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May 7, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you here.
I know that I know that you're all waiting.
You're all waiting to find out what I think about all this stuff before you make up your mind.
I understand that, and I'm ready.
Great to have you here, EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
The National Football League has a problem, and it need not be where it is today.
It is unbelievable to me that this was allowed, and it certainly looks like it was allowed to get to this point.
And this need not, none of this need have happened.
Now, all over the drive-by media, you have one of the, I guess, most respected, admired, envied players in the entire league has undergone overnight a dramatic image shift.
The drive-by media salivating over destroying Tom Brady.
He's a cheater.
And I know our culture loves to take people at the top down.
I know we love taking people down a peg, and we love it when they take themselves down.
That's commonplace.
But man, there is so much joy, particularly in the drive-by media, over the predicament that Brady is in.
And it's not to say that he hasn't played a role in putting himself in this predicament.
But it is unbelievable to me.
Now, we're going to get into all the details and all the things that people think.
And we're going to get into Baltimore.
We've got a CNN, an incredible piece of journalism.
I guess they do that now and then at CNN.
Accidental journalism out of Baltimore.
Baltimore police investigation does not support some of the prosecution's charges.
This piece undercuts and undermines Marilyn Mosby.
And it does so in such a way, I've been watching the news this morning as I always have these TV monitors on.
And now there are people openly worrying if Mosby's case fails, if Baltimore will burn to the ground.
I literally saw somebody speculate about that possibility.
That if Mosby's case fails against the Six Cops, if it fails, then Baltimore is going to burn.
And they're getting worried about it exactly as we knew would happen.
You know, the euphoria of the original charges and the announcement, no justice, no peace.
And now reality is beginning to settle in.
And the defendants are not going to roll over and play ball and make Marilyn Mosby look like a hero.
The defendants are going to work as hard as they can to get out from under this.
And people are now beginning to look at all of the irregularities here.
And apparently there was a police investigation that shows a lot of different results than what Marilyn Mosby announced.
We, of course, will get into that in great detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
There's starting to be wild conspiracy theories bandied about.
And I want to nuke one of them right now.
Mr. Snerdley, tell me if you've heard this one.
That Marilyn Mosby purposely overcharged the black cops so that they would be exonerated, but properly charged the white cops so that they would be convicted.
She's not that smart.
I'm sorry, folks.
She isn't that smart.
And none of the people working with her, they might be that devious.
They might have that.
I'm sorry.
At some point, we have to be realistic here.
Marilyn Mosby just isn't that smart.
And besides, one of the charges, one of the drivers, the driver, only one charged with murder is a black guy.
So it kind of throws the theory out of the wazoo.
CBS, their own poll, and they bury the lead on this.
Majority back religious business owners rights.
CBS Evening News on Tuesday and Wednesdays, CBS This Morning touted the latest poll results from the CBS News, New York Times regarding the 2016 presidential race.
And in this poll, there was something that they didn't make a big bunch of hay about, which is somewhat interesting.
And that is that a majority of people in this country favor the religious rights of business owners triumphing.
And it's a reference to what was going on in Indiana and other things.
Oh, the Pam Geller story.
You know, it's amazing to watch this one on TV too.
So I was watching, I forget which it was.
It doesn't matter.
One of the networks this morning, and somebody was defending Pam Geller and started talking about, if we're not careful, Sharia law is going to, and one of the infobabes, I don't remember who it was, come on, this is silly.
We've got to stop with this.
There isn't going to be Sharia law in the United States of America.
This isn't going to happen.
Come on, get real, get real.
It's silly.
But Sharia law has already been implemented in this country.
Are you aware that in New Jersey, a judge found that an Islamic man could not be accused of rape of his wife?
She charged him with rape.
A judge in New Jersey found that he could not be charged with it, much less found guilty because his religion, there's no rape in his religion.
Well, hello, that's Sharia.
Now, it's not Sharia that has become American law, but it's been implemented.
It's been used.
And I would, as I said the other day, I would even go so far as to point out that what happened in Indiana when they had their religious freedom law passed there.
Remember the outrage that occurred as a result of that?
And the media running around going door to door looking for a bigot.
And they found this young woman and her family that owned the pizzeria.
And the people at the pizzeria had never said anything about whether or not they would cater a gay wedding and they'd never come up.
But the media goes door to door, starts asking.
And in response to a question, this young woman who thinks that the media really is interested in what she's saying, doesn't realize she's being set up, says, no, we would not cater a gay wedding.
It's against our religious principles.
And bamo.
I mean, the sewer that his Twitter blew up.
Everybody in the country came descending on the state of Indiana.
That's an example of what Sharia would be like.
You must conform.
You must like.
You must agree.
You must comport.
You must do what we want or else.
So this is 25 years ago.
My only point is that 25 years ago, a number of us said, don't be foolish.
This will never happen in this country.
And here we are 25 years later, and the president is going to do executive amnesty.
The president's getting away with violating the Constitution now and then.
Nobody does anything about it.
And I can remember, wasn't that long ago?
Will you throw out a possibility like, nah, nah, nah, never happened.
Congress would never give up that kind of thing.
It would never let that kind of thing happen.
So, and I'm sure there are other instances of this.
But let's go back to the National Football League here for just a second because let me just tell you up top here, rather than build up to this, the thing that amazes me the most about this: if you go back to the game in question,
the AFC championship game, the Baltimore Colts, the Indianapolis Colts alleged that the Patriots were playing games with the footballs and were under-inflating them to make it easier for the quarterback to throw them.
At that point, the NFL could have, and if you read this report from Ted Wells, they had every opportunity to stop everything in progress and look into it at that moment, even if it meant delaying the start of the game.
They could have re-examined the footballs.
Remember, Walt Anderson, the referee for the game, said for the first time in 19 years, the balls were not presented to him pre-game.
One of the equipment people in the Patriots is responsible for taking the balls to the locker room, took them there, deposited them for a while, but the referee didn't get to examine them, and then they left, went to the bathroom there, and there were 100 seconds, and obviously some air was taken out of some of them.
And Anderson said, for the first time in my career as a ref, something happened here that shouldn't happen.
The point is, the National Football League allowed that game to be played highly suspicious that the balls were improperly inflated.
You realize had they taken a different course of action, they could have delayed the game whatever it takes, maybe not at all, because they had plenty of advance warning via the allegation.
They could have taken steps to go get those balls back from the field, examine every one of them, throw out the ones that were under or improperly inflated, make sure that all the balls were correct and according to regulations, and start the game.
Instead, they allowed the game to start, apparently, fully aware that some of the balls did not meet regulation.
Now, if the report is true and it doesn't use this terminology, the reason that would happen would be to be able to catch the team violating the rules in the act, which is what happened.
Now we know that a number of balls were underinflated, and we know that the equipment people in the Patriots locker room are making adjustments to them.
And we are relatively certain it's probable, you know, using the lingo that Ted Wells uses here, that Brady was aware of it, that Brady ordered it, that these guys thought it was to be done because this is the way Tom Brady wanted it done.
So now the NFL is where it is today.
One of the most respected and best quarterbacks in the history of the game is now under a cloud of suspicion with his integrity damaged to the point that people may not ever be able to think of him the way they used to.
They're looking at some sort of punishment that has to be handed out here.
I don't have any idea what, and I don't think anybody else knows.
But I'll just tell you what I've read.
A reporter for the Miami Herald says it could be up to a full season.
I saw Brian Kilmead on Fox News say, got to be four to six weeks, maybe a $100,000 fine.
Other info people are talking about two games, four games, a fine here, a fine there.
But that's not all.
There's Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick in this report is barely mentioned other than to say he didn't have any idea what was going on.
Therefore, he's been exonerated.
Well, if he's not punished somehow, Sean Payton over there in New Orleans is going to be really curious.
Because you remember during the Bounty Gate investigation against the Saints, the head coach of the Saints, Sean Payton, was suspended for a full season precisely because he didn't know what was going on in his locker room.
He didn't know his players were running a bounty program.
And for that, not having control, he was suspended for a whole year.
The defensive coordinator was suspended indefinitely for running the bounty program.
So if Delichek escapes any punishment, what's Sean Payton going to do?
On the other hand of this, you have the Patriots opening the season on Thursday night in September against the Pittsburgh Steelers, now looking at the possibility that a quarterback nobody has ever heard of is going to be quarterbacking a team while Brady is serving a suspension.
And all of this appears to me to be unnecessary.
And it leads me to wonder, somebody really must want to get the Patriots for something.
They allowed an NFL game to be played with balls they knew didn't meet regulation just to catch somebody or a team or people involved in probable cheating.
Now you look at the suspension of Brady.
Look at Ray Rice.
Ray Rice suspended for a season, domestic abuse, granted, but still full season.
How many other players have been suspended for a game or two or four games because they took a poke of a doobie?
Tested positive for marijuana.
Didn't cheat the game.
Didn't do anything to attack the integrity of the game.
They might have done the things that didn't reflect well on the shield, i.e. the NFL logo.
But this, why, this goes to the integrity of the game.
And you're going to have a lot of players keeping a sharp eye on what, if any, punishment is handed down to Brady.
And they're going to be comparing it to previous players and their punishments.
And they will compare.
And you're going to have, you've got the drive-bys now wanting Brady's scalp.
I mean, you can't go through the drive-bys and find anybody here.
I haven't found anybody yet who does not want Brady severely reprimanded and punished for this.
Now, we've got the audio sound bites to back it up.
I'll take a break here, folks, as we get close to the end of the first segment here.
But I'm still struck.
And maybe I don't properly understand this.
And if so, I'm sure some of you will correct me.
But all of this seems like it needn't have happened.
And the fact that they let it have, let a game be played with what they knew to be under-inflated footballs, and they could have found that out before the game, which they knew and fixed it before the game.
They need not be in this situation, and they don't want to be here.
They don't want to suspend a number one player in the game.
They don't want to, they don't want to.
None of this is anything that anybody in that league is looking forward to dealing with.
This is unbelievable to me.
By the way, folks, have you heard, you see where Michael Brown's partner, the gentle giant's partner in crime, Dorian Johnson, the Hands Up, Don't Shoot witness, have been arrested to the police in St. Louis?
This is the guy responsible for Hands Up Don't Shoot, the guy that tells the lie that the gentle giant was running away from the cop, had his hands up saying, don't shoot.
He's responsible.
He was shown to be a full-fledged liar.
He was contradicted by witness after witness in the grand jury.
The Department of Justice is in St. Louis running the Ferguson Police Department.
They are implementing the reforms that were so necessary because what?
The department is so racist.
In the report from Eric Holder exonerating the cop and admitting that the gentle giant, A, wasn't gentle and B, wasn't surrendering.
At the end of the report, Eric Holder, but despite all of this, it was obviously clear that this department is plagued with racists here and racists there and racism everywhere.
So they're in there monitoring the police department, Ferguson.
Despite that, the Gentle Giants partner in crime, Dorian Johnson, the Hands Up, Don't Shoot witness, been arrested by the police in St. Louis.
He was not arrested for lying about Hands Up, Don't Shoot.
And by the way, that lie has cost untold millions, if not billions of dollars in damage in Ferguson and other cities around the country.
That lie could also be said to have some responsibility for the powder keg that is Baltimore and every other city in this country.
Because look at how many people still to this day believe that that lie was the truth.
But he was not arrested for that.
He was arrested for resisting arrest.
And so what we'll hear now is that the St. Louis area police are probably still out of control.
And they've got this vindictive thing about them and they just have to go get this poor guy.
Apparently, he was using or preparing or selling what is known as purple drink, which is basically robotusin with heroin in it or some sort of opiate.
We'll be back after.
Touching a lot of bases here, just to let you know what's coming up on the program today before we get back to this Patriots thing.
Because I think this is, I don't know, folks, I just have a hunch here, and something tells me that there's a whole lot more going on here than deflated footballs.
And it's all rooted in what appears obvious to me that this need not have happened, but it did happen.
The league let this happen, and there has to be a reason for that.
We would not be here today if the league had just been told you've got some deflated footballs that look like they're going to make the game.
Okay, we've got to stop.
We're going to figure this out, get rid of the bad balls, get some good properly inflated footballs in there, and then start the game.
We wouldn't be here today unless, of course, there was a mechanism for getting underinflated balls into the game during the game.
But this is a crucial, crucial point.
Anyway, let me come back to that.
Get this.
The Republican National Committee today has released a newly uncovered audio from a 2003 radio interview that Hillary Clinton gave as a senator.
And in this radio interview in 2003, she was asked about the issue of illegal immigration.
And she said, I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
In the audio from the RNC, what they say is Clinton's interview, and it was with John Gambling.
It was a WOR.
Clinton calls for more border security and for employers to stop hiring illegal immigrants.
Now, we had the soundbite just yesterday where this woman is now claiming that she knows that illegal immigrants are paying more in taxes than most New York businesses.
We have a woman who used to be adamantly opposed to gay marriage, just like Obama did three, four years ago, now totally for it, as though they always have been.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore used to be pro-life back when they were just local politicians in Arkansas and Tennessee.
When they had national aspirations, of course, they had to become pro-choice.
Mrs. Clinton, 12 years ago, when she was a senator, adamantly against illegal immigrants, wanted to shore up the border.
She had the position then that a majority of Americans had then, and a majority of Americans still have to this day.
But now she's out there, that audio we had yesterday, she is vowing to go beyond Obama's executive amnesty.
She's vowing to grant citizenship to between 5 million and 12 million illegals.
Obama's not even trying that.
Now, I know this may be apples and oranges.
When Obama talks about granting amnesty, he's not granting citizenship.
The Constitution does not, the president can't, only Congress can do that.
Now, I know what you're saying.
Well, there's a lot of things only Congress can do that Obama's doing.
But Obama has not talked like Hillary did yesterday about granting automatic citizenship.
And if you remember when we've discussed this, citizenship has not been part of this.
But we always know that it is, ultimately, because all this is about is registering all these new illegals as Democrat Party voters.
But even all these amnesty discussions, either amnesty bills in Congress or Obama's executive amnesty, are not about citizenship, which is why we know that a short period of time after this executive amnesty happens, somebody like Chuck Schumer is going to go to the closest camera and microphone, talk about, you know, what were we thinking?
Here we've just told them that they can come out of the shadows and they can stay.
They can legally now stay here.
They have amnesty.
What were we thinking?
Well, we did not grant them the right to vote.
How cruel have we been here?
And then make an immediate push to grant them citizenship so they can vote.
My point in saying this is citizenship is not even part of what Obama's talked about.
Yesterday, Hillary promised it.
And frankly, folks, I don't think Hillary knows that she can't.
I am not one of these people that thinks Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world.
I don't think Elizabeth Warren's the smartest woman in the world.
What happens here is that whatever liberal female rises to prominence, it's just standard operating procedure that the media and everybody's going to refer to them as the smartest woman in the world.
So Hillary has had that title since she became first lady.
And now Elizabeth Warren has a joint op-ed somewhere.
Where is that op-ed?
Elizabeth Warren has a joint op-ed with de Blasio in the Washington Post.
And now they're starting to talk about how she's the smartest woman in the world.
And she's an idiot, too.
These people are dumb coughs.
And I doubt that Hillary knows that she can't grant citizenships.
But regardless of what she knows and doesn't know, she's out there saying it.
And the point is, 12 years ago, three years ago, five years ago, Hillary believed something entirely different than what she's saying today.
Now, I don't expect it to hurt her with the Democrat Party voter.
I don't expect it to hurt her with the base.
And in fact, you know, if you're one of these people that looks at the presidential election without candidates, you just look at states and electoral votes and you count up blue states and red states and then the states that you don't know which way they're leaning.
It's axiomatic, it's automatic that whoever the Democrat Party nominee is is going to get 230, 240 electoral votes.
Doesn't matter who it is.
And it's axiomatic that the Republican nominee is going to get a certain number of electoral votes simply because states are so solidly blue or red, depending respectively which way you're talking, that the states that matter are the swing states, states where it's impossible to tell, and that's where the campaigns are fought.
And so none of this stuff matters to people that look at presidential elections that way.
If people look at presidential elections issue by issue and voters decide issue by issue, they think this kind of stuff could hurt Mrs. Clinton.
But I'm telling you, this kind of hypocrisy or changing her mind is not going to give one rock-solid Democrat voter a second's worth of pause.
All that's going to matter is that Hillary is on board for the agenda today, which is amnesty and citizenship.
They're not going to care what she said 12 years ago.
Now, I don't blame the RNC for putting it out.
Don't misunderstand.
But I've been there and done that.
I've seen this.
I've seen all kinds of evidence of hypocrisy turn up and be proven conclusively about Democrat candidates.
And I've seen it never matter.
Republicans, yeah, they can get hurt with it because of the media.
But the media is not going to harangue Hillary over this unless there is an exception, unless they really get frightened that she becomes so weak that all those automatic blue state votes are in question.
So it could end up being precarious for her, but not because of this specifically, but because she might lose the media.
If she loses the media, you can waive Sayonara because that's all she's got.
Because in and of it herself, there's nothing to recommend her.
She can't go out on the campaign trail and persuade people to vote for her, no matter what she does.
She's got every vote she's going to get right now, simply because she's a Democrat-presumed nominee, is my point.
She's got every vote she's going to get, no matter what she does.
Unless she does something just totally incompetent to blow everything.
And this foundation stuff could end up being it.
Remember, it's going to matter More than anything else, if there's anything that happens that causes the media to go lukewarm.
And some might say that that is already beginning to happen.
Let me take a brief timeout.
Okay, that set the table.
Come back here and finish, shall I say, continue with what's going on with the Patriots and the NFL and the deflated footballs.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, my friend.
Joe Rushbo, half my brain tied behind my Mac just to make it fair.
Okay, to briefly restate, it is my humble observation, and I, by the way, stand to be corrected on this if I've got this wrong, but I've read enough of this report to draw the conclusion that the NFL purposely allowed a game to be played, no less an AFC championship game, with footballs that were under deflated, that were not inflated to required PSI.
And they did this, it appears, to catch whoever it was doing this, i.e., cheating.
It was brought to the league's attention long before the game by the Indianapolis Colts.
It was brought to the league's attention in weeks prior and on the day of the game.
And simply on the basis of the Colts registering complaint, the league decided to find out what was going on.
Now, I don't think you can look at this in a vacuum.
I don't think you could look at this event without keeping something else present in your mind, and that is Spygate.
And there are still a lot of really ruffled feathers and anger, angry feelings about Spygate.
That Belichick was not suspended, for example.
And I've read in the voluminous reading that I've done last night and today that some people think that the commissioner of the NFL today, to this day, regrets not suspending Belichick.
But I keep coming back to why in the world would you, as a league, as an enterprise, as a company, however you want to look at it, why would you put yourself in the situation that you're at today?
You have your biggest star player now under a cloud.
You have the media and fans clamoring for your star player to be suspended and fined and severely punished.
You have other coaches and players throughout the league eagerly watching to see what happens here because, as I mentioned, Sean Payton, the coach of the New Orleans Saints, was suspended a whole season precisely because he did not know what was going on in his locker room.
And this report says that Belichick did not know what was going on with these footballs.
So Sean Payton's going to be looking at this.
I don't think he'd say anything.
But he's going to be looking at it.
You've got a bunch of players who've been suspended for things that did not have anything to do with the integrity of the game other than it doesn't help the game to have a criminal element play in it.
But I mean, being suspended for wife beating or marijuana is not a direct attack on the integrity of the game like this was or is The Patriots, as the Super Bowl champions, open the season Thursday night, first game of the season in September, and they'll host the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The league is now faced with the likelihood, apparently, that the star quarterback of the league is going to be suspended and not available for that game.
And if he isn't suspended and only fined, you're going to have all other kinds of hell break loose here.
So it makes me wonder why even run the risk of getting to this point when this could have maybe been shut down on game day.
If you get a report, an allegation that some footballs are illegally inflated, well, find out.
And if you find some that are illegally inflated, either throw them out or properly inflate them and play the game and then try to figure out what happened instead of allowing a game to be played with footballs that do not meet the rulebook regulation.
So, with Spygate over here silently, it makes me wonder if there isn't a lot more going on with this.
Meaning, if there isn't a real, I don't know how to put this, because I'm just wildly speculating here.
But it would not be difficult to believe, given everything that's happened here, it wouldn't be hard to understand if somebody somewhere with authority in the league really has it out for the Patriots and thinks that they got away with too little punishment over Spygate and may think that there's a culture of this stuff going on with the Patriots and they want to get to the bottom of it and they want it exposed once and for all,
because ultimately that would be more damaging to the league than just one little incident here.
But this is all idle speculation because I can't think of one reason other than that why you would allow circumstances to develop in such a way that we are where we are today.
And where are we today?
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
There's a montage of drive-by media people just gushing with excitement over the fact that Brady's been caught cheating.
Super cheat.
Calls this morning for the NFL to suspend Super Bowl hero Tom Brady.
Did Tom Brady cheat his way into the Super Bowl?
Did the most handsome man on earth cheat his way into the Super Bowl?
Did the MVP cheat?
If you knowingly tried to cheat, don't cheat.
Their superstar quarterback may have done just that.
Tom Brady doesn't have to cheat.
He's so good.
Did he cheat?
Oh, yes, he cheated.
Hell yes, he cheated.
You got Bill Roden at the New York Times sports columnist demanding that something be done here because this is a big cheater and this is unacceptable.
I mean, it's everywhere you look that once again, the best player in the National Football League, and maybe I should qualify that the best quarterback, clearly the biggest star in the league, has now been tarnished and damaged, integrity up for grabs, being questioned.
The drive-by media salivating and excited over the fact that he might be suspended, thrown out of the game for a while, fined extensively.
It's a strange place to want to be.
Not that anybody wanted to be here.
Now they're circling the wagons at the Patriots.
Brady's agent is attacking the report, and Ted Wells, the lawyer, put it together, and the owner of the Patriots, the same.
And I must say, folks, let me read something to you.
This is page 228.
Let me just read this to page 228.
In sum, the data did not provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty whether there was or was not tampering, as the analysis of such data ultimately is dependent upon assumptions and information.
That's like an asterisk saying, we don't know whether anything we've said here is true because the data doesn't provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty.
Well, then what's the rest of this report?
This, folks, is to me, as is the case with most things, there's way more going on here than anybody knows.
No, no, I know what the Jets fans think.
They think this is nothing compared to everything else the Patriots have done.
Anyway, we've got to take a brief break here at the top of the hour.
As you can tell, folks, the arsenal today is loaded.
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