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RUSH: All right, for the stick-to-the-issues crowd, the AFC championship game last night had the highest television ratings for any championship game in 24 years. The previous high-rated AFC championship game was the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns. I think that was The Drive, the Elway Drive. I know, I don\u2019t get it either. Maybe more people watching TV back then, who knows. <\/p>\n

Anyway, greetings, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n

Jay Cutler, the quarterback for the Chicago Bears, does have a torn MCL. A big controversy, the Bears coaching staff, medical staff took him out of the game. The sideline attitude made it look like Cutler didn\u2019t care. He\u2019s been beaten up all day, all night since he left the game. Players around the league ripping Jay Cutler for no heart, kick him off the team, this sort of stuff. He does have an MCL tear. Now, the relevance of this is tomorrow night is the State of the Union show by Barack Obama, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Obama warns Cutler to have security in the operating room to make sure doctors don\u2019t amputate his leg to line their pockets while fixing the torn MCL in his knee. That would be the medial collateral ligament. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, it was a great, great, great weekend and a great day of football in the National Football League. It had everything, and everybody\u2019s trying to figure out what happened to the Jets. And it\u2019s very simple. They played the Steelers. That\u2019s all you really need to know. I mean that game needn\u2019t have ended the way it did. The Steelers went into a prevent offense. Have you ever heard of that? No you haven\u2019t. No, you\u2019ve heard of the prevent defense. The prevent defense is where you\u2019re prepared to give up all kinds of yards but not touchdowns. It never works out that way. They went into a prevent offense until the final two series. They were playing not to lose up until the final two series, at third and six with just under two minutes to go they line up with five wides, nobody in the backfield, Rex Ryan says, ‘Ah, they\u2019re gonna run the ball here. They\u2019re not gonna throw an incompletion, stop the clock and kick it back to us, they\u2019re gonna run the ball, keep the clock running, do a quarterback draw.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They threw it. First down, game over. That was one of the few times in the second half the Steelers were playing outside of their prevent offense, playing to win the game, not to lose it. The prevent offense is where you play the game not to lose, rather than you play the game to win. So they had that 24-3 halftime lead, ran out the clock, sat on it, two totally different games first half and second half.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is Obama. Remember this guy is like Clinton. Whatever he picks, he loses. Whatever he endorses, doesn\u2019t happen. This is Friday in Schenectady at General Electric. Obama is offering in his opening remarks a prediction that Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York, wanted to give him a Jets hat. Obama said…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Both the Jets and the Bears I think are slight underdogs, so we\u2019re gonna be rooting for the underdogs on Sunday. (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Root for the underdogs and make \u2019em losers. President Obama didn\u2019t sit well with Charles Woodson, cornerback for the Packers. Last night after the game he said, among other things, this.<\/p>\n

WOODSON: The President don\u2019t want to come watch us in the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n

TEAM: Yeah! Yeah! <\/p>\n

WOODSON: Guess what? We\u2019ll go see him (cheers) White House on three! One, two three!<\/p>\n

TEAM: White House!<\/p>\n

RUSH: One, two, three White House. I\u2019m sure the nonalcoholic champagne was flowing in the Packers locker room at Soldier Field. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Waynesboro, Virginia. Helen, welcome, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Thank you. I love your show, but I just wanted to illustrate something, give you and all the football fans an FYI. When you said the football player had an MCL type thing. Rush, if it\u2019s a cruciate ligament tear, it\u2019s called an anterior cruciate ligament tear or a posterior cruciate ligament tear. If it\u2019s a meniscal tear, then it is medial or lateral meniscal tear. I\u2019m just trying to educate you on the verbiage, and this is just a friendly FYI from an OR nurse, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I, as a sports fan, know the difference between an ACL, an MCL, a PO2, PCL, and a DDD. I know what the medial collateral —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, I know, but somebody will correct you, and I wanted to just give you a friendly FYI. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did I say that needs to be corrected? <\/p>\n

CALLER: You said MCL. The proper terminology, Rush, is if you\u2019re talking about the cruciate ligament in the knee, you know, it\u2019s right or left knee, of course, but it\u2019s anterior cruciate ligament or posterior cruciate ligament, and if you\u2019re talking about a meniscus tear and you actually mentioned you shouldn\u2019t call it a medial meniscal tear or a lateral meniscal tear —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that\u2019s not — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and depending on right or left leg. But it\u2019s just an FYI because I know people get worried about football people, but, again, the terminology as an OR nurse is important, and, for example, cruciate ligaments are much more of an extensive injury than it is a meniscal tear, usually, so it\u2019s just FYI.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cutler has an MCL.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jay Cutler, the Bears quarterback, has an MCL.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, that\u2019s why I\u2019m saying usually for the regular medical term it\u2019s not considered an MCL because it\u2019s actually only — when you talk about cruciate ligaments, you\u2019re always talking about them as anterior, posterior, not medial or lateral type \u2019cause there\u2019s no such thing. The whole ligament is a ligament and there\u2019s an anterior part to it and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — a posterior part to it. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Helen —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just clearing up. I\u2019m an expert OR nurse — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I\u2019m also (crosstalk) type of specialties and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — it\u2019s just an FYI —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and good luck and God bless.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Did Jay Cutler fake it or not, that\u2019s all anybody wants to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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