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Dec. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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So on Friday after Thanksgiving, and a lot of people are emailing.
Rush, I don't I don't get this Ray Rice thing.
What and I don't understand, I mean, I do understand why a lot of people don't get it, because there's a there's a very important aspect of this that I don't, I'm not even sure if the media, the the outside the sports media totally get this as to why what went down went down.
But let me do my best to explain this to you.
Ray Rice last February was seen in a video dragging his unconscious wife out of an elevator at a casino that is since closed, by the way, in Atlantic City.
At that time there was no video from inside the elevator.
Well, no, no, there was.
It's just that nobody had seen it.
we thought.
That video inside the elevator is the key to all of this, understanding all of this.
So from February of last year all through the spring in the NFL off season.
It's discussed and it's uh become a legal matter, and the woman was wife of Rice's fiance at the time, they since got married.
And to fast forward to the summer, the commissioner of the National Football League suspended Ray Rice for two games.
For apparently decking his wife and rendering her unconscious.
Because all anybody had seen in the public up to that point was the outside the elevator video of Rice dragging his wife, like she was one of the butt sisters in Troglodites out of the elevator.
And there were witnesses that are walking by, and Rice told them that she'd had too much to drink and passed out.
Well, the two games suspension announced by the commissioner Roger Goodell just sent people into orbit.
They got so met.
Two games for decking your wife's ridiculous, outrageous.
How dare the NFL said, sorry, we don't have a policy.
There isn't a protocol for wife beating.
There isn't a protocol for spouse abuse.
We don't have a manual on this.
So two games.
It was arrived at arbitrarily.
Then, ladies and gentlemen, the inside the elevator video appeared on TMZ.
And that video showed Ray Rice cold cocking his wife.
You know, they showed us what happened inside the elevator, but the key to this is that if the only video you see prior to announcing a two-game suspension is is Ray Rice dragging his unconscious wife out of the elevator.
What do you think happened in there?
The point is everybody knew what happened in there, but they hadn't seen it, so it didn't quite have the impact.
Well, TMZ releases that video.
Everybody sees what Rice did, and then all hell descends on the commissioner.
So he decides to suspend Ray Rice indefinitely, suspending him a second time for the same offense, which opened Rice wide open for an appeal, which he did.
Now here's where it gets sticky.
There was a meeting in the commissioner's office, and if you can believe it, no notes were taken.
There was a meeting in the commissioner's office between Ray Rice and his wife, fiancee Janae, and lawyers and officials, plus the commissioner, the NFL.
And there were notes taken, sporadic notes from one person took notes, another person took notes, but there was no official transcript.
There was no official recording.
There was no official transcript of what happened in this meeting.
So what happened in the meeting became open for debate.
The truth, once again, was illusive.
And the commissioner said that Ray Rice was ambiguous in the meeting in describing what he had done to his wife.
But Ray Rice and his team said, no, we admitted.
Ray Rice came totally clean.
And the reason Ray Rice came clean is because he thought that the inside the elevator video had been seen.
He didn't dare lie about it because he assumed everybody had seen it.
Police officer and a security person at the hotel claimed that they sent the inside the elevator video to the NFL.
The NFL denied ever receiving it.
The reason for that is two games.
And the NFL maintained, well, we didn't see the inside of the elevator video, so we didn't go full season until we saw it.
But everybody was supposed to tell you you had to know what went on in there.
And Ray Rice told you what went on in there.
But the commissioner maintained that Rice was ambiguous.
There is no official transcript here of what went on in that meeting.
But everybody on Ray Rice's side, including Ray Rice, said that he was open and honest about what went on in there because he had he thought that the inside the elevator video had been seen by the NFL.
So it made no sense to lie about it, because that would be even worse.
So he admitted to knocking her out.
She got knocked out.
What he admitted to is hitting her, and then she fell backward and her head hit the railing of the elevator inside that not one one thing or the other knocked her out.
She's unconscious on the floor, dragging her out.
The NFL, in explaining why only two games at first, was because they hadn't seen the inside the elevator video, but it had been offered to them.
A security person, media person, two or three people said they had sent it to the NFL.
Somebody said that they acknowledged it, the NFL having received the video.
But all this time, the league executives involved claimed they'd never seen it.
Except when TMZ aired it.
So this needed to be arbitrated.
And because Ray Rice appealed this suspension on the basis that he had been punished twice for the same offense.
And that it was unjust and unfair.
Now, double jeopardy is a is a is a federal criminal concept that didn't apply here, but the the the theory did.
There was no statute he relied on.
He was just relying on the unfairness of it.
You can't suspend me twice.
I didn't do anything new.
You give me two games, and then you supposedly see the video for the first time.
Rice's point was I told you what happened in there.
I told you what happened, and you gave me two games.
Then you see what happened in there, and I get the season.
So he appealed.
And a retired federal judge named I think Barbara Jones heard the case, issued her ruling on Friday, reinstating Ray Rice.
It was a female judge, a white female judge, Barbara, I think her name's Barbara Jones, but she issued a 17-page ruling.
And while not calling anybody liars, her ruling clearly indicates that it wasn't necessary to have seen the inside the elevator video to know what went on in there because Ray Rice had admitted it.
She found essentially that Ray Rice had told the truth in that meeting with the NFL for which there is no official transcript.
The meeting where the commissioner said what Ray Rice admitted to was ambiguous.
Ray Rice said, no, no, no, no, I came clean because he thought everybody had seen the inside.
It was a wise assumption to make.
I mean, he knows there's cameras in there, he knows there's video, he figures that somebody's going to get it and see Hitney figures the league has seen it, so it made no sense to lie, so he didn't.
And Ozzie Newsom, the general manager of the Ravens, essentially his boss said that Ray came clean.
Ray told no absolute truth about what went on in there.
And so the judge, the retired judge whole point was how can you suspend the guy twice, once for the rest of the season, when he had been honest with you about what went on in there, whether you saw the video inside the elevator or not.
So he's now free to sign with any team.
Not that that's going to happen.
A team that doesn't need to shore up for the playoffs is not going to go there.
A team that does need running back help for the playoffs probably won't go there because of the.
Can you imagine?
The any team that hires Ray Rice has got a media circus and then some.
So plus he hasn't played in a season.
They don't know what kind of football shape he's in.
But now it's being discussed.
Does Ray Rice have a lawsuit?
Can he own part of the NFL now for what happened here because they have deprived him.
Essentially with double jeopardy.
not an applicable legal statutory concept here, but the spirit of it is.
And the ruling from this retired judge that he didn't lie, that he came clean in the meeting with the NFL, which...
What does it say about Goodell?
Well, that's that's that's yet to be determined.
But there's also something else going on here now.
Because there's no transcript of what went on in this meeting, we have the former director of the FBI in the midst of what is now a three-month investigation to find out what happened in the meeting.
His name is Robert Muller, and he's in the midst of an investigation to find out who said what, when was the video seen, the inside the elevator video scene, who saw it, who sent it to the NFL, when did it get there, who watched it, who lied about it, who didn't lie about.
That investigation to me is rendered irrelevant now with this judge's ruling, having determined that Ray Rice told the truth.
If Ray Rice told the truth about what went on in the elevator in that meeting, then an investigation to find out what went on in the meeting has already been decided by the judge.
Well, now maybe not decide as the wrong word, but the judges ruled on it.
So some are saying, and I don't know about this, that Ray Rice has a has a as a lawsuit that he, if he wanted to against the NFL for all of the damage to his earning power, whatever that has.
And of course, when people hear this, they throw their hands on, wait a minute.
You knock your wife unconscious at a casino in Atlantic City and end up suing the league and you might win.
And there are some in the legal community who say, yes, it's entirely possible.
So anyway, Rice and uh his wife Janae were on the Today Show today talking about it.
I've got interesting, Janae Rice is claiming she thinks that they've been abandoned by the Ravens.
That the Ravens just cast them aside, it's Ray Rice's team.
He just cast them aside after all that Ray had done in the community for charity, uh, all he had meant on the field, and they just cast him aside.
And she said, you know, she took blame for this event at a at a at a press conference that the Ravens sponsored on the well, she did hit the guy in the elevator, or she made an attempt to, but doesn't matter.
That doesn't entitle you to hit back.
No matter what feminism does, they're never gonna get to that point.
You're never gonna be able to hit the girl.
No matter what happens.
And I'm not saying you should.
Don't anybody put words in my mouth.
I'm just saying that that so she did strike him, and she is saying that the Ravens wrote her script at the press conference.
She is saying the Ravens wrote what they wanted her to say, what they wanted her to apologize for.
Grab uh audio soundbite number four.
I don't know if I've already got these out of order, so I don't know if is Soundbite Three this woman as well, or is it just number four?
Uh it's two it's two, three and four.
Let's here she we got we got three of them here.
Um this is from the uh Today Show website Matt Wower interviewing Janae Rice.
He said, Let me just let me ask you directly and bluntly, prior to what we have now seen in the elevator, was there ever any evidence or incident of violence in your relationship with Ray, or has there been any incident of violence since the elevator incident?
No.
No.
There's no way.
He knows what he would have to deal with, you know, if this was something, you know, I'm not gonna sit there in silence and let something happen to me and you know, got forbid in front of my child and just let it happen, there's no way.
And Matt Wower then said, Well, you you wrote no one knows the pain that the media and unwanted opinions have caused my family to make us relive this moment we regret every day is a horrible thing.
If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take our happiness away, you've succeeded.
Just know that we will continue to grow and show the world what real love is.
Why and Lower said, Why does it make you cry right now hearing what you wrote?
Brings back anger.
I was so angry with her.
Seeing the man that I love, as everything ripped up from under him, it made me angry.
Um the support system that I thought we had in the Ravens, that made me angry.
The fact that I knew we wouldn't be here anymore.
Made me angry.
We have to pick up and move our child up from what she's used to.
It hurt.
And here's the money quote.
Commissioner Goodell says that Ray was ambiguous in how he described the incident inside the elevator to you.
Was Ray ambiguous?
No.
Not in any way.
And you know, I feel like if they wanted to know more detail, then they would have asked.
But there were no further questions.
It's been consistent with everything that he's been saying since February.
So when the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell says Ray was ambiguous, and the NFL says that it was a starkly different sequence of events, is the commissioner lying?
I can't say he's telling the truth.
You know, I know for a fact that he told, that Ray told the honest truth that he's been telling from February.
And you think the league and the commissioner covered their butts?
I think they did what they had to do for themselves.
So that's the key, right?
She Ray Rice came clean from the moment this happened, what happened inside the elevator.
And the NFL acted like they didn't know what went on inside, even though until they saw the inside the elevator video.
Got to take a break here, folks.
We're up to it on time.
Back to the phones, we go to Fort Lauderdale, is Cherokee.
Great to have you.
Glad you waited, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Just wanted to talk about Ferguson again.
Sure.
Um a police officer that was went before the grand jury twice regarding the shooting death of armed robbers.
I I should say I'm retired police officer.
And um The point that I I really wish someone would discuss is the literally thousands and thousands of times that police officers pull out their weapon in a what could be deadly force situation.
Nobody is doing that.
Nobody is putting themselves in Darren Wilson's shoes.
That is so politically incorrect to do that or even suggest that.
Um I guess.
It is.
It is.
Uh particular y y you're in a in a in a c that's the last thing people want to bring up or do.
There's because they don't want in any way in the truth that they're trying to construct here, there to be any justification for what happened.
Even the grand jury also came out with it.
Already came out with it.
I understand, I understand people don't understand what being a police officer is, but there's the the what you're saying about the truth being just trampled on, and and it's it's a shame because there's a lot of confrontations that happen all across the country, all shifts all the time, and they uh and they end peacefully.
Most police officers Are not looking for that instance where they have to pull the trigger, and this one is obvious.
The other thing is if you have police officers working in the city.
The story that's being constructed here is that Darren Wilson went hunting.
And he went he went hunting because uh had a pre-conceived bias against young black males, knew they were trouble, and he went hunting.
I mean, that's what they're trying to create as an alternative uh reality for their own supporters to get all mad about and start protesting, continue rioting and this kind of thing.
That's what they're trying to create here.
I mean, it's a it's it's undeniable that's what they're trying to create.
I understand where you're coming from, but people uh I think a lot of people do.
You should be confident of that.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is only wait a second.
Yeah, you'll know what I mean.
There's only one man in America who can say anything about race and not get any blowback.
There is only one man who can opine in a way contrary to the civil rights coalition version of events and not get any blowback.
I'm not talking about Sharpton or Jackson, they get blowback from from opponents so forth.
I'm not talking about there, there's one person not involved in the civil rights movement, not involved in the race business.
There's only one man in America who can react to this and say whatever he wants to say publicly, not on his Facebook page, but in the media, and get absolutely no blowback.
Who do you think I'm talking about?
Mr. No, not Colin Powell.
He'd get blowback from us here.
Not Bill Clinton.
Clinton get blowback.
I'm talking about Charles Barclay.
Charles Barclay can say anything he wants anywhere, and the reaction is we had better pay attention.
And Charles Barclay has weighed in on Ferguson.
Charles Barclay was on the radio recently.
And he called out the media for jumping to conclusions in the gentle giant shooting, because he said the media love race stories.
When he was asked why black America doesn't trust the grand jury ruling, Charles Barclay said, the true story came out from the grand jury testimony.
He added that he was made aware of key forensic evidence and several black witnesses that supported Officer Darren Wilson's story for the first time Monday night.
Charles Barclay only learned the truth.
This is last Monday night.
He said, I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.
And that's why I don't like talking about race issues with the media anymore, because they love this stuff.
They lead people to jump to conclusions.
The media shouldn't do that.
They never do that when black people kill each other.
Now there is one network, by the way, and they're all guilty of it, but there is one network that is winning all competition hands down in fanning the flames of racial discord, and that is CNN.
CNN is covering up all of the violence that is taking place in terms of protest and trying to call it all peaceful.
They are doing everything they can to cover up the looting, the property destruction.
They're doing everything they can to misreport and mischaracterize this.
What Barclay is talking about here is up until Monday night, the only source he had for news on this was the media.
And of course, he'd been led to believe that that this was a white cop that shot a black kid simply because the cop was white and the kid was black, and the cop didn't like black kids and had an opportunity, so pulled a trigger.
Barclay said when I got the grand jury evidence, when I heard it Monday night, when I looked into it, I found out how I'd been lied to all these weeks by the media.
And it made me mad.
And I'm gonna stop listening to the media.
But he wasn't finished.
Charles Barclay, the only man in America who can say whatever he wants about things like this and got get any blowback, praised the police, saying, quote, we have to be really careful with the cops, because if it weren't for the cops, we would be living in the wild, wild west in our neighborhoods.
We can't pick out certain incidents that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad.
Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be without the cops?
Barclay also had thoughts on all the rioters and the people looting and destroying property and businesses.
He said they aren't real black people.
They are all scumbags.
Charles Barclay said of the looters and the rioters and the people destroying businesses and property in Ferguson, Missouri.
They aren't real black people.
They are all scumbags.
Well, I got this from uh Media Research Center, and they transcribed it from an interview that Barclay gave.
It's not a typo.
Before the interview was over, Barclay also criticized Barack Hussein Oh for his lack of action on ISIS.
Barclay said Obama needs to put some real bodies over there and start shooting those damn guys from ISIS.
I like those damn guys from ISIS.
He said, we can't wait any longer.
Those guys are getting out of hand.
We we can't just bomb them from a distance.
They have to put boots on the ground.
They have to go over there and shoot them.
We need to put some bodies on the ground and shoot them dead.
And Charles Barclay still was not through.
He then said that he would vote for Governor Chris Christie for president in 2016.
I am not aware of any blowback on Charles Barclay from anybody.
Charles Barclay could probably to show solidarity with Ray Rice, could probably join the Ravens during their pregame and drag one of those blow up dolls by the ankle out of the locker room, and there would be no blowback.
No, no, I just, I'm just, it's jumping off, you know, the players and the Rams coming out with their hands up.
I'm serious.
Charles Barclay can criticize the media.
He can criticize the civil rights groups, the civil rights coalition.
He can say whatever he wants, and there is no blowback.
I think he's the only guy in America who can do it.
Nah, black card get torn up on this one, you think.
Well, except the story I told you is uh five days old.
It happened last week, see.
And you're just now hearing about it.
That may be part of it.
But nevertheless, nevertheless, you cannot dispute that Charles Barclay is the only guy in America to say that with no what's the most egregious.
What?
What is it?
What's the most egregious thing he said?
He snurdly claims that he's gonna get in trouble for calling the looter scumbags.
Of all the things that Charles Barclay said, calling looter scumbags is gonna pay price for that somehow.
Well, we'll see.
Did you hear about Mitt Romney, folks?
Do you hear about what Mitt Romney uh suggested?
Mitt Romney thinks that Republicans should go ahead and swallow hard and pass permanent comprehensive immigration amnesty in the wake of Obama's executive amnesty.
Now, uh Romney admitted that uh this this this is gonna encourage more Illegal immigrants to enter the country.
But he was on Univision and he said that Obama's giving people false hope.
His solution is for Congress to pass a permanent clarification of our immigration law so that people know where they stand.
Go ahead and just swallow hard permanent amnesty, beat Obama to the punch, head Obama off at the pass.
Why is that good?
Well, because it's stealing an issue from the Democrats, I guess.
And I don't know, maybe Romney believes it.
I don't know.
You're asking me what.
I think it's I think he's voicing the you know the the desires of the Republican establishment.
Hey, now that Obama's done it, hell, what are we waiting for, man?
Full speed ahead.
Damn the torpedoes.
Let's just go all the way.
Let's beat Obama there.
Let's take the credit for it.
And let's ace Obama out of the picture on this.
That'll really set us up great.
Exactly right.
Lance in Cleveland, uh, welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to be on your program.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, I'm mad as hell with this immigration thing.
I I'm one of the few and rare people that's legitimately been trying to get a Guatemala national into the country for the past two years who happens to be my wife.
And uh you wouldn't believe the hoops I've had to jump through, the money that I've spent, thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars with lawyers, legal fees, uh, immigration charges, the whole shooting match, and and still she's not here.
It's been two years, Rush.
Guatemala, you say?
Guatemala, see, senor.
It's it's really curious because uh all of the well uh uh a bunch of quite a lot of the underage, the the minor illegal immigrants, the kids that have been coming across the border ever since January are from Guatemala, and uh El Salvador and so forth.
And it I mean they're being what they're hell, they're they're being put on trains or being delivered here.
Joe Biden said the other day we're gonna send airplanes down to fly them and their parents in.
So it autoboates.
Say that again.
What what is it what you coach down there?
Wait, what I'm we're talking at the same time, that's why I didn't hear what you said.
Try again.
Well, they're being coached down there, Rush.
I've been to Guatemala probably uh twelve times in the last two years for you know, stays up to about a week.
No question about it.
I'm just surprised that if your wife is is from there that and I look, I understand the main point.
You're trying to do it legally, and here's Obama cutting a rug out from under you and everybody else in your shoes, and you don't like it, you'll you've tried to go by the rules.
You've tried to do this in a way that would make your wife legal when she got here with no questions asked, not needing amnesty or anything of the sort, and then you look and you see all this lawlessness going on, and and you feel like, what's the point?
Why should I do this the legal way?
Well, you want rankles to be the most rush?
No, what?
The the last thing that I've had to do is sign a ten-year affidavit of support that supersedes even divorce.
If my wife were to get here and we were to get divorced in three years, I have to legally support her and my stepson, whom I'm also uh having immigrate here for the next ten years.
Are you by any chance?
I'm not joking, are you a registered Republican?
Yes, sir.
Well I have a tough time believing they would demand this of a Democrat.
Yeah, well.
Well, I'm being facetious, but still they demand you even if you get divorced, you bring her here to your you're still gonna be required to pay all support for ten years.
Well, right.
Well, how do you think I feel about five million people coming here that aren't that there's no affidavit of support being signed for them?
Exactly because the government, the Democrat Party's taking care of them.
They're gonna be future Democrat registered voters.
So there'll be five million so if I get divorced in three years, I'm not saying I will, but I'm just you know, hypothetically.
Yeah.
So I'll have to support my wife for the next seven years while I watch five million uh illegal immigrants once illegals get a free ride.
Right.
Yeah.
How how fair is that?
I mean, there's just no fairness there.
Plus, my wife spent ten months her her process with homeland security.
That's the first step of a three-part process with legal immigration.
Ten months it's it languished in Homeland Security.
Well, they did every kind of background check.
I had to get a police report from the uh Ciadad City of Guatemala, uh a genuine thing mailed the whole you wouldn't believe the groups we had to jump through.
But you gotta believe that if she makes it in, now it's at the embassy there waiting for the state.
Is she still is is is she still in Guatemala?
Yes, yes, I got Mary's December 5th, two years.
Put it on a train.
I I should I'd still be probably beat this beat the system.
I don't know what it's incredible.
It's incredible.
I I understand.
I don't I wish I knew what to tell you.
I I wish I had an answer for you.
Um I guess, you know, swallow hard.
That's about all you can do.
I know host on this program documented to be almost always right.
99.7% of the time.
Have some Obamacare news here.
Leading U.S. CEOs.
This is a Reuters story.
Leading U.S. CEOs are threatening to uh to pull their support of Obamacare.
Leading CEOs in America, angered by the regime's challenge to certain workplace wellness programs are threatening to side with anti-Obomacare forces unless the government backs off.
Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported Obama's health care reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs.
The programs aim to control health care costs by reducing smoking, obesity, hypertension, and other risk factors that can lead to expensive illnesses.
Bipartisan provision in Obamacare allows employers to reward workers who participate and penalize those who don't.
But recent lawsuits filed by the regime's EEOC, challenging the programs at Honeywell International.
And two smaller companies have thrown the future of that part of Obamacare into doubt.
The lawsuits infuriated some large employers so much that they are considering aligning themselves with Obama's opponents, according to people familiar with the executives' thinking.
Now, what the heck is this?
Did any of that make any sense to you?
Leading CEOs angered by the regime's challenge to certain okay, so the CEOs want to put in wellness programs.
Can't smoke, can't drink, can't have high blood pressure, and the resume regime's apparently suing them for doing this because they don't have the power.
All the rules and restrictions come from Obamacare.
The companies can't input their own things.
And they say, well, hell with that.
If you're going to tell us what we can't do, we're backing out.
Now the real question is, what are they doing supporting this thing in the first place?
The real question is why are all of these CEOs of these major corporations supporting this thing in the first place?
Well, the answers sadly reveal themselves.
One of the first answers is is fear.
Fear of government retribution if they don't support or if they actively oppose.
The second thing is crony corporatism.
Get in bed with the administration, get in bed with the regime, and get some kind of break financially tax-wise somehow.
And the third reason, well, well, actually, that would be the second and third reasons would be the the crony corporatism or crony capitalism aspect of uh the third reason.
The dirty little secret is the CEOs would love to offload health care as something they have to provide.
And if they figure the regime is headed toward single payer down the road, let's help them get there.
And so everybody thinks that CEOs and big business are Republican and conservative and don't like big government.
And it turns out, at least in health care, it's just the exact opposite.
And now they want to try to lower their cost by demanding their employees be healthy and the regime is gonna sue them, claiming you can't do that.
That's our job to tell people what they can and can't do, not yours.
No, no, no, nowhere near through.
Still got all kinds of stuff here in the snack of stuff.
What do you mean?
We haven't even got halfway through this.
You sit tight, my friends, we'll be right back.
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