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Sept. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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All across the fruited plain, it is Friday, and live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Well, it's iPhone Day.
And we're just still waiting here in Bated Breath with Baited Breath, folks.
Uh it's uh it's I don't know.
I just I just love the do you have anything in your life that captures or recaptures for you the way you felt as a young kid on Christmas or Christmas Eve, depending on when your family opened presence.
Uh I have missed that feeling since it's about 12 or 13.
You grow out of it.
Nothing to do with Santa Claus.
You just you just grow out of it.
And there's nothing better as an adult to be able to recapture that that kind of childlike enthusiasm.
Um if it's if it's not for phones or whatever.
I hope, I hope everybody has something in your life that helps you to recapture that uh childlike excitement, because there's nothing like it.
There's literally nothing like it.
Anyway, we are here.
For me, this will be the the slowest three hours radio program uh in a long time.
For you, it'll be normal, standard operating procedure, fastest three hours in media.
And I tell you, folks, the drive-bys are beside themselves.
And I frankly am a I'm not surprised by this, but the drive-by's nearly 90% of Americans say they don't care about all of this going on in the NFL.
Ninety percent of Americans say that the recent outcry about domestic violence in the NFL hasn't had an iota's impact in how much football they're gonna watch or on their enjoyment of it.
Less than a third of the nation believes that the commissioner Roger Goodell should resign.
Now you have to understand the drive-by's a look at this, and they will chalk this up as total failure.
The people that write the daily media narrative that write the daily media soap opera measure their success by then learning how much of the general population's thinking on a subject they're able to move or manipulate.
And this is this is the second in a row that they've bombed out.
They tried to take what happened to the gentle giant in Ferguson, Missouri, and they tried to turn that into a national scandal of Republican Party proportions, and that bombed out on them.
That didn't work.
They really thought that they were on the verge here of getting this commissioner forced to resign or be fired.
They thought they were on the verge of getting the Redskins name changed.
They thought they were on the verge of major upheaval in the NFL because Much of journalism, and don't doubt me on this.
Much of journalism's success is determined by how much upheaval they can cause in citadels of power.
Now it used to be that anybody who held power was a target of the drive-by media.
That's no longer the case when avowed politicians of the liberal Democrat striper in power.
Then there is no attempt to hold them accountable.
There is no attempt attempt whatsoever to harm them.
It's just the exact opposite.
They are propped up until they're no longer useful.
And then they move on to a replacement left-wing liberal to prop up, which is why all the talk on Hillary right now.
How many times over the course of the many years of this uh highly popular broadcast have you heard me say that the way journalists climb their ladder of success is point to the resume when they were working in a smaller media market and see there was a guy that ran a tire store, and the guy was corrupt, and I did the piece that took him out of business.
You did?
Why you may be on the fast track for the Washington Post.
I mean, that's what they saw happen on 60 Minutes.
The powerful got destroyed, taken down a peg.
Well, I'm I'm here to tell you that there's always an agenda behind everything.
There's no news anymore.
The NFL story quickly became an agenda.
You had to know the politics of it to be able to correctly spot the agenda.
And the secondary aspect of this was the media measuring their power.
See how much upheaval they could cause by taking on what they and everybody else thought what they wanted you to believe was a totally corrupt institution.
A beloved corrupt institution.
The NFL is the most popular sport in America.
What better show of force and power than to take it down or to cause great upheaval?
And lo and behold, this is exactly what happened.
And now, with this poll out, this is an NBC News Marist poll.
Nearly 90% of Americans say that the recent outcry about domestic violence in the NFL hasn't mattered a whit in terms of how they like the game, watch the game, how much they're gonna watch the game.
The poll also found that a majority of Americans, including 60% self-described football fans, say they disapprove of the way the NFL has handled the allegations.
But it doesn't matter.
So Americans can hold two thoughts in their head at one time.
The media bull rush on the NFL and its commissioner are seen as overblown, yet a lot of people think the NFL and the Ravens mishandled the Ray Rice punishment.
Again, to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Drive-by's fit to be.
You know, folks, there's also something else going on here.
And I think I'd better keep this one close to the vest.
Given that the Democrats are out there waiting to just totally lie and take any number of words I say totally out of context, put them in a different order to mean something else.
But there's also I I better be very guarded on a certain aspect of this.
But the drive-bys have realized if you can figure this out on your own, fine and dead, I think most of you can't.
The drive-bys, after a week to ten days of calling attention to all of these domestic abusers and child abusers and all of these miscreants in the NFL.
The drive-bys have realized something about all of the suspects.
And it's counterintuitive.
It's as the wait a minute now.
This is uh this isn't, this is a we need to find another example of this and fast.
And so I think I think that, yeah, it doesn't count.
He doesn't play.
Doesn't play always, kid.
Yeah, it doesn't play.
That'd be a big stretch.
Big stretch.
Kidding, got to play.
Got to be a player.
Got to be a player.
And so they'll I'm I'm predicting you're gonna see a little bit less intensity in reporting the actual number of incidents.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
F. Chuck Todd.
So much instructional material here.
This is the Today Show to do today, and Matt Wower is speaking with the brand new host of Meet the Depressed, F. Chuck Todd about the NFL's recent troubles.
And Matt Wauer said, people have uh very strong feelings about what they're seeing unfold with the NFL, and yet Chuck, they don't seem to be letting those feelings create a wide-scale indictment of the game itself.
No, that's what we're seeing here.
It was a whopping 85% of those we surveyed said they're not going to change how much football they watch, that it's not going to impact what they watch.
In fact, only 11% overall said what's been happening in the game and how the NFL has handled it makes them want to watch less football.
So if you thought that fans would be providing the pressure on the NFL to do something more, this poll indicates that's not the case.
And I'm telling you, the drive bys are totally out of sync with the country, as they are on many things.
They're totally out.
I guarantee you, do not doubt me on this.
The vast majority of them, be they website writers, magazine writers, newspaper writers, television, radio broadcast, they all thought they all think that major upheaval in the corporate suite the NFL is just around the corner.
They all they they think major, major change is coming because they're so self-focused and so self-centered.
They assume what did I say the other day when the the whole thing about the way the media reports the Redskins name controversy.
They start with the premise that everybody agrees with them, right?
And as they report on it, they make it sound attitudinally like everybody in the country agrees.
The Redskins are horrible.
They need to change their name.
It's and most people don't care.
And then they're shocked when they learn most people don't care.
They're shocked when they learn that most Americans don't think like they do.
And then they conclude that's why most Americans are stupid and fools.
So then Matt Wauer, after F. Chuck gave the statistics in the poll, Matt Wauer said, well, let's go to these numbers.
You agree with how the league is handling it.
Fifty-three percent of America said no, they don't agree.
When you ask that question to people who say they're football fans, 57% say no, they don't like the way the league is handling it.
When they say the league, they're talking about the commissioner and some owners, right, Chuck?
Clearly, football fans wish they would handle it better, all that stuff.
It's not impacting what they'd say about the game.
But when it comes to Roger Goodell, Matt, at this point, they don't think he should lose his job over it.
So even though they disapprove of how the league's handling it, 46% of football fans don't believe he should lose his job.
Only 32% say he should.
So he's got room to move.
And it sort of explains, Matt, why we're watching it and wondering why isn't the NFL acting sooner?
Don't they realize they have this PR crisis?
They're probably doing some of their own surveying of fans, too.
There you have it.
There it is, wrapped in a nutshell right there.
They're watching the NFL.
And uh and they think you are too, and wonder why why why isn't the NFL doing something?
Don't they realize we are putting pressure on them?
Don't they realize that because we put pressure on them, that everybody agrees with us and they are reprobates?
Don't they understand they got to do something fast?
Don't they understand they got to send Goodell packing?
Don't the NFL people understand they got to do something drastic right now?
And then wait a minute.
Well, why should they?
When 90% of the American people say this is not gonna impact their love for the game, watching the game or what have you.
What in fact has been going on behind the scenes of the NFL, and by the way, Commissioner Goodell has a news conference, and you know what time his news conference is?
3 p.m.
Eastern.
Smart man, Commissioner Goodell, smart man still that proves that he's still in touch.
Still aware.
And they have been working.
I shudder to think what they're gonna come up, but they have been working behind the scenes, come up with a policy, like Lee Steinberg said yesterday, may do another month devoted to spouse abuse a word.
Who knows?
But they're they're they're coming up with a policy.
They are going to have a full-fledged policy.
That's what they've been doing.
And that is gonna be their response.
Meanwhile, the drive by's are sitting around thinking two or three people should have been fired by now, maybe one of them beheaded.
You know, whatever it takes to respond to the only joking about that, but I mean that's how intense they're getting.
And how how how how they they are totally caught up in their own power and influence, and they are shocked when their thinking isn't reflected everywhere.
And I haven't seen anything in the in the polling about how the media handled it.
Now, there's one more aspect here, one more soundbite.
F. Chuck.
And the segment here with Matt Lauer.
Matt Wauer finally says, now there's just an offshoot of this story, uh, Chuck, and that's the Adrian Peterson investigation.
He's charged with reckless or negligent injury to a child.
And that prompted the question in our poll about corporal punishment.
And the results there, Chuck, I think are gonna surprise a lot of people.
Overall, it shouldn't be surprising that a large majority, 60% believe parents shouldn't use belts, paddles, or switches to punish their child.
But there is some cultural differences in our country, while 60% overall are against that.
51% in the South, Adrian Peterson, a Texan, 51% of the South say they believe that it is uh acceptable to use a switch, a belt, uh, to punish a child.
So the cultural differences there, which is something that some players who have backed up Adrian Peterson in this situation have said do show up in this poll.
And they're not, you know, the drive-by's once again.
There's I can't believe they're shocked.
Now make no mistake.
Later today, maybe even right now, F. Chuck and his media buddies talking to each other off the record, making fun of the South.
You believe those hay seeds.
Can you believe those backwards hicks?
It's deliverance down.
You believe that's what they're saying.
And I have a reaction to this it's the culture excuse.
That I don't buy I don't buy that.
That's a that's a cop-out, it's a scapegoat.
And I when I first heard, well, you better get used to it, because that's the culture in which we were raised.
When when I first started objecting to hip hop rap gangster rap music lyrics, yeah, Rush, you're gonna, it's a culture.
Well, then something's wrong with the culture.
The culture shouldn't be a blank check in a blank slate to behave just because your culture was that doesn't make it right.
And it certainly doesn't excuse behavior that everybody knows is not exemplary or right, but yet it's trotted out all the time.
Well, you know, it's the culture then.
Gotta take a break, my friends, open line Friday.
We try this, we try to get phone calls in uh in the first hour on Friday.
A special effort is always made.
So I got people, people who know that I am a tech officionado, are asking me, Rush, uh, what's Alibaba?
And and do I need to be concerned about it?
Alibaba is the Chinese, the ChICOM Amazon, and it is uh going through its IPO today.
Just became the world's largest internet business and close to the world's largest business, period.
It's become it's gonna end up being bigger than Walmart today.
Jack Ma.
Uh you can see him, he's uh drudge features a couple of pictures of Jack Ma.
He founded Alibaba on the front page of the Drudge Report.
Yahoo owns 23% of Alibaba.
Uh Jack Moss says that uh one of the most influential things in his life was the movie Forrest Gump.
And I'm not I don't know if if he thinks it's real story or or a novel.
I'm I'm not I'm not sure, but he was inspired by it.
But can you look at the irony of this?
These are Chicoms, folks.
These are communist Chinese.
They've taken over Wall Street.
The communist Chinese are dazzling Wall Street.
The communist Chinese have rendered Wall Street speechless today.
About to pass the worth of Walmart.
In some people's view, this makes everything upside down.
This is it really is incredible.
And this guy, he's a is a he's a standard little small entrepreneur startup.
Amazing he got as far as he did in communist China.
But it turns out that the ChICOM regime is actually very proud of Jack Ma.
It's stunning in uh, in fact, how different something like this.
I mean, something could not be imagined years ago.
I mean, he's to show you how fast uh the world can change and and acceptance of things can change.
Stunning, it really is.
I gotta take another brief time out, my friends.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh continued after this.
And we're back.
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Now, I don't I don't want people to get confused about Alibaba.
It's not a substitute for Amazon.
It's not a substitute for Walmart.
I was just offering you size comparisons.
Alibaba is very handy if you need to buy a thousand cheap lawn chairs made in China.
Alibaba deals in bulk sales, and they sell to wholesalers.
They're not really a direct-to-retail operation.
There's some stuff uh you can buy retail at at Alibaba, but they're basically the world's largest online business to business trading platform for small businesses.
Uh well, you never know.
The NFL might need a thousand lawn chairs from China first.
Who knows why?
But but the Kennedy Party, Kennedy might need a thousand lawn chairs from uh reclining uh lawn chairs for the Kennedy Party uh from China from Alibaba, but they're basically business to business.
They don't do a whole lot of uh of reason.
Well, I don't I don't have the exact number.
I think uh I'm wild guess what this jack by himself's worth.
50 billion, it's it's got I I don't know.
It's huge.
Whatever it is, it's huge.
And he's he ranks right up there.
But but it is I I erred in a bit.
It's it's not correct to compare Alibaba to Amazon because that's like comparing wholesale apples to retail oranges.
They they deal in different markets.
But they are they have become the biggest in terms of online business.
They own a um, they own an online site called Tao Bao, and that ears is geared to consumers, and it is huge in China.
Taobao is the equivalent, the closest thing I guess you could say, uh, that ChaiComs have to um uh it's like eBay.
Taobao is like eBay.
It's consumer to consumer.
So they really don't have Alibaba doesn't have anything in that that is uh direct retail consumer sales like Amazon yet.
You want to hear a little bit of this Jack Ma guy?
Who this is uh you're gonna be seeing him.
Uh he was on uh Squawk on the Street, CNBC this morning, and uh Jim Kramer was uh talking to him, said this is a great American story, but it's actually a Chinese story.
Who are your heroes, Jack?
And here's his answer.
The hero I had is a Florida Gamble.
14 years ago when I walks a chocolate.
Yeah.
You know he's a fictional character, though.
Every time I went out frustrated, I watched the movie.
And I watched movie before I came here again for it.
Yeah, for coming to the New York.
I because I want I watched the movie again and telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
And I'm stupid guy 15 years ago, you know, I only earned like 20 dollars a month.
And today I can do that much, you know, he earns more than 20 dollars a month.
He's d he's he's describing his uh his rags to riches story.
What's folks really what's remarkable about this is that it is a story straight out of communist China.
There are no such things as rags to riches stories in China.
In Ch communist China is the is the classic example of of uh uh I'm metal block on the term uh uh the the crony capital, yeah, crony socialism, it is it is the epitome of it.
If you're big in real estate, if you're big in anything in China, you have to have an in with the ChaiCom regime.
Uh yeah, it's an approved business.
If the the Chi look, in in communist China, if you become a billionaire or very rich, it's because the government allowed you, which is what this government wants, the one that we have.
That's what socialists the world over seek is permission, the power to determine winners and losers, based on whatever convoluted thinking.
But in the in in communist China, it's um it's actually true.
Uh Jim Kramer said, what is your IPO mean for the people's republic of China?
I think we were giving a lot of people inspiration.
We want to encourage a lot of people say yes.
Because one of the things I want to do, 15 years ago I told my people in my apartment that if Jack Amar and people like us can be successful, 80 percent of the people in China can be successful, and 80 percent of the young people in the world can be successful.
We do not have the rich daddy powerful Ancode.
We do from nothing.
So that's where I look at China.
This is totally, totally upside down for the way things operate in the ChICOMs.
Totally.
This is an American kind of story.
Rags to riches sitting around in his apartment inventing a website and having it grow to be the biggest online business concern in the world.
Listen to the way this guy talks from communist China.
You can do it, I can do it, you can do it.
If people like us can be successful, 80% of the people in China can be successful, 80% of the young people in the world.
We don't even have Americans talking this way anymore.
Which is one of the things that I had in mind yesterday when I was going through my little dissertation on the current state of the Republican Party.
Where is anybody giving us anything to cheer about anywhere in this country?
I mean in leadership.
I'm sure that throughout your life you've got people give you things to cheer about, and you have people encourage you.
But I'm talking about national political leadership.
We don't have people that talk like this anymore.
We've got people acknowledging our economies in the tank.
We uh uh in in the dumper.
We've we have people acknowledging their internet.
We have people that are trying to tell us in the United States of America that the new normal is this lackluster, lifeless economy.
That's the kind of leadership we're getting from everybody, not just Republicans.
I mean everybody.
Federal Reserve, export, import, bank.
I don't care who talks.
They're all trying to get us to lower our expectations.
This is it.
The days where you did better than your parents are over.
That's the past.
That isn't gonna happen.
It's this is it's obscene.
It's it's it's totally unnecessary.
It literally is absurd that we don't have one person.
If there is, I don't know who it is.
Now, I'm not I'm not trying to impugn people.
We I know that in in politics, there are some people that wait of Scott Walker, uh Ted Cruz, Rubio, we go down the list and uh Trey Gowdy.
I don't mean to be indicting everybody, but in terms of a national message from somebody who is an acknowledged national leader or representative of a national party.
We don't have anybody talking like this Jack Ma guy is talking.
It's just the exact opposite.
Everybody's trying to lower our expectations.
Everybody's trying to make us think that you know what happened uh last generation, the generation before that Actually was an aberration.
You know what?
That's this is the real America.
And it's it is obscene.
It's not true.
It need not be true.
This used to be the place where genuine acknowledged legitimate optimism was a way of life.
Not today.
Not today.
We don't have anybody in leadership talking this way about our country, about our future.
It's just the exact opposite.
No better illustrated than the arguments we're getting on amnesty.
Hey, you know, we got jobs Americans will do them.
We need to get these people in here.
We need we need work to be done here.
The American people won't do it.
Well, they're getting welfare and all this.
They can eat, they can drink, they can smoke, they can have their TVs.
We need people to do work.
For peanuts.
One more here.
This is uh Carl Quintania.
Quintania says to Jack Ma, you are now worth Jack, more than the entire GDP of Estonia.
What are you gonna do with all of your money, Jack?
Fourteen years ago, I asked my wife, do you want your husband to be a rich man or a respect business guy?
She said, of course, a respect a business person.
Because she never thought I would be a rich person.
We were we were having fun.
So today I think, and then later I said, when I'm fifty, before I'm a 50 years old, my job is making money.
Helping other people making money.
After I'm a 50 years old, which is today 50 years old, I was spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich.
Because you cannot spend a lot of money, right?
So my job is that spending money.
This is unreal.
We have a Chicom guy talking about the benefits, the fun, the happiness, the worthwhile of getting rich.
And in this country, what's going on?
The rich are hated and despised, and they are t well, except for Zuckerberg and Buffett and Gates.
Uh, and the Kennedys.
Everywhere else the rich are despised, they're suspects, they're accused of being criminals.
And here's this guy, Jack Ma talking about Reaganomics.
Jack Ma is explaining in his own words, trickle down.
He's gonna help everybody get rich.
And he's not gonna give anybody any money.
I guarantee you, when he says help people get rich, he doesn't mean welfare.
And when he says he's gonna spend money to make people rich, it means he's gonna hire them.
And he's gonna build up businesses where they work so that their productivity will lead to raises and maybe good careers.
But the fact that this kind of talk is coming out of the ChICOMs, and the exact opposite kind of talk is occurring in this country.
Wake up.
Well, you people are awake.
But I mean, we've we've we've got gazillions of people in a day's just asleep.
Maybe in a way you can't blame them, and they're they're pounded every day.
They're literally hit over the head every day with how rotten it is in this country and how there is no future.
It's hopeless.
The best days are behind us.
Because the rich have taken all the money, and they don't give it to anybody.
Stupid.
Welcome, my friends, to the slowest three-hour radio broadcast of the year.
The EIB network and L Rushwell.
Not not for you, obviously.
But for yours truly, your beloved host.
To the phones of Toledo, Ohio.
Hi Todd, you're up first.
It's a big burden being first.
You gotta set the stage and the pace for everybody who follows me.
Yep.
You up to it?
Yeah.
Um, hey Rush, I'm really nervous, and it's good talking to you.
Um, I know you've been talking about the NFL this week, and um, I'm a big NFL fan.
Uh Cleveland Browns is my team.
But um I um is was a little disturbed looking at all the stories coming out.
And I realized that if you gave me a story, if you said this is what happened, I could tell you exactly how it would be written, and I know you feel the same way.
Are you there?
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm uh Yeah.
what is your point?
My point is that what I realized, there's an old saying which I think is is true is if it doesn't make any sense, there's a dollar involved.
And I started looking at all the columnists, particularly in sports, and I said, um, these guys are all men and they're all white.
And uh I'm a white male by myself uh uh myself, but what I said was um I I think that you can see a root of where political correctness has uh loomed out of what they are doing, and I think that they are writing this way in a feminized way.
They're not writing like men, and they're doing this to protect their own jobs.
Ah, now we get to the numb of it.
So basically, even the sports writer drive-bys have been co-opted by fear and political correctness and are writing their stories on what's happening in the NFL uh from a think that they they sit up in their ivory towers um and look down on these poor,
you know, barbarous uh, you know, peasants, and and uh, you know, have this they they just don't they don't write like men.
There's no it's just this limp wristd uh writing, and I I don't know what it it's it's astounding to me, and what I realized was if they were to write like men, there would be outcries for their jobs.
Give me an example of give me an example of writing like men, yeah, in in a in any NFL story that you're that you have in mind.
Well, I just think that I think that the the mining for the story in and of itself is is uh you know, these things are not I think that the red skin stuff, I mean, this is stuff that should just be ignored.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Um I I you don't, you know, sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Well, let me let me step in here because I I'm uh must disagree with you.
I don't think the sports drive bys are writing in artificial way out of fear of losing their jobs or anything else.
And I don't think that they're unserious about the Redskins name.
A, many sports journalists are groupies, number one.
They idolize the players.
Becoming a sports journalist is a way to get close to hanging around sports guys.
Uh athletes are among and with actors and other entertainers, the closest thing we have to royalty.
Everybody wants to bask in the glow, everybody wants to be close to it.
Um but while they may start out as groupies, they then get they be they become overwhelmed and overtaken with their jobs as journalists.
And believe me, there is no faux liberalism in sports journalism.
It is real, it is thorough, it is undisguised, and it is undiluted.
They are not pretend liberals.
They are all in.
They're not they're not making anything up.
They really believe the red skin's name is reprehensible.
They think everybody should also think that it is reprehensible.
They operate with an attitude that everybody already agrees with them, so that anybody who disagrees is a minority and a kook and an oddball and a weirdo and not worthy of respect.
Which is a big key.
No, they're I I think they're thoroughly genuine in in their politics.
Uh I I think that the many aspects of journalism.
If if they could do even some damage to the NFL, damage that they would consider to be progress.
They'd be happy.
That would be a show of power.
That'd be a display of of influence.
Uh if they're not writing as you say, like men, and I assume you've got some sports writers in mind from days gone by that did, it's because they're not men in the way you think of it.
They've been chicken, or it's not chickafied.
They've just they're liberals.
Political correctness is the Bible.
I can't believe how long this hour's taken.
You know, I better stop talking like that, or you you all are gonna get mad at me because it's the standard ordinary fastest three hours in media for you.
And I'm not complaining.
Don't I've got nothing to complain about.
I'm not whining.
And even if I did, no one would care.
I know that.
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