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March 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, and Mrs. Clinton and this home email server of hers, I said Monica Crowley has a piece out today that she's running her own basically rogue intel operation featuring Sidney Blumenthal because Obama did not grant permission for Blumenthal to be on the State Department payroll, which is interesting in and of itself.
No love lost between Obama and the Clintons.
And Blumenthal is a Blumenthal is the guy that the Clintons used to destroy people.
It was Blumenthal that came up with all the techniques of going after Monica Lewinsky.
It was Blumenthal that Hillary employed to help bimbo eruptions and all that.
And he's been at her side practically forever since the Clintons got to Washington.
But I also thought, you know, one of the reasons, and I said this at the time, Hillary Clinton had no experience being Secretary of State.
I mean, she hadn't the slightest idea what to do in that job.
She had never done anything in her life that prepared her for that job.
Obama puts her in that, my theory, Obama puts her in that job because he's basically going to run it.
He's going to run foreign policy.
He knows that Mrs. Clinton, they don't get along.
He knows he doesn't trust her and she doesn't trust him.
It's a keep your enemies closer, your friends close kind of thing.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign debt, he was helping to retire.
It was also the theory, you know, keep your enemies inside the tent rather than outside.
Make it tougher for Mrs. Clinton to publicly rant against Obama if she's a member of the administration.
She almost had to take the gig because I think part and parcel of taking the gig, I'm not sure she even wanted it.
If she did want it, it's a stepping stone kind of gig for her own run.
But if she didn't want it, it could have been a condition Obama laid out for helping her to retire her campaign debt.
Regardless, in addition to running her own intel operation and trying to hide it from Obama, I think there's something else was going on.
I think Mrs. Clinton set this thing up because she had no idea how to do this job.
And she wanted to be able to seek advice or ask people questions without anybody knowing that's what she was doing.
And if she was using a State Department server, well, that's public record at some point, certainly subject to public record requests.
And there's no way Mrs. Clinton ever wants emails being made public, which show her consulting so-called foreign policy experts.
I don't know where think tanks, former secretaries themselves, like Madeline Albright or what have you, for advice on what to do, issue by issue by issue.
That wouldn't work.
Because Mrs. Clinton's the smartest woman in the world.
Mrs. Clinton is so qualified at whatever she wants to do.
It's so easy for her because she's the smartest woman in the world and she qualified to be president that she couldn't stand.
She could not run the risk of emails being discovered where she is seeking advice on how to do something.
So I think there are a lot of reasons why Mrs. Clinton went rogue on this.
But at the top of whatever their other reasons are, the top reason, the number one reason, she doesn't want anybody to know what she's doing for whatever reasons.
That's a Clinton motto.
It's to hide everything that she was doing.
It's to hide the fundraising for their foundation and where that money was coming from, who was paying that money, who was donating that money, and what they expected for it.
Mrs. Clinton is running an operation that she can't dare to be exposed.
They don't want anybody to ever find out.
They're breaking the rules every day.
They're close to the line or over the line every day, and they don't want this to ever be documented.
You know, the old saw about, hey, got nothing to hide?
Let the sun shine.
If you're not doing anything wrong, don't sweat all these new laws.
That's one of the philosophies that people will throw at you.
Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry about these new IRS powers.
And they throw that at you.
But in one sense, it has some merit just in the basic elements of it.
Hey, Mrs. Clinton, if you're not doing anything wrong, why do you need all of this secrecy?
So I think there's a whole host of reasons for it.
Let me go back now to Paul Kaufman.
He's calling Kent City, former tight end for the Green Bay Packers, the Chiefs, and the Minnesota Vikings.
And I'm sorry, I appreciate you holding on.
I'm sorry I had to interrupt you.
You just started getting talking about the fact that you've had some concussions, but you're not sure how many.
And you were just starting to say, you're going to make your point about how widespread the problem is, you think, in the NFL.
Well, I don't believe it is that widespread.
I think there's a small percentage that have problems from head trauma in the game.
But it just seems like even with guys getting in trouble in the NFL, it seems like the minority, all of a sudden, they're the ones that are on TVs.
They're the ones that the press are writing about instead of the other 90% of the guys that are doing community outreaches or helping in their community or putting on football camps.
The majority of the guys are not.
Let me stop you there.
But that makes perfect sense because that's how the left operates, Paul.
If you have a group of 100 people, 95 of the people are fine and dandy and everything's okay.
And there's not a bit of a problem with what they're doing and how they're doing it.
Five people in that group of 100 are exhibiting symptoms or problems or something, whatever it is.
The media, it's just instinctive.
They're going to glom onto that five, that group of five, and they're going to say the entire group is corrupt and needs to be investigated.
The purpose of the organization that these hundred people belong to, because five people in it are suffering.
Five people in it are not experiencing the benefits the other 95 are.
And it's used.
This is, in a sense, this is the left's strategy for empowering minorities, numeric minorities.
Right.
There's risk and reward to everything.
And obviously the reward in the NFL is great, but there is some risk.
And you have parents now that are saying, oh, I'd never let my son play football.
Well, I actually have three sons.
My oldest, Chase, just finished his sixth year in the NFL.
My son, Carson, has been playing arena football for the last four years.
And my youngest son, Cameron, is a lot of people.
Let me tell you, arena football is not for sissies.
That wall plays a whole new perspective in the game.
Oh, I'm telling you, that arena football is that's its own universe of tough.
Yeah.
And then my youngest son, Cameron, is a quarterback at the University of Wyoming.
They've had a couple concussions, but my mom had Alzheimer's.
I feel like if I get Alzheimer's, it's because she had it, not because I played in the NFL.
And if we took the risk out of everything, we'd have no policemen.
We'd have no people in the military.
Nobody would go snorkeling or skydiving.
There's obviously a little bit of danger in getting in your car every day.
I mean, we're not going to eliminate all the danger from everything we do.
And like you talked about living, some people can't die because they've never lived.
I think the guy that is born for adventure and is going to take some risk.
And sometimes they don't work out like you want, but a lot of times there's great reward in pursuing those risks.
Well, all of this is called freedom.
And you have in this country, we have the freedom to explore these things personally that we want to do to test ourselves.
We have a talent for something that's risky, and it can be rewarding, as you say.
We have the freedom to pursue it in this country.
But that's the battle.
The left presumes that people like you, Mr. Kaufman, don't know what's good for you, and you've just proven it.
You have just said you might have had some concussions and that your sons might have had.
You need to be protected from yourself, sir.
You cannot be left alone to raise your kids because you put them at risk because you're in utter denial.
This is the way the left would approach you.
This is the way the left is approaching society.
How dare you put your kids at risk the way you have?
And you call this radio program and admit it.
That's the way they react to it, sir.
And that's what they're trying to do all across our culture and all across our system.
Do you know this maroon guy, neurosurgeon, the Steelers?
He said that there are more concussions that happen to people who ride bicycles than play in the NFL.
Well, I believe there are more concussions in soccer, especially little league soccer.
We have established that than there are in football.
There are no.
Even in cheerleading, when you're building the pyramids and they tumble down, you know, there's risk to life.
I mean, whatever you do, and I think, you know, our society, you know, excuse the language, but I just call it the pussification of America.
You know, we've just become weak in our society that, you know, we can't do anything that would involve some risk, or maybe we might fail, or, you know, we could get hurt.
But, you know, our country was built on people basically taking risk and, you know, sometimes, you know, dying for the cause.
And, you know, I'd hate to see people, I'd hate to see my sons die.
But, you know, that's part of life.
We take that risk.
I could not agree with you.
That is really extraordinarily well said.
That is exactly right on the money.
But let me ask you a question.
You talk about you acknowledge that there are now parents that don't want their kids to play.
Did I see some player?
Who was it?
Some player.
Some current active player, a star player said he wouldn't let his kids play.
I can't, I'm having a mental block on who it was.
But here's my question to you, Paul.
Can you really blame these people?
I mean, all they know is what the media is telling them, and the media has created an emergency type crisis out of this now.
And so parents, I mean, every parent wants their kid to be safe.
That's job number one.
Job number two is hoping that your kid has a better life than you do.
And if you do nothing, if every news story you read features a player committing suicide or this player getting sick or this player dying 15 or 20 years early, they're in life expectancy.
What do you expect them to do?
I mean, they're products of what they're being told and in the media and what they're seeing.
What are you going to let your kids do then?
I mean, whatever they do, if they ride a bike, if they get in a car and go to prom, you know, there's, I mean, that's part of life.
And, you know, you just can't shelter your children from everything.
You can't shelter yourself from everything.
Yeah, but see, there are people who want to for you.
If you happen to be insolent like this, and if you refuse the assistance and the, if you refuse the compassionate assistance of good people that are trying to help you, then they're going to move in and try to protect your kids from you.
And they will judge you to be unfit.
That's where this is headed.
That already happens in certain circumstances inside the home.
Now, I'm just playing devil's advocate with you.
Don't miss it.
Those are not my words.
I'm just telling you what the left, there are people in this audience having that exact reaction to what you're saying.
Yeah, but I was just seeing football give structure and direction to so many kids that didn't have that.
You know, some people will say, well, football promotes violence.
You know, these kids become violent because they play football.
Well, these kids are violent before they play football.
And the football, the coaching, the structure, the teamwork, you know, take so many of them that might have gone on and done worse things in life than just play football.
And all of a sudden, it gives them structure.
It gives them a concept of team and that there's something more than themselves out there.
That's always been my point, that the structure, the discipline of the game can actually take kids that are at risk for going off the rails and keep them on the straight and narrow, precisely with the structure and the order and the discipline and the demands that it all be adhered to.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Paul, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
It's great to hear from you.
Paul Kaufman again, a former tight end for the Green Bay Packers and the Chiefs and the Minnesota Vikings, who is now living in Kansas City, weighing in on all of this NFL stuff.
We got a sound bite here from Dr. Maroon, Dr. Joseph Maroon, the neurosurgeon for the Steelers, and he's at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
And this was on the NFL network, Total Access, on Tuesday night.
And they're talking about the retirement of Chris Morland from the San Francisco Fortiners.
And the, let's see, who's that?
Co-host is Dan Helly.
And they're talking about the chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
That's the danger, that's the damage to the brain CTE that can only be discovered in an autopsy.
It cannot be diagnosed.
And they're hoping that they can get to the point where they're able to.
But right now, it remains something that can only be seen in an autopsy.
And Dr. Maroon was asked this following question.
There's so much information out there today about concussions that for a parent, it's almost hard to digest it all.
What would your one message be, doctor, to high school players and parents of would-be football players in the future?
I think the problem of CTE, although real, is it's being over-exaggerated and it's being extrapolated to youth football and to high school football.
It's a rare phenomenon.
We have no idea the incidents.
There are more injuries to kids from falling off of bikes, scooters, falling in playgrounds than there are in youth football.
Again, it's never been safer.
Can we improve?
Yes.
We have to do better all the time to make it safer.
I think if a kid is physically able to do it and wants to do it, I think our job is to continue to make it safer, but it's much more dangerous riding a bike or a skateboard than playing youth football.
Now, what do you think the NFL's reaction to this was?
The official NFL reaction to what you just heard.
They said he doesn't speak for the league.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
One more soundbite here before we head back to the phones.
Josh Ernest at the White House press briefing this afternoon.
Question from an unidentified sycophant reporter.
I know during the gaggle yesterday, Josh Old Buddy, you sort of volunteered a reaction to some of those remarks.
And I'm curious why you decided to do that.
He's being asked about his comments about Netanyahu's victory and how it worsens American-Israeli relations.
That cynical Election Day tactic was a pretty transparent effort to marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens and their right to participate in their democracy.
And Israel rightly prides itself on a vibrant democracy.
But one of the core values of a vibrant democracy is ensuring that everybody has an opportunity to participate.
And those comments and those tactics certainly do not reflect a commitment to those values.
What the hell here?
What tactics?
Let us once again review what happened.
The Israeli election is taking place.
The polling data all shows that it's nip and tuck, and in fact, Netanyahu might even lose.
We find out that the Obama administration has sent campaign operatives and money to Israel to defeat the incumbent Netanyahu.
And then we discover a couple of days before the election that an effort is being made by the Obama campaign team in Israel to turn out in greater numbers than usual the Arab Israeli population or vote.
They started it.
They are the ones that targeted Israeli Arabs.
They are the ones that targeted money at them.
Who knows what kind of walking around money is being tossed out over there and trying to get them to the polls and have their turnout be a greater percentage than normal.
So the Netanyahu camp found out about this and they said, well, we have to respond.
We have to react.
We have to come up with something that will counter this if they succeed.
And so Netanyahu makes mention of the fact that his opponent is attempting to gin up turnout in the Arab population.
And that is what they're calling racist.
When they started it, they targeted.
Obama's campaign operatives there targeted the Arab-Israeli vote.
Then Netanyahu's team came along and accused the Obama team of doing just that, which was designed to increase Beebe's base and turnout, which it did.
And Netanyahu wins in what turns out was never a close election anyway.
It was a landslide, and Obama was on the losing side.
And so now these reprobates, this is really beneath dignity, to come along here and accuse Israel of engaging in racial politics when the Obama operatives started the whole ball rolling.
By the way, I must, When we were talking to Paul Kaufman, who is the former tight end for the Packers, his name was spelled up on the call screener board here.
Spell things happen automatically.
Not like he spells his name.
When I saw his name spelled properly, my God, that's who I was told.
This guy was huge, folks.
Paul Kaufman, his son, which he mentioned, was a great player at Mizzou and is now, I think, at the Tennessee Titans and so forth.
But Paul Kaufman was, in his day, he was all pro.
He was a huge, huge star for the Green Bay Packers for 10 years.
His name is spelled C-O-F-F, M-A-N.
And I knew the name, but it's amazing how you react to the way things look.
And so I knew that he was big.
The name rang it, but when I saw it spelled properly, I was kind of in awe.
And I was dazzled who this guy was.
He was huge.
And as such, he's an experienced veteran, but he said the exactly correct things about this, reasonable things about this.
What's happened here, and I predicted this, and I don't mean to sound like I told you so abrasive kind of personality, but it was easy to tell you what was going to happen.
The panic reaction to this concussion news, it was just easy.
When you know liberals, you knew what was going to happen, and I knew the media was going to carry the water for this.
And I was just stunned to watch the media actually participate in creating news that was going to end up destroying or could destroy that which they profess to love, the NFL, and that which they cover, which means that which provides them their living.
And like everything else in our panic and crisis-driven society, you take a group of any people, say the 100 people, and if five or ten people in that group have something very bad happen to them, then we start thinking maybe we got to disband a whole group.
This is unacceptable.
And we focus on the five or ten who are having problems.
We extrapolate that it's eventually going to happen to all 100, and we start questioning our sanity.
And why are we doing this to our children?
And stuff settles in.
And immediately, all concept of restraint, common sense, and being reasonable is abandoned.
And the panic mentality overwhelms.
The crisis mentality overwhelms.
And that's exactly where we are.
And that's why this neurosurgeon at UPMC has spoken up on the NFL network last night.
This CTE business, he just said it.
They can't even prove it.
It's kind of like they can't prove that it has an intrinsic link to people that play the game.
They can find damage to the brain in some people who've played, just like they'll find damage to the brain as some people have fallen off a bicycle.
What happened was every problem a former player experienced was automatically blamed on the game.
And it just built.
The momentum expanded and grew.
And it didn't take long.
And people started looking at football entirely differently.
Deadly.
The game kills.
The game memes.
And then parents start saying, you know, I don't want my kids to play that game.
And that's why the NeuroSearch said, wait a minute now, wait a minute, we need to rein this back in.
We've kind of gone overboard on this.
And just to show you, the league, rather than welcoming that, the league said he doesn't speak for us.
Now, why would the league do that?
Why would the league not take advantage of this opportunity to say, our game isn't that data?
Our game is it's been overdone.
It's been overblown.
We're happy for this injection of common sense.
Because that would cause another media firestorm about how the league really doesn't care about the welfare of its players.
And you just see it everywhere.
You see deterioration of standards, deterioration of quality, corruption of institutions, all because people are afraid of the media or are afraid of being criticized or afraid of being sued.
You name it.
So right before our eyes, when common sense tells us all of this is a vast overreaction, whatever it is, NFL, you name it, we still sit there and watch it all happen because the alternative is just too tough.
The alternative may not even be worth it.
I'll get destroyed.
They'll set me up.
They'll target me.
I'll get sued.
Screw it.
I'll just go with the flow and I'll live off this as long as I can.
And I think that's an attitude that a lot of people have right now about the NFL.
You know why I know I'm right?
Because you can hear it now.
When you hear people saying, well, there's always going to be an NFL.
Don't worry about that.
There's always going to be an NFL.
But, well, that means people are already of a mindset that indicates they are willing to compromise and get rid of certain aspects of the game that may simply be speculation in terms of dangerous, definitively destructive, and so forth.
You watch.
This is going to keep building.
It's going to keep happening.
And it's going to take a while.
It's not going to end next year.
By the way, it's Mike Ditka who said that he wouldn't let his kids play football.
Mike Ditka?
Mike Ditka?
That's unbelievable to me.
If they've gotten to Mike, if all of this has gotten to Mike Ditka, that means it can get to anybody.
Mike Ditka is the personification of NFL tough guy warrior.
He's the personification of what Paul Kaufman was talking about here in terms of having the common sense adaptive.
Well, life is filled with risks and it's also filled with opportunities.
And we have freedom in this country and we engage in these opportunities knowing the risks that are there.
When sustained efforts are made to take the risk, and believe me, that's one of the main objectives of the left.
Take the risk out of things.
Well, it's not going to be pretty.
Mark my words.
I haven't had as much time as I wanted to get into this today, and I'm going to move it to tomorrow, Open Line Friday.
But this Obama wanting mandatory voting, do not, you know, this is one of the, don't laugh at that.
And don't, ah, do you believe what David is never going to happen?
Do not laugh at that.
We once laughed at mandatory health care.
We once laughed at do not laugh at that.
And his excuse is, well, this will take the money out of politics.
And the low information credit, they'll eat that up like you can't believe.
So we need to talk about this.
I'm telling you, you don't have the slightest idea what we're in store for these next two years.
This doesn't even scratch the surface.
Stephen A. Smith, ESPN, says, you know what?
Every African American ought to be forced to vote Republican once just to see what would happen.
The New York Times claims that the Apple Watch will give you cancer.
I kid you not.
The radiation and stuff in the watch, you could be susceptible to getting cancer.
We also have a gay activist who has come out by the name of S. Baer Bergman, a female-to-male transgender who said, Look, all of this stuff that we're not recruiting, we are.
And we're aiming at children, and there's no question.
This person has been bluntly honest.
I'll have to save this for tomorrow as well.
Here is Tom in OnlyMaryland.
This is the guy that we're going to call back today.
We didn't have time to get to yesterday.
Hi, Tom.
I'm glad you let us call you.
How are you?
Good, Rush.
Megha Dittos from Alny.
Thank you.
Almy, I'm sorry, I mispronounced it.
I was listening to your program yesterday, and while I appreciate your optimism about the possibility of a conservative winning the next presidential election, winning in Wisconsin is one thing.
Winning on the national level is a whole other thing.
Well, I'm not saying that Walker's a shoe-in.
I understand that.
I don't mean I'm talking about any conservative.
I know, it's a long shot, but I'm telling you, it can be done.
We haven't.
My point yesterday was that young people haven't even had a chance to vote for a conservative in their lifetimes because one hasn't been nominated.
Conservatism works, is my point.
If we get somebody who can articulate it cheerfully and confidently and infectiously, Katie Bartadores, I'm very confident about that.
It can win.
It does.
It clearly does.
Going on in the colleges these days, I'd bet less than 5% of the kids in college, 10% maybe, would ever vote conservative.
They're being brainwashed.
Well, I understand all of that, but I also think there's a solution.
Otherwise, I'd pack it in.
I don't think it's time.
And I've told people when it's going to be time to panic.
And I don't think it's time yet.
I understand what you're saying.
I know the odds are big, but I don't believe they're insurmountable.
And I don't think one election is going to fix anything, even if we do win it.
But I'm not to the point of saying it's hopeless or that utter futility has settled in.
And I'm not saying Scott Walker is the guy.
All I'm pointing out is he's done it.
The evidence that it can be done is Scott Walker, University of Madison's, Wisconsin.
It's all commie babe.
It's as left as any other university in the country is.
Tom, it's big union.
He overcame it.
Three elections he won there.
So I think it's possible.
That's my only point with this: there's evidence it can be done.
And the evidence doesn't need to be discounted.
The evidence is real.
It doesn't need to be thrown out.
By the way, Benjamin Netanyahu has said, wait a minute now, wait a minute.
I could be open to a two-state solution.
It's just that I don't think one's possible now.
Now, you know what that is?
That's exactly, that's exactly what I, that's the Middle East peace process rearing its head.
That's all that.
You are required in 2015 to say that.
Part of the Middle East peace process is a two-state solution.
Don't worry, folks.
There's nothing's going to happen in these negotiations.
This status quo has been this way for tens of thousands of years.
It's going to keep on being this way as long as negotiations are the key here.
It's going to continue to be frustrating.
There's going to be a solution.
And the Middle East peace process just means you have to say the right words in order to sustain the process.
Until the day comes that one of these sites is going to actually launch a military salvo to take the other out.
All this is academic.
And you have to say whatever you have to say to placate the whoevers that sustain the process.
Well, that's it, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time for today in the EIB network.
But there's tomorrow, there's Friday.
We'll be back then and be thinking about what you want to ask or talk about because it's all up to you on Friday.
Very few restrictions.
Thanks so much.
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