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June 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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If you've been listening to me do Russia's program or you're familiar with my program in Milwaukee, you're aware that I struggle with the whole issue of Donald Trump because I know that the alternative to Donald Trump is a nightmare, but I've got problems with Trump.
Am I going to come around and support Trump?
I'm guessing, but who knows?
He's making he sometimes makes it hard for us.
I bring that up again because in preparing for today's program and thinking about Muhammad Ali, who died over the weekend, I realized that my attitude toward Trump is kind of like my attitude toward Ali, and that the two of them are remarkably similar people.
Ali is just Trump ahead of his time.
Ali at the time he emerged on the scene was the most bombastic public figure in America.
We didn't have sports stars like Ali when we had Ali.
People think of the sixties as being this time of great social upheaval.
That's true.
And there was a lot of outsp there were a lot of outspoken athletes athletes, and there was a fair amount of militancy by the late sixties.
Ali was like this when he was Cassius Clay in the early sixties.
He was not only a braggart, he generally backed up his bragging.
He went out of his way to polarize and antagonize.
And he went on to become, maybe, people will argue this, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.
He certainly is one of the biggest sports celebrities of all time.
But I find in listening to people commenting on him over the weekend that almost everybody I think has it wrong.
There are some people who just can't get past, oh he's a draft dodger.
So therefore he's a despicable human being.
Well, that's wrong.
You have to take a person's life in its entire context.
And then there are others who are saying he wasn't just a great fighter, but he was a tremendous humanitarian.
Well, that's wrong too.
Because many of his beliefs were indefensible.
Some thoughts from me on Muhammad Ali.
First of all, he was unbelievably charismatic.
This was at a time in which athletic answered yes and no to questions, nodded, didn't say much of anything.
He came on there and declared himself the greatest.
When he was in the ring, he showboated.
There was no showboating in sports in the early sixties.
Nobody ever did that.
They hadn't they weren't even spiking the football at the time that he was doing this stuff.
When he knocked out Sonny Liston the second time, he's screaming at him as Liston's laying on the ground.
This was stunning for Americans.
Ali apparently what I don't want to say he was of low intelligence, but his test scores were terrible.
It's been widely reported that he graduated three hundred and seventy-six out of three hundred and ninety-one out of his high school.
It's been said that he could barely read, that he had a very poor trouble reading anything and may have never read a book in his life.
Yet so unbelievably glib.
So quick.
People remember those interviews that he did with Howard Cosell, in which they parated Howard Cosell is one of the fastest men on his feet that you could imagine.
Ali would go back and forth with him.
The poems that he wrote, they were all clever.
Some were actually extremely creative.
The showmanship that he did that that he developed, the persona that he had, you can't not be an intelligent person to be as funny as he was his career.
He won an Olympic gold medal in nineteen sixty.
He beat Sonny Liston, who was thought to be invincible and beat him badly.
Then he beat him again in one round.
Some people still think that was a fix, and then beat every other challenger that he faced.
Then he loses the title.
He's stripped of the belt because of the draft dodging.
He refused Induction when he was called up for service in the United States Army.
Actually, an intriguing story behind that.
Ali was originally granted a deferment because they said he was too stupid to be in the army.
They said that he tested too low to be able to handle the responsibilities of being in the army.
But by 1967, you know, we had such an enormous force in Vietnam.
They were lowering those standards.
I mean, everybody, every warm body that they could get, they were inducting.
He refused.
He fought for several years in court for on the right of conscience to avoid serving.
And he was stripped of his title during that time.
After three years, he started a fight again.
He had the first fight with Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden.
They've written books about that fight.
Frank Sinatra was taking pictures for Life Magazine.
Then the other two Fraser fights.
Fighting George Foreman in Zaire, overwhelming underdog.
George Foreman at the time was thought to be, I remember George Foreman.
George Foreman was invincible.
He didn't even seem human.
Everybody he fought, he almost killed.
I remember him fighting Joe Frazier and knocking him down like four or five times in the second round.
Joe Frazier was a great fighter, took a punch better than any fighter maybe ever.
One of the most resilient boxers ever.
George Foreman toyed with him.
And here's Ali, now thought to be past his prime, who figured out a way to beat him.
Unfortunately, if you're too young, you don't remember that Muhammad Ali.
What you remember is the Muhammad Ali at the tail end of his career who got beat by Trevor Burbick, who got beat by Larry Holmes, and then unfortunately the Muhammad Ali, who suffered from Parkinson's.
One must also consider the other side of Muhammad Ali.
He said that at the name that he was given Cassius Clay was a slave name.
Kind of ironic because the original Cassius Clay was actually an abolitionist, but he felt it was a slave name.
He converted to Islam and then embraced the nation of Islam, which was a radical wing of Islam.
At the time, Islam was in the middle of a civil war in the United States.
The wing that Muhammad Ali joined, led by Elijah Muhammad and Wallace Muhammad, is believed to have been responsible for the assassination of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a spiritual advisor early on to Ali.
Yet they had him killed.
And Muhammad Ali didn't say a word about it.
The branch of Islam that he was part of preached racial separatism.
Separatism.
That's what they preached.
And to suggest otherwise is sugarcoating and not listening to what the teachings were at the time.
They taught that whites were created by the devil to torment blacks.
These were the beliefs of that religion.
And after every single fight, Muhammad Ali embraced that religion and praised Elijah Muhammad.
You can't be a great humanitarian and an overt racist at the same time.
To pretend that that wasn't part of Ali is ignoring reality.
But here's what we don't know.
Ali himself, in his later years, he was able to communicate via writing and he was able to speak but very slowly.
He stopped espousing those views.
He started talking about how we couldn't judge anyone by their skin color.
But because he wasn't as loquacious or as talking, for heaven's sake, this is a guy who would talk endlessly because he could barely speak.
Did he repudiate that wing of Islam?
Did he regret some of those actions?
Did he understand that not serving in Vietnam was considered such a snub to those people who did fight?
You would have loved to have heard Ali actually speak as he aged to find out exactly what was going on in there.
For many people, I think the most memorable image of Muhammad Ali.
I know it was for me.
The Olympics In Atlanta.
Everybody was wondering who was going to light the torch.
And I remember that whole Atlanta Olympics.
We were the America had to put up with four months of that.
They were running that torch all across the United States.
Every city in the country had the torch come through, and this guy was carrying the torch, and that guy's carrying, Dan, it's going to be the same torch that they're going to bring to Atlanta.
Finally they get down there, two or three or four athletes pass the torch from one to the other, and Evander Holyfield then starts running up the steps.
Holyfield, I think, I'm not sure about this, I think he's from Atlanta.
And he was an Olympian.
So this seemed to be the perfect person to actually light the torch, and then he gets to the top and stepping out from behind his Ali.
No one knew he was there.
Dick Eversol, who I think was the head of NBC sports at the time, said his greatest accomplishment in his years in television was keeping that quiet.
No one knew Ali was going to step out from behind the tor from the structure there and take the torch from Holyfield.
And then Ali with his arms shaking with the Parkinson's, his arms bopping up and down, trying to light that torch.
I mean, you were fearful that he was going to light himself on fire.
It was a remarkably moving moment, and I thought that that might have been the time in which a lot of Americans who never really embraced Mohammed Ali's come around.
That was twenty years.
Since then, as I say, we just haven't heard much of him because of the Parkinson's disease, which you presume came from taking so many blows to the head.
I I suspect he may have gotten it in the final Joe Frazier fight, which is still that was fifth this they fought 15 rounds then.
That's still one of the most brutal fights I've ever seen.
It was those two guys who obviously hated one another, clearly didn't like each other.
They just decided to beat each other's brains in, and it was almost like I know in the case of Frazier, but even Ali, I'll let you hit me in the head as many times as you want.
I'm not going to go down.
And they're doing that in the hot temperatures in Manila, that's something.
And a final thought on this.
A lot of people don't remember this, but we never most of us never saw those fights live.
None of those fights were on regular television, only a couple of the minor ones.
The major fights that Ali fought for the two Clay Liston fights, all of the fights against Joe Frazier, the one against George Foreman, those were all on pay-per-view and not pay-per-view in your own home.
You had to go to like a movie theater.
What they would do is they would replay them the following Saturday afternoon on ABC's Wild World of Sports with Howard Cosell, and Ali would generally come in and be interviewed after they did the replay by Kosell, and that's when that pairing occurred.
But most of us would have to follow those fights on the radio or read about who won them the next day.
Almost none of them were actually seen on live television because boxing then didn't have many matches on live TV.
I don't think I other than the replays, I saw any of those fights live.
I do remember watching him fight Ken Norton live.
That one was on on a Saturday afternoon.
That was the one where Ken Norton broke his jaw and beat him.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on Ali.
What I'd like to do here is just tee it up.
Muhammad Ali, give me your best thought, your best comment.
1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
We'll take some calls, your thoughts on the life and times of one Cassius Clay who became Muhammad Ali and became arguably the most famous athlete in the history of the world.
Is that accurate?
Most famous at most famous athlete in the history of the world.
I think that's fair.
I don't know who the alternative would be.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm just at the right age that I was at my most impressionable when Mohammed Ali was coming on the scene.
And as I said, I don't think I watched any of those fights live.
I watched him on TV with Howard Cosell on Saturday afternoon.
And I remember how angry some people were with him and how much others really liked him.
I think one of the reasons he was able to get away with as much as he did is he was so Funny.
Same thing with Trump.
You can get away with a lot of outrageousness if you're making people laugh in the process.
It certainly explains the career of Don Rickles and why he's been able to say all the things.
Ali was just funny.
He was hilarious.
But he also had to him a mean streak.
In terms of where he fits in terms of the greatest heavyweights of all time, hard to evaluate.
Would Rocky Marciano have beaten him with Joe Lewis have beaten him?
Who knows?
I do know, though, that after Ali, boxing really only had ten years left.
You had that big run of welterweights and middleweights with Sugar Brainard and Marvin Hagler.
Since then, though, America doesn't much care about boxing, and part of it is it's just the sport hasn't produced the kind of charismatic figures like Muhammad Ali.
Let's go to the phones.
Buffalo, New York, and Alex.
Alex, it's your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hello, Mark.
Um, I'm not going to try to get into the logistics of the uh draft and the Vietnam War stuff that people talk about because that was his constitutional right to object to fighting, you know, for the country uh on religious grounds.
And uh certainly he had that right, even though he was willing to kill or be chilled, getting into the ring for big money.
There's always that risk.
My disappointment in him is that when 9-11 occurred, he was the most famous Muslim in the country.
In the world, excuse me.
He could have very easily put out a statement, even in his ailing health stage, that this is his country, the United States, where he made his fame and fortune.
And Muslims of the world should have not hated this country the way they did.
He could have been very proactive in that line.
And instead, he just never said a thing in these last sixteen years.
And I'm very disappointed that he didn't take a stand for his own country.
Yeah, I don't actually know what he said about 9-11, but I certainly don't recall him doing any of the things that you describe.
There's been I I bo snerdly suggesting that the guy's got Parkinson's, and it's a it's a little bit too much to ask ask to make that statement.
What I'll say is that I don't recall Ali saying much of anything about anything for really the last 20 or 25 years.
So I don't know if you could hold his silence against him.
He also isn't the only Muslim who wasn't very vocal in speaking out after 9-11.
I think you're looking, though, to nitpick him if you're expecting him to have become this person who was going to be this tremendous unifier, because as I say, the great fascination for me about Ali is what would he have had to say for the last 30 years had he been able to speak.
Clearly there seemed to have been some evolution when he did interviews, and when he did speak out on matters dealing with faith and morality, it wasn't the bombastic angry kind of defiant Ali that you remember from the 1960s or the 1970s.
I don't know if it's a fair knock to put on him, however, that he was supposed to stand up and say something after 9-11 because I don't know that he was saying much of anything at all after uh the Parkinsons came through.
To uh Maryville, Tennessee and Otto, Otto, it's your turn of the rush program with Mark Belling.
Thank you for taking my call and my condolences to the Ali family and his and his uh fans around the world.
My feelings with Muhammad Ali are mixed, and they're mostly focused on his role as an athlete.
On the one hand, I I think he you could certainly make the case for him as the greatest heavyweight ever.
Um he was an absolute marvel to watch physically and was a boxer like I've not seen before nor since.
So on the one hand, from a pure purely athletic standpoint, he was he was admirable and memorable.
On the other hand, the from a social commentary standpoint, he was the first in my life of a long line of athletes who I remember for their braggada and their cockiness and their lack of what I viewed as traditional sportsmanship.
He he preceded, for example, John MacEnroe.
I doubt if you would have had a John MacEnroe if not for uh Muhammad Ali.
I mean he certainly invented it, and that was one of the reasons that he got the attention that he did.
I I mean you could take that two ways.
Athletes were unbelievably boring before he came along.
None of them ever said anything.
The thing I've always felt with regard to bragging and boasting is you've got to be able to back it up.
There's nothing worse than somebody's gonna do this, that, and the other thing, and then can't do anything.
Ali lived up to almost every one of the boasts that he gave.
Mark Bellingham for Rush.
Uh boss thirdly found this for me.
Uh Muhammad Ali apparently did have some comments to make uh after 9 11.
A couple of other uh facts here on his religious beliefs.
He left the Nation of Islam in 1975.
The nation of Islam uh after falling, there was that huge rift within Islam in which the Malcolm X faction was out there, and uh Elijah Muhammad and Wallace Mohammed felt that he was trying to take over the religion.
Eventually uh the Nation of Islam is the organization that's been led forever by Louis Farrakhan.
In any event, Ali left in 1975 and he became a Sunni, uh a Sunni Muslim.
Uh, this story uh goes on to say that he then embraced the teachings of universal Sufiism.
Uh pained him to see his religion cited by terrorists of the 21st century came to a troubled start.
An interview with the Reader's Digest on the day of the 911 attacks, which had been scheduled beforehand.
So readers digest had apparently scheduled an interview with him on 9-11, not knowing that these attacks would occur.
Ali said, People say a Muslim caused this destruction.
I am angry that the world sees a certain group of Islam followers who caused this destruction, but they are not real Muslims.
They are racist fanatics who call themselves Muslims, permitting this murder of thousands.
Nine days later, Ali visited ground zero.
He said, Quote, what's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence.
He then continued, Islam is not a killer religion.
Islam means peace.
I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for the problem.
Following the Paris terror attacks and a massacre in California, he released a statement in December of last year stating, I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world.
True Muslims know that the ruthless viol ruthless violence of so-called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.
We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.
They have alienated many from learning about Islam.
Well, that seems to me like he went pretty far.
My criticism of supposedly moderate Muslims is that they have not sufficiently condemned terrorism.
They haven't condemned terrorism by Palestinians in Israel.
They have been silent about terrorism throughout the world, and they have not been particularly critical of the jihadis.
It seems to me that Ali was relatively outspoken.
Maybe it's a comment on the media itself or on the rest of us that I hadn't recalled him making those statements.
It's very, very hard to view a guy, though, in the prism of today, given his diminished capacity because of the Parkinsons, when almost everything he did to make himself famous occurred in the 60s and the 70s.
And as I say, you almost have to have been there to realize what a phenomenon he was.
America had about six sports that anybody paid attention to then.
Baseball, football, basketball, a little bit of hockey, a little bit of golf.
Boxing was right there.
When he came on the scene and conquered the sport in the way that he did, he became a remarkable social force.
For a lot of people, he was too outspoken, too provocative, too loud.
The last caller who said that he didn't like the fact that he was such a braggart.
He invented bragging and sports.
Nobody spiked the football before him.
Nobody was dancing around in the end zone.
Nobody did Much of anything.
Whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing, it certainly was unusual.
I was never bothered by it because his bragging was always funny.
It was never this staged, you know, who is the football player that pulled the Sharpie out in the end zone?
Was that Terrell Owens or whoever it was?
That was stupid.
Ali's stuff was pretty funny.
On the other hand, he did have a mean streak.
Floyd Patterson, who was a heavyweight champion prior to Ali and prior to Liston, fought Muhammad Ali at what?
Oh, 66-67.
Floyd Patterson refused to call Ali Muhammad Ali.
He kept calling him Cassius Clay.
He would not take that name.
Now, whether or not that's because Floyd Patterson was trying to get under his skin or not, I don't know.
But Ali slaughtered Patterson.
Patterson wouldn't go down either, and Ali just pounded and pounded and pounded him and taunted him when he was on the ground.
Now, did Floyd Patterson have that coming?
Or was Mohammed Ali just a guy who had a strong mean streak?
I don't know.
But it was, again, what's your answer?
Bo Snudley said...
If you don't call a man that a man his right name, that's what you expect.
Well, we call you Bo Snerdly, though.
Does that mean that you're gonna come in here and pound me?
Oh let's go to Chickasaw, Alabama.
Uh I've got Brian.
Brian, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, actually, it's Fort Myers, Florida.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Uh I'm Rick from Fort Myers, Florida.
Okay, that go ahead.
That's all right.
It's pouring rain down here, so I guess it's all right.
Um anyway, you were talking about Trump, and I know you're talking about Ali, but all he always used to say, you know, about Joe Fraser, what whatever, how ugly he was.
He's ugly, you know.
And uh, you know, he You did a pretty good impression there.
That was the way he said ugly.
I mean, he didn't say ugly, he said ugly.
Yeah.
But anyway, you were talking about Trump earlier, and um I think that you know, um the the society, I mean, uh our our our present day problems are uh were brought on by uh uh political correctness.
And uh by doing that, you know, judges like the Spanish judge you were talking about with uh Donald Trump, you know, the the everything is relative now.
So they'll judge on how they feel, and not necessarily by whether set precedent of you know a long time ago or following the constitution or whatever.
They judge on how they feel like that.
Yeah, there this this notion of putting everyone into a group and presuming that they're gonna have the opinion that they have because they are they're in that group was not something that Donald Trump invented.
In fact, it's kind of the thing that he sort of railed against, which so I I don't know that anybody should be all that shocked when he takes advantage of doing it uh himself.
The this notion of judging everyone on the basis of, well, you're in this group, you have to be this.
There is something overtly racist about it.
I think had Trump initially pointed out that the judge hearing the Trump University case has a long history of liberalism, was a member of La Raza, that it might have communicated the point better.
He did get around to it, however.
Now I'm going to try my friend in Chickasaw, Alabama.
Brian, it's your turn on the rush program.
Hello?
Hi, you're on, Brian.
Okay.
I was just telling Mr. Snerdley that uh I did meet Mohammed Ali and the passport line going into uh London England.
Really?
Yeah, this was about 1965.
I was just uh a kid and uh my buddy and I uh got a chance to fly over to England.
And uh here we are in the passport line, and I look back at my buddy and I said, I can't believe this.
I think I recognized.
And uh I kind of tapped him on his arm, and I said, Pardon me, are you Cassie's Clay?
And he said, call me Mohammed.
I said, Yes, sir.
I just uh and uh he put his hand out and I shook hands with him.
He had a hand like a foot.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it was big.
And we shook hands and I said, Can I get your autograph?
And uh I scrambled around for a piece of paper and he signed it.
And uh we as we were, you know, slow line up to the entry Point.
We kind of chatted for a minute and I asked him what he was doing.
He said he was going over there for some training.
Uh-huh.
And uh just I was impressed by how soft spoken he was.
Yeah, I thank you.
Thank you for the call.
I I'm sh close to a break.
I appreciate that comment.
When he did speak, when he wasn't in that kind of on, the lights are on with Howard Cosell.
He tended to speak quietly.
And again, when you think about him in the later prism of his life, the twenty to twenty-five years of suffering from the Parkinson's, everything was soft.
He tended to be soft spoken unless he was yelling and screaming.
I suspect that part of the yelling and screaming was an act, and it was also partly him.
You can't separate the one uh from the other.
Uh the caller mentions that he said to him, Cassius Clay, I think it was 1964 that he changed his name.
It was after the first list and flight, list and fight.
The next day he said he was converting to Islam and his name was going to be Muhammad Ali.
There were a lot of Americans that took a long time to warm up to that.
He was called Cassius Clay by a lot of people.
I mentioned Floyd Patterson, who himself was black.
He refused to use that name.
So did Ernie Terrell, who was another fighter who fought him.
Anyway, after the two listing fights, Ali really had nobody who was his contemporary.
He just beat everybody up, and then when in 1967, when the belt was taken from him because of the draft thing, it was during that period that Joe Frazier emerged on the scene and then George Foreman, which actually gave Ali some contemporaries.
The thing about boxing is you tend to remember fighters by their fights.
And after Sonny listed, Ali really had nobody that was even close to him, so the fights were never epic or historic.
Joe Frazier came along, and now we think of those three fights, which have been shown on TV all over the weekend, and the YouTube hits are in the zillions as defining.
The George Foreman fight in 1974 or five, whenever the fight in Zaire was, defining fights.
So by having that break imposed against his will in his career, it did allow the emergence of others who were became contemporaries that in the end created the fights that will he will probably be most remembered for.
My name is Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Bellingham for Rush Limbaugh.
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Let's go to the phone, Stockbridge, Georgia, uh uh, let's see, Tom, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey, Mark, thanks for taking the call.
Uh I was I was hesitant to call because I hate to say anything negative about anyone, especially someone who's passed, and by the way, my condolences to his family.
But I am uh I am a veteran that was directed about the same time as uh Muhammad Ali and uh I and many other veterans whom I've talked with about this feel the same way I do.
We looked upon him as an arrogant, narcissistic, self-centered coward who wanted to benefit from the freedoms this country had to offer, but wasn't willing to do his part to fight for it.
So that's that's a feeling that I've had and many of fellow veterans have about it.
Well, two things I will say about that, and I was somebody who came around after the draft was was gone, is that a lot of other people didn't serve either because there were a lot of ways that you were able to get out.
You could go to college.
Well, Ali wasn't apparently smart enough to go to college.
His sport wasn't one in which you, you know, if he was if his sport had been football, maybe he would have gotten some scholarship and could have hung around at a university for a few years.
There are a lot of people in that era who didn't serve.
Ali was drafted because he was eligible for the draft.
But if you look back at that at that era, for heaven's sakes, Bill Clinton didn't serve.
There are a lot of people then that I think you have to hold the same judgment of.
Let's go now.
Thank you for the call, uh, Tom.
Let's go to Veldasta, Georgia, and Joe.
Joe, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yes, sir.
Hey, Mark, uh, please stay with me on this.
I am so glad that there are 1,800 World War II veterans dying every day.
And the reason for this, Mark, please don't rush to judgment here.
The reason for this is they do not have to see what this country has descended into.
They don't have to see transgender lifestyles being taught to kidney gardeners in Washington State.
They don't have to see the bathrooms.
They don't have to see this nonsense.
I thank God that they are dying.
These are this is the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
Okay.
And these were an 18, 19-year-old kids defending this, attacking this.
Now we have 18, 19-year-old kids needing therapy because they've seen Donald Trump for 2016 on the sidewalk in Atlanta.
It's crazy.
I am so glad these men don't have to see what this country has descended into.
Thank you so much, Mark.
I appreciate the call.
He's referencing the fact that, as I mentioned earlier in the program, today is the 72nd anniversary of D-Day.
The thing that I find extraordinary about it is I just think that there is no way we could do anything like that now.
Had there been live television images of those boats charging on there and just being cannon fodder, the paratroopers landing and many of them getting slaughtered, people would have thought that it was a barbaric military tactic.
And remember that it took a few uh several months before the invasion really pressed forward.
The Battle of the Bulge was that winter.
The invasion was in June.
It was in the winter that the Germans were really pushed back and there was no turning back from that period.
When you consider the whininess of so many Americans now, the millennials who, when attending a university, have to go into counseling if someone says something that might offend them, considering the Americans who fought in the type of war that World War II was, it seems like that had to be centuries ago and not just 72 years.
Mark Belling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling here for Rush Limbaugh.
How great would Andy Murray be if there was no Novak Djokovic?
How many titles like what we'd be talking about Andy Murray as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
He happened to be born in the same era of Jokovic.
In fact, Djokovic was born one week to the day after Andy Murray.
I've got a prediction for you.
Jokovic wins the Grand Slam this year.
He technically has a grand slam now because he's won the last four majors, but a true grand slam is the four majors in the same year.
He's so dominant, and with the injuries of Nadal, I think he's going to do it.
Another prediction.
I predict that Hillary Clinton beats Sanders tomorrow in California.
But before anybody goes and puts any stock in that, I was convinced the Cavaliers were going to beat the Warriors in the NBA finals.
And after what happened last night, that looks like a great big giant turkey.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun doing the program.
I believe Buck is going to be here tomorrow, Mark Bellingham for Rush.
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