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May 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back to the fastest three hours in media.
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I was just walking a couple of laps around the building.
Not really.
I I just said that.
Sounds good.
Now what I was doing, I was testing the range of my Apple Watch from my from my iPhone.
I've said the Bluetooth low energy range.
And I went as far away from here where the phone is, because you know, the watch is is a uh it's a companion device athlete to the phone.
There are some things you can do on the watch without your phone.
You know what the biggest one is?
As your phone learns Wi-Fi networks, your watch learns them.
So whatever network you visit that your that your iPhone logs into, then your watch will remember it also.
You can be out of range of your phone, but on this on a Wi-Fi network, the watch knows and still send and receive iMessages.
Which for me is is half of the usage of the watch.
So for half of the things I use the watch for, I don't even need to be within range of the phone, as long as I'm on a Wi-Fi network that the watch knows.
And of course, that's the case here in the buildings.
Anyway, the bottom line is I was testing distance and I've gotten about 40 yards.
The range is supposed to be 33 meters or 10 10 meters, 33 feet, and I've gotten 40 feet and still stayed within range.
So one out there is checking it.
While I was doing it, I got an I got an ESPN alert that said that Tom Brady's popularity rating, the E rating, whatever it is, is at its lowest ever.
It was it, it's at 53% since this all started.
I don't know what it was at the starting point.
It the alert called it the E-rating.
It's the same thing as the Q rating or factor that they subject TV personalities to.
It's not just name recognition, but popularity.
Like I have huge name recognition, but you know, 30% of the country hates my guts because they're liberals.
So everybody knows who I am, but my popularity rating is only around 70 because of the libs hate me.
Brady's is down to 53% in this, and it was just an alert, and I haven't had a chance to get back here to look at the whole story.
But it does remind me that I do have to give you my analysis and theory on Goodell deciding to hear the appeal himself.
And this is kind of an in-your-face move because the Patriots asked for somebody totally independent.
The problem for them is that the collective bargaining uh bargaining agreement, the deal that the league has with the players association, the players association agreed to have the commissioner be an arbitrator in disputes.
So Goodell is not asserting anything that he's not been granted authority to do.
It's just that the Patriots came along.
Hey, you know what?
Can we get somebody totally independent here?
Could you just all recuse yourselves from this?
And Goodell said, Nope, I'm going to handle the appeal.
And the sports drive bys are all over the place trying to figure out what that means.
And you can imagine the varying opinions on that.
There are some who believe.
Well, no, Goodell did not hand down the original suspension.
No, no.
He authorized it, but the original suspension, as we're led to believe here, came from a relatively new vice president league, Troy Vincent, who's a former defensive back for the Eagles.
And it was Troy Vincent that came down with the four games and the million dollar fine and the two draft choices.
Now, Goodell had to authorize it, but it was not his original decision.
So goes the story.
Well, the aftermath has occurred.
Goodell has seen it.
He's aware of everything being said.
The sports drive bys, by the way, and I'm kind of surprised at this.
And the Patriots had their 20,000-word reaction to Ted Wells' 30-minute TV press conference.
And the drive-bys are mocking it.
The drive-bys are laughing, particularly at the idea that the guy that was called himself the deflator did that because he was losing weight.
Sports drive-bys are not buying it.
Come on.
Nobody losing weight calls themselves the deflator.
They think it's it's really a bad, bad defensive effort.
It's not good, which means it probably is pretty good if the sports drive by criticizing.
But one theory goes that Goodell decided to do this to make sure that the hammer is kept down.
to make sure that some independent arbiter doesn't lift the suspension or doesn't weaken it.
My theory is that Goodell is taking over the arbitration or the appeal process pretty much.
Precisely to cool this down.
And is going to make this four games two games.
I don't know what's going to happen to the fine or the draft choices or any of that.
But my guess is that Goodell is going to take the opportunity here to try to put some things back together rather than continue to throw the hammer down.
Because if I'm wrong, and I could well be, if Goodell upholds this and it's four games, there's no doubt the Patriots are going to go to court.
There's no doubt the Patriots and Brady will go to court, and you're going to have a team and an owner who used to be extremely close to Goodell, now at odds in the courtroom.
I can't imagine anybody on what the suspension is unjust, it's unqualified, that it's wrong, that it's factually wrong, that the that the investigation conducted by Wells was full of holes and full of no cons no dead certain evidence and no facts in it.
There are a number of ways they could go after it.
I mean, you can sue anybody for anything, snurdly.
And if the judge doesn't throw it out, do you go get a chance to make your case?
What do you mean on what grounds?
Who do you think doesn't have grounds here?
No, so if no, that's if they can sue anybody.
If they don't like what they get, they can go to court.
They're making rumblings if this is going to happen if they don't get what they want.
I mean, Brady's lawyering up for people are going to do their work in court, not in uh penalty phase hearings or appeals or arbitration.
This is not arbitration, it's appeals process.
But no, the people think that this is this is headed for civil lawsuit territory.
And I can't imagine anybody involved in this wants that.
I mean, we're not talking about something like what George Stephanopoulos did here.
But time will tell.
And I I will uh happily uh posit the possibility I'm wrong.
Goodell could well be thinking that he's the last thing he wants to happen is for the league to appear to cave Under the pressure of this withering response from the Patriots that he will want to continue to do what he has done, and that is put his stamp as the enforcer and the final authority and the commissioner and the power broker on everything.
And make sure that this penalty is maintained.
Four games, million dollars.
So it could go either way.
My my I'm I'm gonna follow my instincts, which are when it was first announced four games.
I said there's gonna be an appeal, and it'll be reduced to two.
And I thought the same thing when I heard that Goodell was going to do the appeal.
So we'll see.
Here is before we get Stephanopoulos' apology.
I want to give you another example of Stephanopoulos for those of you that don't remember him because you weren't paying attention or you're not old enough.
To those of you who think Stephanopoulos just a cute little Snuff of Lucky guy, just a snuff a lot guy, cartoon character.
He's so cute, Mandy.
He's such a cute little guy.
Look at him.
Got these glasses, look perfect here.
His wife and his wife is comedian, Ellie Wentworth.
Well, the guy wouldn't hurt anybody.
He's just such a nicest guy in good morning, America.
Did you see he was so nice to Robin Robert?
Always he had cancer.
George Stephanopoulos, oh, he practically cried with her.
People don't know who the guy is.
They don't know of his Clinton war room days.
They don't know of his bimbo eruption days.
They don't know of him as a as a cutthroat Democrat operative.
They think of him as journalists like think of any of the rest of them.
So today we've been featuring examples of Stephanopoulos for what he is, what he always has been, and the last thing he is is a journalist.
He is a Democrat Party hack.
He's an enforcer, he's an intimidator.
He ran the Clinton Wall room with James Carville and the forehead, Paul Bagella, and he still does.
And Mrs. Clinton's running for president.
He gave money to the foundation.
He's hell bent on her getting elected.
You think he's interested in somebody else winning?
And by virtue of that, he's going to use his power at ABC to destroy anybody who might get in her way, subtly, like he did with Romney and this mythical war on women contraception question.
Well, this is 1993.
This is from they actually made a movie about the war room.
The Democrats were so proud of it.
The Clinton campaign was so proud of it.
They made a documentary, and it aired on HBO.
I think you can still watch it on HBO.
It's called the War Room.
Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
And this is a portion, Stephanopoulos was the communications director for the war room, which means he's the guy that dealt with the media.
He's the guy that dealt with anything going on in the media, unflattering to the Clintons.
He was the one calling them up and threatening, cajoling, persuading, whatever it took to change the nature of the coverage.
And here Stephanopoulos is talking with an unidentified person about information they have about Clinton.
This is during the campaign.
Thank you yourself.
I guarantee you that if you do this, you'll never work in democratic politics again.
Nobody will believe you.
And people will think you're scummy.
The alternative is don't do it.
It causes you some temporary pain with people who tomorrow aren't going to matter.
And you have a campaign that understands that in a difficult time you did something right.
This he was talking to a woman who was a potential bimbo eruption.
This is one of the many women that were threatening to come forward, women who have had had sexual history, lesones with Slick Willie.
I mean, they were popping up all over the place.
And a woman named Betsy Wright actually ran the Bimbo eruptions unit.
It was actually the bimbo eruptions unit in the war room.
And Betsy Wright ran it, and it was it was uh it was overseen by Hillary.
Hillary knew what was going on.
Hillary's job was to make sure that Bill did it in private and nobody ever found out about it.
Hillary's job was to make sure that it was never discovered.
And if it was, then everybody got in geared and destroyed the women, or tried to.
As in Paula Jones.
As in any of Jennifer Flowers, as in Kathleen Willie.
As in Linda Tripp.
Now, if you're a millennial, these names are all news to you.
You don't know who I'm talking about.
They are women the Clinton administration had tried to destroy.
Because they had all had.
Oh, yeah, Juanita Broderick.
She alleged rape.
On NBC.
And they did the same thing to her.
But anyway, that's Stephanopoulos, and he's he's telling this woman, who they've found out that she's thinking of going public in the news that she'd slept with Slick Willie.
And he's telling her, I guarantee you, you do this, you'll never work in Democrat politics again.
Nobody will ever believe you.
People will think you're scummy.
The alternative is you don't come forward.
Might hurt for a while.
But you're gonna have a campaign, i.e.
us, that understands at a difficult time you did something right.
You get in trouble down the road.
We could be there to help you.
But you do this.
Throat slit symbol.
Clinton, Stephanopoulos in the war room, threatening a woman.
Just a cute little guy.
Good morning, America.
It's barely five six.
You see the way he hugged Robin Roberts.
Oh man, it was just melted your heart.
Just melting.
Diane saw your love, dude.
Loved it when she sat on his lap.
Oh, God, it's just the most heartwarming sight.
You're telling me this guy is a partisan?
Oh, kid me.
Here's the Stephanopoulos.
Well, no, that's the low information voter reacting to the news here.
Ah, you've seen the way he sits on Diane Sawyer's lap.
She loved it.
He you're telling me this guy's I mean, come on, Mr. Limbaugh.
Get serious.
Here's the apology on Good Morning America this morning.
I guess it's uh it's either the whole thing or part, but you'll see.
I think this is fairly condescending.
Over the last several years, I've made substantial donations to dozens of charities, including the Clinton Global Foundation.
Those donations were a matter of public record, but I should have made additional disclosures on air when we covered the foundation.
And I now believe that directing personal donations to that foundation was a mistake.
Even though I made them strictly support work done to stop the spread of AIDS, help children, and protect the environment in poor countries.
I should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict.
I apologize to all of you for failing to do that.
We forgive you, George.
Oh my God, we really believed it too, but we forgive you.
You really try to help people with AIDS.
We feel bad you're in trouble, George.
Oh my God, you should try and save the planet, folks.
He's giving to the Clinton to save the planet.
He's apologizing for saving the planet.
Oh my god, what are we doing to this poor little man?
Oh my God.
Helping AIDS me with this.
How mean can the Republicans be?
This is just mean that they can be poor George.
Okay, I found that ESPN story that I got notified about on my watch.
For the first time in his career, a poll indicates there are almost as many people who say they don't like Tom Brady as people who say they do.
This is EPOL, E-Poll, EPOL Market Research, released findings today in a poll conducted this week and asked more than a thousand people, representative of the U.S. population, what they thought about Brady.
The company's celebrity index score shows that 47% of those surveyed say that they do not like Brady.
Okay.
Same survey taken in February, 32% didn't like Brady.
So it's gone from 32 to 47%.
So 15% increase in the number of people say they do not like Brady.
Ten years ago, the number of people who said they liked Brady was 90%.
Today it's around 48%.
There's some people that have no opinion.
There are some people who don't know who he is.
In June of 2008, the off-season after Spygate, Brady's positive appeal fell to a career low of 77.
And then he hit another career low with a 68% likability rating February of 2015, and then it's down from that now.
So he's uh plummeting because of this.
And it matters.
Now here's the way it matters.
Because you'd be a smart alex.
Oh, so rush, you assume the E-rating.
Fine.
Q rating.
Is that gonna make fewer people watch football?
No.
No, this is gonna increase TV ratings.
Can you imagine the pre-game shows now on proper inflation of footballs?
You're gonna know you're gonna get so sick of this by the time preseason comes around.
Just another thing the media will focus on.
Now this is only going to enhance interest and intrigue.
But if he wants to run for office someday, uh it's something that'll have to deal with this stuff matters to people who want to do that.
I guess this stuff matters to people that want to be product smokesmen.
Uh but it isn't gonna matter in terms of television audience for football games.
No, no, no, no, no, I've not forgotten that.
I've got that right here.
Why New York women wish they lived in the madmen era?
I did.
I mentioned this in the opening hour of the program today, but I've got it right here ready to go.
But I've got to get back to the phones too because people have been waiting uh patient.
There's a couple of books I have to tell you about today, too, as well.
But first, Joel, Asheville, North Carolina.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
God bless you and your family.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
Same to you.
Thank you.
Uh my point is about Tom Brady.
Tom Brady.
Yes, sir.
Uh the reason the media is going after Tom Brady is because he is not a liberal.
During the George W. Bush administration, President Bush was giving the State of the Union address, and I saw Mrs. Bush seated up in the balcony right next to her with Tom Brady.
Now, that told me everything I needed to know about his political views.
He's a he's a conservative.
I saw Tom Brady, not Pete Oberman.
And the thing is, if this happened to the Oakland Raiders, you would have never heard a word about it.
But because it's New England Patriots, I don't know what Mr. Kraft's p politics is.
But he may be a conservative too.
And that's why they're going after his team.
But I believe it's because Brady is a conservative.
You uh you really do.
You really think that Brady's being targeted here for political identification reasons.
Certainly.
If he was a uh a liberal, if he was uh if he was for all these liberal lunatic uh ideas.
Well, how do you know wait now?
Wait, wait, wait.
How do you know he's not?
Just because he sat next to Miss Bulk, so she invites him and he politely accepts, but now remember, I'm sure you remember Mr. Limbaugh.
Tom Brady did not go to the White House with the team to see Barack Obama.
I I never remember that.
I remember the speculation.
There were people that I believe is another proof.
I mean, it's just you know, a lot of little strings make a rope.
And uh put together all these things, I believe Tom Brady, and because he's rich, he's the richest player in football.
Now, I think that there are a lot of people happy at Tom Brady's misery because they're jealous of him.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Oh, absolutely.
And I don't see any doubt about that whatsoever.
But I don't know about I I don't know that the drive-by's are are targeting Brady.
I mean, he's got his defenders in the media, too.
I mean, they're not all they're not all anti-Brady.
Although I'm I frankly have been the thing that surprised me about this is the players.
I guess it shouldn't surprise me.
I haven't yet seen a player, and I've seen one, I've seen the punter for the New York Giants, got him Steve Weatherford, thinks it's too much.
Most of the players I've seen interviewed think this the four games isn't enough.
Like Keyshawn Jackson, sorry, Keyshawn Johnson thought it should have been six games.
A lot of players think it should have been half a season or a whole season.
So I it it's clearly a lot of emotions are being uh raised out there because of this.
And I, you know, I I've talked, I've heard some people speculate that there's a political component to this, but that's while I guess it's it's possible.
I don't think we have enough information to conclude that that is a factor here.
I mean, look, the original complaint about this was not the Baltimore Colts.
The original complaint about this came from the Baltimore Ravens.
The Baltimore Ravens first alerted the Colts to it in October of last year, long before the championship game.
This the the idea of Brady playing with underinflated balls goes all the way back, I mean, years, like 2006, uh 2007.
It goes it goes way, way back.
This stuff is is surfaced in in all of this.
But I don't know, you could have a point, but I don't know what Tom Brady's politics are.
I haven't slightest idea.
I I wouldn't even I wouldn't even know how to make a guess.
I yes, I would.
I would know how to make a guess, but I don't know what point it would serve.
We'll just take your call under advisement and see if other people agree.
Here's Brenda in Phoenix, your next Brenda.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Raj, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I think what you're doing is very important.
Please don't stop.
I listen to you pretty much every day.
And um this notion that you're talking about, this book um and you know, the state of welfare and riots, etc.
We're we're farmers outside of Phoenix, and we live near Indian reservations, and I've always felt the worst thing the government did for the Indians, the most disservice they've done to them is the people.
When you take people as a group and you segregate them and say, You're different.
You don't fit in, you don't belong.
You you go stay over here.
That is just bad.
You know, that's not how humans should live with one another.
Yeah, but you know something, I you you you that's that's a great point, but I sense that in the African American activist community that there is a move to resegregate now.
I think I think I think the civil rights leaders are actually moving and advocating me too.
And in fact, we're kind of late to the theme.
We don't watch a lot of television, but we've been watching reruns of NYPD Blue.
And uh it's interesting, the racial aspects between the characters on the show.
This is, you know, this takes place in the 90s.
And we never we didn't see that.
I mean, I just didn't see that all through high school, college, into my 30s and 40s, and we're seeing it again, and it's this president.
It's this movement.
You're right.
It's a resegregation.
Oh, I don't quite, you know, in fact, look at this.
This was this from a couple of days ago, national review.
I've had this in the stack for two or three days, and I just knew that a point would arise when it was good to use it, and your call is it.
It is a little uh blog here by by Catherine Timp University Port, University Report.
This is the headline.
A room full of white people is a microaggression.
Let me read this to you.
According to a new report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne.
By the way, when did they change it?
It used to be Champagne Urbana.
And now it's just sounded better as Champagne Urbana.
Seems like that's what it was in the 70s, 60s, well, they called it Champagne Urbana.
Now they're calling it Urbana Champagne.
And it doesn't matter, only to me.
According to a new report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, just walking into or sitting in a classroom full of white people, is now considered micro-aggression in itself.
Students of color reported feeling uncomfortable and unwelcomed, just walking into or sitting in a classroom, especially if they were only the only person of color or one of a few, stated the report, just think what a microaggression thing a museum must be, then.
Michelle Obama's out there saying, yeah, these museums, they're African American kids that live less than a mile from here.
And they don't feel like they'd be welcoming.
Now we know why.
Microaggression.
The report is titled Racial Microaggressions.
And it was based on an online survey of more than 4,800 students of color during the 2011-2012 academic year.
And it found more than 800 examples of this kind of microaggression on campus.
In other words, uh African American students walking into a classroom and there were just one or two other African Americans.
They felt like they were among the enemy.
And microaggression means they felt intimidated like the others in the class might act aggressively to in fact were just because of the racial differences.
Now, this, I can tend to you, is an offshoot of an effort to segregate people.
I think that's what the civil rights movement has become.
And by the way, that is not what Dr. King was for.
Dr. King was for the exact opposite.
Brown versus Board of Education, what was that about?
Integration.
And look at the 180 we're doing now.
We're now moving toward full-fledged, as uh I think Eleanor Holmes Norton calls it, segregation.
A brief time out, my friends, back with more why New York Women Wish They Lived in the 60s.
Okay, folks, the jury in the Boston Marathon Bomber Trial has reached a verdict on the punishment.
And they're going to announce that verdict at 3 o'clock when this program is over.
That judge gets it.
So the verdict on Joker Sonarev uh will be announced at the penalty, the sentencing at uh at 3 o'clock.
Now I mentioned a couple of books.
You know, Zeb Chaffetz uh has written a mini biography of me and a New York Times Sunday magazine profile of me.
And he's also put together his uh a book of conservative commencement addresses.
It's it's based on the fact that conservatives are not asked to give commencement addresses.
They just are frozen out.
Some have, he's compiled them.
He went to a bunch of high-powered conservatives and asked for permission to reprint their conservative or their commencement speeches.
And I have not given a major college commencement address.
I have a couple of high schools.
He said, but I know that you have you have said on the air what you would say if you did one, right?
And I said, yeah.
And he included it.
Anyway, the Washington Post has a review of his book today that is just unbelievable.
The Washington Post reads called Remembering Who We Are, a Treasury of Conservative Commencement Addresses, edited by Zeb Chaffetz.
It features uh speeches by Roger Ailes, uh, Ian Hersey Alley, Ben Carson, uh, Bill O'Reilly, Justice Scalia, me.
The Washington Post read it and said, you know what?
These conservative commencement speeches are so much better than what the Libs give.
They're personal, they're inspiring, they're uplift-I kid you not.
I kid you not, it's the Washington Post.
I don't have the first page, so I can't remember the author's name.
Uh, but it it's it's remembering who we are, Treasury of Conservative Commencement Addresses by Zeb Chaffetz and the Washington Post, not only reviews the book as a great book, but points out after reading some of these speeches that they're much better than liberal commencement speeches.
So I wanted to point that out because it's it really it's timely.
This is commencement time now, and there aren't any conservatives invited to give speeches at major universities.
And yesterday I told you about uh Kirsten Power's book, The Silencing, How the Left is Killing Free Speech.
And there's something I forgot to mention something.
It's very crucial for you to understand.
She has she has what's the right way to put this?
She found God.
She was not an atheist, but she has become a Christian, and it's it's fundamental to the evolution that she's going through that enables her as a liberal to see the shocking silencing efforts of people that she considered her friends.
She's even fallen prey to it now.
They're trying to shut her up.
And it really, folks, there are all kinds of examples here that in her book of efforts the left is making some successful to shut up the killing free speech.
And it's fascinating to read this from a left-wing perspective.
It is utterly fascinating.
Uh, and and the passion in this book, so I wanted to remind you of that.
Kirsten Powers, the silencing how the left is killing free speech.
And Zeb Chaffetz Remembering Who We Are.
A treasury of conservative commencement addresses.
Now, the final episode of Mad Men is Sunday night.
And the New York Post went out and started talking to Women for some reason, and they found out that a whole lot of New York women wish that the culture today was more like it was during the 60s.
I can't help but wonder, says the authorette.
I can't help but wonder if in some ways life wasn't easier back then, especially for single marriage-minded women.
New York City career women in their 30s and 40s told me this week that in some ways life seemed easier back then for single women.
Love was easier to find during our Mother's Day than it is now.
Melanie Nutkin, cultural anthropologist, author of Otherhood, Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, said the women she talked to, so no matter their race, ethnicity, cultural background, they had similar concerns with dating.
Men didn't plan dates, they dressed down for dates, no longer chivalrous, they're cowards, they they don't stand up for themselves or to women, they're basically pushovers.
Uh there's no glamour today.
They look back on the 60s, even though women were secretaries and so forth, they still think it was more glamorous and more fun.
Now, admitted they're all judging this by watching a TV show, but even so, what a failure of feminization.
I mean, what a dramatic failure.
That here we are in 2015 at a television show depicting male chauvinism and sexism and massive smoking and consumption of adult beverages has women today longing for that era.
Snerdley, how does that make you feel?
No, I mean, is that not amazing?
The modern era of feminism can be traced back to 1969, and it's become whatever it's become.
And it's got it's so the impression it's made on women is so bad that women today watch a TV show where the men are lecherous.
They sleep around, but they do it well dressed, and they do it drinking martinis, and they do it at fine restaurants.
And they do it with class.
And they just, and and it's it's everybody's freewheeling and fun and so forth.
And women today admit, wow, that looks cool.
And I can tell you, by the way, if you are one of those women, it was.
You are right.
Well, that's it, my friends.
Yet another Sterling, high quality, unequaled, unparalleled, busy broadcast week here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Have you a great weekend coming up, and we will be back here on Monday.
Thought about not being here on Monday, but then I said, no, I'm gonna be here on Monday, so I will be here.
So see you then.
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