happens.
Do you told you it was purple?
I no, it's not black and blue.
Don't say that.
Don't make me say oh what a Snerdley just said he thought the color would be black and it's purple, which I guess is.
No, purple is a combination of black and blue.
Little red thrown in.
See what my staff does to me, folks.
My staff is the one that takes me over to the edge there.
And they sit in there and they yuck and laugh about it while they hope to see me go over the edge, barely, barely hang on.
They just love it.
So can't but okay, so we're gonna have Steinberg says we're gonna have the same kind of thing.
What what what is spousal abuse awareness in the NFL?
What would it be?
They do a whole month of it.
I don't know.
Okay, Don Lemon was who was asking the questions.
Now this is well, you'll you'll see here.
We gotta go back two days ago.
Two days ago, Don Lemon, just to refresh your memoir.
Don Lemon is our all-time favorite CNN anchor.
It's a close race with our all-time favorite CNN reporter.
That would be Nick Robertson.
We love Don Lemon.
We hope nothing ever happens to Don Lemon.
CNN is cutting people left and right.
We're cutting budgets and they're letting staff go, and we hope Don Lemon survives all of it.
Don Lemon's a guy that asked a transportation expert if a black hole might have swallowed the missing Malaysian airliner.
Now, he he admitted that it was uh an out there explanation or possibility, but could it have happened?
Is it it he asked it?
And of course, the transportation expert answered it as diplomatically as you can imagine.
So two days ago, Don Lemon was defending corporal punishment because that's how he was raised.
This is Tuesday night CNN situation room.
I have to say that uh when I was a kid, I would have to go and get the switch off the tree.
And if I brought back a switch that wasn't big enough, then my grandmother or my dad or my mom would go get a bigger one.
Now, listen, I'm not condoning what Adrian Peterson is alleged of doing, but you know, people do discipline their children.
People do punish their kids, and corporal punishment happens in this country.
It happened uh almost every single day for me as a kid in Catholic school.
And I think a lot of people see that as sort of a parent's right uh to discipline their children.
Okay, so you could construe that to be almost a defense for corporal punishment.
Spanking, for those of you in real.
Corporal punishment is not, they don't go and get, you know, a sergeant or somebody in the military to come in and discipline the corporal punishment means spanking, not they don't call a military guy over to do it.
I just need to make sure that the people are real in the are up to speed and they'll get lost here.
So he's defending it, and Michael Wilbon defended it.
So yeah.
I had to cut my switch.
I was raising this.
Wilbon said if there were more of this in the black community, if there if there were more corporal punishment, if there were more Adrian Peterson-like dads out there, that there'd be a lot less trouble.
He said it.
Now he can say it without all kinds of grief descending on him.
Now, the bite you just heard was two days ago, Tuesday night, Don Lemon defending corporal punishment.
In the space of two days, in 48 hours, somebody got to Don Lemon and changed his mind or changed the way he views corporal punishment.
Don Lemon got his mind right.
This is last night on the CNN.
Over the last couple of days of watching what's going on and doing research and looking at the pictures from Adrian Peterson.
I have evolved on this because I think, hey, you know, you can spank your kid.
But I think that we as a society need to reexamine that.
My initial reaction was, well, I was a kid.
This is how I was treated.
And I saw, you know, the evidence for at least for my own personal, you know, experience is this.
But I think that we need to re-examine that, and especially for me as an African American, because the question is, where did you learn that from?
Was that learned from the slave master?
Oh no!
Oh he did, oh no, Don, you did oh no.
Corporal punishment, he has to abandon his belief in corporal pun.
He was raised that way, and he thought it was okay, it was everybody was, it was just de rigor, de rigueur, it was the way things happened.
But somebody got to said, Don done, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Uh, we in the media don't believe in corporal punishment.
If you want to stay in good graces of the liberal media, no, no, no.
Change your mind on this.
And uh so in analyzing why he erroneously thought it was okay because it had happened to him.
He was convinced to dig deep to find the roots of corporal punishment in the black community.
And in fact, now it is totally invalidated because it was learned from the slave master.
Okay, back to the phones.
Here is uh John Jefferson City, Missouri.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
Yeah, you bet.
Uh, I just uh how I just wanted to comment on how right you are about everything you say about how you know Democrats and like every square inch of your neck glorious naked body and everything.
And it's it's basically based on your excellent observational skills.
But I just wanted to make a point about how what we're seeing currently with Obama and with Hillary and the way they use the military uh as far as like what happened in Benghazi, that the narrative was Obama is dead, excuse me, Osama is dead, and uh they're on Al-Qaeda's on the run and everything, and they would not let anything in that interrupted that narrative.
If you remember back in like I think it was 93, 94, whenever we were pulling out of Somalia, and Les Aspen was the defense secretary at the time, if I recall correctly, right?
And Bill Clinton was president, and I remember the military at the time was calling for armor to help them get out of there successfully, and that was going to go against the narrative.
And I remember it was overruled by either Bill Clinton or Les Aspen, and right about that same time Blackhawk Down, you know, went down and or occurred, and they didn't have an M1 Abrams tank, a Bradley infantry biting vehicle to go in and rescue those guys.
They were going in with unarmored Humvees.
And like we're seeing today, as you say about liberals and Democrats, they are the smartest people in the room think, but uh they don't listen to their experts like they should, and they play a very cynical and risky game with our uh troops' lives.
Well, the Somalia thing is interesting because Clinton actually didn't start that.
That was started with George H.W. Bush reacting to a single photo on the front page of the New York Times.
But you're right, it was the public story was it was Les Aspen who refused the request for more money and armaments, weaponry, what have you, because it wasn't going well.
I mean, Mohammed Farah Adid Skyhook was winning.
It was it was embarrassing.
And they finally the last straw, and this was what this this is what Osama bin Laden told ABC News when he saw this.
Remember the two naked Rangers, special forces army people dragged through downtown Mogadishu.
Oh, yes.
That's when we cut and ran.
Yes.
And that's when Barack Obama, uh sorry, Osama bin Laden, talking to John Miller, who was at the time working for ABC, when he Saw that is when he began to believe the United States was a paper tiger and could be defeated.
Clinton, I mean, I don't think Aspen called for it, but the Clinton made the call on that.
Aspen took the heat for it, he's Secretary of Defense.
Correct.
But they got out of there.
It wasn't Clinton's mission.
It wasn't going well.
It involved black people.
There was nothing in this for Clinton.
There was at the time the U.S. remember we had stories already, Hillary was disrespecting the uniform Marine Guards at the White House.
Yes.
There was no love lost between the two.
And uh it was it was that was it cut their losses and get out of there.
Yep, and it's we're we're just seeing the same thing again.
And I just I I I fear that this mission is going to be compromised.
They're gonna play it up for the Well, look, it's real simple.
The generals are saying from Ray O'Derno to Martin Dempsey, the generals are saying, I don't care what you think, you cannot win this with bombs.
I don't care what you think, we are not gonna wipe ISIS out.
We're not gonna have what we consider a decisive defeat and victory with air power and a ragtag ground force that's not even ours, that's advised by us and gonna we're the only way this is going to happen is with boots on the ground, and this is not what Obama wants to hear.
It's not what Chuck Hagel wants to hear, and it's not what John Kerry wants to hear.
The generals are they're nevertheless saying it, but stories are replete that Obama doesn't listen to the generals.
See, this is why this whole subject to me is is really frustrating, because in the in the deep dark crevices of the White House and the Defense Department, State Department, this is a political operation.
It's being done out of political necessity.
And there's a whole different definition for victory here.
And the definition for victory that Obama and the rest have attached to this mission is the November election results.
And so the optics of whatever's going to happen are what matter.
All that really matters is that Obama is now seen as steeled and determined and committed to get ISIL.
By the way, you know why he keeps calling them ISIL and not ISIS?
ISIL, Lavant.
That includes Israel in the in the in the equation.
ISIS as a name does it.
It's a real inside baseball thing.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Lamont.
Believe me, uh ISIS, it's it's word games that he's playing.
It's along the lines of George H.W. Bush never would pronounce Saddam Hussein's name Saddam.
Pronounced him Saddam.
Uh in that world in Iraq, pronouncing Saddam as Saddam was one of, I mean, it was a profound insult.
It's the equivalent of calling him a shoe shine guy.
I think I read, if not that, it was the reason a dog or something.
The reason why he called him Saddam.
It's a it's a George H.W. Bush never called Pete DuPont Pete, called him Pierre.
Oh, yeah, called him Pierre so that people would think Pierre, PMS only rich Snodger named Pierre.
Never would call him Pete.
Pierre, every time he mentioned his name, Saddam instead of Sodom.
Well, Obama's doing the same thing with ISIS and ISIL.
But this whole thing is supposed to produce enough results to show Obama as ready and willing and able.
And therefore the Democrats are worthy of getting votes.
I got look at sound bites on this.
I'll tell you what, I wasn't going to do it.
Cookie gave me a lot of good sound bites in the roster.
I was going to stay away from it.
Stuff that's interesting, but now that I've made it interesting, I'll get to the sound bites in the next half hour.
But I was just thinking of something.
Are we just talking amongst ourselves here in the break?
Don Lemon may have unlocked the door for Adrian Peterson.
In terms of winning back the affection of the American people and getting the media off his back, and maybe even the legal system.
Don Lemon said on CNN last night that when he was speaking in favor of corporal punishment two days ago, he actually was unaware of the roots.
He became aware after his first statement of support for corporal punishment, and explain why it may be valuable and why it may work in the African American community.
Somebody got to him, and last night he said that it can be traced to the slave master.
Especially for me as an African American.
The question is where did you learn corporal punishment from?
Was that learned from the slave master?
Well, Adrian Peterson, are you listening to this, buddy?
Here it is.
It's been hand delivered to you on a silver platter.
All you have to do, say you were trying to do exactly what the guy on CNN was trying to do.
He was trying to validate the way he had been raised.
He turned out great.
Look at him, he's on CNN.
You turned out great.
You're on Minnesota Vikings.
And then you learned that you thought corporal punishment was okay, but when you found out it was actually traced back to the slave masters, you disavow it.
You're not going to have anything more to do with it.
It could work.
It could make the media less inclined to come after you, buddy.
Think about it.
Great to have you with us, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio talk show in the country, because it's well, it's just is.
Okay, audio soundbite time.
Gotta hear this.
We'll start here with John Kerry.
This is from a hearing testimony yesterday on Capitol Hill.
This is the blind leading the blind.
This is so convoluted, it was left to Bob Corker, Tennessee, to try to make some sense of it.
We'll start late yesterday afternoon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, U.S. strategy for combating the Islamic State.
John Kerry testified during his remarks that Code Pink had shown up and was and was protesting.
And during his remarks, this is what he said about the Code Pink protesters in the hearing.
I understand dissent.
I've lived it.
That's how I first testified in front of this country in 1971.
I respect the right of Code Pink to protest and to use that right.
But you know what?
I also know something about Code Pink.
You ought to care about fighting ISIL.
Because ISIL is killing and raping and mutilating women.
And they believe women shouldn't have an education.
They sell off girls to be sex slaves to jihadists.
There is no negotiation with ISIL.
There is nothing to negotiate.
And they're not offering anyone health care of any kind.
You know, they're not offering education of any kind.
Are you kidding me?
You see why I can't take this seriously?
Here is John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and the first thing out of his mouth is to let everybody know he served in Vietnam.
And then to remind everybody he first became known by protesting Vietnam.
So he's a good guy.
And then he invokes the war on women in telling Code Pink that they've got to try to understand how bad ISIL is.
This is unbelievable.
This is a bunch of militant Islamist terrorists who want to impose Sharia law on everybody.
They want to wipe out infidels.
It's a very serious thing that they're trying to accomplish.
And we are in their crosshairs.
And John Kerry has just trivialized it and reduced it to something that's that's politically absurd and relevant only to a fake creation of the Democrat Party in this election cycle, the war on women.
You ought to care about fighting ISIL because They're killing and raping and mutilating women.
That's why you ought to care.
And they believe women shouldn't have an education.
And they sell off girls to be sex.
If all that's true, then what the hell is the war on women being conducted against Republicans for?
Mr. Secretary.
Would somebody explain that to me?
If the Republicans are engaged in a war on women, why don't you tell people about them like you're telling people about ISIL?
Sounds to me like you're making the case here that the real war on women's being conducted by ISIL.
And that might confuse Code Pink, because they believe the war on women's being conducted by Republicans.
But no matter how you look at it, this is this is almost juvenile.
Absurd.
It wasn't finished.
He kept going here.
For a whole philosophy or idea or cult, whatever you want to call it, that frankly comes out of the Stone Age.
They're cold-blooded killers marauding across the Middle East, making a mockery of a peaceful religion.
And that's precisely why we are building a coalition to try to stop them from denying the women and the girls and the people of Iraq, the very future that they yearn for.
And frankly, Code Pink and a lot of other people need to stop and think about how you stop them and deal with that.
I can't, folks.
So you've got a supposed to be a very serious informational hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Code Pink gets in there and protests and disrupts.
I didn't bother playing the sound bites because I don't really want to waste time on that.
You know Code Pink.
And John Kerry changes whatever he was going to say and makes his testimony almost exclusively an education project for Code Pink.
And then goes to spends his time to tell Code Pink the threats to women they present.
Denying the women and the girls and the people of Iraq, the very future they yearn for, and frankly, Code Pink and a lot of other people need to stop and think about.
Well, Bob Corker, Tennessee, had heard enough and thought that he needed to put the Secretary of State in his place.
Do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000 in y'all's own words, doctors and dentists and others in Saudi Arabia over a year?
I'm disappointed.
I was disappointed in the briefing we had last week.
I hope you'll lay out a plan that will convince us that you're serious about doing the things you said you're going to do to the American people and to us about ISIL because you haven't done it now.
They couldn't believe what he had heard.
He literally could not believe how unserious and frankly pandering it was pulled in.
John Kerry's testimony was designed to turn out Democrat voters, female voters in November.
And to tell them the reason we're going after ISIL is to make sure Code Pink stops protesting us.
Code Pink's got to learn that ISIL doesn't like women.
ISIL hates women.
Meanwhile, we all thought it was the Republican Party conducting the war on women.
Well, after that soundbite from Bob Corker, which, Snurley, did you think there's anything crazy about that?
I mean, all he did was, he he said to John Kerry, I do you realize how unserious the things you've laid out, the things that you laid out yesterday sound?
Well, Barbara Boxer could not believe that Bob Corker had the audacity to be so disrespectful to the Secretary of State.
I think it is shocking and a sad state of affairs that we heard just now such angry comments aimed at you, Mr. Secretary, and threw you at our president, instead of at ISIS, a savage group who decapitated two Americans and have warned, and I quote, That their thirst for more American blood is right out there.
I think it's shocking.
I'm actually shaking and trembling.
This is not the time to show anger at the people who are working night and day, whether you agree with them or not, to protect our people.
What in the world is she upset about?
Why would you be shaking and trembling over what Corker said?
And why couldn't Kerry talk about the journalists that were in that were beheaded?
They were male, I guess uh he thinks Code Pink wouldn't be moved by the danger posed to men by ISIL.
I don't know how to describe th this this pandering.
It really is juvenile.
It's insulting, incompetent, juvenile behavior practiced by a bunch of arrogant, condescending people.
Really think they're the smartest people in the world and in the room?
I it's just I don't know.
This is not comforting that this is the kind of brain power and thinking that is leading us in this supposed effort to wipe out this big enemy.
I don't really, folks, how serious can you be about ISIL if you take time out to respond to a bunch of malcontent protesters at Code Pink that shouldn't have even been in there.
You need to get the support of Code Pink in order to validate the operation.
Here's uh here's Paul in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi, Paul.
Thank you for calling.
Welcome to the program.
24 to 7 Dos Rush.
In line with your uh battered wife syndrome, I have decided this election to vote straight Democrat and Libertarian to punish the GOP because they have treated conservatives so harshly for the last god knows what, eight years.
I'm done.
I'm out.
I'm leaving the relationship because if I don't leave it at that other caller said, I have no right to complain about it.
I'm not just gonna not vote.
Because that's apathy.
I'm gonna vote D. And with libertarian wherever they are.
But wait a minute.
I didn't say that Republican voters are exhibiting symptoms of the battered wife.
I said elected Republicans are exhibiting those symptoms.
You realize you're not gonna teach them a lesson.
You're not all you're gonna do is uh allow liberals to continue their their swath of destruction on the country.
If you actually do that, that that's the end result of what you're gonna do.
You're not they're not gonna they're not gonna learn a lesson from it.
If Republicans win, they're already liberal anyway.
I understand that, but you got you've you've got to vote about what you're against.
You can't vote for what you're against.
This stuff's got to stop.
We if we're the last line of defense here.
We have to do what we can do.
Giving up like this to teach these guys that we've had people doing this.
And it's it's one of the reasons we're in the with four million people sat home.
November of 2012.
Four million Republicans who voted in 08 didn't vote in 2012.
And had they, Romney would have been elected.
I don't care what you think of Romney, he would have been much better than what we've got.
Without question.
I mean, that's not even up for debate.
But you're not going to show them a lesson.
They're not gonna get that.
That's not what's gonna change the there.
I don't have time to get into full explanation of of what happens next, but doing that is not how conservatives can gain dominance of the Republican Party, which is what needs to happen here.
You're not you're not gonna do that by electing the enemy.
I understand the temptation.
I know how frustrated they're but I know you want them to find out how livid you are at how they've let you down.
That's not gonna do it.
They don't, I don't think they have the ability to recognize that kind of thing, folks.
They they don't they haven't seen what happened to them in 12.
They're lying to themselves about what happened in 2012.
Their own base stayed home.
If anything was gonna shape them up and teach them the truth, that Fact alone would.
That four million of their own voters didn't vote in 2012?
If that doesn't teach them anything, you, voting Liberal Democrat, certainly isn't going to.
Open line Friday tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.
Be thinking about it.
And be among the first to line up.
Will we go to the phones tomorrow?
Where we expand the content section to whatever you want to talk about, and plus whatever I find interesting in the stacks.
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