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May 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, doing the job the drive-by media used to do, maybe way back a long time ago, and doing it despite an opinion audit rating unchanged in the last year, it documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time, Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Here we go.
And now, from sunny South Florida, it's open lives Friday.
That's right, one big, exciting, and busy broadcast hour remains here on the EIB network.
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It wasn't that long ago, certainly within the past couple of weeks, that I posed a question right here on this program that forced many liberal commentators and analysts elsewhere in the media to concede that I had a point, much as it pained them to acknowledge it.
And you will remember when I remind you what it was that I was talking about.
It had to do with Pam Geller and her draw a cartoon of the prophet contest that took place in Texas.
And remember the outrage that that caused and the debates over free speech that it spawned.
And in the midst of this, I asked a very salient question.
I said, wait a second, if we are to curtail our own speech because it offends Muslims, if we are not to draw pictures of the Prophet, if we're not to engage in cartoon characterizations of the Prophet,
and if we are not to discuss the Prophet in any way whatsoever, that would offend Muslims, and we acknowledge that and we agree to limit our own free speech and expression because we don't want to offend Muslims, then why do we do other things which do offend Muslims?
For example, homosexuality is not permitted in Islam, in militant Islam in Islamic countries.
It isn't permitted.
Homosexuality is so frowned upon that people are put to death.
And of course, this goes without saying that gay marriage is not permitted.
So I asked on this program, why would we willingly shackle ourselves when it comes to cartoons of the Prophet and other similar things?
But yet when it comes to gay marriage, we'll just plaster that all over our media and put that right down their faces every day we can.
I mean, if a militant Islamist or just a Muslim watches MSNBC, why do we continue to plug and talk about gay marriage when we know how it offends them?
Why are so many prime time TV shows now filled with storylines and characters who are gay, the gay lifestyle is normal, and there's gay marriage.
Why do we continue to flaunt that?
Why do we insult Muslims by putting that in front of their faces every day on our television and movie screens?
And some liberals had to acknowledge, you know, Russia's got a point.
I hate to admit it's what Russia's got to point.
Well, the reason I go through this again is because more documents have been seen from the treasure trove of Osama bin Laden's compound.
Cybercast News Service, among the papers found in Osama bin Laden's compound is a 15-page document that urges Islamic bomb makers to join al-Qaeda to kill drunkard, sinful American voters who permit alien satanic practices such as same-sex marriage and abortion.
Written by Abu Saleh al-Samale, a senior al-Qaeda operative, the attempt to recruit explosives experts and other Muslim scientists explains who they will be killing.
By the way, I didn't mention this yesterday.
Folks, I have got, I have from this very Obama, Osama bin Laden treasure trove, the job application form.
There actually is a written job application form that future jihadists have to fill out if they want to become martyrs, if they want to become jihadists.
Now, I know it may sound funny, and in fact, some of the questions are funny, but there is a legitimate, it's a PDF file, it's been translated, and it's an actual job application form.
And this is part of what this is.
Abu Saleh al-Samali, senior al-Qaeda operative, explains what new recruits will be doing.
It is the voters who choose their leaders, who deploy their armies against Muslims and pay billions of their produced tax money to Israel to massacre our brothers and sisters.
It is the voters who vote on laws against the purity and chastity of hijab and minarets, while they are the ones who vote in favor of human alien satanic practices, such as homosexual marriages and infant butchery in the wombs of their selfish, heartless prostitute mothers.
The voters are the ones who demanded America's pullout from Vietnam, and they are the ones who pulled out their Spanish troops from Afghanistan, and they are the ones who turned the evil Tony Blair into a lame duck and ended his 10-year career of arrogance and American subordination with disgrace.
Now, clearly, we're dealing with a nutcase here, but this was found in the treasure trove of documents in bin Laden's hideout.
And what is abundantly clear here is that these jihadists are profoundly offended by gay marriage.
They are profoundly offended by homosexuality, just as I thought they might be, and what they call butchery in the womb.
They don't like it.
But what's interesting, this document blames the voters for electing people who implement these policies.
And that's who will be targeted.
Presidents are not going to be targeted.
Members of Congress aren't going to be targeted.
Al-Qaeda's targets are average ordinary Americans who they think are impure and corrupt and who believe in these things and then elect people to implement them.
And the only reason I bring this up, I'm not lauding al-Qaeda or anything.
I'm just telling you, I knew what I was talking about when I asked the question.
So it's safe to say, Mr. Snurder, let me ask you, is it safe to say that bin Laden and his buddies are offended by American openness with gay marriage and abortion?
It's clear they're offended, right?
And now we know it.
Now, I mean, now bin Laden, of all people, it's in his treasure trove set of documents.
And we know that those aspects of our culture humiliate them, embarrass them, make them mad, offend them.
Now, when it comes to cartoons of the prophet, we are willing to stop doing that simply because we don't want them to be offended.
It's not fair.
It's not right.
It's not cool.
But what about these other things?
Do you think the left Planned Parenthood would say, you know what?
We really, it's not fair to our Muslims and brothers and sisters to offend them this way.
We must cease abortions.
Do you think that'll ever happen?
The gay lesbian alliance against defamation.
You know what?
I didn't know.
I really didn't know that our Muslim brothers and sisters were so opinionated about this.
We're going to withdraw all of our desire for gay marriage.
Now, we don't want to offend our Muslim brothers.
You think they'll do that?
But then why would we stop drawing the picture of the prophet?
I mean, why will we, I mean, not just stop, but why will we join efforts to punish and inflict pain on people who do draw pictures of the prophet?
Why there and not these other areas?
Hmm?
This is a legitimate question.
That's right.
That's exactly.
You're not supposed to ask those kinds of questions.
And since I, your beloved host, do, but it's right there.
I didn't make any of this up.
As they say, I'm just connecting the dots.
And as Steve Jobs pointed out in his graduation address, his commencement address at Stanford, you can't connect the dots going forward.
You can only connect the dots looking back because you don't know what your future holds.
But if you connect the dots in your past, they will tell you a story.
Well, we can connect the dots here.
Our Muslim brothers and sisters are profoundly offended by a bunch of things that we do.
But only one of those things are we willing to stop.
And that is drawing pictures of the prophet.
Okay, earlier this week, I think it was actually Wednesday on NPR's morning edition, there was a report from Frank DeFord, who was the sports commentator there, former, may still be at SI.
I don't know.
I'm like, yes, he used to be Sports Illustrated.
And he did a report on the New England quarterback Tom Brady and his suspension.
In hindsight, all of us made a terrible mistake in looking upon someone like Gaylord Perry.
He, the pitcher infamous for loading up his deliveries with what we quaintly call foreign substances, as a sort of a sassy picaresque figure who was merely tilting at the windmills of authority.
Nonsense.
Perry and his ilk didn't abuse baseballs.
They abused baseball.
Okay, now, I need to put this in some kind of context.
For those of you who are too young, you know, Gaylord Perry, who I actually met, Gaylord Perry was a famous pitcher.
Brother was Jim Perry.
He pitched for every team in the league, it seems like.
And he closed his career out with the Kansas City Royals when I happened to be there.
He was traded to the Royals by somebody, maybe Texas, I forget who.
And the first day he shows up, he's got, honestly, God, two lion cubs with him in cages.
And he bought them for security on his North Carolina farm.
And I said, what do you need lions?
He said, I've got to protect against all kinds of bad people down there.
And these lions will keep them away.
They were cute little lion cubs, and he'd let them out of the cage.
They're running around the locker room.
They're not harmful.
They were tiny.
Honest to God.
But he was known for loading the ball up.
Spitballs, they were called.
Vaseline, any place you could hide the substance on your uniform.
If you know what you're doing, it doesn't take much.
You put it in the right spot on the baseball.
If you can throw the baseball hard enough, what will happen is the bottom will drop out of it.
At home plate, it just almost the illusion is his dropping state straight down.
It's obvious when somebody can throw a spitball and has done one well because you can't make a ball do that other than with a foreign substance.
Phil Necro was a guy who did this.
He had a knuckleball, but he also had foreign substance on the ball.
Never forget it.
He got caught.
He got caught and the home plate umpire charges out to the mound and Necro's, I didn't do anything.
And he starts empting his pocket and all the stuff comes out.
A fingernail file scuffing up the baseball.
All kinds of stuff that he was putting on the kids came out of his pocket.
He tried to act like, no, I wasn't.
It was just there.
It was the funniest thing.
He was a good guy, Phil Necro.
Anyway, as you can tell, Gaylord Perry back in his day was treated as an artist.
I mean, the media marveled at his ability to cheat, just like they marveled at Bill Clinton's ability to lie.
But now DeFord's coming here and telling us he now feels guilty about that.
In his advanced, experienced age, looking back on things, he now realizes it was improper to think it cute or clever and harmless.
We thought that this guy was, you know, a sassy, picturesque player, larger than life, could do things with a baseball.
We all knew it, but we all looked the other way because it's just what we did.
But now we know he was abusing baseball.
So Frank DeFord is saying for all sports writers that we have realized our error.
And what made us realize our error was watching Tom Brady do the same thing by deflating the footballs.
He's not abusing the footballs.
He's abusing football.
By the way, folks, I have to tell you, and I saw this mentioned in a story today about this.
There hasn't been one player, one other quarterback.
There has not been one other quarterback who has spoken up in Brady's defense.
And some drive-by sports people are drawing a lot of conclusions from that.
And you have to look long and far and wide to find any player that will speak up and defend Brady in this.
And major conclusions are being drawn from that.
So that is the context.
DeFord admitting latter career guilt over not taking seriously the damage to the game that guys like Gaylord Perry were causing.
And then he continues now with what it all means with what Tom Brady is doing.
With Tom Brady's direction or mere acquiescence, he is guilty of purposely defiling the very artifacts which make the game fair and square.
It's not enough to say, oh, everybody cheats a little, or well, gee, there wasn't all that much difference of the balls, or you're picking on the poor patriots.
Games are played by natural flesh and blood people using authorized equipment.
If either is illegally distorted, it's not just a crime against the game, but a wound to the whole essence of sport.
Well, you see, I mean, this is all kinds of career guilt surfacing here at a particular moment in the careers of certain sports writers.
And they've got to get right with the game, and they've got to get right with God.
They've got to get right with whoever they're getting right with.
So this is how they're using the incident here with Brady to apologize for all the things they should have taken seriously in the past in sports that they did not take seriously.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon in most of the country.
Here's Jack in Prospect, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Long-time listener, first-time caller.
Rush, I'm a little bit concerned that the next president is going to have a lot of activity in the Middle East.
Current administration seems like they've put a green light on some countries having some powerful weapons.
And having a female president, meaning no disrespect to any woman who would run for presidential office.
No, of course not.
And knowing that Islam and Muslims have had a very clear history of treatment of women, my concern is that we elect a woman president in this next campaign, that they're not going to be very effective against Muslim countries.
Well, I hear you on this, but the fact is that we've had female secretaries of state dealing with these people for a long time now.
We've had Madame Albright.
We've had Condoleezza Rice.
We've had Mrs. Rodham, Mrs. Clinton.
And the Israelis had gold in my ear.
So this is, look, here's one of the dirty little secrets.
Even when you get like the PLO or Fatah, I forget which, they have a female very powerful, I don't know if she's still active, her name is Hannan Ashrawi, and she was a spokesman for the PLO in many of the disagreements they had with Israel over the years.
I'm going back now to the 80s and 90s, and she was ranking.
She was ranking.
And I remember being stunned because I knew what position women occupied in Islam.
But she was ranking.
She was in the top tier of the leadership.
In fact, Peter Jennings and her had a little fling back when he was stationed in Beirut way, way back, long time ago.
It's an incestuous group, people over there.
So they're accustomed to that.
But I'll tell you what it really depends on when we get there.
I just heard on Fox News, ladies and gentlemen, that Hillary has indeed stepped in it.
On these emails, I don't know it's going to matter, but she has indeed stepped in it.
Do you remember when Hillary said that nothing was classified on that private server of hers?
How many times did she tell us that nothing was classified?
We have nothing to worry about.
And the stuff that she's deleted, with just yoga and Chelsea's webbing and wedding night stuff, there was nothing there to see.
Don't doubt me.
Well, it turns out The FBI did indeed classify one of those emails from her private, not secure system.
It was classified because it was highly sensitive information.
So, what the point is that she was transmitting classified information, just as we all thought from the get-go that she was lying about.
She was transmitting classified data on an insecure, unsecure server in her, well, they say in her base.
I don't know where it actually was, but it was her private server, and it did not have State Department-level, government-level security on it.
And she was, it's been discovered, she was transmitting emails classified by the FBI.
Just had it on Fox because they've released the first of the whatever it's going to be, 850 emails that the New York Times had the first look at.
But again, what's it going to matter?
Who's going to do anything with it?
That's yesterday's news, Rush.
Come on.
She didn't, it's just one, right?
Just a couple.
I mean, you got to expect her to not know a couple of them, but it's pretty much what she said.
Let's leave it alone, Rush.
That's going to be the reaction from the drive-bys and the Democrats.
Jim Kelly, the former quarterback of the Buffalo Bulls, was a guest on the CBS Sports Network.
We need to talk Tuesday night.
And they were talking about Tom Brady and Deflategate.
Andrea Kramer, the co-host, said, Look, I know how close you are, Jim, with Brady, but do you believe that he did what he's accused of doing?
And here's what Jim Kelly said.
Well, there's no doubt.
I mean, we really think about it.
There's no way that an equipment manager, National Football League, is going to do something to the football without the greatest quarterback ever to play knowing that, hey, I did something to his football, but he didn't know about it.
He knows.
But you know what the thing is?
You do something like that, you're going to get caught.
And Tom didn't need to do it.
He's a good friend of mine, but why?
This is exactly what I mean.
There's nobody coming out defending Brady here.
And other analysts are running with that.
I'm just making the observation.
You can draw your own conclusion as to what it means.
Because a lot of people say, of course, they're not Rush.
They're jealous.
Everybody's jealous of Brady for everything.
Well, probably some of that, maybe, but still, it's and Troy Aikman, Troy Aikman, who, you know, I know Troy Aikman too.
Yeah, well, I've met him at golf tournaments.
Oh, that's right.
You're a Cowboys fan.
Thirdly, this is perked up for the first time today.
You do.
Troy Aikman is one of the most classy, nice individuals that you would ever run into.
When I got the gig at ESPN to be on their Sunday morning pregame show, I actually got a telegram from Troy Aikman.
He wanted to make sure I saw it that didn't get lost in email.
I got a telegram, a congratulatory telegram from Troy Aikman.
And he was telling me how excited he was to hear what I had to say on this show.
And every time I've run into him, he's as nice as he could be.
And he makes what Jim Kelly said here sound like romper room.
I mean, Aikman's been all over Brady for this as unnecessary.
Of course he did it.
There's no question.
Everybody knows he did it.
And that's what Kelly was saying.
Oh, there's no doubt.
I mean, you really think these two Mutt and Jeff equipment guys are going to do this on their own?
So that seems to be the standard conclusion people are drawing.
So one of the other co-hosts on the CBS show, Summer Sanders, said to Jim Kelly, well, should air pressure even be regulated?
Should it even be Summer Sanders, should air pressure even be regulated?
Should it even be a rule?
I guess if it's going to catch Tom Brady doing something illegal, is it really worth having?
That's what I mean.
Here's the answer.
Also, they talked about the running backs.
When I was a little kid, if I had a football that I could grip and hold on to and squeeze, nobody was going to get that football from me.
If it was hard as a rock, especially playing in weather like we do, I mean, that football's hard, boy, it's going to pop out.
Oh, it's going to pop out a lot easier with a solid rock football, guaranteed.
Yeah, so yeah, we need rules on the air pressure in the footballs.
Yeah, of course we do.
Damn right we do, is what he is saying.
Gregory in Pueblo, Colorado.
I remember I got a great controversy going about Pueblo, Colorado when I was first on the air here because I didn't think anybody lived there.
Well, I thought every piece of government mail comes from Pueblo, Colorado.
Back when I was growing up, every government PSA, the return address was Pueblo, Colorado.
I just thought it was a giant post office.
And I got my first call from Pueblo, Colorado, and I told the person they were lying because nobody lives there, which, of course, got everybody there all ticked off at me.
How many people do live in Pueblo, Colorado?
Rush, I don't know.
I don't know what the number is, but it's a nice city.
Yeah, well, is it 20,000, 15,000, 105?
I mean, how many people live there?
I'd guess 300,000.
300 Duncan's a decent-sized community then.
Yeah, well, years ago, when my dad was a kid in the 30s and 40s, it was the second largest city in Colorado.
But it hasn't grown since then.
I have since learned that that's the case.
Anyway, to what do we owe the pleasure of your call?
I'd like to switch from the flate gate to Benghazi and collateral damage from the deliberate cover-up by our government.
I was in Afghanistan for all of 2012, and I wanted to share my direct observations of the carnage caused in Muslim countries after that video was released by our American government.
No, no.
Wait, wait, wait.
After the video was blamed, you mean?
No, they exported it.
Our government exported it, the video, first to Egypt, and then to the other Arab Spring states.
And that caught on there.
And then they took the road show to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Wait, now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a second now.
I'm almost afraid to admit this, but this is something I don't think I've heard before.
No, you haven't.
And the rioting and killing in Afghanistan.
Now, wait, I just want to make sure, understand, we're talking about the video of the guy they put in jail and Mrs. Clinton Obama blaming for what happened in Benghazi.
You're telling me that our administration actually distributed that video to other countries in order for them to know what it was that caused Benghazi to happen?
First to Egypt and then those other unstable Arab Spring states.
They took it.
Clinton and Obama took it to Pakistan.
Most people don't even watch the video.
They just get stirred up by the clerics.
Well, now, I know that Obama and Hillary talked about it all the time, and I know they did a commercial in Pakistan, but you're telling me that they actually enabled it to be seen?
They took it.
They were the promoters, and the killing and rioting in Afghanistan Until day four.
Okay, I get what you're saying is now they created curiosity about it.
People went and found it and saw it, and that caused riots.
That's right.
They had to, they were forcing themselves to fan the flames in order to go along with their story.
Right.
And the blood of over 800 people is on their hands.
And so when Hillary Clinton says, what does it matter?
She's saying, what does the lives of four Americans matter?
She's saying, you should see the full tally of people that died as a result of our cover-up.
So what does it matter means?
That's the tip of the iceberg.
Over 800 people rioted, mostly Indonesia and Arab Spring states.
But they just get in a frenzy and they kill one another and they also kill non-Muslims also.
But that's – they don't ever talk about the blood that's on their hands by creating and deliberately.
I understand what your theory is, and it's understandable.
Okay, so here we have what happened in Benghazi, and the next thing we know, the president and the secretary of state are blaming a video that nobody has ever seen.
And we now know that they made it all up, that nobody had seen the video as a convenient excuse.
We know that they knew before the attack it was going to happen.
They knew who the attack group was.
They knew, and this is a total lie.
The theory is that by blaming it on this video and announcing the video that nobody had really seen or heard of, that they caused other militants around the world, what is he talking about?
And they looked at it and they found it and they got righteously indignant because the president's already offered up as an excuse.
And whatever rioting that occurred after Benghazi in other countries, you're saying is directly related to Obama and Hillary because they're the ones that alerted people to the video who prior to that had no idea it even existed.
Now, I can see that.
It's just nobody, I mean, it's a logical connection to make, but you got to be careful with it because those riots were occurring for reasons that have much more to do with than just that video.
The video ended up being relevant because Obama and Hillary made it so.
But the anti-U.S. sentiment preceded anybody seeing the video.
And the violence was part of the Arab Spring and all that.
I'm not discounting entirely your theory that the video is to blame, but you've got to be careful how you say it.
Otherwise, you're going to be giving Obama and Hillary credit for blaming it.
And that would not be accurate simply because not enough people had ever seen it until they referenced it.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I'm just up against it on time here and have to take another brief obscene profit break.
We'll do it and be right back after this.
And back to the phones.
We're going to Glenwood, Illinois.
Bob, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, it's a privilege.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Great to have you here.
21-year listener, I've probably heard three-quarters of your shows over the years.
That's big.
And I apologize, first of all, if you've mentioned this and I missed it, I definitely know I haven't heard from anyone on the radio or television.
And this is regarding Tom Brady.
Yeah.
My memory, if it serves me correct, at the end of the first half of the Colts Patriots game was, I think, a one or two score game.
And I don't know if it was seven or ten or fourteen points, but it was still a ball game.
At the end of the first half is when the balls were adjusted to the proper pressure.
The Patriots absolutely ripped the Colts apart in the second half.
That's right.
So I'm wondering, what's the problem?
First of all, the only thing it tells me as a football fan is that Brady should play with proper inflated balls.
So I don't get it.
I don't understand.
Let me help you.
What this case, it turns out, is really all about now is two things.
And that is that those balls were monkeyed with before the game.
Circumstantial, but it's pretty conclusive.
And it doesn't matter what happened at halftime if they got them fixed.
And it doesn't matter about performance.
The rule's the rule.
Proper inflation is proper inflation.
Patriots fudged it.
However, they could have gotten past that, I think.
What this has really become now, and Goodell signaled it the other day.
Brady can make this go away if he will be forthcoming in the appeal.
I think a lot of this is the NFL thinking that Brady did not fully cooperate with the investigation by not letting them see relevant emails and texts on his cell phone.
Had he done that, there's nothing to see there.
We wouldn't be here.
I think that's clearly Goodell was signaling.
He's looking forward to talking to Tom and answering Tom, answering some further questions and make known almost everybody would love Brady playing except the Steelers on opening night.
Well, there may be some malcontents that don't, but if they could fix this, they would.
And I think that's what it boils down to.
Finally, Spencer in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you.
Hello, Rush.
But what my question is, is we're looking at Tom Brady and the deflation of the footballs and the injustice of that game, a sport.
But still, yeah, if Harry Reid can make any accusations on Mick Romney and affect the election of the United States, where people's lives are in the balance.
You know, it really isn't that different.
I'll tell you how.
If you go to DeflateGate, and let's every Patriots fan is ticked off, and they think that injustice has happened here, and they're fed up with the league, and they just a big waste of time, that their guy is honest, and their team is honest, their owner's honest, their coach is the best, and everybody else, and this is nothing.
This is nothing.
Okay.
The people that are not Patriots fans are all over it.
And if you go to Harry Reid and Romney, it's the same circumstance.
Harry Reid comes out and tells a blatant lie about Romney.
Politics, First Amendment, free speech, say whatever you want.
It so happens the deck is stacked against Romney.
The media is on Harry Reid's side, so they go to Romney and make him prove the negative.
Romney fans, like you, me, think it's absolutely unfair.
It's totally incorrect.
It's a bastardization of politics, but the Democrats thought it was a brilliant move.
And they don't see anything wrong with it.
And Denji Harry doesn't.
Hey, Romney lost, didn't he?
Meaning, what I did was justified.
So really, I know what you're saying is everybody's so worked up over a football game when, in fact, the Democrats are rigging elections with lies.
Why don't people care as much?
And I think on the Republican side, they did.
But the media and the Democrat side didn't.
And it was up to Romney to make them care.
And that obviously didn't happen.
I'm not saying you're wrong.
I'm trying to explain to you why.
Remember the veterans this weekend, folks.
Remember what they have given.
Remember their sacrifice.
Whatever else you do, remember the vets this weekend.
Have a great one and be back here on Tuesday.
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