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April 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Marco Rubio announced that he's running for president today.
And there's an interesting story here in the uh in the politico.
And the headline Tea Partiers rage against Rubio 2016.
Florida activists helped propel Marco Rubio to the Senate, but many say they feel betrayed by him, and they will not support his presidential bid.
Have you heard that, Mr. Snerdley?
Have you heard that the Tea Party is fit to be tied over Rubio?
It's about immigration, right?
It came out, but he's he got his mind right on it.
People don't believe that, huh?
They don't okay, okay.
They felt betrayed.
Got elected by Tea Partiers, and the first thing he did was join the Amnesty coalition.
And then he backed out of it, though.
He claimed to have even I don't know.
I mean, I don't know anything, because I don't I don't well that no, no, no, no, no, no.
I know everything.
But I don't know.
No.
I when I say I don't, I'm gonna have to speculate why Rubio did it.
I did I don't know that.
I haven't asked him.
My guess is his last name.
My guess is that he fell prey to the identity politics pressure and felt that he had to, given that he's uh from Cuba and uh and Hispanic.
But he backed out of that.
But apparently, once betrayed, there is no second chance if this political story is right.
Dave, they what do you mean those people?
You calling the Tea Partiers those people.
Who are you, Lois Lerner?
What do you mean those people?
What is that kind of mindset?
Wait a minute.
When did you when did you turn against a Tea Party?
You sound to me like you've turned against a tea.
Those people.
Snur what look at what Snerdley's telling me is, hey, these people if if if if you betray them once, if they if they give you everything they've got, and you and they and you betray them, that's it.
They're not no second chance is not falling.
That's what the political story says here.
Tea partiers, and then they go in and they found some Tea Partiers.
Which amazes me that the politico knew where to go to find some Tea Partiers.
Most people in the inside the beltway uh political world have no idea where Tea Partiers are.
Other than in Alaska and Texas.
Sarah Palin Ted Cruz.
Uh but don't count on many of those original Florida Tea Party supporters to be in the crowd Monday evening when Rubio's expected to launch his bid.
Six years after the movement's initial rallies, marches, and demonstrations, Tea Party activists feel let down and betrayed by their native son.
And they quote somebody here, Chris Chris Ann Hall, an attorney and Tea Party activist in North Central Florida says, I'm through with him.
He'll never get my vote disappointed would mean that he has an opportunity to restore his credibility, And there is no opportunity for that.
Here's another one, Lisa Becker, who helped run a sisterhood of mommy patriots.
That's a Tea Party group geared toward mothers.
When he was first running for the Senate, I was a big fan.
He walked a neighborhood, both inside and outside his district.
He knocked on doors.
He asked what people's needs were, what their issues were.
I was so impressed with that.
And then he got into office.
And once he got into office, he had his sights set high early on.
Surrounded himself with people who were going to help him navigate Washington to get there, and in that process, he disconnected from his base.
Whoa.
So the politicos gone out and found some Tea Party people and make it make it clear that as far as they are concerned, it's about four or five of them here, that their support for Rubio is uh is over.
Now do you think that's a little intolerant, Mr. Sturdley?
Is it you you think it's a mature attitude?
They look.
Well, I understand.
No, no, I understand.
I I think that the uh one of the reasons people are members of the Tea Party is they're fed up with being told and promised things and assured of things during campaign and governance begins and it changes totally.
And what makes the Tea Party different from other groups is they only require one lesson.
And they learn the realities of political life.
One lesson is all they need.
They don't need to go back and make the same mistake two or three times before they finally get it.
So interesting that we'll have to wait and see his announcement is scheduled for uh tonight in uh in Miami, and of course, the drive-by's in the media are having a lot of fun pitting uh Marco Rubio against Jeb Bush for Florida donors, Florida money, uh, so forth.
But I I still think that a big Republican field could uh is gonna be a lot of fun.
It has actually could be a lot of fun.
Uh in addition to all the other characteristics it might possess.
But I still I'm gonna I'm gonna continue to say what I offered last week.
I do believe if if I had the opportunity to be a collective campaign manager for all, if they say there's 16 of them for all sixteen, I would advise them, whatever you do, focus, all of you, focus on defining your potential Democrat opposition.
The media is not going to do this for you.
We know the media is not going to vet, be it Hillary, be it Elizabeth Warren, be it Biden, whoever they throw up there.
They're not going to vet them.
The media is not going to tell the American voters anything about these Democrats other than to portray them as godlike.
It's going to be up to you guys to inform the American voters who the Democrats opposing you are.
And I understand this comes up against some fear.
Because a lot of Republican consultants have convinced Republican candidates that it's a losing proposition to criticize Democrats because that scares the independents.
And once you start being critical, once you look like you don't want to work with the Democrats, instead you just start criticizing, supposedly at that point, the independents will abandon you and run right back to the Democrat Party.
I think it's a trick.
I don't think there's anything to it, but there are, nevertheless, a lot of Republicans wary of being critical.
So they'll say, I'm going to focus on my issues, I'm going to focus on being positive, focus on change, but you have to also give people reasons, not just to vote for you, but you've got to tell them who your opponents are.
It works every time it's tried.
Now tell you something else.
For every one of you Republican candidates, those who have announced and those who have yet to announce, I can guarantee him to you, the American media is going to be defining you.
And they're going to be lying about you.
And they're going to be trying to tell the American voters every negative thing about each one of you they can come up with.
Even if they have to make it up.
Or even if they have to exaggerate.
And if there isn't a negative word from anybody about the Democrat candidates, you're not going to have anybody with any reason not to support the Democrats.
But you're going to have all kinds of people with reasons they think not to support you.
The media simply isn't going to do it.
And there's nothing wrong with identifying your opponents.
There's nothing wrong with defining them.
There's nothing wrong with drawing a contrast between them and you.
And so far from what I've seen, the Republican candidates are following through.
There are a lot of uh Rand Paul and a number of the Ted Cruz, they are spending a lot of time going after Hillary.
She is the presumptive nominee.
And I don't think they should wait till the general election to start that.
That's just me.
And I say that up front, it's not my business.
And there are people whose business it is.
I mean, I'm in radio, they're in politics, but I still think that that's going to have to be done.
And the sooner the better.
And the more constant and consistent the better.
And you don't have to lie about any of it.
I mean, the Clintons are who they are.
There's plenty of history, as we have established, that young people don't even know about.
That they need to know.
If you're going to be focused on the millennials, there's certain things that they need to know.
Let's uh let's let me I'm not sure I want to where I want to.
Oh, I want to grab a phone call first before we go to the break because it's somebody.
I started the program an hour ago by offering congratulations to Jordan Speth, the winner of the Masters.
And I admitted that this was the first year I'd heard of him.
And he was in the final group last year, and I don't remember him.
And I said I don't remember Bubba Watson winning last year.
And I tried to thought, well, how can that be?
I watch the Masters every year.
How could I not know?
And we got a caller who said that I do know, and it's uh Sam in Nashville.
Hi Sam, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Megadeth is Rush.
Very good.
Thank you.
Uh yeah, I just was I I remember specifically, it was kind of a big deal at the time.
The media kind of went crazy about uh the fact that Bubba Watson, after winning the Masters, went to Waffle House, you know, and that was a big deal on the left that that he would choose such a you know such a place like Waffle House.
But um and and you had a good time with it, I remember on your radio radio show.
So I wanted to just remind you of that, that you did indeed remember him.
Yeah, I rem I remember that now.
Yeah, I and that was the next day, or maybe a couple of days after the tournament.
But it's not tournament.
When you talk about them, it's the tournament.
The tournament.
I mean, if you go to Augusta, if you get anywhere near there, you don't call it the tournament.
That's a foreign language.
It's the tournament.
And anyway, he's right.
I remember the press just went batting over the fact that here's Bubba Watson who won, I guess it was now now, Sam, are you still there?
I am.
Was it his second or third green jacket last year?
I'm not sure.
I I I think it was his second.
He's won a few majors, but I'm not exactly sure.
I think it was a second.
Well, let's just say it's a second if I'm wrong, somebody in the multitudes will correct me, as they love to do.
Anyway, second green jacket or third, and he went to Waffle House.
Now there's a there's a there's a dinner Sunday night uh on the grounds for for everybody.
Uh I I don't I don't know how traditional it is that the winner shows up, but I think it is.
So I don't know when he went to Waffle House.
He could have gone to Waffle House that night after when or the next day, whatever, doesn't matter when he went.
The press found out about it, and they made fun of him for it.
What is this?
The masters champion, and he celebrates at the Waffle House.
Well, you know, they did the same thing.
Cam Newton, a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, goes to Waffle House after games on Sunday, or something like the Waffle House.
It might be IHOP.
I don't know what it was one of those places.
And they couldn't believe that.
Here's a guy, a multimillionaire, NFL quarterback going to the Waffle House after games.
Hey, I like it, he says.
Me and my family like it.
And that's what Bubba said.
And Bubba said you can feed a lot of people in there for not much money.
So what do you mean?
You just won the masters.
They haven't given me the check yet.
These media people there are funny.
But he's right.
I do remember that.
I just don't remember Jordan Spith being in the final group.
I don't I don't remember him being in the in contention.
Um I don't I I don't remember watching the Masters last year, but I had to have.
So well, yeah, there was a lot going on.
Like what?
Oh, come on.
I would not have not watched the Masters because Russia was invading Ukraine.
There has to be something else that was going on that I that on the Master's date last year that that necessit that because I got the best memory in America.
And I don't remember what I was doing a year ago in that day.
Bubba's got two green jackets.
He won his second one last year.
He went to the Waffle House on the Monday morning after winning last Sunday.
Last last year.
Here's uh where are we starting on the phones?
Since we already did, we'll listen to continue there for a while.
That'd be Dennis in uh Low Meet Lomita California.
Hey Dennis, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey Rush, it's great to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, going back to Hillary.
Um usually people in the public eye, people in her position, celebrities, politicians, they want to hide the negative and project the positive.
I never worried about that.
No, no.
But with Hillary, it seems to be the opposite.
So the per the perception of Hillary is that she's you know, contemptuous, deceitful, disingenuous, all these negative things.
But we have pundits and people close to her coming out and saying, Oh no, she's the wife of the party, she's funny, she's personable.
Well, if that's the case, why does she want to hide that from us?
Well, now wait a second.
We I talked about this earlier.
I've had people they're very close to Hillary.
Uh tell me this.
You don't know.
She's a behind it, behind she loves.
I mean, she's the life of the party, loves to play darts, she loves umbrella drinks, she laughs all the time.
The question to me is, well, if that's where is that?
If if that's that's what I was saying.
Oh, okay, we're on the same page.
Yeah, but but but you're you asked why would they want to hide it.
No, why does she hide it?
Okay, not that she wants to, but why is that being hidden from us?
Well, I don't know that it's the answer the question.
Look at with these with these people, you have to understand something.
Go on in.
There's a there's an umbrella subject here.
They are liberals.
They cannot be honest.
I know, they can't help themselves.
And that's what I was going to say about Hillary.
She can't help herself because she's contemptuous to the bone.
That's who she is.
And she's toxic, and she resents the fact that she has to hide who she really is.
She'd rather just take off the gloves, drop the mask, expose the fangs and the claws, and tell people, hey, go along with me.
She does the riddle.
Wait, wait.
She does that.
That's that's her image is nurse ratchet.
That's why they have to tell these stories.
Well, yeah, she she drops it, not completely, but you but it leaks through, and that's what that you you're exactly right.
That's why they tell the story.
But no, but you but you think she ought to drop the you think she ought to just be nurse ratchet, honestly, all the time and be who she is.
Is that what you're saying?
No, no, I'm saying that she would like to.
She resents the fact that she can't just be who she really wants to be.
You know, a a holier than thou, contemptuous, disingenuous.
She just wants to be who she reads.
Well, that she's got a lot of people.
If that's true, if it that's true, there are two reasons for it.
One thing, uh, liberals cannot be honest with what they believe.
So they lie about that.
That makes them already uh prone to cloaking reality.
They have to hide it.
They can't be honest about their ideas.
Um they're also angry as hell all the time.
They're in red.
This is what's so unique about Clinton.
He has pulled off this this good old boy Bubba act and gets away with it.
But the the the real liberal, the real committed liberal, is angry all the time.
And Hillary is.
And I she she's the uh I the the I think you and I are speaking at crosshairs.
You think I'm saying the same thing you are, and I'm not.
Um I I'm I'm saying they have to put out these stories about what she's really like.
Oh, she's just fun, loving.
Because it's obvious she can't pull that off.
When she tries to be what they say she is, it is the most stilted, unnatural looking and feeling who she is is what difference it means now.
I am tired of hearing that we can't object to the minute they did and not be called patriotic screw you.
That's who she is.
Who she is, I no way tired.
I'm talking to some black people, and so I have to talk like I think they sound, so that they will think I'm one of them.
But I really think it's crazy to have to be here.
That's who she really is.
And every time one of these things happens, it's when we get the why do you think this ordinary American or everyday man campaign, this this Twitter phony, baloney, plastic banana?
That's why I don't care.
I don't I don't get off on this.
All right, here's Bill in Arlington, Texas.
Uh Bill, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush, and Megadetto.
Oh, by the way, Bill, before you get going, I just want to clarify.
I didn't mean to be short with our previous call.
All Dennis was saying, and I got this was that he was he was just saying Hillary is bitter about not being able to be bitter all the time.
He thinks that Hillary is offended at having to act nice.
Uh that she can't be who she really is.
And I I got that.
I got that.
I was just yeah, go aho, go ahead here.
Um Nurse Ratchet always comes out.
Well, she can't I I know.
And and here's here's the thing.
I watched Hillary's video yesterday, and I was struck by, you know, all the the different shots of you know, just these Americans uh who all seem to be positive, upbeat, smiling, um, kind of looking forward to the future, uh, you know, this whole cross-section of people and everything.
And then you get Hillary's Nurse Ratchet boy.
And it was a real disconnect for me, you know, when her voice came on.
And of course, she sits there and then says Americans have fought their way back through tough economic times, but the debt is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
And the first thought I had was she's one of those at the top.
She is one of the top, and she's in bed, figuratively speaking with them.
That's right.
And that's I resent this bit.
These guys that come out, Hillary included, try to make themselves out to be the champions of the little guy, and the little guy who is always the one that gets a shaft with these people.
And the rich, they're like we had the story last the one percent are getting richer under Obama, because of corporate cronyism, corporate socialism, whatever it is, the rich are getting richer.
And meanwhile, all these Democrats voting for Obama and they're gonna vote for Hillary thinking that they're gonna look out for him and they're gonna punish the rich.
I got it, I got news for you.
The rich do not get punished by Democrats.
Now, the news media makes you think they're gonna get punished.
Taxes are gonna get increased or raised or some such thing, but it never ever happens.
The Democrat Party is more than it has ever been, the party of the rich today.
And that is not an exaggeration.
So long comes Mrs. Grabsand by seven, along comes Mrs. Clinton, just like Obama, and trying to make the case that they care about the little guy, and all these these corporate titans are gonna get theirs, finally.
And we start talking about income inequality, and all that is a cover story for raising everybody's taxes, not just the rich.
Anyway, you mentioned the video.
Uh we we have just 32 seconds of the audio of her video.
And this is the message where she said every day Americans need a champion that she wants to be that champion.
And at the very end of the two-minute video, it features everyday Americans, just like Bill said here.
And Mrs. Clinton then appears in front of her Chappaqua houses, uh, where there have been no everyday people ever on site except for the staff.
I'm running for president.
Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.
So you can do more than just get by.
You can get ahead and stay ahead.
Because when families are strong, America is strong.
Okay.
So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote.
Because it's your time.
And I hope you'll join me on this journey.
All right.
Now, Democrats have been saying this for 50 years, my whole life.
That's been the Democrat Party message.
Somebody answer a question for me.
How come all these groups that vote Democrat are still mired in poverty?
How come all these groups still angry?
How come all the people in the groups or the individuals that vote Democrat are still unhappy and miserable and still demanding change, still hate Republicans?
Why is it?
They've been voting loyal Democrat for all these years.
The Democrats are going to get even with the rich, the Democrats are going to spread the wealth, the Democrats are going to redistribute the wealth, the Democrats are going to redistribute income, the Democrats are going to get even with the people making you unhappy.
Why aren't you happy yet?
In fact, I'd put this way the people that have been voting Democrat all their lives have never been angrier than they are today.
And they've they've owned Washington politics for six and a half years.
Where's this utopia?
They promise one.
They've been promising utopia for 50 years.
They've been promising African Americans emancipation, salvation, and who knows what for 50 years.
The African American experience in America is apparently getting worse because they're angrier than they've ever been.
Well, maybe not angrier, but I mean we're approaching the kind of anger we had back in the 60s with the watch riots and all that.
Why?
At what point do people voting for Democrats spouting this BS like Mrs. Clinton just said, wake up and say, wait a minute, they're not delivering.
Look at the opening line.
Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times.
The deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
What really does that mean?
The deck is stacked in favor of those at the top.
What is it?
Are we to believe that those at the top have what they have because the deck is stacked in their favor?
And if so, what does that mean?
That the government's given them more than they've given other people?
What does it mean?
Do the people at the top not work?
Do the people at the top not invent?
Do the people at the top not innovate?
Oh, she's saying the rules benefit those at the top.
Well, what are the rules supposed to do to the people at the top?
If the if the no, it can't, it's got to be more than tax.
It's got to be more than taxes.
If the rules benefit, that's what the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top means.
And I don't think it is about rules, but I'll I'll discuss that.
I mean, I'll take it on.
I you could be right.
I think deck still stacked in favor of those at the top is rooted in they don't deserve it.
And you do, and you're getting the shaft, and I'm gonna make sure they get the shaft.
Okay, now if it isn't that, if it means the rules are stacked in favor of those at the top, okay, what are those rules?
And what rules are permitting the people at the top to stay there?
And what is the objective of the rules?
Are we to take the people at the top and push them down?
What's the point here?
What's the message?
What when Mrs. Clinton, if you're an average Democrat voter, and you cheer this, and you hear Mrs. Clinton say a lot of Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
Well, what are you expecting Mrs. Clinton to do to those at the top?
What is your average Democrat voter expecting to do?
Because I guarantee.
Well, okay, take them down and not well, it didn't happen.
They've been expecting 50 years as my point, and it isn't happening.
Every year Gates and Buffett are in a contest over the world's richest.
Last I looked, no Democrat president has taken them out.
Every Democrat president, in fact, is sidled up to him, want to kiss their butt.
I haven't seen any.
I haven't seen the government go after they make this notion of raising taxes on the rich and so forth.
But yeah, but we just rich Republicans, of course.
But that's the point.
Everybody at the top is said to be a Republican.
And most of the people at the top today are Democrats.
Dirty little secret.
But no, seriously.
Even if even if you don't get this deep into it, this has been the message for 50 years.
And the people voting for people like Mrs. Clinton Barack Obama are angrier than they've ever been.
They're unhappier than they've ever been.
How can that be?
The Democrat Party has been looking out for the little guy, as I say, for my entire life.
And the little guy keeps losing more and more.
The little guy keeps losing a little economic freedom, a little real freedom.
The little guy is finding it tougher to hold on to Obamacare, tougher to send his kids to college.
How in the world is voting for these people helping?
And of these interest groups that vote for the Democrat candidate 90, 93% of the time.
Why are they as angry as they've ever been?
And why are they continually enraged and unhappy?
What good is voting Democrat doing them?
And yet here comes Mrs. Clinton with the same message just recycled.
Class envy, class warfare.
Everyday Americans need a champion.
What's Obama been for the last six and a half years if he hadn't been a champion?
For the little guy.
That's what he ran on.
Is Mrs. Clinton saying that Obama abandoned the people that voted for him?
I mean, nobody examines this stuff.
And nobody on the Democrat side ever looks at the Democrat base and sees it for what it is.
It's a collection that is growing.
It consists of of tremendously angry, tremendously unhappy, dispirited, enraged people.
Even after six and a half years of their party running everything.
No, I know the intellectual answers to this.
I know the impossibility of the Democrat agenda.
I know there's no utopia.
It's not possible.
I know that Democrat policies do not create prosperity.
I know all that.
They don't, though.
It's my point.
They've been waiting 50 years for these votes to pay off.
And they're nowhere nearer paying off than they were on day one, 50 years ago.
Here's William from Indianapolis.
It's great to have you, sir, on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
I'm your same age, and I'm a golfer, and we go, I go back to you with that mouse and the pan in the trash can.
That goes back to the day.
That's back to day one.
A couple of things.
Uh, watching that tournament yesterday, watching great strategic golf, it was like watching a young Ben Crenshaw.
And I'm all fired up, and then at the very end, I channel surf and I see Hillary's logo.
And I thought, what is this arrow pointing to the right?
I mean, I know that they do all sorts of studies.
You know what it looks like.
It looks like it's the logo to the emergency room to me.
I think this low information thing.
It looks like a hospital emergency room logo.
Hillary's no.
It does.
And plus it is pointing to the right, which is odd.
Yes, it is.
And I and I understand you used to say this political spectrum is a circle.
And I thought, well, that might tie into that, but it's it's really interesting.
Well, now you boy, you've got a good memory.
You do go way back.
The political spectrum's a circle, not a straight line.
Yeah, I thought I was the same age as you, and you started out in New York right when I started out my business.
So you remember the mouse in the trash can.
Yeah, you poor Kansas City, they didn't pay you nothing.
I remember when you were dating online.
And you remember no, I never did that.
You're confusing.
That's when the staff wanted pictures of female callers before they could get on.
I wasn't dating online.
Never did that.
Never did.
No, no, no, don't tell people that.
That never happened.
That's when you started your binders full of women.
Uh that's right.
But I didn't know it wasn't me.
It was Mario and Bo Snerdly that did dates.
Oh, okay.
Not me.
I did not.
Yeah, that was what they tried to get dates out of it, but I didn't.
I was above that.
Don't lump me in with that.
Well, you've just gotten into New York and the Internet was new.
It was new.
You probably remember when I lost my furniture moving to New York.
The w the driver just got ticked off, walked off the job at a truck stop someplace in, I think it was Kentucky.
And it it took Mayflower three weeks to find the truck.
And then they found it in customs or FBI had to get it because it had been abandoned.
They didn't know what was in it.
Yeah, they have furniture for three weeks after moving to the New York.
Anyway.
This is another thing.
Um I don't quite know how to express this.
And y actually, I do.
Let me be bluntly honest.
Given the way things are in the country, I am well aware that if I tell you exactly what I felt and thought watching Crenshaw on Friday, his last round at the Masters, and everything that happened with that is interview afterwards.
And if I tell you about Speath, what I thought of which I did in the first hour, I guarantee you the left is going to come out and make these usual charges of bigotry and so forth.
They just can't wait for it because they're going to think my comments are rooted in race.
And they aren't.
And that's that's that's how successful in a way the left has been in six in succeeding the notion of intimidating free speech.
The reactions I had watching the Masters both Friday when Crenshaw was interviewed and watched his final round and um his final closeout on 18.
There's no classier individual than Ben Crenshaw, I think.
Uh and I've had I've played golf with him a couple of times.
I've had a chance to meet him, and he's he's exactly the way he was.
What the great thing about him.
It's just a class individual.
And my only point is it just stood out so much.
Whereas it used to be common.
What we saw from Jordan Speith, the hi the humility and the uh uh the respect and the reverence for what he had done and where he had done it, winning the masters, uh and all that used to be common.
It used to be common whenever we would see people champions in sports or in anything else interviewed.
Now it's it's not.
It it's it's rare, which to me is a shame, but it's still comforting to see it.
I but I just I uh if you're just joining us, I I I had to open the program today with a uh uh congratulations to Jordan Speith for winning.
And I just had to make the observation that that obviously he comes from an absolute wonderful family.
It was obvious, and that it had his family has been a tremendous influence on him, just a class individual, uh a humble individual, uh, all the way through, respectful of what he had done and where he had done it, how rare what he had accomplished is, and yet he was brimming with confidence, but he was not braggadocious.
You never worried about one offensive word coming out of his mouth, not one obscenity, nothing.
The same thing with Crenshaw on on Friday and Augusta, you know, they've maintained their traditions.
It's a it's been a very tough thing to do.
Because the forces of change uh have been tremendous in this country, and then and these forces of change have been arrayed against many of the traditions and institutions that define this country's greatness.
And to me, it was just an uplifting inspiring just to watch this 21-year-old young man.
Like I said, when I was his age, no way could I have he came across as somebody who'd lived to be age 40, was that experienced, that seasoned, uh that mature.
And it was just terrific to see.
And Crenshaw, when Crenshaw speaks, he's automatically authoritative.
It just commands respect.
And you you know you're listening to somebody of great, great character.
And I had the same thing, uh, same reaction listening to Jordan Spith.
Anyway, I gotta take a break now because I'm up against time, as seems I always am back.
It is the fastest three hours in media in all of broadcasting.
You know, after 30 minutes of the nightly news, you feel like you've been watching for two hours.
Three hours of this program seems like 20 minutes, right?
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