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You know who has to be the most dumbfounded guy in America right now, right today as we speak, it'd be Denny Hastert.
Former Republican speaker in the House, the guys out there saying, What in the world was I doing paying blackmail?
Hell, I should have done a reality TV show about all this.
I'd be in Fat City.
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Okay, we're going to get to this Caitlin Jenner business in just a second.
There's some other stuff out there going on that I that I want to want to get to.
But I don't want anybody to think I'm relegating Caitlin Jenner to secondary or tertiary status here.
It's just, it's just, it's the dominant thing, and it's what everybody else is talking about.
And I know until you've heard what I think about it, you really don't know what you think about it.
I'm just not crazy about getting into it right now.
I do think it's important for people of a certain age.
Oh!
Sorry for the interruption, but it's no big deal since I'm interrupting myself.
Uh I've got a story today that says the millennials do care about owning houses, and it's it's from uh.
I think a Federal Reserve or it's Fannie Mae.
It it blows to smithereens all this stuff we've been hearing prior to today that the millennials don't want to own things.
Um it's uh the the the Fannie May is in her no different any other generation.
It just shows that we're just being bombarded with stuff left and right, kind of like Bob Schaefer.
We don't know what to make of it anymore.
By the way, Bob Schiefer's been hired.
Guess where Bob Schiefer's been hired?
And the news today is like, oh my God, look what happened here.
Like nobody had any idea this is going to be Bob Schaefer's been hired at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
He's gonna go up and teach confusion, which is what he is.
I mean, we've played the soundbice.
Bob Schaefer, poor guy's confused anymore over what is news and what isn't news, and well, that's why he's been hired by Harvard to go teach uh, I think three semesters of journalism confusion at Harvard.
So he's he landed on his feet after retiring from CBS.
I guess he didn't want to go back to Texas.
Uh anyway, ladies and gentlemen, uh bad news for Hillary Clinton.
You know it's bad when the drive-by's lead with it, even though, even though the drive-by's plug a story in the middle of the Hillary story about how difficult it is for certain Republicans out there too, such as Jeb Bush.
The fact is, CNN and a bunch of drive-bys are le they can't avoid the news.
Hillary's unfavorables are now up to 50%.
More people have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton, Democrat front runner now, than at any time since 2001.
So it'll be the last 15 years.
This, according to a new CNN Ork poll on the 2016 presidential race.
I'm reading here from the C CNN story.
While Clinton remains strikingly dominant in the Democrat field.
Oh, you see, they have to throw that in to try to cushion the blow.
For the Hillary supporters that are reading this piece on CNN.
I mean, it's it's devastating news.
It is just totally she's continuing to plummet here.
There's nothing exciting about Hillary, there's nothing invigorating, there's nothing inspirational about Mrs. Clinton whatsoever.
I mean, it's even been reduced.
We got a soundbite here from the forehead.
He says, Oh, yeah, yeah, Hillary's really great in small groups.
Whatever.
Some poor guy wants to get a picture with her and autograph, and he sends her to the back of the, or she sends him to the back of the line.
Guy should have offered two grand and he would have been able to stay in line where he was.
Oh, and then there's big news.
Oh, wait, wait until Democrat voters hear about this.
It seems that two or three major investment banks And other groups who were hellbent on the Keystone Pipeline being approved have donated millions to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton was taking money from people interested in the Keystone Pipeline.
And all the while, every Democrat thinks that she's steadfastly opposed to it because Democrats should be opposed to it because it's oil and it's polluting and it's climate change and all that other stuff.
And she she and her husband are just out there just they're just hoovering up this money wherever they can get it.
You combine that with the fact that more people have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton now than at any time since 2001, and it is not a pretty picture out there.
The poll shows that Hillary's numbers have dropped significantly across several key indicators since she launched her campaign in April.
A growing number of people say she is not honest and trustworthy.
57%.
It was 49% in March.
That was bad enough.
49% say she's not honest and trustworthy.
Now it's 57%.
Less than half of the people in the poll feel that she cares about people like that.
That's that devastating question that killed Romney.
Remember the exit poll question, 2000, what would have been 2000, what would have been?
12.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Exit poll questioning cares about people like me.
Obama 81%.
Romney, 19%.
On that same question, Hillary, 47% of the people claim or think or feel that Hillary cares about people like them.
It was 53%.
So she's uh that's that's a drop of six points.
And more people now feel that she does not inspire confidence.
50%, up from 42%.
And in uh, you know, it it just it's just devastating out there.
And they're and they're reduced to saying, well, Clinton remains strikingly dominant in the Democratic.
That doesn't mean anything.
It just means that Bernie Sanders isn't striking any fires yet, and Martin O'Malley isn't either.
And Elizabeth Warren, by the way, being in the tail out, spin out, flame out, whatever.
So she's off the scene.
So it doesn't matter.
I mean, she's she's they have no bench.
That's the whole point.
Hillary is it.
So this is not good news.
Now they're gonna slap it's early, they'll say, and it's tied to all the news about the Clinton Foundation.
And once time passes and people forget that, then everything will be okay.
Nothing to see here.
Meanwhile, Scott Walker continues to nail down Iowa.
Many of the drive-bys remain fascinated at that and really dazzled and impressed.
By the way, the same thing's happened to Jeb Bush.
That is happening to Hillary.
Washington Post, Bush lead evaporates, Clinton favorability hits seven-year low.
That's one link.
A political link, Clinton unfavorable numbers, highest in 14 years, that's CNN and political now, which we just had for you.
And from ABC News, poll reveals Hillary Clinton's biggest weaknesses.
But it's uh the bottom is also falling out for Jeb.
In fact, the Washington Post story, after five months of forums and fundraising appearances and trips to the early states, the 2016 Republican nomination contest is as unsettled as ever, with no candidate getting more than 11% support and seven candidates, all within three points of one another.
So what?
It's still early and it's a crowded field.
Who says there's supposed to be a front runner by now?
See, this is typical, too.
If somebody, and by the way, in Iowa there is, it's Scott Walker.
Uh but who says there's supposed to be Republican frontrust?
These guys want to make the claim that there's no Republican has yet made a move to stand out from the crowd, other than Walker in Iowa, it's big trouble for the Republicans.
Hell's Bells, we haven't even started the debates yet.
We're still what, 15 months out.
So is it just more mind control that the drive-bys uh are attempting?
Uh one little thing I want to run by you here regarding Caitlin Jenner.
I'm not going to tell you where this comes from, because I I don't want other than to tell you it's a Republican blog.
Well.
Yeah, it is.
Conservative Republican blog.
I just want to run this by you.
And you tell yourself what you think.
With the momentum from this announcement and affiliation, Caitlin Jenner inadvertently gave the Republican Party something it desperately needs more of.
Street cred.
Simply put, Caitlin Jenner gives the Republican Party a sense of humanity.
Because Bruce Jenner came out as a Republican back in what, March or April.
And we assume that since Bruce Jenner has become Caitlin Jenner that he's uh she's still a Republican.
By the way, did you see that Snerdley, you're the one.
You told me that you saw you you saw the picture of Caitlin Jenner on what is it Vanity Fair, and I guess it looks just like Jessica Lang.
Yeah, everybody's picked that up.
Everybody's in fact, it's gotten such wide play, they went out and asked Jessica Lang what she thinks about it.
And she said, What where is this being said?
And they said, You're trending on Twitter.
She said, What's Twitter?
She had never heard of Twitter, and she didn't obviously know what trending on Twitter was.
They explained to her that you are uh being compared, or Caitlin Jenner's being compared to a younger version of you that Caitlin Jenner was just like you and is beautiful.
And she says she was flattered.
She was really, really flattered to have that comparison made.
So you Snerdley, you're in the mainstream on this.
You saw that picture, you immediately thought of Jessica Lang, and I guess a lot of people did.
Anyway, back to this little passage from the as of now, unnamed Republican-conservative blog, starting again.
With the momentum from this announcement on affiliation, Caitlin Jenner inadvertently gave the Republican Party something it really needs more of.
Street cred, an understanding sense of humanity.
If the Republican Party overall was to warm up to these differences and use them as a broader tool to crush problems, not people.
Problems that really matter.
Like insurmountable national and student debt, ever-increasing national security threats and domestic encroachments on constitutional liberties.
Democrats would stand no chance.
The passage here, what this means is that Caitlin Jenner, as a Republican, proves to people that the Republican Party is a party that loves humanity, has now acquired and achieved street cred.
And if the Republican Party could do more of this, warm up to these differences and use them as a broader tool to crush problems, not people, because as you know, what the Republican Party does is crush people.
But if the Republican Party could take this endorsement by Caitlin Jenner and use it to illustrate they don't crush people, that they are human after all, that they instead will crush problems that Democrats wouldn't stand a chance.
That is a conservative Republican blog.
No, it was 1.8 million that Clinton stuck on Keystone Pipeline.
1.8 million from Keystone Pipeline investors donated to the Clintons.
Did you hear what happened to Les Moonvest?
Oh man, it's such, you know, I've I've been there.
I have been there, I can relate.
It turns out that Les Moonvis went out to dinner at a restaurant called Vibrato in Beverly Hills.
In Bel Air, actually, Bel Air, which is even a cut-up Beverly Hills.
And he parked his cart at the ballet.
That lady's car went in and had dinner and came out, and it was time to get his car.
And he took out this huge wad of cash from his pocket and started going through it, and damned if he only had hundreds.
He only had hundred dollar bills.
And so he told the valet, sorry, bud, all I got's hundreds here, man.
I'll catch you next time.
And got in a car and drove off.
Now, my friends, I know how he felt there.
Happens to me all the time.
Caddies on the golf course, you name it.
Stuck at the valet.
Only $100 bills in my pocket.
It's a real problem.
It can paralyze even the strongest among us.
Do you realize the exact what was he gonna do?
All he had was a pocket full of hundred dollar bills.
What's he gonna do?
He goes through this big wad, he's looking for something less than $100, he can't find anything less than $100 bill, and he gets all embarrassed, and he looks at the valet and says, Hey, bud, you know what?
All I got's hundreds here.
Uh catch you next time.
As I say, that this is this frequently happens to me.
And I know exactly how Moonvels uh felt about it.
It's a real problem.
It can paralyze even the strongest among us.
It can embarrass people.
And the way I deal with this, however, is apparently different than Moonvest.
What I do when I show up at a place that valets the car, I give the valet the hundred dollar bill up front.
And I ask him to park the car right in front, so it's gonna be there when I come back.
And he does.
And in reward for that, when I come out, I give him another hundred dollar bill for leaving the car up front.
They established, you know, I have nice cars.
The places I go likes my car being in front, visible, because it gives an indication of kind of clientele inside.
So I give the valet Moonvest could learn from this.
I give the valet a hundred bucks when I show up and say, please leave the car right here.
Just leave it right here in the uh in the portico, the entrance way, whatever.
Yes, sir.
And I gave him a hundred dollars when I leave for doing so.
And I don't ask for any change.
That's what Moonvest could do.
I and I assume, you know, the valet probably had change in his pocket.
I mean, Move is gonna say, hey, give me 80 back.
Give me 90 back, give me 50 back.
But he was paralyzed with embarrassment, only had hundreds, and you should see there's video of this.
TMZ or somebody's out there got video of it.
Huge wad.
Huge, huge wad.
I, as I say, I I have this problem, but I found ways to uh to deal with it, which is basically being nice to and rewarding the valet for doing good job.
That's how I deal with it.
You know, I'm sorry, folks.
I assume that everybody knows who Les Moonvest is, but it's probably the case that most people don't.
I mean, he's not a public figure.
Those of us uh in uh major media know who Moonvest is.
Les Moonvest is the chairman and CEO of CBS, actually Viacom, I think, runs the the whole thing.
I mean, he's I think Sumner Remstone is probably his boss, but he's number two guy and runs CBS, and he was paid last year $53 million or $50 million.
$54 million uh last year in salary and bonus working at uh NCBS.
And he just he just got he froze out there.
It's it's on videotape.
He only had $100 bills and didn't know what to do.
You know, sometimes I even offer the valet a third hundred dollar bill in my case.
Sometimes, you know, you never know these valets.
Some of them look shouldn't judge people on the way they look, but some of them do look shady.
And if I come out uh and my car's still there, I'll give the guy a third hundred dollar bill just thanks for not stealing the car.
And you know, it's uh this is the easiest way to do I would never ask for change from uh from a valet or anybody else.
No, I would never stiff a valet.
That's what I but I'm sure Leslie just paralyzed.
He didn't know what to do here.
He looked in his wad and he only had a hundred dollars, uh hundred dollar bills.
He forgot to go to the ATM and get and get some twenties.
Or else the bank forgot to bring twenties when they brought him his cash stash for the week or the day, however he does it.
Um Doubt less goes to the bank.
But you never know.
Well, at that level, yeah, banks will deliver cash to you if they know who you are.
If you're big time like that, I don't I yeah.
Uh either that or if you're having trouble, uh, you call Obama, the Fed will print some up and have it messengered over.
I mean, it's you know, at that level, at that level, getting cash, it happens in a far different way than I mean, I don't even think Les probably has a pin number.
Probably has to have a debit card just for the account, but I bet he hadn't said a pin number.
I mean, you're not gonna be caught dead standing there at a CEO of CBS, caught in an ATM machine, unless you go show up in disguise.
Or so okay, we'll get into Caitlin Jenner when we get back.
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Uh ladies and gentlemen, let a couple other things here before we before we get into the uh the Caitlin Jenner stuff.
I was also wondering, I'm gonna, how many um how many millennials actually know who Bruce Jenner is.
I wonder how many people actually now maybe some do.
Maybe it's been written about.
I've been talking about his 1976 Olympics dominance, the cathlete, when at that point in time, winning the decathlon made you the world's greatest athlete.
And he won it going away.
It was uh it was huge.
Uh, Bruce Jenner, you know, achieved legitimate fame for serious accomplishments.
None of this Kardashian type fame that he's been surrounded by, which has to be a factor in some of this.
I mean, it just does, but some of the athletic achievements that that Bruce Jenner accomplished are just unparalleled.
Uh and and he was he was he was bigger than Muhammad Ali back in 1976, folks.
He was he was that big.
He was wholesome Mr. All-American, waving the American flag with him on the uh on the track.
I'll never forget all of the you know, back and they still do it when they telecast the Olympics.
ABC had them back then, and all these feature profiles of all the athletes that they would tape and prepare months in advance of the actual Olympics themselves.
And I remember every one of them about Bruce Jenner.
Every one of them.
I remember the uh particularly one in which the update attempted, no, not attempted, the update followed him on an average training day.
Everything he put himself through in preparation for the Olympics.
And this particular feature started in the darkness of his bedroom with the alarm clock going off at 4.30.
And they simulated it.
But the alarm clock went up at 4.30, snaps right out of bed, uh, down some wheaties or something, and started on the on the training and preparation regimen.
And it was grueling.
It was it was brutal.
And I remember the, you know, 1976, we're four years out of Watergate.
There's uh there's a there's a national funk that's going on the Olympics that year were in Montreal.
And Bruce Jenner, we were just on the on the on the outskirts of electing Jimmy Carter, and it was gonna get even worse.
For that brief moment, that two-week period during the Olympics, Bruce Jenner had people in this country prouder to be Americans than they had been in years.
And I I just wonder how many people know that about him as opposed to what they know now.
Now you've got this obviously Photoshop doctored touched up cover photo on on Vanity Fair.
Um, you know, and I I'll tell you, folks, I don't know if you'll remember this.
I have to find this from the archives.
It was this year, though.
There was a story that we found, and I thought it was gonna get much bigger play than it did.
And now that I look back on it, I guess I was mistaken in assuming that it would get big play.
The kind of play I thought it would get would be that the expert quoted in the story, I thought would be destroyed.
He's a ranking neurologist or psychiatrist or psychology, some noted expert in the field of mental health at Johns Hopkins.
I can't remember his name right off the bat.
And he's in his 60s, if I remember right.
And it was a story about transgenderism.
And he this noted professor and scientist and doctor Johns Hopkins was lamenting what culture is doing to transgender people.
It was his claim, he just came right out and said it that we're dealing with mental illness here.
We should not be celebrating this.
We should not be lionizing this.
We should not be encouraging this.
These people have a uh very serious problem, and they need treatment.
They need help, uh, not encouragement.
I read the story and I shared it with you here on the program.
And it was, I'll tell you what prompted it was my observation that the next push point for the left was going to be transgender people because the gay rights movement had shown such success, had borne such fruit.
Gay marriage, now accepted it seems, coast to coast, north to south, that the gay rights issue is basically no longer a big fight.
The millennial generation particularly embraces gay rights, and so it's not really a big deal, but the people involved have to have a fight.
They have to have a demon.
They have to have they have to have something they're pushing against.
And so transgender people became the new gay people.
Now, transgenders are even a smaller percentage of the population than homosexuals are.
The homosexual population of the country is two percent at most, and not all of them are activists.
You know, not all of them are politically active, not all of them get involved in public demonstrations or any of that.
The transgender population is even smaller than that.
And so it became the uh the new push point, if you will, against the so-called dominant culture, or what we now know is an attack on mainstream Christianity.
And somebody in the drive-by, I even forget the source for this, but I'm gonna find it somewhere in my archives because I talked about it.
Somebody drive by went and found this guy at Johns Hopkins to say that it's a mental illness, that we need not be encouraging this, certainly not celebrating it because it's a sickness, and these people really, really need help.
And I thought that this guy would be destroyed.
Turns out this guy was ignored.
Story didn't get any traction anywhere.
But the guy, the scientist at Johns Hopkins is still there, and he still believes all of this stuff.
And so it's uh uh it is fascinating to watch what's happening to our culture, what's happening to our society, and it's for me, uh mixed emotions about it, obviously.
I remain fascinated by trying to find the tipping point.
Maybe that's not the best description.
I try to go back in our history, our cultural history, and when did this get legs?
When did this start being taken seriously?
When did this actually because it it none of this stuff happens overnight?
The idea that transgenderism is normal and in fact wonderful, something to be celebrated is not something that just popped up overnight.
Uh it's been building, as was the uh the gay rights movement and so forth.
We have a better handle on where that began.
I guess you could say it began when transgenders began to be lumped in with lesbians and gays, as in LGBT, and became part of the group, and they are part of the left, and they are well-funded, and they're they're wealthy, many of them are.
And of course, donate to Democrat uh candidates and issues.
So that's where its home is, and as such, it'll be given favorable treatment to media, and it just grows.
And it kind of just creeps up on people or crept up on people.
And by the time it reaches critical mass, it's it's for people that oppose it or bothered, but it's too late.
It's already tentacles are already well hooked into mainstream culture.
And you just, okay, move on to the next one.
And it just keeps happening this way.
But that's what fascinates me about this.
But that we'll find this Johns Hopkins guy.
Who was it?
It was is Dr. McHugh, that's who it is.
His name is Paul McHugh, and he is the former psychiatrist in chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, and it is its current distinguished service professor of psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a mental disorder that merits treatment,
that sex change is biologically impossible, and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
And it was October 2014 that I first saw this and brought it up.
So not quite nine months, eight months.
Dr. Paul McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks last October in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal.
That's where it was.
He wrote the up in the All Street in the Wall Street Journal.
That's where we first saw it, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a disorder of assumption.
That is the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
Or even some people say, yeah, I've got a I have a female soul and a male body, or vice versa.
He also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who did have reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people.
So yeah, October of last year, and I thought this guy would be destroyed.
I thought once in the Wall Street Journal, and from there it would uh it would it would be discovered and discussed in other places, and that this guy would then summarily be in the crosshairs, but it what the strategy was obviously different.
They just ignored him.
Just leave it alone.
The advocates just decided not to even go there, not to even elevate into the mainstream this particular viewpoint, maybe because of the fear of the credibility the guy would bring to it.
But again, let me get back since everything's politics in America today, and don't think that it isn't.
Everything is politic.
Democrat Party in the media see to that, folks.
I mean, it's it's politics that's causing, not causing, it's politics that is generating all the support in the media for this.
It's politics that's that's generating all of the celebratory characteristics of this story.
So then, in that case, you have to ask, who benefits here?
And how?
I now take you back to the little blurb I found at a conservative blog.
Conservative Republican blog.
With the momentum from this announcement and affiliation, Caitlyn Jenner has given the Republican Party something it desperately needs more of.
Street cred.
An understanding sense of humanity.
Because Caitlyn Jenner has come out as a Republican.
So everybody is looking at this through the prism of politics, not through the prism of compassion and all that.
That's what they tell you they're doing, but it's all political.
Never mistake that.
Okay, got to take a break.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Don't go.
Okay, standby audio soundbite number three.
I want to take you back to April 27th on this program.
I just want to demonstrate for you how if you are a regular habitual listener here, if you make an appointment to be here every day, you are guaranteed to be on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
The gay community is pretty much peaked in terms of protest, anger, and agitation because they've succeeded.
Gay marriage is happening.
Young people seem to be totally in favor of it.
If you look at pop culture television, you cannot watch a single TV show.
Whether it's not gay affection, gay sex, gay love, just it's common though.
But they can't just go away because the agenda never gets completed.
It always has to march on.
So what has surfaced to take the place of anger and protest in the gay community?
It's the transgender community.
The transgender community is the gay community of ten years ago.
The transgenders, they've taken the place of gays, who were discriminated against and made fun of and laughed at, and so forth.
So the transgenders are now occupying the position in the political spectrum where the militant homosexuals occupy 10 years ago.
Well, that alone should tell you why it's a big story.
This fits everything the media wants to do in terms of turning the culture upside down, redefining what normal is, getting revenge against the majority for all of these decades of discrimination and mockery and disapproval, and all these religious fanatics judging other people simply because of quote who they love, unquote.
Bruce Jenner helps to unlock the rage and anger.
I mean, that's none of that's arguable.
Everything in that is right on the mind.
It's exactly what's happening.
And don't forget the point.
All of this is political.
I'm not saying that Caitlin Jenner's political.
I don't know.
But everybody in the drive-by promoting this, approving of it, celebrating, it's all political because everything is.
And the trick is they get away with making people think it isn't political.
You know, millennials hate politics, and the left runs around and says the Republicans are the ones that do politics a lot.
Republicans are the ones that never agree.
Republicans are always the one causing it, but Republicans are the ones that constantly partisan and bickering and arguing.
But we, the Democrats, we don't do politics.
It's all politics.
Everything is about the Democrat agenda.
Last night CNN Tonight, Don Lemon spoke with uh Christine Brennan, sports analyst, and uh talking about Caitlin Jenner and the cover of Vanity Fair, and Don Lemon said, you know, when I grew up, Bruce Jenner was the male sex symbol.
Now this, now he's becoming a female sex symbol in today's issue.
Once again, sports is taking us to a place that we need to go as a nation to have a conversation.
Whether it would be terrible things like Ray Rice and domestic violence, steroids, Lance Armstrong, other Olympians, uh baseball players, or a story like this.
Sports makes it real.
And here we are talking about it, but because he was a sports star, I think it makes it more real for people.
See how this works.
See, this is we're doing a laudable thing.
We are now talking about it.
And that alone.
That alone gives us a gold star.
We are talking about, we are good people.
We are courageous people.
We are finally talking about it.
What are we talking about?
Well, what's the big what are we talking?
Of course we're talking about it.
It's kind of curious.
But no, we're talking about it because what this reveals, once again, is how discriminatory and mean-spirited.
The majority in this country is always been.
We're talking about this because finally another group of discriminated against ill-treated, mistreated people are finally able To come out and name their accusers and point to their accusers and shame them.
That's what this is.
It's it's it's just, folks, it constitutes another in an unending line of assaults on what you have always thought mainstream American culture, morality, whatever, to be.
Anyway, we got audio sound bites of Les Moonvest, stuck with only hundred dollar bills at the valet.