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Feb. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hiya, folks, and greetings to you once again, music lovers and thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Yes, Bob, here we are behind the golden EIB microphone, live and direct from the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program today is 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Well, on Saturday, we uh all of the staff here and about 330, 320 other people gathered at the uh Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church for the uh the funeral and memorial for our late chief of staff uh Kit Carson, H.R. Kit Carson.
Last week, folks, I have to tell you, I um I mean I was here, we were all here, but so much of it went by in a fog.
Uh went through the motions, tried to uh all of us here tried to focus on the on the show on the on the task, which is what Kit did.
But it just it it there was a little numbness to it.
And there's now a as they say, a a sense of closure, and I just want to take a moment again to thank so many people who've reached out in uh in in the best ways they have of getting hold of us here and getting hold of me.
Uh email, telephone messages, expressing condolences and sharing with us their own stories.
And I I don't know that I I'm gonna try to answer each one of them uh personally, but I I I don't know how long it's gonna take, so I wanted to make sure just express the sincere appreciation we all feel uh for that here today.
And we uh we sent him out great on Saturday.
We had just an absolutely fabulous reception and party complete with Martini Bar, which uh was his favorite adult beverage.
That and uh and Gin and Tonic.
And it it it uh it could have been uh somber and morose, but it wasn't.
It ended up being just a great party.
And so it uh it is what it is.
And then on Sunday I got up and I I read that Mrs. Mara had passed away, the matriarch of the New York Giants, and I had been fortunate to get to know her pretty well, and she was something I'll never forget one night at dinner, the Giants were in Pittsburgh to play the Steelers.
And uh her son Chris, his wife, Kathleen, uh, and uh much of Rooney's all we all gathered it together at uh the Duquesne Club, I think that's the name of it, uh, for dinner the night before the game, and she just owned the night with she was regaling us with all the stories about the original NFL.
Some of the things that had happened, it was just uproariously funny.
And her husband Wellington Mara had reached out to me early on after I'd gotten to New York as as a result of a view on abortion that we held in common pro-life.
It was really sad thing to see that she had passed away.
So it's it's been a a real challenging past week, week and a half, and with Kit, it's been a challenging past two years or four years, actually, knowing how sick he was.
But we just wanted to again uh give you the latest update and and express our condolences and thanks to virtually everybody who has reached out to us.
It's it helped, it it it made us uh feel much better than we did, and as I say, try to respond to as many personally as I can.
Some of them are quite touching.
And that's that.
I mean, life goes on.
So we had the Super Bowl last night.
I folks, I uh I don't I don't quite know how to express.
I still feel cheated.
I I I I don't think that ended up being a pro football game.
I mean, it was, but that last call.
There's I've looked at it every number of ways.
I've listened to every excuse offered.
I'd be wonderful if Obama would actually stand up and take responsibility for his mistakes like Pete Carroll has.
I mean, if if Obama had made that call last night and it blew up, Obama was uh I knew nothing about it.
I found out about it when you did.
Um I watched the replay on TV from the sideline, and he would totally divorce himself from any responsibility of Pete Carroll's, and I don't think it was Pete Carroll's call.
It might have been what the offensive coordinator thought Pete Carroll wanted, but it was the offensive coordinator's call.
If I were the quarterback, I would have protested.
I would have said, no way, we're not running this play.
And I've heard them say that, yeah, second down, we have to throw the ball.
It's a wasted play, wasted play.
You've got 40 seconds left.
You got a timeout left.
You're on the one-yard line after your beast running back has just gained four yards and just barely missed score.
You're going to waste a play because protocol calls in that situation for at least one pass play.
Why would you even think about stopping the clock?
You would want to run as much time off the clock as possible.
In the event you do score, give the Patriots as little time as possible to march down to field goal range.
But the play call itself, you know, I've watched it.
I've watched that play in a in a jiff format, it just loops.
And that cornerback, the rookie, Butler, he knew that play was coming.
If you get a chance and watch that play, look at how far off the line of scrimmage he was.
Uh, as you're from the defensive perspective on the left side, and look how far he had to go to get there.
He he could have only made that play if he knew it was coming.
And for the life of me, if you are going to throw the ball in that situation, why in the world do you make it obvious Marshawn Lynch is not part of the play.
At the snap.
Brian, did you see this?
At the snap, Marshawn Lynch, who everybody thinks should have gotten the ball, is jogging out to the left flat, totally out of the play.
It's instantly visible to the defense, so you don't have to worry about him, and that's one of the keys, I think, for this uh rookie cornerback.
He saw Lynch not even part of play, but they had watched tape, they knew the Seahawks ran that play uh in in goal line circumstances, and it was it was part of the preparation, and what and when he saw that the quarterback was going to throw, he knew exactly what was coming.
Coming quick slant.
I think the offensive receiver didn't run an aggressive route.
He didn't get there quick.
I've watched it, he didn't really get a good start off the line.
I I'm just stunned.
I am I'm really stunned, and I the way I feel, I know it's gonna offend a lot of people, but I don't think that I know Tom Brady had an MVP performance, and he did.
And I know he had a great fourth quarter line.
I know that he won that game in the fourth quarter from the pay for the Patriots from their perspective.
There's no doubt, there's no question Brady's greatness is enshrined, and uh no beef with that.
But I don't think the Patriots won that game.
The Seahawks lost that game.
Now you might say, well, yeah, but the defense still had it performed.
They still had to pick, intercept the pass.
I understand that.
And from the Patriots' defensive side, brilliant execution, and they spotted it.
You know, I knew something was weird.
I knew something was got 40 seconds left, and Belichick does not call a timeout.
And I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen.
As this all settles, I'm gonna make a I predicted to you, by the way, that this Super Bowl would be the highest-rated Super Bowl ever.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Made this prediction with phone calls last week, people who thought that deflate gate would do great damage to the integrity of the game, and it would cause people to be distracted from it.
And I said, oh, contrary Pierre.
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 of Super Bowl has ever had.
And they did.
They had almost a 49 share in the overnights.
Before this is all over, they're gonna be over 50 of the Super Bowl record.
There was no question, so I'm gonna make another prediction to you.
Because one of the keys in that Last play.
And I know, folks, I know that you did that this is for the sports talk shows so forth.
But we talk about everything here.
We did no boundaries on this program.
And I'm telling you, this thing has the country captivated.
There's another reason.
This is to do nothing but raise the NFL to even greater heights.
You would think that that this would do great.
No, no, no, no, it's going to raise the NFL to even greater heights.
But this play is going to have a lifetime legacy for people.
And this play is going to have a lifetime effect on the mental attitudes of the defensive players of the Seahawks.
I guarantee you that in the locker room, the defense of the Seahawks.
I mean, they're the ones, you know, that are scratching it.
Well, the offense, too.
I mean, nobody can understand it.
But here's what's going to happen.
Here's what the legend is Belichick's genius.
And that's how this is all going to end up.
Tell you what's going to happen.
Belichick didn't call timeout.
Forty seconds left.
Second end goal.
40 seconds.
The story is that the Patriots had capitulated, given a meaning, let them score with as much time left and get down for a field goal or a tie it.
That's the thinking.
Capitulation, not conceding, capitulate, just don't contest.
Let them score the touchdown.
This last made its appearance, this this capitulation, there was a similar situation in the uh the Green Bay Denver Super Bowl in San Diego, where Mike Holmgren let the uh the Broncos score.
They were going to anyway, down a one or two yards to get the ball back with as much time as you can to take it back down touch tying field goal or a winning touchdown.
So Belichick doesn't call timeout.
There's 40 seconds left.
The Seahawks don't call timeout.
Therefore, there aren't any major substitutions going on.
So Pete Carroll says, Well, we didn't have the personnel to go up against what they had on the goal line down there.
We had three receivers out there, that's not a goal line offense.
And everybody said, What goal line off?
You've got to you've got your beast here.
You can score half a yard with just just exhaling for crank on this guy can't be stopped.
It was situational football that was overruled by pre-planning, overthinking, and in a situation when we got four downs at the goal line, we're going to make one of those plays a pass.
That, and they didn't change that.
They didn't adapt to the situation.
Belichick is going to be said to be a genius.
What's going to be said, and it may have been said already other places, I don't know, because I haven't listened, as I never do.
But the key Belichick not calling a timeout, they're going to say that Belichick not calling a timeout lured Pete Carroll into making the mistake.
That Belichick's genius by having the defensive personnel in the game that he had at that point was a lure.
They were tempting, they were daring, they made it, they made Carroll throw the ball.
They didn't want the beast running the football right at them.
They wanted the Seahawks to throw the ball.
And by not calling that timeout, uh that creates in the in the Seahawks mindset that the Patriots have capitulated.
They're not even making any substitutions, not changing their personnel on the goal line.
And so that's where this notion that you can waste a play comes.
I do and they have used that lingo.
Carroll, the coaches used it.
Yeah, second half throw the waste a play.
Why would you even think about wasting a play?
It's a Super Bowl.
It's like in baseball, when a pitcher gets up on a hitter, 0-2, two strikes, no balls.
There's a common phrase here, the next pitch is wasted.
And there's no such thing.
There's no wasted pitch.
What that actually means is the pitcher's not going to throw a strike.
He's going to tempt the hitter with the corners.
He's going to try to lure the hitter into swinging a bad pitch.
But it's not wasted.
It has a purpose.
When you say the play is wasted, you're basically saying the play has no purpose other than to set them up for what, but everybody knew that Lynch was going to be coming at some point.
But the way they lined up with Lynch, not even part of play.
Actually, fake running the ball.
If they would have just faked running the ball to Lynch, they would have held the cornerbacks and the linebackers for the split second to make that play work.
They'd even do that.
They sent Lynch just jogging out toward the left end zone.
I was stunned.
Left pylon.
I just I uh I watched that.
When when Belichick didn't call a timeout, I jabbed Kaf and said, so wait, what something's up here?
This is not right.
They've got to be called up.
They've got to stop the clock here.
You need 40 seconds, 35 seconds on the clock after the score.
Everybody assumed that the Seahawks were going to score here.
Except Malcolm Butler, the rookie cornerback for the New England Patriots, who saw that play coming a mile away because he'd watch tape in the paint in the Seahawks.
They do have that tendency.
They do run when they're in the goal line, first and goal on the one, one of their plays is always a pass.
And that guy wanted to run that quick slant because they figured little chance for a pick.
Worst chance is it gets tipped up in the air and intercepted.
But the odds are you either complete it or it goes incomplete.
Some people have said Rush, that look like past interference.
You see Butler knock the offensive receiver to the ground.
Not everybody, but everybody has equal right to the football.
The reason the receiver, his name is Lockett, I believe, the reason he was knocked to the ground is that he wasn't going 100% on the on the route, folks.
Just and no, I hadn't have any money on the game.
And no, I had no investment in somebody winning or losing.
Well, I did, but it doesn't matter to my feeling about this.
But I just, I'm still, and if I'm feeling this, I can't imagine the way the people on the Seahawks are feeling.
And this is a decision.
This is going to never stop.
This play is now an NFL films lore.
They're going to be doing 30-minute and 60-minute programs on this play.
That is how strange it was.
Then you couple this with the ads.
This is a strangest Super Bowl I've ever seen for ads.
There were more ads that ran in this, and normally I don't watch the ads in a Super Bowl because normally I have guests.
We didn't do a party based, but only I've got guests, and I use the ad time to run around and make sure everybody's got what they want and have a good time because I'm a good host.
But I didn't have any we didn't have any guests.
I'm watching it.
I can't tell you the number of ads went by.
I didn't know what they were for.
The Nissan ad isn't what the what the hell is this?
But I detected a trend.
You know, folks, I've always told you if you watch national advertising, you get the best indication of what cultural leaders think the country is or where the country is culturally.
Because it's their job to reach as many people in a positive persuasive way as possible.
And I there's a theme.
There's a theme that ran through the majority of ads in the Super Bowl yesterday.
Guilt.
Ads guilt-tripped people left and right in the Super Bowl yesterday, which tells me that that that's been the primary take of the left and the Democrat Party guilt-tripping everybody.
And it was to me, it was it was uh just so obvious that many of the ads had a single thing, try to guilt trip people into buying the service and buying the product.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
Back in a minute, don't go away.
No, no, no.
I know.
Here's the strategy.
What the Seahawks are trying to do, Pete Carroll said so.
They wanted to use up all four downs to score the winning touchdown to eat up the clock.
He as much as said so.
He said in the second down we threw the ball, it's not the right matchup for us to run the football there.
So on second down, we threw the ball really to kind of waste a play.
How in the world do you admit that you are wasting a play?
In the Super Bowl, even if you're speaking euphemistically, he said, if we score, we do.
If we mean on the pass play.
If we don't, well then we run it on third down.
Then we run it on fourth down.
Um, we call that second uh second down play with no hesitation whatsoever.
Uh we're gonna use all four downs to score.
One yard?
And you're gonna not score till fourth down.
You want to score as soon as you can risk get out of the risk of fumbling of turning it over.
But I they must have been scared to death of Brady, and they must have been really worried their defense could not stop the Patriots for 30 seconds and got them into field goal range.
But this is not the first time Pete Carroll's made a call like this.
You may, football fans who remember this.
There was a um BCS championship game, Texas against USC, and USC had a fourth and one that had they converted, they would have run out the clock and won the national championship.
Well, on that team was the number one rushing player in college football, a Heisman trophy winner, Reggie Bush.
You know where he was?
He was in a sideline.
He wasn't even in the game.
On fourth and one, they go for it and throw a pass, and it didn't happen.
And Vince Young comes back single-handedly, beats USC for Texas.
So there's there's a history of this kind of thing with uh with with Pete Carroll.
But man, oh man, I just I I couldn't get over this last night.
And I wasn't even I mean, neither of these two teams am I a huge invested fan, like I am of the Steelers, for example.
And it's still I've never seen I I'm just dumb.
I've never.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh Republicans strategists, Republican uh consultants, Republican analysts are blaming your host.
That would be me for ending Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
It is my fault.
I did it.
It was so stated on CNN.
Sorry, Fox News.
It was so stated on Fox.
Yeah, the Howie Kurtz Fox News media show yesterday morning.
Details are coming up.
Now I know I'm probably angering a bunch of fans of the Patriots in Boston and around the country.
And I don't, you know, this isn't personal.
And I'm not denying how well Brady played, particularly in the second fourth quarter.
Not at all.
I just that that game was over.
But it was I know.
But that game was over.
Seahawks lost that game, is the point.
I'll tell you, you can look at it a number of different ways.
Maybe things kind of even down for the Patriots.
I mean, you go back to the Super Bowl with the Giants where David Tyree makes that helmet catch.
I mean, how odd is that?
So this might have been evening that out.
Because this, before we even got to the goal line, Jerome Kirst, number 15, makes one of the most incredible catches in football history, not just the Super Bowl.
And it's what it's what permitted Marshawn Lynch to run the ball the next play, gained four yards down to the one that was just a on his back, two or three bobbles catch that kept the uh kept the drive alive.
Well, this kind of negated that.
Then the next Super Bowl, the Patriots lost in Indianapolis also against the Giants, uh, where Brady misfired on a pass to Wes Walker, got his hands on it but couldn't hold it.
It was after that game that Brady's wife erupted and claimed that he couldn't throw and catch the ball both.
That was a tough loss.
The Patriots have had their share of touch.
And then the Patriots sideline when Kurst, number 15 for the Seahawks, makes that play, makes that catch with uh 45, 50 seconds.
We could see Brady on the sideline.
No, no, not again.
I mean, it was just total capitulation and deflation, and in comes this stupid play call that permitted uh Malcolm Butler to intercept it.
I mean, it ebb and flow, the emotion.
You could say that it all evened out for the Patriots after a while.
And the uh the Seahawks finally caught theirs because they caught some breaks they didn't deserve against the Packers.
They didn't win, they deserve to win again.
It all evens out, people say.
And I guess if you if you judge football over enough seasons, yeah, bad breaks get spread around equally, and what goes is a bad break ends up going for the team that got screwed at one point.
So evens out.
It's what makes football and sports in itself uh so intriguing and captivating.
Highest ratings ever.
And there was little doubt.
Now there's other news here on the uh on football regarding deflate gate.
It turns out that there may have been one football under inflated, not 11.
Preliminary news from the investigations so far.
Over the last couple of weeks, multiple sources have shed light on the situation surrounding the Patriot Patriots and the Game Day footballs in a championship game.
And it's it's been learned that the employee took the balls into the bathroom for 97 seconds was an elderly guy, so it's it's now being assumed that an elderly guy, because he was an elderly guy, could not have deflated eleven or twelve footballs in uh in a minute and a half.
Now they're finding out, they're claiming that only one of those balls was uh underinflated, not all eleven.
Oh, and it has also been learned that the official complaint was lodged by Ryan Grigson, who is the general manager of the Indianapolis Colts.
That was also, it was suspected, but it wasn't it wasn't known for sure.
This whole deflate gate and the insinuation, the uh the assumption, the presumption at the Patriots a bunch of cheaters.
This is grated on Belichick and Brady.
Did you notice that Belichick shows up to the game wearing a t-shirt saying, don't tread on me.
Uh Belichick desperately concerned with his legacy.
His whole life is football.
He's integrated.
But Bob Kraft, Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, has been privately seething over this.
Ever since the charges of uh purposely deflated footballs hit, the owner of the Patriots has just been livid at the insinuations by the media uh at the presumptions people to make well it was Spygate.
Now, this obviously they cheat, and he's he's been really frustrated by it because there hasn't been any proof, and he's he's uh he's he's spoken up uh numerous times in defense of both Brady and Belichick and did so after the game last night.
Um Michelle Tefoya, NBC interviewing Robert Kraft.
And I'd say NBC wouldn't let this go last night.
I mean, they kept talking about deflate gate, which I kind of found interesting because as a broadcast network, they're partners, the NFL.
At any rate, the question, Michelle Tefoya, questions regarding air pressure in the footballs, the AFC championship game.
Some are going to question because of that.
This team's accomplishments, i.e., this win tonight.
Mr. Kraft, what would you say to those people?
Well, we won that game 45 to 7.
We won today 28 to 24.
Our people didn't touch the balls.
I love our team.
I'm proud of our guys.
And uh, we're gonna carry on and hopefully continue to do well.
So that's where we are now.
This deflate gate investigation is going to take some time.
They'll make sure that enough time goes by that makes it look like they've uh they've done it right.
The latest is only one ball was significantly underinflated, which now they're saying it could have been the atmospheric conditions that did it.
So, at any rate, I still can't I uh I'm never going to forget how I felt the last minute of that game.
I'm it's never gonna leave me.
And I didn't have anything personally invested in it.
Um folks, as I mentioned at the top of the program, because of the death of our partner here last week was a fog.
It really was.
I mean, even the issues in the news, even the things happening in the country that we discussed here.
I'm just gonna speak for myself.
It it was it it just I don't know.
Everything was in a fog.
I don't know how else to describe it.
Uh it was more than going through the motions, but still there were mental distractions.
And there was one story that happened last week that perfectly illustrates what was my diverted attention, if you will, and it was the firing of the CEO at McDonald's.
And the reasons for it.
And the reasons for it is the McDonald's stock prices way down, McDonald's profits are way down.
And I saw the story, and my instincts were one of the things that were dulled last week, uh, simply because I was feeling a uh mixture of emotions that were best stated by describing them as sorrow.
Had had last week been a normal week, uh my instincts would have, and my curiosity would have forced me dig deep and find out, okay, why are they letting go the CEO?
In Obama economy, people getting fired and businesses not doing well is not all that abnormal.
So last night, actually during the day yesterday before the Super Bowl stuff began, I started digging back into show prep and looking at some things that happened last week.
And I'm now prepared to explain fully why McDonald's is in trouble, and I have the answer.
Which I would have had last week had I been all here.
You'll have to forgive me for not being.
And I'm talking about mentally.
I was here physically.
But it is it is clear, and at the root, I'll just tell you, the root of what is happening to McDonald's is exactly what's happening to the Republican Party.
McDonald's is trying to appease and please their critics.
And who are McDonald's critics?
Vegans, militant vegans, militant vegetarians, who are attempting not to get McDonald's to serve food they want to eat because they're never going to go to McDonald's.
They're trying to shut McDonald's down, just like they tried to shut Burger Creek Burger King down in Berkeley by making them sell veggie burgers out there in the fast food lane or whatever.
You start appeasing the left.
I don't know if you're the Republican Party, if you're McDonald's, if you're if you start appeasing them, you try to make them happy.
And one of the things that they do, they're cl they've they've perfected this.
McDonald's ended up thinking that half the country was ticked off at them for serving unhealthy food.
And it was probably 12 people.
Twelve people making themselves look like they were 300,000 people, with weird Twitter algorithms and whoever what other kind of abuses they engage in.
But we know this because they do it to us.
We've nailed, we've identified the ten people that comprise the stop rush of ten people.
And they are able to fire out thousands and thousands and thousands of supposedly legitimate threatening complaint tweets and emails, and they're just ten people.
And this has always been the case with me.
I've always, we've just been able to prove it with this bunch.
But in uh it's always been the case that that uh uh people protesting certain businesses or whatever, businesses don't want to deal with complaints.
It's the last thing in the world they want.
They'll do anything to shut the complaint down.
It's a result of where they're advertising, they'll get rid of it.
If it's selling a product that people don't like, they'll cancel the product, whatever it is.
And you've got ten or twelve nattering na bobs of negativism, a bunch of workless people sitting in their basements with nothing better to do than harass people, making themselves look like 300,000 or a million or whatever, and the McDonald's CEO simply coward and fear to it.
First move, take the beef tallow out of the uh grease that they used to make French fries.
That was the reason to go to McDonald's for many people.
Once you take the beef tallow out, French fries at Mickey D's are no different than anywhere else.
Then along comes Michelle Obama and her health kick.
And in the happy meal, for crying about happy, what are we who's McDonald's customers?
Kids, children, and parents who want to eat in less than 10 minutes and move on and get things done.
It's not a white tablecloth restaurant.
It's not custom made food.
It's not you go in and order, specify how you want it.
You go in, it's by it, it's already made sitting in a rack, you buy it, whatever.
You walk out, you eat it, feed your kids, whatever.
You don't take out the French fries and put an apple slice in there in a kid's happy meal.
That's just not, that's not what McDonald's is.
But that's what they was certainly not a happy meal.
The kids are the same kids that get a happy meal with an apple slice in there or tangerine tango, whatever it is, are the same Kids that are protesting this kind of crap being on their school lunches.
And they're not eating it.
But this is clear as a bell what happened here.
The cure for McDonald's, just like the cure for the Republican Party, and the cure for anybody says, stand up to these people on the left and not be bullied by them.
Because that's all they are.
They don't want to work with any.
They're not trying to help McDonald's.
They're not trying to make McDonald's a healthier restaurant.
They're trying to shut McDonald's down.
That is their objective.
The militant left, I don't care if it's vegans, vegetarians, if it's environmentalist wackos, if it's feminizes, there is no desire to work together to compromise, to take their enemies or their opponents and straighten them out and make them.
They want to shut everybody down.
It's like Obama.
He wants not a level playing field.
He wants to wipe out the opposition.
It's just who they are.
That is part of their political existence and playbook.
Eliminate the opposition.
But the very idea that a bunch of miserable, unhappy people in this country who are nameless and faceless, don't like McDonald's and therefore need to embark on a crusade to shut it down.
Well, okay, if you don't like McDonald's, don't go there.
But that's not good enough.
They want to shut down McDonald's.
They don't like McDonald's and McDonald's needs to be shut down.
They don't like McDonald's, and by God, you better not go.
If they find out you go, you're gonna get harassed.
And it's not this is exactly what happened.
And it's it's it's what the Republican Party's up against.
And whenever you hear the Republican, yeah, well, you know, we gotta we gotta work, we're gonna meet the Democrats halfway on uh amnesty.
No, you don't.
That's not you're not gonna be loved and adored by people that hate you if you go halfway in on amnesty.
It doesn't work that way.
They're trying to eliminate you.
They're trying to get you to destroy yourself by supporting things your supporters are never going to support you on.
This is why it's it's such a mystery.
The Republican consultants should know this.
I've got to take a break, I just thought of it.
I know, don't panic.
Everybody's cool.
Now I'm gonna tell you one more thing about this McDonald's and because honestly, some of you people, no, no, no, Rush, they can't follow your strategies.
I'm gonna tell somebody who did.
Scott Walker.
Scott Walker running away with it so far, way too soon to mean anything really, but in terms of early polling data right now, Scott Walker's running away with every Republican president of poll out there.
You know why?
Even though he may not be right on immigration for some people, even though he may not be right on this issue or that issue, you know why he's get because he fights back on them.
Because he stands up to them, because he does not capitulate, because he does not try to compromise, he stands up to them.
So many people on our side are just demanding and ready for anybody on our side to stand up and fight these guys.
And the same lesson, I guarantee you, McDonald's, whoever, stand up and fight the 10 or 12 people making themselves look like half a million, and you are gonna be rewarded.
I know it's hard to do.
You think it's a lot of customers upset that you're selling French fries in beef tallow.
Stand up to them.
Here's uh here's Paul in Vale, Arizona.
Is that right?
Vale, Arizona.
Uh great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Uh good morning, Rush.
Um I was watching the game yesterday, and uh the ball was tipped up in the air.
I guess it was cursey that was uh on his back trying to make the catch.
Right.
He did make the catch.
He did make the catch, and uh, and I watched, I think it was the safety that came over and switched to track and field that did the high hurdles over the pile to make sure he didn't hit anybody.
Right.
I was thinking back to Jack Tatum and the uh they call me assassin.
Uh that's not how that play would have finished up if Tatum was around, he would have taken the receiver out.
That was a live ball, and that uh safety from New England should have hit the guy even though he was underground.
No, I'm trying to think, I'm trying to visualize the play.
I'm thinking you're right.
I mean, in the old days, um, once the ball's tipped, there's no such thing as pass interference.
There is today unnecessary roughness, and uh he was too mean to him in there.
There's a penalty for that.
Uh and there wasn't a day you're talking about, but I'm I'm as I'm trying to visualize the play where it happened.
I don't know that there was a uh A safety or cornerback for New England had a chance to hit Kurse after the ball was tipped.
They'd all overrun the guy.
Now you're saying maybe they wouldn't have hurdled him, they would have speared him.
You may have a point.
His point is the game's been chickenfied here, folks, and the play wouldn't have happened, and he may have a point.
When we get back, ladies and gentlemen, how I, Rush Limbaugh, have uh I don't know if it's been accused of or am being blamed for ending Mitt Romney's 2016 campaign.
I did this, by the way, last August.
So we'll have details on uh on that and lots of other stuff too.
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