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Jan. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I kind of I kind of like the sideways hug that uh that Chris Christie engaged in there with uh with Jerry Jones.
This is like the third time this season we've seen Christie and uh in Jerry Jones' box.
Let me tell you by Jerry Jones' box.
This the suite at uh is now ATT Stadium.
There are two.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
It's Rushland Bought the EB Network 800-282-2882.
Down at just call it Texas Stadium.
It's what everybody thinks of it is.
Jerry Jones has two suites.
One suite is the big one, where the friends and the business associates and uh guests and and all that good, and it's huge, and it's what you would think it is.
And it's generally where Mrs. Jones and uh some of the other family is.
Then the second suite is strictly football people.
Jerry and his son Stephen and uh some PR people, some of the scouts.
I mean, it's all serious, but there's no party going on in that suite.
I mean, they may have some food and beverage in there, but it's not a party.
This is Jones does not watch the game from the social suite.
And Christy is in that football suite.
You don't get in that suite.
That's a big deal for Chris Christie to be up there.
Because it it is the football people.
Um there are some owners that are that way.
Most owners are not.
Most go in the social suite and they put everybody in there.
And they seat the football people within uh well, either the football people have their own place in the press box where they're watching or their own suite.
But most owners do everything together.
Jerry has his own place up there, which is it's nearby, but it's it's it's not where the buffet is and and the partying and all of that.
It's strictly business people in there, the business of the team.
And that's where Christie is.
And that's a big get.
That's a big invite to get in there.
And it means something.
Uh it may look weird, you know.
The poor.
Christy, did you notice this?
If he if you didn't notice this, I'm sure you can find a YouTube of it.
I bet you there is one.
He tries to give Jones a high five.
And Jones ignores him and starts hugging everybody.
So Christie joins in on a hug.
I don't think it's a diss.
It's not a diss.
It's just it's just it's just one of those things.
And it may be just my eagle eye, but I don't know.
But uh there's a bunch of people in New Jersey that are ragging on Christie for doing this because he ought to be a Giants fan, they think.
The Giants Stadium is is in New Jersey.
And the Eagles, you know, they're down there in Philadelphia across the river from Jersey.
And here he is with the hated enemy of both teams in the owner's super box.
Now what people don't know is that Christie has been a lifelong cowboys fan.
I mean, he's been in the tank for the cowboys since he was a kid.
So there's nothing politics about him doing this.
There may be politics in being invited.
Uh I mean, who who knows about it, but I don't know if you notice this, but but Christie was uh in the lead of the pack going in the locker room after the game with Jerry Jones right behind him.
That's a tough get.
Uh getting into an NFL locker room, those things are policed almost like the Politburo, folks.
Security-wise and pass-wise, it's uh it's it's a both both both those places that Christie ended up are tough places to get.
Uh when Jerry Jones invites you to a game, if he invites you to come join the game at a game, you don't get in his suite.
You're you're downstairs in the social suite.
And that's not a criticism.
Don't any I'm just giving you the lay of the land.
He takes it seriously.
He's not there to have a party.
This is his.
Well, we've been told we're not we we don't have any plans to go to the Super Bowl, but but we're we're we just started talking about it last week.
Uh why do I have to go off Dallas gets in?
I why do I have to?
I it's uh you've got to be a cluster, you know what.
And uh I don't know if I'll go or not.
It's it's still up in the air.
Now, folks, Snerdley told me that he can't wait for the audio sound bites that I talked about in the opening hour of the program where the media all over this country uh the day after Christmas and the week after Christmas was totally absorbed with my comments on Idris Elba,
the black British actor being uh positioned as the next actor to play James Bond when Daniel Craig's contract expires after the next one.
Not the one they're currently filming, but one more.
And of course, what I said was the totality of what I said was why do we want to blur these lines?
James Bond is a fictional character created by a real man named Ian Fleming.
He's white, he's Scottish, he wasn't black, and then I furthermore said, let's look at it the other way around.
Let's say that some Hollywood bigwig wants to do a biography movie, The Life and Times of Barack Obama and cast Mel Gibson.
What do you think the reaction to that would be?
And playing Michelle My Bell Obama would be Gwyneth Pountra.
What do you think the reaction would be?
And I said to Snerdley, I said, I don't want to play these sounds, because all it is is the media calling me a racist.
And I said, Frankly, Mr. Snerdley, my audience is tired of me being called a racist.
They know I'm not one, and they hate it.
And they're not amused by it.
He said, That's true, but there's a life lesson in well, there is in a way, to make a not a life lesson, but there's a an object lesson in this.
That I'm go ahead and try to make it.
Let's we've got a montage here.
There's there's how many of these things are there?
There are two of them.
And the first one is a montage, and this montage runs 47 seconds, and it spans the dates December 24th through December 29th.
New York to LA, Boston to New Orleans, Chicago to Dallas to San Francisco.
This was the big news over the holidays.
He didn't.
The harsh comments Rush Limbaugh had about Idris Elba.
Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to stir up some controversy.
Limbaugh insists James Bond must be white.
Rush Limbaugh sparking controversy.
If Rush Limbaugh has his way, the next one will not be Idris Elba.
Rush Limbaugh is once again inciting outrage.
Rush Limbaugh has come out against having a black James Bond.
James Bond is white and should always be played by a white actor, so saith Rush Limba.
It made Rush Limbaugh mad.
James Bond uh was white, is white, and always will be white.
Those are words from Rush Limbaugh.
Predictable reaction from Radio Provocateur.
Rush Limbach.
He's got to thank Rush Limbaugh.
Because if Rush didn't put it out there, he wouldn't be this much eat around the game.
Okay.
Now I know you p you all don't like hearing this garbage.
I I know that that you get ticked off when you hear these gnome names and these these numbskulls running around, just every one of them saying the same thing, every one of them sounding the same, every one of them is blind and and and brain dead as the rest, with this incessant criticism of racism.
Now and I don't I don't play this to laugh at it, but I'll tell you something here.
Is it racist to suggest that James Bond is a white character created by Ian Fleming?
It's not racist to suggest this.
We're so far off the beaten.
We can't even talk with it.
Eric Holder runs around.
We don't have any courage in this car.
We've got a bunch of cowards afraid to talk about race.
I'm not, despite what happens to me when I do.
But there's no racism intended here.
I couldn't, I I have no bias whatever against Idris Elba.
In fact, I think he's a great actor.
It isn't even about him.
This is about this bat this gal Amy Pascal who thinks that Idris Elba would be a great James Bond, and we know why she says she's trying to buy off Al Sharpton.
She's trying to buy off any any of the other hustlers because she's in problems in trouble because of the because of the Sony leak.
But it is not racist to make an observation like this.
And I know that there's the whiz, which is the black version of the Wizard of Oz, and I know that there's now a black version of Annie, little orphan Annie and all that.
But I'm merely attesting to the fact that James Mond's a real character.
A real character created by a real guy and modeled, by the way, after somebody named James Mond, if you must know the truth.
A friend of Ian Fleming's.
It was not an agent, other characteristics of his friend, uh it's an invention, obviously.
But this idea that this is all racist, in order to make the point, which these people, I guarantee you, none of them knew the entirety of what I said, because not one of these people actually ever heard me say this.
They all heard this, or probably read it from one place.
They are the last thing that you would associate with being reporters.
They're not curious, they're not interested in the truth, they are the ones looking for easy comments.
They're the ones looking for easy controversy by invoking me.
They are the lazy ones.
They're the ones trying to get noticed.
They're the ones, and I had 47 seconds here, and every damn one of these people had the same comment.
There's no uniqueness, no originality in these people are just a bunch of followers.
I simply asked an associated question.
Would it be accepted if the movie of the life and times of Barack Obama was cast?
Pick your pick your pick your white guy.
I mean, Mel Gibson because he's universally reviled in Hollywood right now just to tweak him, but pick anybody, pick any white actor, pick pick uh Clooney.
Clooney would be honored, by the way, to do it.
Pick Clooney.
Do you think that the Al Sharptons of the world would sit idly by and applaud it?
So here's the question.
The question is why is it, and we know that it wouldn't be acceptable.
We know that it would be immediately attacked.
Why is it universally proper and okay and justified to attack a white actor portraying a black guy?
But when a black actor portrays an obvious white character, we're supposed to say, hey, yeah, that's fine and cool.
And any anybody that says no, we shouldn't do that is immediately blanded.
Branded a racist.
This is an it if this is the kind of thing, folks, that most people won't dare say because they don't want to deal with having to or have to deal with idiots like these TV people making comments about them.
I frankly, and it may be to my detriment, don't care.
A lot of people, you know, you ought to care, Rush.
You ought to go after these people.
I mean, they're out.
I don't care.
It never has, but well, first two years I didn't know how to deal with it, it bothered me, but after that, I don't care.
Especially when you consider the source.
But the idea that that there is racism behind this is frankly absurd.
This is how they shut people up.
This is this is but this is why I contend to you that with the with the right candidate, conservative candidate, you would find overwhelmingly bust out support for that conservative candidate throughout and across a cross spectrum of this country.
Now here's the next soundbite, and this is um WPIX TV eyeball 11 morning news in New York.
The fill-in co-anchor Craig Treadway and the fill-in anchorette, Lisa Mateo, decided to discuss this.
He also said that it's racist to probably point this out.
You think?
Yeah, I think so.
Interesting, I think it would be great bond.
I would go running and say that.
I'm a big fan.
We could punch a limb in the face.
Hey, So let's now inflict little violence on your host.
It'd be perfectly fine to go punch Limbaugh in the face.
And when I said it's probably racist to point this out, I was being facetious.
But I said it with full knowledge of how these clowns were going to accept it.
Because they're mind-numbed robots.
They are programmed, however it's happened in their lives, to automatically react this way.
To the point that you cannot have any kind of a conversation about any of this.
It's like I told you earlier, a friend of mine sent me an email over the weekend.
I think it was during the Bengals Indianapolis Colts game, or as Phil Sims says, the Coats.
Yeah.
It was it was the Bengals and the Coats, as Phil Sims says.
And this guy sends me a note.
He says, you know, I've I Rush, is it racist to say I don't like female sideline reporters?
I just it it.
And I said, probably.
He said sexist.
And I said, in this day and age, you're not allowed to say that.
If you say that you don't like female sideline reporters, then no question, depending on who you are, if you say it, it's definitely sexist and anti-women, if you if you if you say that.
He said, I but I don't dislike women.
I love women probably too much.
Well, if you love women probably too much, then you gotta have no problem with wherever you find them, sir, because that's he said, I don't know.
It just it just I can't help but think I'm looking at groupies.
I said, Well, you said it, sir, not I. But it's a it's the same thing.
He was afraid to even talk about it.
That's the point.
Because of the labels now.
He's just been handed something.
What is this?
Um, yeah.
By the way, this is nothing new.
This is this is back in 1990.
It's New York Times.
Actor's Equity denied permission yesterday for the English actor Jonathan Price, who, by the way, played a bond villain.
He also played Henry Kravis in Barbarians at the Gate on HBO with with uh Jim James Garner.
Actors Equity denied permission yesterday for the English actor Jonathan Price to appear on Broadway next spring in the role of the Eurasian pimp that he created in the hit London musical Miss Ny Gun.
He's in the London production, he did portray a Eurasian pimp, but the actor's equity denied permission for him to play that role on Broadway in New York because he's not Asian.
They had to go out and find a real Asian to play the pimp because he wasn't.
But when it comes along the other way around, no problem.
I'd love to see it.
Why it'd be cool as whatever.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
I just saw the clock.
Don't go.
How about Matt Damon as Shaft?
Quick.
What was Shaft's first name?
John Shaft, that's right.
Way to go, Mr. Sturdley.
He was a well, Isaac Hayes characterized it.
I will go no further.
You can rest easy in there, Don.
Um, Matt at Matt Matt Matt.
How about Matt Affleck?
That'll cover both those guys.
Matt Affleck as Shaft.
He, he, he.
Anyway, back to the phones we go.
This is Gary in Hazel Park, uh, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, what a wonderful way to start the new year, Rush.
Uh, you're one of my three living heroes of mine.
Most of the rest have been dead just about 200 years and are the main characters in your book series.
Wow, thank you, sir.
Very much.
I appreciate that.
I I agree with your premise that the uh the traitor-in-chief is trying to eliminate any evidence of Reagan's presidency, but I'd like to take it a bit further and say he's trying to do the same thing to Bush, which is uh precipitous retreat from the war on terror, which I believe he's extended uh inadvertently a couple decades at least.
Well, I think where do you stop with this?
Because I think you're right.
He's trying to is he's trying to wipe all vestige of anything other than the Democrat Party for people.
Well, to fundamentally change the United States.
You'll have to do that, yes.
Yeah.
Well, he's intending to.
And by the way, we're just this is just January 5 of the last two years.
Let me tell you something.
I've there's a story I haven't even mentioned that I've got in the stack here, that somebody has calculated all of the new regulations that the bureaucracies of the federal government have written that are not constitutional.
They're brand new laws that have not been passed by Congress.
I think I don't know what the time frame is last year.
I think it was 139 laws were passed, or maybe it's the path, no, because maybe it's the last five years, whatever, whatever period of time there have been 139 laws, there are 14,000 new regulations.
And people haven't the slightest idea till they run up against them.
And a lot of them are taxes.
Oh.
Speaking of which, you have no idea.
As of January 1st, what new tax increases you almost all of them, not quite all, but most related to Obamacare.
And they are significant.
I've got that in the stack here, too.
I mean, let's be honest.
It's going to take me till Friday just to go through today's stack at the present rate.
And it's, by the way, we're doing everything and more than I had planned.
Well, I'm mixing it all together.
It's not that we're slacking off here today, folks, is the point.
Back we are.
El Rushbow having more fun than a human being.
Should be allowed to have.
Now, I've been tempting to or threatening to discuss this thing that happened in the Lions-Cowboys game yesterday.
I keep forgetting to get to it.
I'm sorry.
I'm being reminded.
The Lions got jobbed.
And I'll tell you, and I don't think there's any conspiracy.
You know, I've been this this really troubles me.
And I guess it shouldn't.
But when this happened yesterday, I immediately waited a little while for the story to settle in, for websites to post their various takes and stories on the various sports websites.
And I went to them, and I particularly went to the comments.
And I I wanted to see what people commenting on this thought about it.
And it was scary.
You would not believe the number of people who either think A, Jerry Jones paid off the riffs, or B, the refs have something against the Lions, or C, the NFL got on a super secret private radio frequency to the head referee, Pete Morelli, and told him you pick up that flag because we don't want the Lions next week.
We want the cowboys at Green Bay, the 47th anniversary of the ice bowl.
We want that next week.
Whatever you have to do, pick up that flag.
You'd be amazed at the number of people who think one of those three scenarios is real.
Not only that, the the the cockshore attitude and the venom with the idea that Jerry Jones succeeded in paying off the riffs, or that the NFL quickly seized an opportunity to screw the Lions because they didn't want the Lions playing next week because they desperately wanted the Cowboys and Packers next week.
Now some of them are obviously joking, but the number of people, and I'm talking thousands of people posting comments, the number of people who seriously think this stuff is scary.
And I think I think the explanation for this is it's two things.
But one, it's pure incompetence.
What the NFL does in the postseason, they split up the crews.
There are crews that work together every week during the NFL season.
But when you get to the playoffs, they grade each individual in the crew, and they take the top graded linesman, referee, umpire, line judge, side judge, and they put them together.
And oftentimes, as was the case yesterday, you have a crew that's never worked together.
And so they don't know where each other's gonna be by habit or any of that, and you got people that don't maybe even know each other.
And then there's another aspect that has come to play called face guarding.
What actually happened on the play yesterday is something that used to be and still is in college, a penalty, face guarding.
And that's when the defensive back gets in the receiver's face and does not turn around to look for the ball, is making no effort to catch it.
That used to be pass interference called face guarding.
That penalty has been taken off the books.
But I think this crew got confused with it yesterday.
I think one of the referees, or one of the, well, there's only one, one of one of the officials, thought it was face guarding.
Somebody came over.
No, no, no, face guarding's been, it's been gone five years.
The mistake was announcing the penalty before the conference.
The flag gets thrown, Morelli goes on the PA system, pass interference, such and such defense, 15 yards, first down, blah, blah, and the Lions are, and then 15 seconds later, he picked the flag up and didn't explain to anybody why.
He just said, flag up, no pass interference on the play, and they moved on.
And that happened, by the way.
I didn't even hear it.
I'm watching the game, and all of a sudden I hear Cowboys fans cheering.
I said, Why are they cheering?
This something doesn't make sense here.
Their team just been penalized that they're going to lose the game.
And then later I found out that they picked up the flag and so forth.
It was just totally incompetently handled.
Morelli should have, they should have had the conference with the refs with the flag still on the ground, solved it, and then announced that it wasn't interference for whatever reason they said then pick up the flag and move on.
But he didn't give an explanation.
He called the penalty and then didn't enforce it.
That was the appearance.
That is a second factor here that some people have mentioned, but Des Bryant, number 88, offensive receiver, why receive the Cowboys, ran on the field without his helmet to argue.
That is a 15-yard, unsportsman-like penalty.
You are not allowed to take your hat off in the NFL on the field.
You are not allowed to take your helmet off.
It must stay on.
If it comes off during play, you gotta make tracks and put it back on.
You run on the field from the sideline with your hat on or not, 15 yards, automatic, unsportsmanlike to argue with a ref.
You go out there without your helmet.
That should have been there, should have been 30 yards penalized in that play that had nothing to do with the pass interference.
And I just think I don't there's there's there's if they if look, folks, if this game was I even feel like a fool addressing this.
If this game are fixed, they're not gonna wait for chance that late in the game to do it.
The idea that Jerry Jones would pay the referees, and this plus the the head of officials, Dean Blandino was seen partying on the Cowboys bus with Jerry Jones and Chris Christie, I guess, and that led to some more conspiracy theories and so forth.
It wasn't any of that.
They just mishandled this whole thing.
But I still think they got jobbed because Des Bryant should have not gotten away without any penalty going out on the field arguing like that without his hat on.
That should have been 15 yards right there.
But on the other side of that, on the other side of that, and this is the automatic always.
The cowboys or the Lions, rather, should not, if they shouldn't have been in a position to have to rely on that to win the game.
They had plenty of chances.
They they owned the field in the first quarter, and then their offense went dead.
And uh they had plenty of chances to win that game before that play even happened.
Uh and I do think it was interference, face guarding or not.
I think it was, I think that the whole thing was blown.
And I think it's a big black eye on the NFL.
And I think it does take away from the Cowboys victory, but it's gonna be forgotten everywhere.
Well, maybe not.
This this could be a problem for the NFL.
Just in terms of getting something so big, uh, so wrong on two different levels.
The penalty itself, and then Des Bryant running out there arguing.
That's that's such a no-no.
I can't.
The fact that that wasn't called means I think there was just a referees were in a the officials were in a state of confusion there.
Uh But they should have had their conference before the flag was picked up, and then Morelli, the referee, should have announced the result in a conference and told everybody why he's picking up the flag.
And what it was that what uh the second referee came in and said, no, no, no, no, there wasn't any fairness.
That was face guarding, and that's no longer a penalty.
So that was the official explanation.
And now a brief time out will continue after this, my friends, don't go away.
Well, yeah, I'll try, but hex, I don't know what's gonna happen between now and tomorrow.
People are asking me to uh I I mentioned William Galston, the story in a Wall Street Journal on December 30th, that if it had run any other time, this guy would be running for his life.
The Christian heart of American exceptionalism.
It's a it's a column that makes the point that American exceptionalism is rooted in Christianity, and that far more people in this country are Christians than will ever admit it.
And people are saying, would you do that?
Would you do I don't have time right now?
I'll I'll do it early tomorrow.
I was I could say I'll lead with it, but I don't know what's going to happen between now and tomorrow.
But I got practically I don't want to sound like I'm complaining because I'm not, because we've gotten all kinds of stuff in today, but there's a lot that I haven't gotten to that I intended to, so I'll just save it for tomorrow.
We'll just keep adding to it.
I just make you this promise.
I will not take another day off until I get all this stuff from this stat today in, which may take until my next schedule day off.
I mean, it's we're loaded here.
What do you think?
I've been gone a week and a half.
Okay.
Jim in Golden, Colorado, you're next.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Rush, I wanted to tell you that your sphere of influence now extends well over fifty light years in diameter.
And calls on death and malignant ears here on this planet.
Well, you might still reach civilizations and people's yet unknown, and perhaps it will inspire them as it has inspired me, Rush.
Well, thank you.
I really appreciate that, sir.
Rush, I I feel a little bit hopeful for the United States and for freedom and for mankind.
With the new year and what the voters said to the Congress and to the Senate, and hopefully to the president, although of course he doesn't care as the light bringer has his own plans.
But look, the voters are going to be ignored in a positive direction.
And I am a bit hopeful.
Well, I am too.
And I'll tell you why I'm hopeful.
I'm hopeful because I really, really do believe that, and it's look, it's not easy to come by.
I mean, the right candidate.
Waiting on that for how many decades.
But my point is, we've not lost the country.
I think people who would would surprise you.
I think people that you think we've lost would be inspired by a candidate with the right message.
I say this because I I think most people are dissatisfied with the country today, the direction it's going, and most are afraid to say so.
There are some that don't know any better, the low information crowd.
But I I I think the country would explode with uh with positive optimism if the right catalyst came along in the political spectrum.
And uh it's just a feeling I've got well, it's it's it's rooted in a lot of polling data uh and and some other things, but it's not just wishful thinking.
I actually think that it's there.
But there's not much inspiring anybody coming out of the political system today.
It's doing just the exact opposites, people.
It's not inspiring anybody.
I think the political system in this country is one of the reasons that so many people are forlorn, in fact.
Because the political system is how we manage our affairs.
The political system is how we organize ourselves, and it's it's broken and it's not gridlock broken.
It's it's it's broken because it's become corrupted.
Anyway, I will expand on this more, but there's a lot of the program today today has been devoted to that uh to that theory.
Oh, yeah, I want to thank Eric Erickson and Buck Sexton and Mark Belling for guest hosting the program when nobody was listening.
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
My body clock is still 9 a.m.
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