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Oct. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, we're back.
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I intended to get the phone calls in the last hour.
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So if you're on hole, just hang in there, be tough, be patient, because your golden opportunity, your big showbiz break, is soon coming up.
Now, before I move on to this daily bee stuff, I've got some sound bites associated with this Lewinsky stuff that I want to get out of the way.
Intended to get to those in the last hour as well.
First up is Monica herself yesterday, Philadelphia, at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit.
She's 41.
And we had just a portion of her remarks, and then you shall be treated to media reaction to Monica Bowinski yesterday at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit.
Thanks to the internet and a website that at the time was scarcely known outside of Washington, D.C., but a website most of us know today called the Drudge Report, within 24 hours, I became a public figure, not just in the United States, but around the entire globe.
As far as major news stories were concerned, this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the internet.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one.
I was patient zero.
I'm sorry, do you have an idea why now I have the attitude I've got about this?
I mean, now she's 41.
She's not a 19-year-old kid anymore.
She's 41.
It's like she didn't do anything.
She minding her own business one day, and all of a sudden the internet decided to tell people what she was doing.
And if it hadn't been for the internet, nobody would have known because the real media wasn't interested.
See, the real media, Newsweek, they spiked the story.
The real media didn't care.
Monica, do you have any idea what you did?
Do you have any idea with whom you did it?
Do you have any idea the marital status of the man with whom you did what you did, where you did it numerous times?
How in the world did you expect that not to be reported?
How in the world did you expect that not to become known?
Patient zero?
I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one.
What do you expect to happen when you do what you did?
Now, don't misunderstand here, folks.
She's 19 at the time.
In some people's books, that's an adult.
And I'm not denying she was exploited.
She was used.
This guy, Clinton, knew that she was infatuated.
He knew that she was in love with, and he used it, and he toyed with her, and he just chewed her up and spat her out.
But he didn't, well, figure of speech.
Now, come on, don't distract me again here.
Fact of the matter is, he should have been humiliated too.
Not only that, Clinton went out and lied about it.
Now, here's Monica, who's just so much in love with the guy, and she's watching him, and he's finally got a chance to go on TV and proclaim his love for her.
And steadily he goes out and says, I never, I don't know what, I never had sex, not a single time with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
Like, he didn't even know her.
He wasn't humiliated.
He never has been humiliated.
She was, but it was not because of the internet, and it was not because she's patient zero, and it's not because there was any bias or what have you.
This kind of thing is just a symptom, folks.
It's clearly a teachable moment, symptomatic, so much in this to learn that instructs us why we are where we are on a whole bunch of things.
Now, let's go to the drive-by media.
We have here a montage of drive-by and entertainment media helping the Clintons and Monica rewrite history.
And the rewrite of history is that she was a victim of cyberbullying.
And she was the first victim of cyberbullying.
And this cyberbullying has got to stop.
Meanwhile, everybody engaged in the internet on social media is doing everything they can to have everybody else know everything about them.
And this has been going on for a long time because everybody wants to be famous.
Everybody wants to be Monica Lewinsky in the Lewinsky story.
Everybody wants to be the focus of television reports and television stories.
Everybody wants to be in circumstances.
Young people I'm talking about.
Here's the drive-by media montage on this.
On the topic of cyberbullying, Monica Lewinsky.
Monica says her reputation was completely destroyed thanks to the internet.
Patient Zero and the epidemic of cyberbullying.
She's the first cyberbullying victim.
Beginning of a full-blown campaign against cyberbullying.
She feels a victim of a bullying culture.
To end the cyberbullying and online shaming that really damaged her.
Hoping to use her experience to change the culture of public humiliation on the internet.
The first victim of cyberbullying.
Before Google, before Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
She was the pre-social media person who experienced bullying as a result of what happened to her.
Do you see how this is working out now?
Now, you guys in there that have Hillary on the brain, if you want to know what's really going on, she is helping Hillary take this whole story off of Hillary's plate by rewriting it, repositioning it as cyberbullying.
And we're going to erase somebody's memory that she was in the White House having oral sex with Hillary's husband.
We're going to erase that.
That's not what this is going to end up being about.
This is going to be about cyberbullying, bullying being the magic word.
And this, if you guys think that Monica is complicit with Hillary in anything, the complicitness is in rewriting the story and giving Hillary a new issue, cyberbullying.
I don't think she'll ever talk about Monica.
I couldn't care less.
I don't know what she's going to do.
But you see now how this is being rewritten.
Poor old Matt Drudge is mine.
He's just building a business out there.
He comes across a story that Newsweek has in Spike, so he runs it.
And all of a sudden, he's the bad guy.
Matt Drudge?
The internet's the bad guy?
What did Monica do?
Now, I realize I may be skating on thin ice with women.
I know this, but I'm sorry.
I'm the mayor of Realville, and this is not about feminism.
It's not about women.
This is not political here.
This is, I'm not.
I'm just, she's a human being.
Does she not know what she did?
It's as though what she actually did has no role in why she's a news story.
How can that possibly be?
Matt Drudge wouldn't have cared.
Newsweek wouldn't have, nobody would have cared if not for the details of the story.
How many other interns have been in that White House?
Do we know of any of them?
Hundreds.
Do we know of any of them?
Why?
There were no Lewinsky's going on in there between them that we know of.
That we know of.
Here's Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington on the NBC nightly news last night, reporting about Lewinsky's new quest to end cyberbullying.
The timing couldn't be worse for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
I think no one was probably sorrier to hear Monica Lewinsky's name raised again than Hillary Clinton, an extraordinarily painful period of her life, one that she's moved on from.
Bill Clinton is now the most popular Democratic surrogate on the campaign trail, as memories of the Lewinsky affair have faded, at least until now.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington.
Wait a second.
What's another thing I'm missing?
This is the second appearance of Monica at one of these kind of things to talk about cyberbullying.
This isn't the first time she bashed Drudge.
This happened a year ago.
Campaign what?
I don't care.
She did it.
This is not her first coming out trying this.
This is not the first seminar she's attended.
Somebody look it up.
I know my memory is dead on right about this.
So what is it about this?
Monica Lewinsky has not faded from anybody's memory.
She was out there a year ago trying this.
My point is: here's Andrea Mitchell faded from everyone.
She's not faded from everybody's memory.
That's the whole point here.
The people who remember this are still disgusted by it and try to figure out how in the hell the participants in this thing end up unscathed, unshamed.
And just sort of perplexing here.
The timing couldn't be worse for Bill and Hillary.
So once again, here's Monica out there doing what she's ever trying to do, and it still is about Bill and Hillary, you see.
Oh, no.
This is going to hurt Hillary.
Oh, no.
Is this going to hurt Bill?
Why are you asking?
It never has.
The Lewinsky story never hurt Bill Clinton.
The Lewinsky story never hurt Hillary Clinton.
The Lewinsky story isn't going to hurt them.
Why, Andrea Mitchell and me, seniors in Washington, are you so worried that it might hurt them now?
It never has.
Moving on to CNN, Wolf Blitzer speaking with Jeffrey Toobin, a senior legal analyst, about this.
We covered the whole Monica Lewinsky affair with the president.
Why is this resurfacing right now?
What I don't understand, frankly, is why she persists in doing things in public, which is just going to attract unflattering attention.
I think she'd be better off working for her causes in private rather than in public.
And if she's going to work for good causes, don't start rehashing all of that painful past.
Move on.
Yeah, see, Wolf doesn't want any more of it.
Move on, painful pale.
Why rehash it?
Come on, get out of here, Monica.
We're tired of it.
They may be worried that at some point it will hurt.
But I think we'd all have to agree, it hasn't hurt anybody except her from the get-go.
It hasn't hurt Bill.
It hasn't hurt Hillary in any demonstrable way.
Quite the opposite, frankly, and we'll be back.
You talk about something I never intended to be spending this kind of time on.
All right.
My memory, as usual, flawless.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from Vanity Fair, magazine to the stars, May 6th of this year.
May 6th, May, June, July, June, July, August, September, October.
Six months ago, Monica Lewinsky published a book called Shame and Survival.
Six months ago.
Now, all of a sudden, she shows up at this Forbes thing.
And by the way, it was covered by everybody, and she was on TV.
And that was when she first complained about being bullied by Matt Drudge.
This is not the first time she's done it.
And yet these people in the drive-bys all think it is.
And they're all wondering, oh, the time.
Oh, this is so unfortunate.
Oh, it's so sad.
She wrote a book called Shame and Survival.
And Vanity Fair had the exclusive.
Monica Lewinsky writes about her affair with President Clinton.
So she's back in six months.
Guess the book didn't sell well.
And everybody's acting like, oh, oh, the timing.
Oh, it's so bad for Hillary.
Oh, it's so bad.
I got one other thing, and then we're going to get the phones, as I promised.
Cyber bullying.
They want to say that Matt Drudge was bullying Monica Lewinsky.
What was he bullying her to do?
What was the bullying?
Was Matt Drudge bullying Lewinsky to shut up?
Was he bullying Lewinsky to tell the truth?
What was the bullying?
I don't even understand how the word's being used.
All that happened was the details of her behavior with the president were made public.
Where is the bullying?
Drudge did not make her do something she didn't want to do.
The internet, nobody internet, bullied Monica Lewinsky into doing something she didn't want to do.
This is almost like a half-baked effort to bully Drudge into stop reporting the news is what this is.
It's going to actually reverse bullying anyway.
We go to the phones with David in Chester, Virginia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Monica is showing exactly how naive she is.
She says that she loves Bill and Drudge destroyed her.
If she didn't have that blue dress, the Bill and Hillary political machine would have crushed her.
There would have been no political cover.
There would have been no job offer from Vernon Jordan.
They would have absolutely destroyed her.
You know, that is an excellent point.
If she hadn't kept that semen-stained blue dress, she'd have gotten the dollar bill through the trailer park treatment from James Carville.
They would have destroyed her because it would have allowed Clinton to keep denying it.
I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time.
I don't even know who that woman is.
And they could have literally destroyed her.
They could have ruined her, and they would have been really bullying.
They are the bullies.
That is a brilliant, brilliant reminder, David.
Thank you.
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What are you laughing at now?
The staff is in their own world today.
Well, I didn't know where he was going either, but I trusted him.
See, that's the difference.
You're in there shaking in fear.
Oh, no, where's the caller going to go?
I didn't screen it.
I had implicit trust.
All I had to do was say, if you're going to say something good, fire away.
And he did.
And it's a great point.
I do remember Francis Ford Coppola lost everything.
Because if the backup drive is part of your computer or part of the array in your house, if it's all stolen or if it's all ruined, it's all gone.
He's right.
Here's Kathy in Austin, Texas.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rice.
It's good.
Great pleasure to speak with you today.
I wanted to comment about the Monica Winsky story where she said that Drudge ruined her life.
And I would argue that the left ruined her life.
They were trying to protect Bill Clinton, and she was a sacrificial animal for that.
People on the right thought she was a victim of a predatory president.
That's all true, too.
I would prefer sacrificial lamb to animal.
But you're right.
Your point is on par with our previous caller.
And he said that that blue dress saved her.
They could not destroy her like was the business model.
The Bimbo eruption unit was there to destroy every Monica Lewinsky who surfaced, no matter how or where.
Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie, Juanita Broderick, the list goes on.
Jennifer Flowers, it's an unending list.
Well, it ends at some point, but we still don't know all the names possibly that were on it.
But again, Kathy is right.
It was Clinton's friends who aimed at Lewinsky.
And by the way, here's Lewinsky.
The story comes out, and it happened, and Clinton denies it.
And here's Monica, Madeline Albright, leading a bunch of women working in the White House outside to a press conference.
We believe in Bill Clinton, and we think this woman is trash.
Well, she didn't say all those words, but that might as well be the implication.
So you add to this, she's gooey eyed in love, see, and these people are playing around with that.
Mean people, folks.
Mean.
Yeah, hi.
Welcome back.
Grab audio summit number eight.
Friday.
Make sure that this is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mentioned at the top of the program that Barack Obama is out there throwing incumbent Democrats running for reelection overboard.
These Democrats don't want to be anywhere near him.
They don't want him anywhere near them.
They are distancing themselves from his policies.
They are distancing themselves from him.
It is well known that his approval numbers are way down.
The bloom is off the rose.
Obama 2014 bears no resemblance to Obama 2008.
These incumbent Democrats look at Obama as a drag.
They have expressly said they don't want him to campaign for them.
So naturally, Obama's being asked about this.
And his answer is to throw them all overboard.
He appeared on the radio yesterday, went on a radio show that has very small, almost non-existent audience.
And I'm sure it's because maybe partly because this show's audience is so tiny that he thought he could perhaps get away with saying this.
Maybe not.
Maybe he knew.
Nah, he knew.
He knew despite the tininess of the particular show's audience he went on that it would be reported.
And I just want you to hear it from him.
He throws them overboard and he basically gives the Republican opponents of these Democrats a huge gift to a certain extent.
Now, I want to couch this by reminding everybody, the drive-by media is going nuts over this.
They think this is a huge Obama gaffe.
They think that this is very inconsiderate.
Why would Obama do this?
In fact, the Washington Post headline, Obama gift wraps another soundbite for Republicans.
I'm not so sure it's that big a deal, particularly with low-information voters.
But here's the soundbite.
Here's the soundbite from which the supposed Republican soundbite could be taken.
A lot of the states that are contested this time are states that I didn't win.
And so some of the candidates there, it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turnout.
The bottom line is, though, these are all folks who vote with me.
They have supported my agenda in Congress.
They are on the right side of minimum wage.
They are on the right side of fair pay.
They are on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure.
They're on the right side of early childhood education.
These are folks who are strong allies and supporters of me.
And I tell them, I said, you know what, you do what you need to win.
So the Democrats are out saying they have nothing to do with Obama.
Some of them are actually going to great pains to distance themselves from Obama.
So he comes on Sal Sharpton's radio show.
He goes on Sharpton's radio show.
Oh, no, these people love me.
They've made my agenda possible.
These people vote with me on everything.
These people agree with me on everything.
They just doing what they have to do to win.
I mean, it's a major, major, major insult to these people.
The real question is, how many ordinary, everyday, average voters are going to, even if the Republicans do put a commercial together based on this.
And the only thing I'm saying is that many things that the drive-by media gets all excited about in many instances are things that don't even get a rise out of average people.
By average, I mean people not in that politics is everything world.
And my point is, I don't know how damaging this really is to these Democrat incumbents, the media who care greatly about this.
The media just can't abide the Republicans winning here.
They just can't abide it.
They're going to look at this.
Oh, my God, look at the weapon this guy just gave the Republicans.
I'm not sure it's that big a deal.
It could be.
But I'm putting myself in the shoes of people that pay scant attention to this kind of thing Until a week or two before the election.
And it just, it may not even be on their radar.
And people are going to vote against Democrats.
They've already made up their mind to do so anyway.
Nothing is going to change the overall attitude about the country's state and its future.
But we will see.
Here's Eric in Killdeer, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an honor to be on with you.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
Longtime listener and first-time caller as well.
But I have two points.
One, you were talking about how Bill Clinton kind of resurrected himself.
And what came to mind and always bothered me was, you know, the Bushes had a lot to do with kind of, you know, picking him up and brushing him off and putting him back on a respectable pedestal.
And I think without their help, I don't think he'd be where he's at.
And it's kind of ironic because he's now the biggest weapon against the Republican Party.
So I just find that, you know, to me, that was, you know, probably the biggest thing to kind of help resurrect his political life.
I don't know if it was the biggest, but it was big.
You're right.
Right.
The hey, Bill, why don't you come join us on this charity flight to the tsunami area?
Yeah.
And hey, Bill, you and I will work together here, put forth a united front.
The United States has arrived.
The cavalry's here.
We're here to help you out.
Yeah.
There's no denying that.
And I think two things on that.
One is I can only tell you what I think I know, and that is that both Bush 41 and Bush 43, whatever you think of them policy-wise or whatever, they have a deep reverence for the office, and they are not going to ever denigrate anybody's ever held it.
They're not.
They're not going to be critical of anybody's ever helped, not publicly.
They are not going to do anything like the Democrats do every day to wreak havoc on the reputation of the institution.
They aren't going to do it.
In fact, they're going to do things to build it up.
And if they think building up the stature of the presidency is to take Bill Clinton along, I happen to know the Bush family loves the guy.
They find him just a harmless, good old party boy.
You know, personally.
Yeah, I agree with you.
And, you know, I'm sure they're doing it for the right reasons, but the outcome is detrimental to the president.
No, you're going to point that just illustrates there is no competitive instinct in many ways at the highest levels of the Republican Party.
I'll never forget.
Look, I'm not speaking out of school.
I mentioned this when it happened.
Way back in 1992, during the primaries of that presidential election, Ross Perot was surprising everybody.
Remember my invitation to the White House and to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom as a guest of George H.W. Bush.
And the evening featured some discussion of the campaign, the election, and so forth.
And there was a point in time where President Bush said that he thought Tom Foley's a good guy.
He could actually work with Tom Foley.
And it was Tom Foley I think he ultimately agreed to raising taxes with.
Speaker of the House.
I'm pretty sure it was Foley.
It might have been, it was Jim Wright and Foley came after Jim Wright, I think.
And I lost track who followed Foley.
But it might have been somebody else.
I'm not sure which.
But whoever was the speaker in 1992, George H.W. Bush thought he was a Democrat he could work with.
He was a good guy.
And so that's just, it's, I don't know, it's establishment blood.
That's their power sharers.
Okay, Tom Foley.
Foley, don't forget, Foley's the guy who became known for stealing other people's meals on commercial airline flights.
Remember that?
You'd forgotten that, hadn't you?
They had a stewardess once that told you, oh, every time this guy's on our flight, he takes meals that other people don't eat off the airplane with him.
He was no longer speaker at the time.
He had retired.
Quick timeout, my friends.
You just never know what's going to happen on this program.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not trying to be negative.
Folks, can we get a grip here?
When I said that I don't know just to what extent the low-information crowds are going to go, oh, wow, oh, well, do you hear what Obama said?
Why, he said even these guys that don't want him around, they all support him.
Oh, man, I got to vote.
I understand.
I'm not trying to be negative about this.
I'm just, I'm just, I just don't buy the media, what a trend or the soap opera storyline every day.
And the media soap opera storyline is that Obama stepped in it big with that quote.
And maybe he did.
Now, there's also a reality here.
In terms of these elections in November, we don't need every low-information voter to switch.
We don't need every black voter to either stay home or change their vote.
Just need a couple percent in either category.
And Obama has, I know that over the summer, one of the points the Republicans were making, you know, Obama would go out there and try to inoculate the Democrats by saying that he wasn't on the ballot.
And so he wasn't a factor in the election.
Don't hold it against the Democrats.
He's not on the ballot.
Now, the Republicans, a couple of them who's still in the game, had a perfectly good reply.
They said, you may not be on the ballot, but your agenda is, because these are the people that carry your water.
Bingo, that was exactly true this past summer, and it remains true.
Now, what Obama did was come along and confirm that.
He just confirmed that all of these incumbent Democrats running for reelection are essentially lying in their campaigns.
That's what he basically accused them of.
He didn't come close to using words like that, but they're out there distancing themselves.
They're telling voters that they disagree on the travel ban.
You got all kinds of people flip-flopping on that.
Travel ban from Africa.
Kay Hagan, K, K, K, yeah, Kay Hagan.
Is it Fagan?
No, I'm good.
It's Hagan.
She's doing a flip-flop.
Governor Kubo in New York has flip-flopped on the travel ban.
Democrats left and right are flip-flopping on the travel ban from Africa.
They're all seeing the polls exactly right.
And so they are distancing themselves in their campaign, specifically from the Obama agenda.
And he does go on the radio yesterday.
Hey, these are my henchmen.
These are the people that made what I do possible.
They voted for all this stuff.
That's damaging.
I just maybe I ought to not share my instinctive reaction all the time.
Because I'm not trying to say this is a negative.
I'm not trying to deny anybody.
If you want to get all excited about it, go do it.
It certainly doesn't help.
I'm just the only thing I'm saying, I don't know how really destructive a comment it was, because after all, we're dealing with the low information crowd to begin with here.
And we're dealing with a midterm turnout as opposed to a presidential year turnout.
I mean, look, bottom line is I said earlier this year that I thought this was going to be a wave election.
And I'll say here again today, if the election were today, I don't think anybody has any idea how bad it's going to be for the Democrats.
I don't think the polls are telling anywhere near the full story about just how many people are dispirited, fed up, angry, no longer buying the Obama magic, however you want to characterize it.
But it's all going to depend on how many of those people actually vote.
And then we must be honest, you've got to keep in mind here that whatever happens in this election, it's going to be a referendum on Obama.
It is going to be a referendum on the Democrat Party.
And it's going to be people showing up to vote saying they're tired of it and they don't like it and they don't want any more of it.
That's what this vote is going to be, just like 2010 was.
I think this has the potential to be just as big.
We shall see.
Here's Scott in Los Angeles.
You're next.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes, sir, Scott.
How are you?
Good.
Hey, you know, Rush, Monica says a drudge has ruined her life.
And Monica, you know, let's look at what she's ruined.
The sanctity of marriage, the dignity of the presidency, and the respect of our country.
I mean, she's ruined more with her choices, and they're going to have a lasting effect and consequences than anything in her pathetic little life.
That's pretty tough.
She didn't do that single-handedly, you know.
She did not.
She did that with the help of the media and with the help of that party.
Well, she did it with the help of Bill Clinton.
I mean, I can't leave him out of this equation.
Right.
She was pretty tough charges to chalk all of that cultural rot up to her.
She was a participant in it.
There's no question.
She was a participant.
And it might be pretty tough to go ahead and put that all on her.
And, of course, she didn't destroy them all.
Because, see, she didn't get away with it is the point.
He did.
She, her life, who knows what it would have been.
But, I mean, she did not, you can't say she got away with it, at least in her own mind.
She's humiliated, embarrassed.
She's a laughing stock.
Everybody looks, and then they turn around and look at Clinton as some big superstar hero.
And so she did pay a price.
She's admitting it.
That's what all this public appearance stuff is about Drudge bullying her.
But Drudge didn't bully her.
Bullying isn't even the right word here for what is going on.
There's not cyberbullying here.
Drudge didn't make her do anything.
Didn't force her to do anything.
Drudge didn't have a role in what she did.
George came along after it was all over.
She just better, like our previous caller said, she just better be glad she saved that dress.
Let's see.
I've spent about an hour and 45 minutes more on Monica Lewinsky than I ever intended to today.
That's just the way things fall out.
And we haven't even discussed the possibility of a porn career.
And I don't think I'm going to go there.
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