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I want to review for you just some of the news items that are out there.
Yemen is literally falling apart.
Yemen is a staunch U.S. ally.
The government of Yemen is.
If you don't know where Yemen is, it's the southern border of Saudi Arabia, which is the only country in the world named after a family.
The family Sawd.
And it is Al Qaeda in Yemen, which has toppled the ruling government of Yemen, and Al Qaeda in Yemen is right up there with ISIS in terms of the latest militant jihadists and terrorists posing threats to free and peace-loving people everywhere, including us in the United States of America.
It's Al Qaeda in Yemen perpetrating the attacks in Paris against the magazine, Charl Ebdu.
North from Yemen, the king of Saudi Arabia, said to be a reformer.
I had to laugh when I read the guy's mini obituary.
His name is Abdullah Ibn Saud Abdulaziz.
He passed away at age 90.
What are you impressed I can pronounce that name, Wendy, without pausing to look at it?
Why are you laughing?
His name is Abdullah.
He's one of 30 sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia.
Wait a minute.
Of course their name cannot be Mike.
Their name would not be Rush.
There would never be an El Rushbo in Saudi Arabia, much less ruling royal family.
Now the uh Saudi Arabia is named after an old man named Saud, who uh had 30 or 40 kids, maybe more.
One of those 30 and and the the uh the reign of terror the the the way the ascension to power works is that his sons, as they die, the next one in line takes over.
Out of 30 sons of Mr. Saw, there are said to be six that are even halfway qualified.
And one of them was Abdullah.
And Abdullah, I as I say, I had to laugh.
Abdullah was reforming Saudi Arabia with moving forward on rights for women and and yeah, it just I I read this, I I was stunned.
I well, what world are these reporters living in reporting on the king of Saudi Arabia some reform?
He was a U.S. ally, there's no question in many ways.
But Saudi Arabia with Wahhabism is the is the cauldron.
It's the boiling point for for much of militant Islam, but that's way over there.
The point is that the king passed away at age 90, and his replacement's his brother, Crown Prince, who is 79 and Suffering dementia.
Not kidding, suffering dementia, 79 years old, suffering dementia, is is mentally incapacitated or deep, not fully, but he's not all there either.
So that is a the point is that's a fluid situation.
I mean, this is a the Middle East has become a literal cauldron here of Sunni versus Shia with uh with the United States right in the middle of it, and it's it's it's important to note all of this, and hardly any of it is getting any attention whatsoever.
What's happened in Yemen, the terrorists have taken over that country.
The king of Saudi Arabia has passed away, leading to uh all kinds of potential problems down the road.
Now, the Hill.com, let me just tell you one of the top stories at the Hill.com as we gather here today to kick off three hours of broadcast excellence.
These are the top stories on the Hill's news feed.
Number one, Obama's YouTube interviews deliver awkward moments.
This Snurdley, have you uh seen any of this?
You talk you beneath the dignity of the office, maybe setting a new low.
President Obama with uh with with YouTube interviews, it's an outreach to the youths of America.
Folks, it was so embarrassing.
We've got audio sound bites coming of it, but it was just oh man, so beneath the dignity of the office, and there are people that still care about that.
The number two story at the Hill.com, Obama hopes high court legalizes gay marriage.
The number three story at the Hill.com.
Obama states more likely to legalize pot.
President predicts other states will follow successful efforts in Colorado and Washington.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, the government their highn loopers is the biggest mistake they could have made was legalized pot.
Had he known what was going to happen beforehand, and he opposed it from the get-go, but had he opposed what he knew what he knows now, or had he known what he knows, they would oppose even more fervently the legalization of pot.
Folks, those three stories are irrelevant.
And yet, those are the three things leading the Hill.com inside the Beltway news agency.
Obama's YouTube interviews, Obama's high hopes for the high court legalizing gay marriage, and states more likely to legalize pot.
Terrorists have taken over Yemen, the Saudi King has died.
And of course, the big story everywhere, the New England Patriots and Deflate Gate.
This is so telling.
It is such an eye-opening event for people studying our culture.
I love it.
Now I want to weigh in on this with just one thing.
I watched both the press conferences yesterday.
I watched Belichick's, and like most of you probably watched Brady, who started at 415, and I will guarantee you this, because of the way Belichick, I told you Belichick had not thrown Beatty under the bus.
I told you that's not what had happened.
Essentially, here's all you need to know.
Cut through all of the clutter, cut to the chase, get right to the quick.
All you need to know is the NFL has no idea what happened.
The NFL has no idea who did what.
And that is why Brady and Belichick are both denying any culpability whatsoever.
That can be the only explanation.
And I would even add this.
As I watch all this play out, I'm not so sure the NFL even wants to find out what happened here.
But someday we will.
Someday we are going to find out, whether it's part of an official investigation or not.
One of the things, you know, you learn to look for things that nobody else notices.
This is my one of my areas of interest.
Is to look at what everybody's looking at and find and zone in on something everybody is passing by.
One of the things I keep hearing, no matter who's analyzing, no matter who's talking about this.
It goes something like this.
It could be a former player saying it, could be a drive-by media person saying it, could be uh anybody.
They're all saying no way would an equipment manager do this on his own.
No way would a ball boy tamper with the footballs on his own.
There is no way an equipment manager would do this without the quarterback knowing.
Now that tells me who the fall guy in this is eventually going to be.
It's either going to be an equipment manager who in fact did.
We are going to be told.
It is in fact going to be an equipment manager or a ball boy.
They're easier to throw overboard and sacrifice in the name of saving the game than a quarterback or a coach.
Some equipment manager is going to fall on the sword or some ball boy is going to fall on the sword and shock everybody.
It's going to be learned at some point, may not be till next June.
Who knows?
May not be learned until the eve of the draft.
But that's that I see everybody.
No way with the equipment man.
No way couldn't happen.
No way, no how, no way.
That's a big tell to me.
And I could be wrong, obviously, we'll find out in due course.
So one thing I'm pretty confident of, folks.
For Brady to go out there and deny this, as flat out as he did, with no doubts, with leaving no door open, leaving no possibility to change his mind.
I mean, this is as flat out.
I didn't do anything, I didn't know anything, I didn't zip zip zero nut.
And Belichick the same way.
That tells me that they know the NFL isn't even close to knowing what happened.
That tells me that they know that the NFL may never find out what happened, who did what, when where, why, all of that.
That's the only reason they would go out and just deny, deny, deny.
Unequivocally.
Brief time out, we'll come back, get started, put all this together after this.
Don't go away.
We're back.
It's open line Friday.
Let me obliterate and dispel what I think are some bits of conventional wisdom out there that have it all wrong.
One of the bits of conventional wisdom is that Tom Brady has for the first time in his career thrown his reputation up for grabs.
He's managed his reputation ever since the Patriots' first Super Bowl.
He has mastered it greatly.
He has uh managed his reputation, maybe planning a run for the Senate, some sort of politics.
Conventional wisdom has it.
That press conference yesterday with Brady in utter denial has really put his great reputation at risk.
Let me dispel that.
Not only has he not put his reputation at risk, it has been enhanced.
Remember the culture we live in, folks.
There is no shame anymore for being caught publicly in doing something incorrect, wrong, violating rules or what unless you're a Republican.
Outside of that, you can do anything you want.
Your reputation's gonna be enhanced.
I got I got an email today from um a woman that I know, 60 years old.
You know what she said?
I don't care what he's accused of.
He's the cutest I've ever seen.
That's all that matters.
I don't care what he did.
In fact, I hope he did it and gets away with it.
Man, oh man, is that one beautiful man, said this note.
So all this Brady will be bigger than ever.
He's gonna have more curiosity about him than ever, no matter how this turns out, folks.
His reputation's not at risk.
This is not gonna have any long lasting damaging impact.
The second myth, and this one's everywhere.
Boy, the NFL, man, they must really not care.
Why they haven't even talked to Brady yet.
Well, now hang on.
I have spies, ladies and gentlemen.
I have learned that the NFL always intended to talk to Brady last.
Talk to everybody else first.
Talk to the assistant coaches.
Talk to the equipment manager.
Talk to the ball boy, talk to the head coach, whatever.
And then after you have all that, then you go to Brady.
Because this is about Brady.
The only person that possibly is affected by the balls being inflated or deflated, Brady.
He is the focal point of this.
If the NFL is serious about the investigation, they might be getting ready to do a Martha Stewart type thing.
Testimony from everybody else, and then you talk to Brady and find out who's lying.
Talking to Brady first, not the best way to do this.
So the fact they haven't talked to Brady yet doesn't mean anything as far as I'm concerned.
I think if you're looking for indications the NFL's not serious, they're all over the place, but the fact that they haven't talked to Brady yet's not one of them.
I think the NFL probably has as much desire to get to the bottom of this as the Obama administration had to tell us what happened in Benghazi.
I don't think the NFL wants to get to the bottom of it, not now anyway.
The NFL realizes what's going on.
Folks, the last thing in the world anybody wants to do is have this investigation solved before the Super Bowl.
Don't believe all this talk about this being a blight on the game, a blight on Goodell, another black eye for the NF.
My God, they're gonna have the highest ratings a Super Bowl has ever had.
There is no way they're gonna have an investigation turn up anything that will require anybody playing in this game to be punished.
Now it's gonna go on, it's gonna go on, and questions are gonna continue to be asked, and questions will remain unanswered.
And analysis will continue to be offered, and all the analysts will be trying to come up with an angle that nobody else has thought of or stated.
Everybody will try to come up with a means of being perceived as the smartest guy in the room and the beneficiary of all this, the National Football League, and NBC Sports, which will be televising this game one week from Sunday.
So remember the culture we're in.
who gets rewarded and for what and for how.
There is no shame.
Let me give you a conflicting example here, however.
I am willing to throw up a possibility I could be wrong about all this.
Remember how quickly the NFL was prepared to act against the defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions, a Domikung Sioux.
Nedomikung Sioux in the second to last week, no, the last week of the season, Nadomikung Su happened to step on the ankle and the injured calf of the Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers twice in the same game.
And within two days, the NFL announced that Nadamikung Su was to be suspended for one game.
That game was a playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.
The Lions Packers game was on Sunday.
On Monday or Tuesday, Nadamikung Su was suspended.
Nadamikung Su and his staff appealed.
The appeal officer for this hearing was Ted Cottrell, former coach of the National Football League, Ted Cottrell reduced the suspension and eliminated it and replaced it with a fine.
Nedomikung Su was permitted to play in that playoff game because the Lions all showed up at the appeal hearing.
Oh my god, you can't do it.
It's a playoff game.
Oh my God, if you suspend our player, he's the focal point of our defense as the anchor.
And the then the hearing officer, you know what?
You got a point.
In the interest of fairness and competitive fair play, I'm gonna let Nadamikung Su play and replace all this suspension with a $70,000 fine.
Now the point is the league acted in one day.
Now they had clear evidence, too.
They had Nadomikung Su stepping all over Aaron Rodgers.
It was on videotape, everybody'd seen it.
Nedomikung Su said, I didn't know I was stepping on the guy's calf.
I didn't know.
It was cold out there.
My feet were frozen.
My feet were numb.
I couldn't tell the difference between his calf and ankle and the ground.
Everybody, right, right, but it sounds good enough to be plausible, so we'll consider it.
The point is they did all this in two days.
They wanted to get to the bottom of this and they wanted this the NFL did adjudicated immediately.
They had a playoff game coming up.
They didn't want any hassle with the Lions being penalized their best defensive player being suspended not oh no no so they arranged for him to play.
Well I'm just telling you they're not going to get to the bottom of this before the Super Bowl because it doesn't serve anybody's interest.
By the way folks a minor correction on uh on Yemen it was not al Qaeda that toppled the um well the quasi pro-American government in Yemen they were toppled by the the Houthis.
Now the importance about that the Houthis are Shia.
Al Qaeda is Shiite.
And they claim to be enemies but it's a distinction without a difference.
The point is the reason that it's important to note that it is Shia terrorists who have taken over Yemen is because they're backed by Iran and Iran is one of the biggest enemies of Saudi Arabia for a whole host of reasons.
Not to mention the Shia versus Shi'ite and Sunni differences, but there are also geopolitical Iran going nuclear Saudi Arabia if anything pro-US or at least allied with us and and so now Yemen to the south controlled essentially by Iran and then Iran to the to the east of Saudi Arabia is surrounded and their new uh their new king has dementia and
we haven't even talked about uh about Netanyahu and Israel and all of this there's this uh Obama is committing more outrages these YouTube interviews are just and we'll get to them but don't worry before the program ends you'll hear this I can't do it all here in the first hour and uh there's you know I always just follow my interests like you do so hang in there be tough and it'll all be touched upon today.
These YouTube interviews that Obama did are just embarrassing.
They're funny.
And had they been done with anybody but the president of the United States, it would be outrageously hilarious.
They still are outrageously hilarious, but it's just another example of the prestige and the esteem of the office being ripped to shreds right before our very eyes.
In the meantime, we have this controversy with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Here's Obama.
Let me grab a call.
I got a guy who wants to ask me about this.
And it's open line Friday.
Always try to get a call in the first hour for, Richard in Philadelphia your first sir great to have you and I'm glad you called good afternoon Rush my question is is how much time and effort went into these YouTube videos starring the woman who eats cereal out of a bathtub in which she's sitting but yet Netanyahu will not even get a word from the Secretary of state or even probably the dog cat.
It's worse than that.
It's worse.
I mean, everything you've said is true.
Now, this YouTube stuff.
For example, Obama's talking to this.
What is this Glozell Green?
Do you know who Glozell Green is?
But you hadn't heard of Glozell?
Well, I hadn't either.
But apparently Glozell Green is a big video star, YouTube star, because she swallows whole spoonfuls of cinnamon.
This makes you a star on YouTube.
Right.
right she sits in a bathtub filled with cereal and eats the cereal she's sitting in in the bathtub yeah this makes her a YouTube star which makes her A video star in America.
This is Obama had a YouTube interview.
Yeah, and bright green lipstick, of course.
Anyway, she's talking to Obama.
Obama's interviewing these people as a as an outreach to young people.
And she says, Yeah, Castro put the dick in dictator.
Now, frankly, he's not kind of torn on that.
Because somebody willing to call Castro out to Obama whose buddies with Castro.
So here you've got this low rent YouTube sensation talking to the Castro, he put the dick in dictators.
You have to laugh.
But it's still, as I say, if it had been, I don't know, Jay Leno talking to this.
By the way, is Glosell Green male or female?
Okay, it's a she.
I hadn't.
African well, I really African American.
Who would have figured that?
Glosell Green, African American?
Who would have known?
Anyway, that's just as in the meantime, Richard here is right.
Obama's off doing this.
John Boehner has invited Netanyahu to come to the House of Representatives and make an official address to Congress.
Over the situation.
Oh, there she is.
There she is.
There's a Fox are running a little clip of it.
Oh my, this even worse than what I thought it was going to look like.
Oh man.
It uh anyway, this woman's gonna be a big star now.
You mark my words.
At any rate.
Bahner has total authority over who's invited to speak, joint session or otherwise, to the House of Representatives.
He invited Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is attempting to coerce influence the U.S. into ramping up sanctions against Iran.
Uh they're very worried.
Everybody in the Middle East is worse.
Saudi Arabia's worried, the king of Jordan, also King Abdullah is worried about Iran going nuclear.
Obama doesn't seem to be worried about Iran going nuclear, and Obama, in fact, is on record as saying, well, who are we to tell them they can't?
We've got nuclear weapons.
Who are we to say they can't have them?
What if somebody come along and told us we can't have nuclear weapons and we were building ours?
Well, this simply is that that won't do.
That that's that fails to recognize the U.S. role in the world, understandably.
So Boehner invites Netanyahu, and the White House is in a snit like you can't believe, because truth be known, Obama doesn't like Netanyahu at all and never has.
It goes beyond the personal, it also happens to be political.
It's not just that Netanyahu is the equivalent of conservative, it's that he's Jewish.
It's to be heads of the Israeli state, the Jewish state, and it's it's looking, it's clear that Obama and his administration had a problem with Israel.
They do not like, they think Israel, just like they think the U.S. is the problem in the world, Israel is the problem in the Middle East.
Do not doubt me.
Even if they won't admit it in so many words, do not doubt me.
That's this administration's view of Israel that everything over there could be solved.
We could have a peace process, we could have a Palestinian state, whatever we want.
We can have a nuclear Iran that didn't threaten anybody if we just didn't have to deal with the Israelis.
And Obama's made that abundantly clear.
Remember, you may not, but I do.
You remember the first visit to the United States by Netanyahu after Obama had been immaculated.
Netanyahu and a small contingent of people show up in the White House for a meeting with Obama.
And Obama starts the meeting, and after a few short minutes goes by, tells Netanyahu he's leaving.
He's going to the residence to have dinner with his wife and kids.
He tells Netanyahu, he sends them off to another room in the West Wing off of the Oval Office, packs them in there, and gives them two hours to come up with whatever would be acceptable to Obama in terms of whatever they were discussing at the time.
I mean, it was one of the most insulting episodes that I can recall taking place that I've ever heard about taking place in the White House.
And that was the first, maybe the second, but I mean it was early, it was 2009 when this happened.
And it has never gotten any better.
And Obama has had a snit over Israel every time subject comes up, Middle East, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, you name it.
Israel is the reason for problems in the Middle East.
So Boehner's invited Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is accepted.
And Obama is in a snit over this because he thinks he should have a role in the invitation.
He thinks he should have been involved in extending the invitation.
He should have been involved in a decision to invite Netanyahu.
And the last thing that's happened that I've heard of is it is that Obama sent some sort of message to Netanyahu threatening him.
You better not discuss, you better stop working with members of the House of Representatives and the Congress.
You better stop trying to get them to tighten sanctions on Iran.
Obama's trying to get rid of the sanctions.
Obama's trying to get rid of all the economic sanctions we've got on Iran.
Netanyahu is going to come, and one of the things it's expected he's going to speak about is the need to tighten sanctions.
And Obama is about ready to blow a gasket.
So in the midst of all of that going, where's Obama?
He's on YouTube talking to f to Glowzell uh Glosell Green and whatever else.
Literally, the Middle East is as it well, it always is on fire.
Flames are getting a little higher than usual now.
And Parfit, of course, Obama can't be found.
He's off doing other things that are irrelevant and don't matter.
He's still campaigning.
What is this outreach to young people?
What's it all about?
He's not running for re-election.
What's this all about?
Why go on YouTube and interview people or be interviewed by people that would never ever have such access in the normal edit flow?
It's got to be outreach to the youth, but for what?
All right, folks, sit tight.
We'll come back much more straight ahead.
No, we're not through with the Patriots in the NFL.
We're just mixing it up here.
Sit tight.
I want to do a juxtaposition here.
Uh Mike, I want to hear the, let's see, number one and two, and then we're gonna go to 14, all right.
Is a juxtaposition of the so-called news media.
Now, as you know, I have been on a kick lately trying to, and it may be to find a point, but one of the things I've been trying to illustrate is there really is not a news media anymore.
There is no media, meaning a group of people who go out and report and see things that none of us see and then come back and tell us what happened.
That's not what media is anymore.
There's something else.
And I want to illustrate it here.
We have a montage first off.
These are sports drive-bys.
We have Bob Ryan of Boston Globe, Trey Wingo of ESPN, Randall Hill from uh former wide receiver, the ESPN commentator J. A. Adande.
Uh Jorge Sadegno from ESPN.
These are sports drive-by, and they're all talking about deflate gate.
To me, this is the sports equivalent of the actual Watergate.
It's just like Watergate.
Watergate, you know, they were gonna win that election.
Pedro's gonna win that game, but still, why go through this nonsense?
Watergate wound up costing Richard Nixon the presidency.
This is our water gate.
It really is.
There you have it.
That that that this is our water.
The sports drive-by so excited.
They've got their own water gate now over the inflation of football in the National Football League.
Here is how the the three major networks ABC, CBS, NBC.
This is how they led their newscasts last night.
Tonight, caught in a pressure cooker.
Is Tom Brady a cheater?
Quarterback Tom Brady responds to reports that the Patriots use deflated footballs in the AFC championship game.
On our broadcast tonight, full denial from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and from his coach as a football inflation scandal remains bigger than the upcoming Super Bowl.
On this Thursday night, the breaking news, the scandal before the Super Bowl.
The star quarterback Tom Brady answering the question Are you a cheater?
Tonight Hal Brady explains those deflated footballs.
Who handled them after they were checked by the refs?
And what now for the football star with the supermodel life?
That's the way the three major networks led their newscast last night with everything else going.
The king of Saudi, well, he didn't die till around six, but maybe he hadn't died before they came on the air.
But clearly Yemen had happened.
And the thing with Israel and Netanyahu and any number of other serious things are happening in this country, and this is what they lead with.
Can I share with you how different it's become?
Many of you will not remember this.
Do you remember when Vince Lombardi died, folks?
Vince Lombardi.
This is also an illustration of just how huge Pro Football has become in this country.
And you stick to the issues, crowd people had better hear this, better learn this.
The NFL, you just heard the sports drive-by think it's their Watergate, they're salivating.
The three major nude casts, newscasts lead with it.
Vince Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers, the Super Bowl trophy's named after him.
Everybody knows that Vince Lombardi is.
He left the Packers once he figured out they didn't have any players, and he went to the Washington Redskins.
And his deal included equity.
And for somebody coming out of the World War II generation, equity was a huge deal.
He had been given ownership.
In addition to being named head coach, equity was a huge, huge deal to somebody coming out of the World War II generation, which Lombardi was.
And then Lombardi was announced had colon cancer shortly after a year or two of the Redskins.
On the day Vince Lombardi died, Walter Cronkite could barely pronounce his name.
And the announcement of Vince Lombardi's death in the CBS evening news happened halfway through the newscast.
And it was just a five or ten second mention by Walter Cronkite, and they faded to black.
went to a commercial break and come back up and did the rest of the news.
Cronkite could barely pronounce his name.
It was almost like Cronkite didn't know who he was – That's how inconsequential pro football was.
And that would have been in the 70s, folks.
This would have been in the early 1970s when Lombardi died.
It by no means was the lead item.
Thank you.
In the news, and Vince Lombardi was as big as anything in pro football.
When he died, he was pro-football.
The Packers were pro-football.
In the meantime, here's Obama.
Last night, White House YouTube channel, while all the rest of this is going on.
Here is our president talking to Glosell Green.
He's retired from the Air Force.
However, he's mad at me right now because I cut all the hoods off his hoodies.
I did.
I did that for real.
To protect him, because I'm afraid when he goes out of sight that somebody might shoot and kill him.
And is not like regular folks, it's the Popo.
That's right.
So Glosell Green is telling the president that she cut all the hoodies off of the hoodie sweatshirts that her husband wears because Obama's laughing says he understands.
Yeah, hoodie, yeah, I get it.
Understand.
Well, she says somebody might shoot and kill him.
It's not like the regular folks, no, it's the Popo.
The Popo might shoot my husband.
Snerdly, who are the Popo?
Who's the Popo?
Who's the Popo?
It's the police.
Everybody knows that.
Welcome back, folks.
You're gonna wrap up the first hour busy broadcast action.
Let me pose a quite what if?
What if the footballs in New England were not deflated during the game?