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April 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I guess have soundbite number four ready to go in order.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh with one exciting, busy broadcast hour remaining.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
There's some other news out there I want to touch on before we get back to the heated elements of the Republican presidential campaign.
60 Minutes did a story on Sunday.
I have been waiting for this.
For years, I have been waiting for this.
60 Minutes did a story on Sunday night that left little doubt that the Saudi Arabian government had direct ties to the 19 hijackers that perpetrated the crimes on 9-11.
And I can take you back to that day.
I can take you back to that day and the ensuing days after when we learned who those 19 hijackers were, Mohammed Atta and the gang.
And 17 of the 19 were from Saudi Arabia.
And I said, how does this not have something to do with the Saudi government?
I mean, they already knew that the Saudi royal family are the, pardon the language, the head honchos of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
They run the mosques at Mecca and so forth.
I mean, they are the custodians.
And their version is Wahhabism.
I didn't hear anybody make the connection because the Saudis are always known as our friends, the Saudis.
And the Saudis are our friends, the Saudis, because of oil.
Not that I have a problem with oil, but we need it.
They had it.
And so we were always, we defend them.
We have air bases there.
We've undertaken many missions to defend the Saudis.
We've had terrorism against the Saudi governments taking place in their country against us as well.
But nevertheless, I always wondered why nobody was making a connection.
Well, it turns out they did.
And it was redacted.
In the official 9-11 committee report, the commission report, 28 pages had redacted data about the ties the hijackers had to actual members of the Saudi government.
And it always struck me that this might be something a whole bunch of government officials would like to have nobody know because there's no way we're going to sever our relationship with the Saudis.
Primarily because of oil.
Even now, because of fracking and we're on the road to energy independence as it is without all that solar and wind that isn't mattering, by the way, a shinola.
It is irrelevant to our entire energy profile, the amount of energy we get, efficient or otherwise, from wind and solar and all this so-called clean stuff.
It may someday amount to something, but it hasn't yet.
It's still a world fueled by oil, fossil fuels, and it's going to be that way for the foreseeable future.
So, but nevertheless, it just struck me that look at what we have to hide, cover up, or what have you.
And all these years later now, that happened 2011, this 2001, basically 15 years.
60 Minutes ran a fascinating report on the 28 pages redacted from the Joint Congressional Report on Intelligence Activities before and after the 9-11 attacks.
And apparently, a couple of the hijackers during their days in Los Angeles, witnesses placed two future hijackers at the King Fahd Mosque in the company of Fahad Al-Thumari, a diplomat at the Saudi consulate known to hold extremist views.
Later, 9-11 investigators would find him deceptive and suspicious.
And in 2003, he'd be denied re-entry to the U.S. for having suspected ties to terrorist activity.
And they quoted Tim Romer, who's the Indiana Democrat who ended up being a celebrity of sorts on the commission.
He says, a very interesting person in the whole 9-11 episode who might have helped in Los Angeles and San Diego with two terrorists who didn't know their way around.
So just an Item that it hasn't gotten a whole lot of notice because so many other things of the news are taking precedence over it.
I remember I was talking to Mr. Buckley shortly after 9-11, and I looked plaintively and said, Bill, 17 of the night, they're Saudis.
He looked at me like I had said something greatly offensive and said, so what?
And I said, so what?
How can that be ignored?
And he said, well, you've got individual criminals all over the world that may be American and have ties to the American government.
I said, no, but these guys happen to have the same point of view that the Saudi government does.
I mean, how can we just immediately rule it out?
And then I got the question of all questions.
Well, if you find a connection, you let me know and then you tell me what anybody's going to do about it.
And now it's interesting the way things have played out because we once again find ourselves allied with the Saudis against the Iranians.
That's sorry, that used to be, oh, we're not against, right?
I forgot.
We're not against the Iranians.
Damn it.
Time went by.
We're not against the Iranians.
We've helping them nuke up, and that's why the Saudis are now a little concerned.
Here's, here's, just, folks, the coffin in which will be buried the game of football has many nails.
There are many nails yet to be hammered in the coffin that will bury football, but another one was just hammered.
Here we have Frank McGurty writing in Scientific American.
Study finds evidence of brain injury in living NFL veterans.
Now, the reason this is news is because the brain damage and injury known as CTE is only discoverable in autopsy.
It cannot be diagnosed in a living brain.
It can only be found during autopsy.
That's why this news is so big.
And that is if people choose to believe it.
Once again, we have to recognize, or rather, we have to admit science has now been corrupted by politics.
There isn't anything pure.
There's very little remaining that is pure.
But science is not one of them.
Science has been corrupted and polluted by liberalism, just as everything liberalism has touched has been corrupted and polluted and in some cases perverted.
So you have to be suspicious of this because in virtually everything there is an agenda.
Wherever you find liberals and Democrats, you find an agenda.
There are no liberals who are docile.
Meaning, if you have a group of scientists and most of them are liberals, they're not just sitting there and when they leave the office, they become liberals.
Liberalism is guiding their work.
Liberalism is informing their work.
Liberalism is forming their prejudices.
It's inescapable.
It's O'Sullivan's law.
Any organization that is not constantly actively conservative will become liberal.
It's to that state that things will descend.
Liberalism is not an ascension.
You don't raise yourself up to liberalism.
You descend and plummet into it.
And the only way to avoid it is active conservatism.
Don't doubt me.
That's why I am so leery of moderates.
Moderates are simply liberals in waiting.
They're in transit and on the way.
Anybody tells you they're not conservative, they're on the way to liberalism, whether they know it or not.
And scientists, and it's not just, you know, so many people in our country today, all across the political spectrum, are dependent on funding from other people in order to eat and live.
I don't consider having a job funding, but I mean, if you're the recipient of grants, if you run around asking for donations, either as a for-profit or non-profit, then you are feeding at the trough, as opposed to somebody who's literally working.
Now, I know that these places have employees and they work, but if the place is funded, then the odds are it has a political purpose, whether it's a nonprofit or not.
And that's what happened, as has happened to so much of science.
People in it, in order to survive, have to be given money for one reason or another to advance their research.
And of course, if the money is given, there is an expected outcome.
You don't have a lot of money people giving money away and just willing to deal with the results, whatever they may be.
If you have somebody funding climate research, the odds are they expect a favorable outcome commensurate with the amount of money they're giving.
And so many people are quote-unquote employed in such a fashion these days.
Many conservatives, in fact.
Many conservatives.
To me has always been a little contradictory.
Conservatism stands for what?
Among many other things.
What does it stand for, Mr. Serdley?
You go out there, you hard work.
You don't feed off the government teat.
You provide for yourself.
You do not become an entitlement into and undo yourself.
And yet, there are more and more people who I can tell the number of people ask you for money.
I don't mean, can you loan me five bucks?
No, it's can you donate X amount so I can continue my work here or whatever it is.
Anyway, I've just become aware of how much of that has become politicized.
So here we go, Scientific American.
More than 40% of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than the general population.
First time this has ever been alleged.
Because as we speak, it has always been said, supposedly truthfully, that the incidence of brain trauma and other injury among NFL players is actually below the national average.
Well, we can't have that if we're trying to destroy football.
If we're trying to create the illusion that football is deadly and dangerous and we're trying to wipe it out as good liberals, because liberalism looks at football and sees everything in it they hate.
There are losers, there is pain, there is suffering, there is barbarism, or wealthy owners that sit up in skyboxes and watch people destroy themselves for their entertainment.
It's no different than the old events that used to take place in the Roman Coliseum.
It's just despicable.
And of course, the players are looked at as victims of these wealthy plutarchs and oligarchs who are simply seeking a little fame and entertainment.
And little did anybody know that what they're doing kills them.
So we've got to stop it.
And so now, well, you don't think that's going on?
You don't.
We better wake up because it's exactly what's propelling this.
And I'm just going to remind you again: mark my words, wait until, and it's not far down the road, wait until they introduce the racial component into this.
It's going to happen sooner than you.
What do I mean?
How many African-American owners are there?
Zip zero nutta.
What's the percentage of players in the NFL African-American?
75%.
Therefore, 75% of all the bad stuff is happening to who?
African Americans.
On the football field and within the football plantation.
And we find that their Lives after the game are, in many instances, depression, suicide, and any number of things.
You just wait till the enemies of football, and they are there.
You can't deny that.
Wait till they, and they're timing this.
They, I mean, they're aware of it.
They're waiting for the right moment.
I don't know what it'll be, but they will introduce the racial component to this.
And they'll say there are no black owners.
There's no Hispanic owners.
There are no female owners.
It's white guys.
And they all happen to be what?
Billionaires.
Do any of them have CTE?
Are any of them committing suicide at age 45?
Folks, this is going to happen.
And it's little stories like this that are the precedents or the precedents, if you will.
More than 40% of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury a much higher rate than in the general population, according to a new study of the long-term risks of playing American football.
The research presented at an American Academy of Neurology meeting that began in Vancouver on Monday is one of the first to provide, quote, objective evidence, unquote, of traumatic brain injury in a large sample of NFL veterans while they are living, said Dr. Francis X. Conidi, one of the study's authors.
Conidi Konidi, I don't know how he pronounces it, a neurologist at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology, a neurologist at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology,
and a faculty member at the Florida State University College of Medicine said traumatic brain injury was often a precursor to CTE, a degenerative brain disease.
What we do know, he says, is that players with traumatic brain injury have a high incidence of going on to develop neurological degenerative diseases later on in life.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, has been found in dozens of the NFL's top players after they died.
At present, a CTE diagnosis is only possible after death in autopsy.
Kennidi said no one has ever looked at this number of living players before.
So as I say, the coffin in which we'll be buried football has many nails, and another one was just hammered recently.
To the phones we go.
George in Rochester, New York.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I'm really grateful for you taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just wanted to say that what happened in Colorado, clearly 98% of the people, not only in the state, but in the country, had no idea how that worked and what was going to happen.
And I really just feel like the mask of the beast has been pulled off the American political system.
I'm 48 years old.
I've always believed that it was possible that the system was rigged, but I always knew in my heart that the voting would right any kind of wrong.
But it's totally unacceptable as an American, and I have to be a Democrat.
Stepping over the voters is totally unacceptable.
And I just wanted to reach out to my brothers and sisters in Colorado and tell them that I am an American first.
And what happened is totally disgusting.
That's pretty much what I wanted to say.
So you are in solidarity with the people of California who were disenfranchised and had the Colorado and had their right to vote taken away from them.
And you feel for totally, totally unacceptable.
I'm an American first, and that's all there is to it.
Parties, you know, I've never voted Republican, but I am an American first, and it totally, totally disgusts me, and there's got to be a lot of people out there that feel just like I do.
Yeah.
Okay, George, I appreciate the call.
And I'm sure the people of Colorado do too.
And we will be back.
I saw this alluded to as a rumor about an hour ago.
Now it's been officially confirmed by CNN.
Megan Kelly snuck into Trump Tower today.
Well, that's the wrong way to put it.
It makes it sound like she was stalking.
What happened was Trump and Megan Kelly had a secret meeting at Trump Tower this morning, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Apparently, Megan Kelly reached out to Trump's office to set up the meeting, and they ended up having lunch.
Beyond that, little is known.
Representatives for Trump and Fox had no immediate comment.
But the meeting raises the possibility of a Kelly Trump interview sometime in the future.
This is a story here from CNN.
An NBC reporter, this is what I saw earlier.
An NBC reporter spotted Kelly looking incognito and entering Trump Tower shortly before 12 noon.
And then there's this, listen, next paragraph.
Trump's intense dislike of Kelly has been one of the sub-plots of his run for president.
Trump has essentially said that she started all of this by treating him unfairly during the first GOP debate of the season last August.
Do you want to know what happened here?
I mean, not at this thing today.
Do you want to know what this is all about?
Well, I don't know, I mean, but I do know.
It's one of these things I can pretty much guess what down here.
Megan Kelly starts on Fox.
She starts out as a reporter.
And from the moment she started, there was something about her that attracted attention.
She's just one of these people on TV that you notice.
And she moved up the ladder of success at Fox.
She ended up getting anchor gigs first at 9 o'clock in the morning to 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
And then eventually, all this took years.
And then eventually she gets her 9 p.m. primetime show.
And at some point during this career advancement, Trump becomes a fan.
And Donald Trump is known to reach out to people in the media.
He sends them notes.
He sends them encouragement.
He just reaches out to them.
There's some people that are fascinated by media figures.
And I think that my wild guess is that Mr. Trump thought he'd always been nice to her.
I'm guessing that he didn't send her critical notes.
I'm guessing he didn't send her short little notes or texts or whatever it was criticizing her.
I bet it was stuff rooted in admiration for her talent or what have you.
And I think he was blindsided by her opening question in that first debate.
Personally, I was blindsided by it.
I think I don't know that they had any kind of a friendship or relationship at all, but my guess is that if he has some kind of contact with her, sends her notes now and then.
I don't know if she replies or not.
I don't know any of this.
I'm just guessing.
I could be all wet on this.
But my guess is that he figured that obviously she knows who he is, that in all of his notes or whatever, reach out to her.
Maybe Newer met her times or two when he was over at Fox.
And I'm sure he thought that she didn't have a problem with him and vice versa.
Then here comes that first debate and that first question.
And I think it blindsided him.
And then he probably said, you know what?
You know, she's using this to establish her independence.
She's using this to show that she's not cowed by anybody.
And that's how it all began.
That would be my wild guess.
And I'll tell you why I think this.
I don't just grab this stuff out of thin air.
Her first show on her 9 p.m. slot, very first show, it might have been her second, the first show, okay, let's say first week, but I think it was one of the first two shows.
She had Cruz as her top of the hour guest at a time When Cruz was doing something in the Senate, filibustering or something, and everybody angry and hating on Cruz.
So she gets him as a guest.
And her first question to him is, what is it like to be the most hated man in America?
And his response was, Megan, before that, I just want to congratulate you.
This is a terrific achievement.
And she cut him off halfway through it because I think she was establishing that she was in no way affected by personal relationships with the people she's covering, that she's not going to be biased.
She's not going to be friendly with some and unfriendly to others based on whether they know her, whether they're nice to her.
And I think she went, you know, she out of the gate established that she is totally, completely independent.
What?
No, no.
See, I've got, there's some women on the other side of the glass.
She just did.
And they're using the B word.
And if I'm describing a man doing this, you would not at all say the guy was a BA.
You wouldn't.
You say, this guy's doing it right.
No, you wouldn't.
No, you wouldn't say he was a penis.
Anyway, look, I probably shouldn't even delve into it because I don't even know.
I'm just wild guessing on all this.
How does this happen?
Anyway, whatever's going on today looks like it might be a hatchet burying attempt.
But who knows?
It may fall apart and may not work.
You know, Trump could have a press conference afternoon.
She came and she begged and she begged me to love her again.
And I said, you just like Lion Kid.
We don't know what he's going to do.
Anyway, folks, I have to take a brief timeout.
Do not hold me into that.
It's just wild guessing.
You know, intelligence guided by experience with the possibility can be totally all wet.
I'll tell you what else it could be.
It wasn't that long ago that we learned that Megan Kelly was going to host a brand new celebrity/slash newfangled Barbara Walters type interview program on the Fox Broadcast Network, not Fox News.
Remember that?
That's about a month or two old.
And it was going to be this big, big whoop-de-doo to expand her career portfolio and all that and take it beyond Fox News to the Fox Broadcast Network.
You know, like Barbara Walters used to interview trees and stuff before the Academy Awards, and she had fascinating people, that kind of thing.
Could be that she's only trying to get Trump for that.
Makeup to break up kind of stuff.
Who knows, folks?
Just my wild guess.
Susie in Pittsburgh, you're next.
It's great to have you on the program.
Oh, I'm so excited to talk to you, Rush.
And I just wanted to tell you, I passed up going to a Trump rally here in Pittsburgh right now in order to be able to keep you stay on the line here and talk to you without losing my signal.
So I wanted to also just say hi to my grandkids who are huge Rush fans and said, Grammy knows everything, but Rush knows even more.
I love it.
That's the line in our family.
My question, Rush, is, do you think if Trump is the candidate, he would be smart to pick someone like Cruz?
I know you've been asked about whether they can bury the hatchet, but whether he'd be a good choice, because he needs somebody with some political gravity toss and foreign policy background, but someone who's also been seen as an insurgent.
Let me throw you some names out here because there's a story here from the Daily Caller.
Another rules committee member, Republican National Committee, has said Randy Evans, the same guy that talked about how Trump could, if he gets to 1,100, he's going to win this.
He said that a Trump Kasich ticket or a Cruz Rubio ticket could either or both happen at the convention as both candidates try to nail down the nomination.
I don't know about Hillary and Elizabeth Warren.
That's two women.
That's anything's possible.
But what do you think?
What do you about, who are you for, Trump or Cruz?
Well, I'll be honest with you.
I started out as a Carson slash Santorum fan.
And then I went to Rubio.
And then I've slowly dwindled down to between Cruz and Trump.
My husband is a Trump fan.
And I like some things about Donald very much.
Are you going to vote for the nominee?
I'm going to vote for the nominee.
Definitely because we just cannot have Hillary and Matt or Bernie.
Well, there's so I'll work for whoever.
I've actually thought about volunteering my services.
I had worked in a political office for Senator Santorum for 12 years, and I've thought I would like to work for whoever it is for free just so we don't get Hillary.
Susie, that's the right answer.
You're going to, the nominee, that's going to be crucial to beating Hillary, which is going to be the objective.
You're absolutely.
That's it, folks.
I don't know where it goes, but it's gone.
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