RUSH LIMBAUGH […]  Now, last year, before HealthCare.gov opened for business, the Regime said they needed seven million before the end of the year, before this day. They needed seven million, and over the weekend they were doing hoops and making dances and having parties because they claimed that the corner had been turned and 2.1 million people had signed up.
So somebody said, “Well, wait, you said you needed seven million,” and they’re saying, “No, we didn’t,” but they did.  It’s on tape, it’s in print, but they’re just denying it.  “We didn’t say seven million! Nobody ever said seven million,” and in a political sense, the Republicans don’t know what to do with this.  Do you know how to deal with a liar?  It is a challenging thing to deal with a liar. But these people, this is a political party that just lies as a matter of course.
The problem with it is that the impressionable low-information people who vote for them believe all these lies, and then they create lives, circumstances, based on a series of lies.  And then standards begin to crumble, and then promises mean nothing, and then honor and integrity come to mean nothing, and then standards don’t exist.  And then there’s nothing accountable and nothing anybody can depend on.  So there aren’t any guardrails — and that’s where we are, in many ways, in our culture. 

Let me give you an example.  Let me use a football example.  Let me find the story.  I don’t know how many of you — and I gotta be very, very careful about this.  ‘Cause this is one of these things where if I am not careful (by “careful,” I mean really being detailed because this is the kind of thing), a lot of people would love to take me out of context.  It involves Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos and the passing yardage record.  “Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will remain as the league’s single-season record holder for passing yards.”
In the last game of the season, Peyton Manning only played one half.  He was taken out after setting the record.  The pass that broke the record was a seven-yard pass to the Broncos receiver Eric Decker, and that seven-yard completion gave Peyton Manning the single season record for passing yardage in the NFL, breaking the record held by Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints.  Now, because the in-house, press box, stadium statisticians gave manning the record, the Broncos sat him down in the second half, and he didn’t play anymore.
Had he played the second half, he would have racked up even more passing yardage, by default. He’s gonna complete passes in the second half if he plays, but he didn’t.  Well, it turns out that some people thought that that seven yard pass that gave him the record wasn’t a forward pass, that it was a lateral. So they looked at it on videotape. They looked at it on a series of still shots taken from the videotape.
If you looked at it you would conclude (like a number of other people in the media concluded) that it was not a forward pass, that it in fact was a pass backwards by one yard.  I have looked at it over and over, looked at it on the way back home yesterday, last night, and it looked to… I mean, countless times.  This is not a criticism of Peyton Manning.  It’s really not a criticism of anybody specific here.  I have a much larger point that I’m trying to get to here, but I gotta set up the details and circumstance.
I didn’t see the game. I didn’t watch the game.  I only became aware of this when others in the sports media began to question whether or not it was a forward pass.  Well, the official statistician of the NFL is the Elias Sports Bureau…  The Elias Sports Bureau is the final word on statistics in the NFL, and the Elias Sports Bureau was given this play to look at, and they decided not to change it.  The play will remain as a completion, and Peyton Manning will hold the record after further review.
But, it was a backward pass.  Again, forget that Peyton Manning’s even involved here.  This is not with Peyton Manning.  I have no opinion. If he sets the record or not, it’s of not of any consequence to me. I’m not a Peyton Manning fan and I don’t dislike him or any of that.  To me, this is about standards and controversy and the avoidance, and it may be, in the big scheme of things, a minor point. But I think there’s a whole lot of little things like this going on that portend big problems in our culture.
Because what it adds up to is what’s right isn’t right, what’s wrong isn’t wrong.  It’s what somebody wants something to be that is.  Now, it could well be that the Elias people are figuring, “You know what? We don’t want to be involved in this.  They said at the stadium it’s a forward pass, and we’re not gonna be the ones to take the record away from Peyton Manning.  It ain’t gonna fall down on us.” So maybe they said, “Okay, it ain’t gonna be us.”  So they leave it alone.     (continue reading)
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