{"id":13362,"date":"2013-01-30T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:55:20","slug":"ray_lewis_what_difference_does_it_make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/30\/ray_lewis_what_difference_does_it_make\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lewis: What Difference Does It Make?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ray Lewis at the Super Bowl under a cloud of suspicion. Did you know that one of the fastest-growing organisms, one of the fastest-growing things in all of mammaldom, in the entire mammal world, do you know what grows faster than almost anything? Deer antlers. A certain deer, I could be corrected on this, but I think the specific deer that we are talking about is in Australia. Could be wrong about that, but wherever this deer is, the deer antler grows faster than any other aspect of any mammal ever.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s happened is, a bunch of doctors and nutritionists have been able to isolate the material, element, whatever that makes this possible and they put it in a spray that human beings use under the tongue. It\u2019s called Sublingual. For those of you in Rio Linda, Sublingual, see, the tongue is how we speak, i.e., language, lingual, sub means under. So when something is sublingual it\u2019s under the tongue and that\u2019s because things are absorbed into the bloodstream faster there than anywhere, certainly faster than gastrointestinally.<\/p>\n

\"\"So Ray Lewis is accused of getting this deer antler spray. It\u2019s also in pill form. But the fast-acting stuff, you spray on the skin and you spray under the tongue, and it supposedly acts like human growth hormone, and therefore becomes a performance-enhancing drug and therefore is illegal in the NFL. And Ray Lewis is accused of using it. And so yesterday was media day at the Superdome, and, of course, the media is flocking to Ray Lewis. The first question, of course, was on Atlanta and 2000. The question, “You pled guilty to an obstruction of justice charge in the deaths of two people in Atlanta. What would you say today to the families of those victims?”<\/p>\n

LEWIS: I just don\u2019t believe, honestly, that this is not the appropriate time for that. Nobody here is really qualified to ask those questions. I just truly feel that this is God\u2019s time, and whatever his time is, you know, let it be his will. Don\u2019t try to please everybody with your words, to try to make everybody\u2019s story sound right. At this time I just — I would rather direct my questions in other places because I live with that every day. You can take a break from it. I don\u2019t. I live with it every day of my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s perfectly clear to me what he\u2019s saying there. Did you understand that? They\u2019re afraid in there to tell me that they didn\u2019t understand it. What Ray is saying here is that you media twerps are not qualified to ask me these questions. This Super Bowl, this is God\u2019s time, and whatever God chooses is his will, and I\u2019m not gonna try to please everybody with my words or try to make everybody\u2019s story sound right. I just want to direct my questions — he means answers, \u2019cause he\u2019s not asking anybody anything — I just want to direct my answers in other places because I live with that every day of my life. I don\u2019t know if he means Atlanta or God\u2019s will. So the next question. “Ray, there\u2019s a story in Sports Illustrated that you used banned substances in your recovery, deer antler spray. What do you say to that?”<\/p>\n

LEWIS: I\u2019ve been in this business 17 years, and nobody has ever got up with me every morning and trained with me. Every test I\u2019ve ever took in the NFL, there\u2019s never been a question if I\u2019ve ever even thought about using anything. So to even entertain stupidity like that, tell \u2019em to go try to get the story out of somebody else.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so Ray Lewis with a categorical denial that he\u2019s ever used deer antler spray. He\u2019s got a triceps injury that he wanted to come back early from. It\u2019s his last year and he wanted to play in the odds that they made the Super Bowl, and they did so he wanted to make sure he could play. So the allegation is he\u2019s using deer antler spray because it\u2019s a performing-enhancing drug and human growth hormone enhances recovery. He says (paraphrasing), “I\u2019ve been tested every year, 17 years, I never failed a test.” Where have we heard that? We heard that from Lance Armstrong. We heard that from what\u2019s her name, the sprinter, Marion Jones.<\/p>\n


\nHere\u2019s the thing. This is the problem. Well, it\u2019s not a problem. Nothing\u2019s gonna happen. You can only, from what I have discovered, you can only detect deer antler spray — this is important for those of you young athletes out there who are gonna try this, and you know you will. You can only detect deer antler spray in the blood. You can\u2019t detect it in urine, and the NFL doesn\u2019t draw blood for tests. Everything\u2019s a urine test. So it won\u2019t show up. So even if he has been using deer antler spray, there\u2019s no way it would ever show up. This isn\u2019t gonna go anywhere because there\u2019s not gonna be any way anybody can establish, unless the deer gives up the goods.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, the deer antler doesn\u2019t grow as fast as government debt, but I didn\u2019t say that. I said mammal. The government\u2019s debt\u2019s not mammalian. It\u2019s a whole different breed. The deer are from New Zealand, not Australia. It\u2019s a particular deer from New Zealand. The antlers grow faster than anything else in the mammal world, and that\u2019s why the extract from those antlers is sought, because of the recovery time being speeded up in the human body. The substance, after they do their magic and extract whatever\u2019s the active ingredient here, it\u2019s called IGF-1. It\u2019s banned by the NCAA. It\u2019s banned by every major professional sports league, but you can only discover it if you sample blood, and the NFL doesn\u2019t. The NFL just does urine tests, and that\u2019s it. It\u2019s an insulin-like growth factor. Its natural anabolic hormone stimulates muscle growth. It actually comes from the velvet on a deer\u2019s antlers. Yeah, their antlers are the fastest-growing substance on earth because of the high concentration of IGF-1.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, Ray Lewis, something I meant to say. Ray Lewis has got a simple explanation or answer for all this. What difference does it make? At this point, what difference does it make? About Atlanta in 2000 and whatever happened in the nightclub — and the deer antler spray, what difference does it make? Hey, it worked for Hillary. If it worked for Hillary, it\u2019s bound to work for somebody like Ray Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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