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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 uh this home email server of hers.
I said Monica Crowley has a piece out today that she's running her own uh basically rogue intel operation uh 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 it was Blumenfall that came up with the all the techniques of going after Monica Lewinsky.
It was Bloom and Fall that Hillary employed to help bimbo eruptions and all that and he's been at her side practically forever since the Clintons got to uh got to Washington.
But I also thought, you know, one of the reasons, and I 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 gonna run foreign policy, he knows that Mrs. Clinton, they don't 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.
Uh 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 uh 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, uh, for advice on what to do issue by issue by issue.
That would 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 the 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 are 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 you know 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 uh Paul Kaufman.
He's calling from Kent City, former tight end for the Green Bay Packers, the Chiefs, and the Minnesota Vikings.
And I'm sorry, I I appreciate your holding on.
I'm sorry I had to interrupt you.
You just just started getting talking about the uh 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 I don't believe it is that widespread.
I think there's a small percentage that have problems uh, you know, from head trauma in the game.
Uh, but it just seems like, you know, even with with guys getting in trouble in the NFL, it seems like the minority all of a sudden they're the ones that are on TV.
They're the ones that, you know, are the press are writing about instead of the other 90% of the guys that are doing community outreaches or or helping in the community or putting on football camps, and you know, I the majority of the guys.
Let me let me stop you there, but that makes perfect sense because that's how the left operates, Paul.
If you have you have a group of a hundred people, ninety-five 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, or they're helping you.
Five people in that group of a hundred are exhibiting symptoms or problems or something, whatever it is.
The media, it's just instinctive.
They're gonna glom onto that five, that group of five, and they're gonna 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 ninety-five are, and it's used.
This this is in a sense, this is the left's strategy for empowering minorities.
Numeric, numeric minorities.
Right.
There's risk and reward to everything.
And obviously the reward in the NFL is great, but you know, there is some risk.
And you know, you have parents now that are saying, Oh, you know, I'd never let my my son play football.
Well, I actually have three sons.
Uh 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 little bit more.
Let me tell you arena football is not for sissies.
Yes, that wall uh plays a whole new uh perspective in the game.
Oh, I'm telling you, that arena football is that's that's its own universe of tough.
Yeah, and then my youngest son Cameron is a quarterback at the University of Wyoming, and you know, they've had a couple concussions, uh, but you know, my mom had Alzheimer's.
I I feel like if I get Alzheimer's, it's because she had it, not because I played in the NFL.
And uh, you know, i if we took the risk out of everything, you know, we'd have no policemen, we'd have no people in the military, nobody would go snorkeling or skydiving.
You know, there's obviously you know a little bit of danger in getting in your car every day.
I mean, we're not gonna eliminate you know all the danger from everything we do like you talked about living, you know, some people some people can't die because they've never lived.
I think, you know, the guy that is is born for adventure and is you know gonna take some risk, and you know, sometimes they they don't work out like you want, but you know, a lot of times there's great reward in 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 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've 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 society.
Do you know this Maroon guy, the neurosurgeon of the Steelers?
He said that there are more concussions that happen to people who ride bicycles than play in the NFL.
Well, I I believe there are more concussions in soccer, especially little league soccer.
We have established that.
We have established it.
Even in cheerleading, when you're building the pyramids and they stumble down, you know, you there there's there's risk to life.
I mean, whatever you do, and I think you know, our our society, you know, excuse the language, but I just call it the the pussification of America.
You know, we've we've just become weak in our society that you know we can't do anything that 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 uh, you know, sometimes, you know, dying for the cause.
And uh, you know, that I'd hate to see people, I'd hate to see my sons die.
But, you know, that it's part of part of life.
We take that risk.
I could not agree with you.
That I there's really extraordinarily well said.
That is exactly right on the money.
But let me ask you a question.
You talk about you you 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, they're all 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.
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 they're products of what they're being told and in the media and what they're seeing, seeing.
Well, what are you gonna 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 that's that's part of life.
And you know, the you just can't shelter your children from everything.
You can't shelter yours yourself from everything.
Well, but see, that's 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 gonna they're they're gonna 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 inside the home.
But I'm not I'm just playing devil's advocate with you.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm those are not my words.
I'm just telling you what the left, I'm there are people in this audience having that exact reaction to what you're saying.
Yeah, but I'm 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 these kids are violent before they play football.
And and the football, the coaching, the structure, the teamwork, you know, take so many of them that might have gone on and 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 that's always been my point that that the structure, the discipline of the game, can actually take kids that that are at risk for going off the rails and keep them on the straight and arrow, precisely with the structure and the order and the discipline and the demands that it all be adhered to.
I don't think I don't think there's any doubt about that.
This is Paul, I appreciate the call.
I um I really do.
It's great to hear for 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 soundbite 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 Borland from the San Francisco Fordiners.
And the uh, let's see, who's the co-host is Dan Helly, and they're talking about the chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
That's that's the danger that's the that that's a damage to the brain.
Uh CTE that can only be discovered in an autopsy.
It cannot be diagnosed.
And they are 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 into high school football.
It's a rare phenomena.
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.
But 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 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 uh comments about Netanyahu's victory and how it worsens uh 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 operator over 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 Bibi's base and turnout, which it did, and Netanyahu wins in what turns out wasn't 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, you know, I I must um when we were talking to Paul Kaufman, who is the former tight end for the Packers, his name was spelled up on the 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 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 he's uh I knew the name, but it's amazing how you reacted to the way things look.
Uh and so I um I I knew that he was big and the name ranger, but when I saw it spelled properly, I was kind of in awe, and I was I was dazzled who this guy was.
He was huge, and as such, he's a experienced veteran, but he 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 a 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 hundred 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.
This is 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 maims.
And then parents start saying, I don't want my kids to play that game.
Yeah.
And that's why the neurosarch 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 date?
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 you 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 over 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 what I know I'm right?
Because you can hear it now.
You could when you hear people saying, well, there's always gonna be an NFL.
Don't worry about that.
There's always gonna be an NFL, but 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, terms of dangerous, definitively destructive and so forth.
You watch.
This is going to keep building, it's gonna keep happening, and it's it's gonna take a while.
It's not gonna end next year.
But it was 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 adult, 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 when when 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 gonna I'm gonna move it to tomorrow, open line Friday.
But this Obama wanting uh mandatory voting.
Do not, you know, this is one of the don't laugh at that.
And don't ah, do you believe what it's never gonna happen?
Do not laugh at that.
We once laughed at mandatory health care.
We once laughed at do not laugh at that.
His and his excuse is well, this'll 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. Bear Bergman, a female to male transgender who said, Look, all of this stuff we that we're not recruiting, we are, and we're aiming at children, and there's no question it's this person has been bluntly honest.
I'll have to save this for tomorrow as well.
Here is Tom in Only Maryland.
This is the guy that we're gonna 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.
Megadetta Smalley.
Thank you.
I'll need I'm sorry, I mispronounced it.
Um 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's one thing.
Winning on the national level is a whole other thing.
Well, and I'm not saying that Walker's a shoe-in, and I'm 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 and infectiously, Katie Bardadores, I'm very confident about that.
It can win.
It does.
It clearly does.
I'd bet less than five percent 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 gonna be time to panic.
And I don't think it's time yet.
I don't I don't 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's gonna 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.
Thank you.
So I I think it's possible.
That's my only point with this, is there's evidence it can be done.
And the evidence doesn't need to be discounted.
The evidence is real.
Doesn't need to be thrown out.
By the way, uh 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 is.
That's 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.
The 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 isn't going to be a solution.
And the Middle East peace process just means you have to say the right words.
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 whoever's that sustain the process.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time for today on the EIB network.
But there's tomorrow, there's Friday.
We'll be back then and uh be thinking about what you want to ask or talk about because it's all up to you on Friday.
Very few restrictions.
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