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Dec. 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, the drive-by media cannot contain itself.
The drive-by media is blowing up because Sony has just announced they're gonna show the movie.
It is going to play officially, not just an independent theaters, but Sony is going to release the movie, the uh uh interview on Christmas Day.
Despite the threats from the hackers, they would blow up the theaters, blow up Sony.
This is a stark turnaround.
I mean, this is a this is a huge 180.
Sony going from a peering to Kawto and back off and reacting to the threat to now almost defiant in uh in claiming, and it uh it looks like the number of theaters that are signing up to uh show the movie on Christmas Day is growing pretty rapidly.
And so the uh quite a reverse, and the drive-by's can't contain themselves.
They're so excited about this.
Why do you think that is?
Why would the drive-by's be so excited about this?
Because they just they sense that there's going to be unrest.
You add this to the unrest that's taking place over the grand jury decisions and the racial protests going on.
The drive-by's could have the best Christmas they've had, and gosh knows who knows how long.
So that's uh that's that.
Uh also, by the way, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here.
It's our Christmas show.
This is our final program before the uh Christmas holiday, the last show of the year, and we'll be back here on uh on June the 5th.
The uh January 5th, sorry.
Yeah, June the 5th.
January 5th, the um Associated Press has uh yesterday they released uh the the top 10 news stories of the year, as voted on by news directors and uh reporters, editors, it's not voted on by the public, in other words.
Uh drive-by's voted on it.
Today they've released the top 10 sports stories of 2014, and a couple of them actually have to do with sports.
Of the 10, let's see, what do you think number one is?
What would be the number one sports story of 2014?
Just off the just off the top of your head.
Brian, you're a sports guy.
What do you get?
Number one sports story, AP now.
Nope, wrong.
It's domestic violence is the number one sports story, according to AP.
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocked his now wife unconscious in Atlantic City Elevator, February 15th.
But it wasn't until July 24th that domestic violence cases spiraled into a crisis, royaling the NFL.
Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended.
There's not a single athletic activity that took place here.
There's not a single athletic competitive event in this story.
It's not a sports story, it's a story involving a sports athlete.
Number two, what do you think the number two sports story of the year as voted by the AP is.
Take a guess.
Come on.
No, it's not Jim James Winston.
It's Donald's No, it's not Arod.
No, no, no, no, no.
You guys are you're falling for this.
You're thinking sports.
The number two.
Sports story of the year, according to the Associated Press editors and news directors.
Donald Sterling being banned from the NBA and being forced to sell his team.
Donald Sterling had withstood accusations of racism throughout.
He has more than three decades as owner of the Clippers.
But when audio surfaced April 25th of Sterling spewing racist remarks to V. Stiviano, he was banned for life by the new NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
Number three sports story, according to AP.
I'll give you a hint, this is actually a sports story.
Number three, LeBron James goes home.
You would have guessed that.
I would have never.
LeBron James goes home.
Number four.
See, I I thought that this one would be number one.
Number four, I thought hands down would be number one, but I was thinking they were actually going to do sports stories.
Number four, 2014 was a first for gay athletes.
Jason Collins became the first openly gay man to play in the NBA.
And then Michael Sam came out and made the practice squads of the Los Angeles.
St. Louis Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
Number five, another sports story, Giants win the World Series.
Number six, college football playoffs.
Number seven, Tony Stewart running over another driver.
Number eight, the World Cup, number nine, the Seahawks win the Super Bowl.
Number ten, the Sochi Olympics.
So they do have some sports stories in there, but they don't, the number one and number two are not sports stories at all.
Okay, back to the lighthearted stack.
One of the emails that leaked in the hack of Sony, Amy Pascal, the co-chairman of Sony Pictures, in an email thread back and forth, I forget who it was.
She suggested that when Daniel Craig's run as James Bond is over, and this is it.
This is contractually his last film.
She suggested a new James Bond.
And I'm not sure how you pronounce the guy's name.
Idris Elba is what it looks like on paper.
Idris Elba, who is, well, I can't say African American, because he's British.
African English.
Right.
African Brit.
He's uh black, he's from Great Britain.
He uh he has played, he was on The Wire.
And he was in a uh a British cop drama procedural called Luther.
Did you watch Luther?
What Luther on Netflix?
Sam.
I have I have it.
I just I didn't watch it.
Okay, here's here's the thing, though.
Uh James Bond is a fictional character, obviously.
James James Bond was invented created by Ian Fleming, a former spy, M I six, and James Bond is a is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming.
He was white and Scottish period.
That is who James Bond is.
Was now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland.
But that's not who James Bond is.
And I know it's racist to probably even point this out.
But the franchise needs to get with it, right?
The franchise needs to get hip.
The franchise needs to get with the 21st century.
That's right.
We have 50 years of white bonds because Bond is white.
Bond was never black.
Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond.
The character was always white.
He was always Scottish.
He always drank vodka.
And shaken, not stirred, and all that.
Okay, so we're not supposed to have a problem with this.
I mean, it's a movies.
Come on.
We've had 50 years of white James Bonds.
We need to spread it out.
We need to be equal.
We need to be fair about this.
Okay, fine.
Let's play a little game.
Jay Z's favorite.
How would I know what Jay-Z's favorite drink is?
Ah, what would that be?
Kristal?
Yeah.
Well, how about in the movie?
We know we're going to get one.
How about in the movie about the Obamas?
Because There's going to be one.
How about George Clooney play Obama and Kate Hudson play Michelle My Bell Obama?
How would that do?
I mean, if we're if we're going to do this, let's let's imagine it.
Nelson Mandela movie.
Another you know there's gonna be an Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela.
And Nelson Mandela was black.
What the movies can do whatever.
Kelsey Grammar as Nelson Mandela.
How about that?
We're just playing here, ladies and gentlemen.
Al Sharpton.
There will be a movie, the Al Sharpton Story.
Who do we get to play Al Sharpton?
Because they need two or three of them.
At uh at various uh how about Rob Reiner, Rob Reiner to play the early Al Sharpton with the Bullhorn megaphone and uh and all that.
Um General Colin Powell.
Colonel Colin Powell.
Well uh there'll be you know there's gonna be a series of TV documentaries or movies.
Uh how about who would it be?
How about George C. Scott?
He played Patton.
I know he's dead, but what does that matter?
We could reproduce him cinemographically.
How about uh let's see, let's see, Condoleez Rice.
We do a movie on Condoleezza Rice.
You might be thinking that we would have Halle Berry.
No, no, no, no, no.
Scarlet Johansson.
Scarlett Johansson will all she have to do is take some piano lessons.
She's got it.
Scarlet Johansson is Condoleezza Rice.
Michael Sam.
You know there's gonna be a movie on Michael Sam.
And if Idris Ilba Elba is going to play James Bond, and if it's a natural fit, it's the only way we can go, and then um let's see.
How about Hugh Grant as Michael Sam?
Now what is your reaction to Newell?
Oh no.
I can see on Snerdley's face he's laughing, he gets it.
But no, no, no, this would never fly.
Of course not, it wouldn't fly.
Now, admittedly, all these characters I've mentioned are real life characters, and James Bond has never lived, per se.
He's he's a fictional character.
But he was white and Scottish.
Oh, I know they're doing a comic books are doing it.
There's now the African American version of Annie.
Uh uh, Captain America coming up.
I know all of this stuff is uh is let's see, they're doing uh Annie.
Uh oh, remember they did it with Whitney Houston.
There was a there was a movie in 1947 called The Bishop's Wife, and it was remade for Whitney Houston called The Preacher's Wife.
You see, sometimes a story is just a story.
But we can always make it better.
And we can always be more fair.
We could always be more equal about it.
So fine and dandy, George Clooney and Kate Hudson as Barack and Michelle Obama, and you can have Idris Elba as James Bond.
We'll trade up.
Seriously, in one of those hacked emails, somebody responded to Amy Pascal when she suggested Idris Elba to play James Bond.
Somebody said no.
We couldn't do that because they can't have black stars in the lead in the James Bond because foreign markets would not exhibit the movie.
The Sony exec said that Bond has to be white for international distribution.
They simply will not accept an African American or a black guy as James Bond.
Sony exec responding to Amy Pascal.
Okay, back to the phones of Richard, Austin, Texas.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, thank you, Rush.
And uh good day and Merry Christmas.
Thank you.
Same to you, sir.
Um, I just wanted to um reflect back on your broadcast yesterday.
You identified to the audience that uh Joe Cos Cocker had passed in.
Yes.
And um, so that led me to kind of go out to YouTube and see what was, you know, being I guess memorialized, but I guess something that was kind of struck me as um kind of a heartfelt kind of situation from it is that Billy Joel had a concert in September and knew that Joe was having problems.
And um he identified that Joe hadn't been inducted to the rock and all of Fame.
Um along with you know the the medical situation that he was in.
And then he immediately went into a heartfelt rendition of of um with a little help from um my friends.
And um I just wanted to bring up that I thought that was a great interlude from the broadcast yesterday keep things on the lighter side but still memorialized so on.
That was uh pretty good in the music industry.
You like Joe Cocker then.
Oh you bet.
And what was your what what was your favorite Joe Cocker song?
Uh by the way do you know his real name?
Um I was looking that up and I saw I saw it.
It was uh and I I I I saw they had a couple of aliases when he was kind of spring starting up in Sheffield but then I kind of lost track of what his original name was.
I don't have it top my head here but I know it Joe Cocker is a it's a stage name.
Um but wait what what is your favorite Joe Cocker tune?
Um Delta Leiden I thought that was um you know he had a lot of background vocals and it was something I thought was kind of from from him specifically so that was kind of kind of nice.
But I do like the his remakes of other people's songs because he really transitions and transforms them into you know his own identity oh totally totally different interpretations of the songs he covered I w with a little help from my friends it's a Beatles tune but you wouldn't know it the way Cocker did it.
And we will be right back.
Joe Cocker, just to close the loop here, his real name was John Robert Cocker.
Cocker was not a stage name.
Joe was the stage name and he was named Joe of a childhood game they played when he was growing up called Cowboy Joe and he was proficient at the game so he got the name Joe and his name was already Cocker.
His first stage name was Vance Arnold, and his band was Vance Arnold and the Vance Arues or some such thing.
But the name Vance Arnold was a combination of Vince Everett.
That was Elvis Presley's character in Jailhouse Rock.
And Cocker thought it was Vance, not Vince.
So that's where the Vance comes from.
And he loved Eddie Arnold, country singer Eddie Arnold.
So we combined Vance and...
Arnold to get his real stage name of Vance Urban Joe Cocker.
Why would you name yourself Cockerable it was his real name he had no choice John Robert Cocker.
Anyway, passed away yesterday at age 70.
Here's Jake in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Jake.
You're next.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you doing?
Pretty well, sir.
Thank you.
Hi.
I just have a question.
This is coming from a guy who has a flip phone.
The North Korea Internet blackout the other day, whether or not it was caused by us.
What do you think that would do to our society if something of that sort happened, considering, I'm going to say, the majority can't live more than 10 minutes without the Internet?
Well, forget that.
Do you know what an electromagnetic pulse is?
Yes.
Okay.
If one of those was detonated or set off, and they usually accompany a nuclear blast, but people have been working on creating massive versions of them as a weapon.
Forget the idea that we've become addicted or dependent.
It's worse than that, or it's...
I mean, I guess my question is, what would happen, let alone riding...
Well, I'll tell you what.
Airplanes would fall out of the sky.
sky hospitals would shut down virtually everything is connected now everything is is part of the internet everything is online every the interconnectability of our culture it's not just the social media and and people texting each other and pinteresting each other and snap chatting snap seating each other and all this it is it's it's far more involved than that.
The um the the the it would be just like the electric grid going down.
It would it would it would be disastrous for all realms If the if the actual internet went down, an individual network here or there, not so much.
But if the whole thing were hacked, if the whole thing were shut down, it would be a disaster.
Utility plants would maybe go offline.
I mean, everything involves computer chips today.
And computer chips largely need internet connectability or do have.
I don't know how much it's really required, but it doesn't matter.
They're linked.
The internet is uh is is far more intricately woven into the fabric of society than just social media.
That's just uh that's just a tip of the iceberg.
The military, they have their own separate internet per se.
If somebody attacked that, if somebody succeeded in hacking that and taking that down, there would be no communication ability.
Uh satellite, GPS, all of it, everything you can imagine would cease to exist.
I mean, the interdependence of uh of our society in the internet is far more than a bunch of teenagers not being able to send texts and photos to each other.
Well, that would be a factor uh as well.
But you'd have no television.
Uh many people's cars wouldn't start.
Uh there's inner any number, it would be a calamity.
It would be an absolute disaster.
And what did I read the other day?
What did I read?
It was when when uh I think the story of the North Korean hack.
I can't remember specific.
It was a it was a uh I think it was a story involving the military admitting that we don't have a plan in place to deal with this kind of an attack, that we are five years away from having a backup or a plan to deal with something like this.
And the story was one of shock and dismay that we don't have a plan.
We know how vulnerable this would be.
We know how vulnerable anybody is to loss of network connectability capability, and we don't have a plan for it.
And how long if we had the ability?
Uh that was a it was a multifaceted story, most of it built around the shock of uh everybody when they learned that we have no backup and that we're five years away from being able to deal with uh with that kind of attack.
So it's my I think it based on the nature of your question, I give you much more serious problem than you're thinking.
Now, the the North Korean internet is so backwards, other than their military.
Their military can do all kinds of things, but they're really assisted by the Chicoms in this.
But the actual quote-unquote version of the Internet that exists for the country at large is the equivalent of 56k modems.
I mean, it's just so it's it's it's backwards, it wouldn't be much of a loss.
They don't have electricity anyway.
Half the country's starving.
Uh the the the first people that get fed are the leadership and then the soldiers.
And then after that, you fend for yourself.
And that's why they practically eat anything.
It's just a backwards as you can get, which is another reason why some people go, come on, you think the Norks actually did this to Sony by themselves?
Not possible.
They don't have the ability to do it.
You know, they make these uh make a big show of launching all these so-called nuclear missiles, but they never go anywhere.
Uh but they're trying.
That is the point.
The Norks are trying, and they do spend whatever money they've got on their military, and they're provocative, and for the most part they are allied with the ChICOMs.
So where they're they do constitute a threat.
When they were placed in the axis of evil, it was it was legitimate.
But the uh the degree to which more than you would ever believe in terms of institutions, businesses, institutions, And just hospitals, government, or you name it, the connectability that everybody depends on would be huge if it went away if it were successfully hit.
Granted, your your assessment that social media would create a bunch of crying maniacs is also true.
But it would be far, far greater than that.
Appreciate the call.
Mary in uh Olatha, Kansas.
It's great to have you.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Megadellos Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Just want to thank you for the Rush Review series.
You talked to my daughter Bethany back in October.
She asked about Canon Tommy.
Oh, yeah.
And I just have to say, you know, I know history is just one of those things that, you know, if it kids, you know, get the right history.
Um it changes their outlook.
And I sorry, I'm so nice.
Um, but he I mean I see that you know, they want to teach all the stuff that has nothing to do with history, it's such as things like wanting to teach them how to meditate, Buddha meditation and things like that.
Oh, yeah, it's even worse than that.
Oh, my goodness.
I mean, I've had to write notes that I don't want my daughter participating in things like that.
Um, you know, I just am so thankful for the Rush Review series because you get in real history.
And um I have a 17-year-old son also, and we we've watched, you know, as many history things like from the SUSA, his uh America.
Just filled with history.
Right.
And um I I just want to thank you for infusing our youth with the true history of our country.
And I I have a couple of questions.
One is that when do you think conservatives are gonna step up to fight and teach real history in our schools?
Um my dad, he was a fifth grade teacher.
They are trying, and the I think the uh primary effort is occurring in the homeschooling movement.
I think this is how many people have decided that they're going to deal with the public school system is to just use homeschooling.
Now there are other people, other people are making efforts at creating inroads.
And I must tell you this, you know, you you you um uh you seem like you're searching for positives.
There have been, and this has been a very pleasant surprise for us.
There have been quite a few public school teachers who have requested, you know, we make lesson plans, assisted lesson plans available.
We don't try to take over the teacher's job by any stretch of the imagination, either intentionally or we're not even trying to create that illusion, but we offer assistance to any teacher who would like to use any of the materials in the Rush Review series, and we've had a tremendous amount of feedback from public school teachers all over the country.
And so we've sent them books, we've donated books to some schools and more than you would believe.
It's it's it's surprised me.
And uh this is a this is a pet project of Catherine's.
She is on this and monitors this and is promoting it and is trying to let I'll tell you what else is happening in regards to this, kids who are getting the books from their parents and then reading them or taking them to school and showing them the books, the teachers and their and their classmates, and in some places in some cases, some schools that teachers are fascinated by it and want to read the books themselves and are incorporating them some way.
I mean, not into the full-fledged curriculum.
They don't have any control of that.
But it it would it would surprise you, I think, that we're not being shut out.
Well, we're being welcomed into uh a lot of places.
But your overall question, when are conservatives going to stand up and do X. Teach American history.
They are doing it.
Conservatives are standing up all over this country.
Take a look at the election results in 2010 and 2014.
Conservatives are doing everything they know how to do.
They're demanding that Obama be stopped.
They're electing Republicans.
It's the only thing they can do.
The Republicans then disappoint and uh they mislead people during campaigns when they're re-elected, they do not follow through on the agenda that that everybody thinks that they're going to uh attempt to implement, but and there's a lot of frustration building as a result of this.
But I don't think you should Mary, there there are conservatives and others all over this country who simply are fed up and don't want to tolerate any more of this.
What is missing is national political leadership.
The Tea Party is never going to go away because it's not a thing.
The Tea Party is an attitude.
The Tea Party is a mindset, and it is held by millions and millions of Americans.
And the Washington establishment may think that they can stomp it out, and they may think they may be able to get rid of it, but they'll never be able to get rid of it because it's not a tangible thing that you can go out and destroy.
So all they all they can try to do is uh depress or dispirit and make conservatives or Tea Party people feel like their efforts are futile, and that is taking place.
But I I'll I'll tell you, I I think that there's so much energy in opposition to what's happening now, there's frustration, and there are a lot of people that don't know what to do other than vote, but others are getting involved at grassroots.
I'll tell you where it's really starting to take hold.
You can see this in the election too.
The Tea Party success stories, many of them are in the governorships, and they are in state and local races, which is a good thing because that's grassroots, and that effervesces and that bubbles up, and it's gonna be uh it's a deliberate process.
It's a slow and deliberate process.
You'd feel better if all these people are getting elected to be senator, vice president, president, whatever, but that's not the route that you can take if you don't have any experience in in the business of politics.
But there's a lot of progress being made, and there's a lot of frustration being felt.
And it is gonna boil over at some point.
Every day we wake up and there's a new outrage that we're supposed to just shut up and accept.
And more and more people, you can see it, don't want to shut up, and they don't want to accept it because the country's being torn apart.
I have to take a break.
I'm way long here, Mary, but I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much for your kind words on the Rush Revere series.
We all really appreciate that.
We are doing open line Friday on Tuesday back to the phones.
This is Sean and Moline, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas.
Uh, same to you, sir.
Great to have you with us.
And I'm a longtime listener.
My daughter is a big fan of you on Family Guy.
She misses you on the show.
Oh, really?
I've had a couple three appearances there.
You never know when it'll happen again.
Of course.
Hey, Russ, I want to change up the subject a little bit.
I want to go talk about the NFL because this is the time of year I look forward to as football.
And I'd like to hear your opinion on this.
What do you think is going to happen to Mark Trustman and Jay Cutler?
With the Bears.
Well, I know they're going to start Cutler this Sunday.
He's back under center.
This is uh you know, Tressman was brought in because he's ostensibly known as an offensive genius and fixer, and there hasn't been much evidence of that this year.
Um, yeah, oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah.
And I also seen a Rex Rhine's on the way out the door, too.
Uh well, you want Rex Ryan?
Well, no, not really.
I mean, he was a good coach for a while, but I don't know what happened.
It looked like his wheels fell off.
Uh well, uh if you want to know what happened to Rex Ryan, say what happened to Rex Ryan.
There are two things that happened to Rex Ryan.
A, the general manager that they hired to come in.
He knew that that that uh he was not really desired by the new general manager, so he had to change.
He had to stop being who he was and had to become a corporate conformist in order to keep his job, try to make it work.
The general the general manager is the power broker at any football organization.
Uh and he was he was brought in by Mike Tannebama, got fired.
So Rex just changed, his personality changed overnight, and I think the lapman surgery has an effect.
I think that there's all kinds of things explained.
Oh, yeah.
And you want to know it?
I I I did you like did you like the game here a few weeks ago on Thanksgiving weekend uh with the Patriots and New England uh New England Patriots and the Packers?
Uh did I see it, did you say?
Yeah, did you watch it?
Yeah.
Pretty good game, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was it was it was an excellent game.
I thought we were talking about Rex Ryan.
Yeah, but it was uh it was uh uh good game, and it might be a forerunner.
Either way, it's to your question.
I think they're both gone next year.
Be my guess.
Gotta take a break back after this.
And we have two down and one busy exciting broadcast hour remaining today on the EIB network and the Rush Limbaugh program.
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