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Oct. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, servant of humanity and all who live.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, and it's Friday.
That means...
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
One big exciting broadcast hour remains open line Friday.
You get to determine what it is we talk about when we go to the phones.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbow at EIBnet.com.
We have a woman on hold.
I'll get to in a moment who's also upset with all the pink in the National Football League.
Snirdly, is anybody commenting on this?
I'm hearing this more and more from people this season.
Being upset with all the pink.
I mean, in the past, people have commented on it.
Let it go.
But it seems to be intensifying this year.
I'll tell you something.
I did something.
I did something last Sunday I haven't done.
And I don't know if it means anything.
I haven't stopped to analyze it.
But I went out and played golf Sunday afternoon on an NFL Sunday for the first time in 10 years.
I looked at the slated games.
I said, you know what?
I'd rather go out and play golf.
The Steelers had played on Thursday night.
That was it.
I knew I'd get home in time to see the second half of the late game and whatever the Sunday night game was, which I bumped out of that after about an hour.
Yeah, no, I know.
It's, you know, there are a lot of things.
There are many, many things, folks, I'm asking myself, are my interests changing simply because as I age, my areas of interest change.
As I age, do the things I used to have a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for just naturally change and transfer to other things.
No, no, no.
So I've started comparing myself to other people my age.
And like I've been an ardent NFL fan a lot longer than other people my age are.
So maybe I'm a laggard in this regard.
But no, no, not panicking over it.
It is what it is.
You know, I just accept it.
But I do catalog and recognize you wouldn't have gotten me out of the house on an NFL Sunday to go play golf last season, season before, it just wouldn't have happened.
And last Sunday, I didn't even stop to think about it.
I just automatically accepted the invitation.
Bam.
Might have split second.
I said to myself, Steelers played Thursday.
Don't care about anything else this week.
Bam, I'm out of there.
And you know what?
I may go play Sunday again.
Instead of, and this season is going by pretty fast.
You know, we're already going to be a week four or five.
Yeah.
You have a late game on Sunday is the one to try.
You got the Cowboys and the Patriots.
Tom Brady and the Patriots in Dallas.
What are you worried?
They're going to go in and shred the boys.
Is that what you're worried about?
It probably is going to happen.
The Patriots are looking like they did back in 2007.
Unstoppable.
You knew this is going to happen.
You know, the league tries to put them all in jail with that deflategate thing.
Sue them out of existence.
What do you think the Patriots are going to do?
They're going to come out all fired up.
This whole thing has probably added a couple of years to Brady's career, just in terms of intense motivation to show them.
It's the way it's always worked.
Clemson University, ladies and gentlemen, from campus reform, Clemson University issued an apology to students on Thursday after what appears to be a small group of students were offended by an annual Mexican cuisine event put on by university dining services.
Clemson dining Maximum Mexican night has become a student favorite over the last several years.
And this year was no different at first.
Everything was going great.
Students were loving the food and the festivities.
But who doesn't love tacos and burritos and who knows whatever else?
Nachos.
Except there were two students who went on Twitter to voice their displeasure with the Scruel's decision to host such a culturally insensitive event.
While a few on Twitter were offended, the overwhelming preponderance of students registered absolutely no reaction at all.
The one student who did respond to the twin plaints wrote, I'm offended, you're offended.
Clemson Senior Austin Pendergast told campus reform he felt the post-event uproar was ridiculous.
This is something that Clemson Dining has done for years without any sort of backlash.
People love the cultural nights in the dining halls.
So what's next?
They're going to take away all potato-based food so not to offend students of Irish descent?
Remove the stir-fry station so Asian American students don't feel as if they're being misrepresented.
When does it end?
Great, great question, student, but it may be a little bit too late to be asking this now.
University, however, took a different position.
Dr. Doug Hallenbeck, Clemson University Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, apologized for the event's flattened cultural view of Mexican culture.
You got that?
Dr. Doug Hallenbeck, Clemson University Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, not the Senior Associate President, not the Junior Associate Vice President, not the Junior Associate Vice Vice President.
No, this is the Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, apologized for the event's flattened cultural view of Mexican culture.
Hallenbeck said, if the mission of university housing and dining, the mission, it's a restaurant, it's a cafeteria.
What about the mission?
If the mission, it is the mission of university housing and dining to create supportive and challenging environments that enrich and nourish lives.
We failed to live out our mission yesterday, and we sincerely apologize.
This is absurd.
Mexican students supposedly offended at their native cuisine being served when everybody likes it?
I mean, people weren't throwing it up against the walls.
They weren't packaging it up and sending it back to Mexico.
They were eating it.
They were giving every indication they thoroughly enjoyed it.
What in the world was there to be offended by?
Answer: nothing.
This is nothing but a scam.
And here comes this big major university kowtowing to two students and then apologizing.
Something about the mission of the cafeteria having failed.
Good.
Gosh.
I mean, this is just absurd.
And then there's this.
This is some CBS eyeball news.
In Oregon, a freshman quarterback at West Salem, Oregon has been suspended from screw for what has been labeled as inappropriate touching of another student.
Garrett Moore, who is the freshman team's third-string quarterback, said the incident happened during a team practice when he was taking snaps under center.
Garrett Moore, who says he was instructed by the center on how to receive the snap, described the incident to the Statesman Journal.
Quote, he wanted me to go way up there with my hands, and it felt very uncomfortable.
I was like moving my hands and I touched him and he started laughing.
I guess I tickled him.
I wouldn't mean to.
It's kind of weird.
So the center, Garrett Moore is the quarterback.
He says he was instructed by the center on how to receive the snap, which meant, for those of you who don't play football, it was the center saying, here's where I want you to put your hands.
So the quarterback did that.
Now the quarterback's being suspended for inappropriately touching the center.
Garrett Moore was called to an assistant principal's orifice a couple of days after the incident and was asked to give his version of what happened.
And then the principal talked to the alleged victim, who then gave a different version of events.
A security guard then escorted Garrett Moore, the third string quarterback, back to the principal's office and was asked if he tickled the other boy in practice.
I'm like, I guess.
He was laughing when I touched him.
I mean, I didn't mean to say tickle.
I said tickle because he laughed.
He calls my mom.
He makes it sound like I'm a complete pervert.
She comes to get me.
Garrett Moore was then suspended for three days and sent home with a written referral.
Student inappropriately touched another student during football practice.
His mom, who calls the entire situation absolutely absurd, said she will appeal the suspension to the Salem Kaiser director of high schools.
I saw this.
I said, this is one of these Scott Ott satire pieces, and I, El Rushwell, am not going to fall for this.
I am not going to get bamboozled by this.
I'm not going to get roped in.
I'm not going to get hooked.
I'm going to ignore it.
And then I saw it again somewhere, completely different sources, CBS News on it.
It looks to me like if Garrett Moore is telling the truth, the center is the one who wanted the hands in a certain position and got what he wanted.
And now the quarterback has been accused of inadvertent touching.
You know, not a lot of you people have done this.
There are very few people who have played center on a football team and very few people that have played quarterback, I mean, compared to the whole population.
But there's something that happens there every snap.
I mean, you can't avoid it.
It'd be called inappropriate touching.
And the mother is the one who gets it right.
It's totally, totally absurd.
You know, we have a story, was it earlier this week or late last week?
Might have been both.
It was a story on millennials and a popular misconception about them.
I think it was earlier this week, might have been Monday.
There was a, you know, that for the longest time here, a couple of years, the analysis of millennials has been that they don't want to own anything, that they are really and truly a genuinely different generation.
They don't want to own a car.
They're really not interested in cars, not like other generations have been.
They don't want to own homes or condominiums.
They're into the sharing community and renting and so forth.
But they just, and it was presented to us in such a way that we were to think that these millennials were an entirely different cultural group of people.
And that it was unique in the sense that every prior generation, American dream was defined as home ownership.
Here comes a whole generation that's poo-pooing that.
And every prior generation has always had its share of people that are car crazy.
And here comes a generation that couldn't care less about either of those.
And they really don't want to own anything.
They want to be getting around on mass transit or bicycles.
They don't want to plant roots anywhere.
Their favorite thing in the world is Uber.
And then we had a story that was, the contradictory story was Monday or Tuesday that that was all wrong.
That actually these millennials are no different than any other generation.
It was just BS.
The fact is, they can't afford cars because of the economy.
They can't afford to buy homes.
Everything's out of their reach in terms of ownership.
They can't get approved for loans.
They've all got such student loan debt, or many of them, that owning anything is out of the question.
And so it was largely a cover sentiment that was created by the left and the media to try to cast these millennials as an entirely new group of people, anti-capitalist.
That was what they were trying to make them out to be.
Anti-traditional capitalist, anti-traditional America, pro-progressive, all this new stuff that was so foreign to everybody else, and they were sold there for light years ahead of us.
They were a much cleaner people, a much better people, blah, blah, blah.
It turns out all that smoke and mirrors.
And it was all based on the fact that they can't afford any of this stuff because of the Obama economy.
The difference is the millennials themselves do not blame Obama.
They don't blame the government.
They just think the government's, the country's best days are behind it.
They just think it's luck of the draw.
They just happen to have been born when America starts its inevitable decline because nothing can stay a superpower forever.
And they do not associate this decline and this malignant economy, stagnant economy, with any government policy.
Well, now there's an addendum to this.
And this story is at Town Hall.
It's a column by Matt Vesmits based on research that the millennials are not nearly as monolithic as has been thought.
And in fact, younger millennials, those between 18 and 20, are not nearly as liberal as older millennials.
And the older millennials were talking about the ones that SQ in ownership, had no interest in cars, didn't want to own a house.
We were told, and all this is BS.
It was just the fact they couldn't afford it.
They didn't have the money for it.
They didn't have the jobs.
There wasn't any job prospects.
Look at housing prices where most of the country just out of reach, even starter homes, out of reach.
So a lie was concocted.
Now they don't care anyway.
You know, they want to rent.
They had a sharing economy.
These are much more communal people.
It was an idea to try to present this generation as light years ahead of us.
Intellectually, emotionally, much more well-adjusted, much more anti-capitalist.
Didn't care about money.
And it turns out it was all crock.
And now we find out once millennials get a job and start making between $40,000 and $60,000 a year, their support for income redistribution and other liberal policies drops precipitously.
A Harvard Institute of Politics poll found something a bit interesting regarding millennials and voting patterns, and that is that younger ones aren't nearly as liberal.
Younger millennials aren't as left-leaning.
They grew up in a different time post-9-11 and in the midst of a major recession.
Yet once they get a job and start making between 40 and 60 grand every year, that's when they start getting kissed, like everybody does, with keeping more of what they earn rather than being forced to give it away.
And that attitude prevails on a number of other liberal policies.
The bottom line is, liberals or millennials aren't nearly as liberal when they start making money.
And they're not nearly as liberal as we've been told that they are.
And there's big news in a global warming for I mean big, big news that could blow up the entire scam yet again.
And it'll be ignored.
I'll tell you about it.
We get back.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones open line Friday, Worcester, Massachusetts.
It's Ruth.
And you too, not happy with all the pink in the NFL, I guess.
No, and I missed the Patriots game last week because they were on a buy, so I didn't watch football either.
Well, there you go.
See, that's all.
Yeah.
It's just such a pleasure to be speaking with my favorite word, literalist.
And I'd like to follow up and applaud that gentleman that called about pink and football.
I want to take it a step further and say that I find it unseemly and totally inappropriate.
I'm watching a sports event, and I'm going to remind it of, quote-unquote, the big C. I mean, think of all the people in the hospital that that's their source of entertainment.
Did they want to be reminded of where they are?
No.
We watch football to have an hour to ourselves to watch and reach for our teams and to keep submitting, subjecting us to this.
I just, it just bothers me.
I'm sorry.
Well, but the league would tell you they're taking advantage of all this tune-in to raise consciousness levels about this, to create in the public's mind that breast cancer is a huge deal.
A lot of people suffer from it.
And you're not doing enough about it.
Donate money.
Don't you show you care?
We in the NFL care.
Look at all the pink.
You should care.
Donate.
And do the fundraising after the event.
Really.
I mean, the whole thing is about money anyway.
You can't give us a break for 60 minutes.
I'm sorry.
No, it's not 60 minutes.
It's like three hours, but I got you.
I know.
I got you.
But of all the things to talk to you about, Rush, I'm just so pleased.
You made me laugh, cry.
I stomped my feet.
I gnash my teeth.
It's just, it's wonderful to hear you and to have you promote and to say the things that you do out there.
I very much appreciate you.
Well, thank you.
I really appreciate this.
Especially, well, any day, I appreciate it, but I'm really glad you got through today.
I thank you so much.
And I caught your reference to literalist.
Are you a literalist, too?
I try to be.
You're my hero.
Let me tell you, it's a lonely existence.
It is a lonely.
I mean, you have to ask people three times what they're saying.
You have to explain yourself four times.
It's just a lonely existence to be a literalist because so few people are.
Nobody says what they really mean.
They dance around it or what have you.
So it's a painful.
I wish I wasn't sometimes.
I really do.
But I can't stop it.
I mean, we all are who we are.
Okay, we got this big, big, big, big, big, big, big global warming news, and it is coming right up.
Matt in Pueblo, Colorado.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
It's great and honor to talk to you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I am a Rush baby.
I'm raised in two Rush babies.
Well, I've served in the military.
I've been down to Laredo, Texas on Noble Eagle 1, and what Trump says is right.
Now, my whole thing, though, is recently Israel has found a huge deposit of oil.
They're saying it's like 35 times bigger than what they've ever found before anywhere in the Middle East.
It's in the Golan Height region.
Who's not to say that, you know, with Russia being in Syria now, they might try to attack Israel just to get hold of the Golan Heights.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I have not heard of this discovery of oil in Israel.
I've read novels about it, but I've not heard of a massive discovery of oil in the Golan Heights.
It came out about two days ago.
Well, then I was laid up and I missed it.
I have not seen a word about that.
As I say, I've read a couple of really great novels about how such a discovery would totally change the geopolitics of the Middle East, but I didn't know such a discovery had actually happened.
I think the UK Daily Mail had an article in it.
I believe it was yesterday.
Okay.
Well, anyway, what's the upshot of this?
What were you going to say?
Well, I mean, I just find it kind of strange that, number one, Iran finds a huge cachet of natural uranium in there after the Iran deal, and then all of a sudden, Israel has oil, and Russia's already there.
Wait, Russia's already where?
In Syria.
Okay, now, wait a minute now.
Where did you say the oil has been discovered?
Israel or the Golan Heights?
Well, the Golan Heights was taken by the Israelis during the 10-day war, I think of 1967.
Yes.
And the oil is found in the southern part of the Golan Heights.
Okay.
Jeez, something in my head says Israel does not have the Golan Heights anymore, that they gave it up or lost it again.
I'm not, I'm, I'm, damn it, I'm totally confused by this.
I need somebody to clarify for me who owns the Golan Heights right now before I can go forward with this.
Okay.
A game-changing oil reserve discovered in.
Okay, so it is in Israel.
So I'm getting a flash note here.
Well, if that's true, then it does.
Totally.
But your point that I got the Iranians recently discovered uranium after the deal is done, which means it was always there.
This is just a, but the Russians being in Syria, what's that got to do with oil in the Golan Heights?
Well, the Russians right now, they're saying that they're attacking ISIS, depending on who you listen to, is that they're actually attacking not just ISIS, but the rebels that the Obama administration is backing.
Right.
It's not to say that after they get done with whatever they're going to do in Syria, they're going to say, you know what?
You guys never deserve to have the Golan Heights in the first place from the first.
Oh, so you think the Russians, after they take care of our allies in Syria, are going to move on Israel's oil supply in the Golan?
Exactly.
Oh, that's what your theory is.
Okay.
You're asking what would stop Putin if he wanted to make a.
Well, Israel has nukes.
That's what would stop them.
But Israel really doesn't have the United States backing it up anymore because of Obama.
Well, that's true, but I think that this discovery of oil is going to give Israel all kinds of independence that it gives it new power and independence.
And besides, there's no love lost between Israel and Obama anyway.
With this much oil, it could replace the primary asset they get from us, which is money.
Yeah.
Now, Syria, Syria, here's my point of confusion on the Golan Heights.
Syria has not given up its claim on the Golan Heights.
Therefore, it remains disputed whether it's a legitimate dispute or not.
Syria still claims that the Golan is theirs.
And by the way, it is right down the hill.
I have been to the Golan Heights.
It's one of the most fascinating places.
I got a tour up there with a young member of the Israeli Defense Forces.
And it's where they take you when they want to illustrate the danger that they're in and how surrounded they are and how people cannot envision it.
You go up to the Golan and they can point to every nation that wants to wipe Israelite.
You can see it.
You can see Syria.
You can see Jordan.
You can see every one of these threatening regions from the Golan.
Beautiful place, by the way.
And they tell you how vulnerable they are as a result of this.
So oil up there, well, that's going to increase the dispute.
So I see your point.
You think Putin, given the weakness of the U.S. and the resolve of Obama to basically abandon the region, is going to leave it wide open for Putin to go in and claim it from Israel.
And without U.S. support, Israel is not going to have much of a defense against an onslaught of Putin.
But that's not necessarily the ⁇ I would never underestimate the Israelis.
But I have to admit, you caught me short of this.
I still don't know how much oil we're talking about.
And I'm going to have to – I think it was – you know, Joel Rosenberg wrote a big novel about this that I read.
It was a significant find.
Do you know off the top of your head, Ryan, how big this find is, how they're describing it?
What I heard, it was like 350 meters of strata that they found of it.
They're saying it was a significant find, well over 100 times anything that they found in the Middle East before.
A hundred times more than they.
Now, that's 100 years more.
Because I was looking at the UK Daily Mail earlier.
And let's see.
Well, what I've got here is that there's an Israeli subsidiary of a U.S. company, Genie Energy confirmed, the find in an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV, but conceded that until the oil is actually extracted, they won't be sure of how much and the quality of the oil that has been discovered.
So the amount is unknown.
Well, if it's a big find, if it's enough of a find, well, it's a game changer, is the bottom line.
But without knowing any more than that, don't know how much.
One thing it is going to do is turn Israel into an even bigger target now in terms of getting them off the land, wiping them off, marching them into the Mediterranean.
Because the Palestinians are going to be right in there.
It's ours.
And so forth.
So I'm sorry to be caught short on this, folks.
I literally did not know about this.
I thought this is a story in a novel.
I've got to take a break here now.
But we'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, let me get to this real quickly.
Last Saturday, conservative Australian columnist Miranda Devine revealed that an Australian engineer claims to have fixed two errors in the basic climate model, which underpins all climate science.
Now, keep in mind, global warming is the result of computer model predictions only, no hard data.
It never has been based on data, only on model predictions.
The person making this claim is a climate modeler for the government's Australian greenhouse office.
He has six degrees in applied mathematics.
What he found is the new corrected model finds the climate's sensitivity to carbon dioxide, CO2, is much lower than was thought.
While some U.S. blogs have begun to relay the news, and I have seen this in American blogs, the nation's establishment press is ignoring it.
The U.N.'s intergovernmental panel on climate change has overstated future global warming by as much as 10 times, says the expert.
His name is Dr. David Evans.
He said, yep, CO2 has an effect, but it's about a fifth or a tenth of what the UN says it is.
CO2 is not driving the climate.
It has caused less than 20% of the global warming in the last few decades.
He says his discovery ought to change everything about everything about global warming.
And he's being ignored because, of course, it isn't about global warming.
It isn't about science.
It's not about truth.
It isn't about saving the climate or anything else.
It's about advancing a leftist, global, big, gigantic government agenda is all it is.
As we have stated countless, countless times.
Anyway, another error was found in the computer models that explains why the models have missed the 18 years of no warming.
So there are two things.
The total overestimate of the importance of CO2 in terms of greenhouse warming.
It's not nearly as impactful, which only makes sense.
We exhale it.
It's all over the, it can't be responsible for destruction or we would be the end of the earth and it would never have been.
Anyway, the whole thing's absurd, folks.
And it's just, this is much more common sense.
It's been entered into this picture.
The oil discovery in Israel, it is said to be that it could be huge.
I've had a chance to read a little bit.
Depending on how deep it is, how many layers, it could be a gigantic find.
This is what the UK Daily Mail is saying.
So if all that's true, and we won't know for a while, there's no question it's a game changer.
But it's just going to focus enemies on Israel even more.
That's the last thing anybody wants in that region is for Israel to become even more empowered.
So the claim will be it isn't Israel's, it's Syria's, or it's whatever you watch.
They're just not going to sit by let this happen.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Another exciting, busy broadcast week in the can, even it was only three days for me.
And this is going to be the last time, the last time somebody knows something that I don't know.
The last time it ever happens on this show.
I'm going to spend all week being ticked off about this, all weekend.
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