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Identifying As Skinny
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| Okay, so I officially today announce that I identify as skinny. | |
| And this day going forward, I am skinny. | |
| Now in the old days, people's reaction to that would be to call me delusional and maybe think I needed some help. | |
| Today I'm brave. | |
| It's a courageous act to identify as skinny when one is not. | |
| And I'm sure I will get accolades all across Twitter and accolades all across Facebook and accolades all across the drive-by media for positive thinking. | |
| Now that I identify as skinny, and I'm fully expecting that weight watchers and others will identify with me and welcome me to the fold as a skinny since I now identify that way. | |
| And the way I see myself is the way I am, not how you see me. | |
| And if you don't see me that way, you're the bigot. | |
| I'm brave. | |
| Greetings and welcome back. | |
| Great to have you. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. | |
| Okay, folks, a lot to do here. | |
| We got four more soundbites of Trump. | |
| Now, before I alluded to something here, one hour ago when this program began, I just, I asked you to keep something in mind, and that was Ross Perot. | |
| Ross Perot burst on the scene as a result of one speech at the National Press Club. | |
| It was a luncheon speech, if I remember right. | |
| It ended up going to be replayed because it just, I mean, it just, it went viral back in those days. | |
| I mean, there was this 1992, so going viral was ceaseman. | |
| Stop and think of that, Snerdley. | |
| Going viral was ceaseman. | |
| Anyway, it did. | |
| And all Trump did was talk about the irresponsibility of the current leadership. | |
| He didn't rip into parties. | |
| He didn't cast himself as a member of party. | |
| He just said, we're doing everything wrong. | |
| We're wasting money. | |
| There's all kinds of things we could be doing smarter. | |
| And he made himself out like to be the guy in charge of it. | |
| And he was dragged into the presidential race. | |
| And I remember from the get-go warning people to be careful about this because I told, and Snerdley, you might remember this. | |
| My broadcast partners, I did not get on the Trump or on the Perot bandwagon. | |
| And I constantly warned people not to do it and to beware. | |
| I said, I don't think he really wants to win this. | |
| He'll get out of this if it looks like he's going to win. | |
| He doesn't want to be president. | |
| There's something else going on, personal animus of George Bush. | |
| Something going on here. | |
| But this is not who you, and I remember my broadcast partner, syndication partner, took me a side. | |
| Look, they thought I was blowing the show. | |
| I was catching hell from some people, but they made a great miscalculation. | |
| This is one of the, in fact, this turned out to be one of the first solid learning experiences for me about you in this audience. | |
| Because back then, it would be safe to say that a majority of people listening to me thought that I should be the one championing Perot. | |
| That I not only should be championing, I ought to be running with him or I ought to be part of his organization. | |
| I ought to be the lead cheerleaders. | |
| And I was the one cautioning everybody, don't do it. | |
| Don't fall for it. | |
| I even had my own little Perot impersonation, which ticked people off. | |
| Anyway, syndication partner Ed McLaughlin brought me in. | |
| Very worried. | |
| Are you sure you're doing the right thing here on Perot? | |
| I said, what do you mean? | |
| I mean, your audience, we're worried here. | |
| You're losing the audience. | |
| I mean, the audience thinks that you are Perot. | |
| The audience thinks that Perot is who he is because of you. | |
| You need to get out. | |
| And I said, I'm sorry. | |
| But I can't do it. | |
| I don't feel it. | |
| Don't believe it, and so forth. | |
| And I did catch a lot of flack from the audience. | |
| But the audience hung in. | |
| They didn't abandon the program, Snerdley. | |
| Well, of course they, of course they threatened to. | |
| I remember like it was yesterday. | |
| And oh, they were calling. | |
| I'm never going to listen to you again. | |
| I thought you were somebody real, but you've just proven you're nothing more than a member of the establishment. | |
| Here's your chance to really get on board with somebody who could really change this country. | |
| What are you doing? | |
| You're poo-pooing. | |
| I remember all of it. | |
| Oh, and I started the parodies of Perot. | |
| Oh, you know, referring to him as a hand grenade with a bad haircut. | |
| They're coming to take me away. | |
| Ha ha. | |
| Oh, it got even worse. | |
| And my syndication party, oh, they were so worried that I was blowing everything. | |
| They thought that I was losing every member of the audience that we had built after four years. | |
| But I hung tough, and I turned out to be right. | |
| Perot got out of the race when it looked like he was going to win. | |
| And that just gave everything over to Bill Clinton. | |
| He stated he hung in there for some presidential debates. | |
| Anyway, I just asked people to remember that when Trump gets going here today, because what if Trump goes third party? | |
| He's got enough money. | |
| He doesn't have to. | |
| He doesn't need consultants. | |
| In fact, there's not a political consultant alive today that will have told Trump to say anything he said today. | |
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Trump's Political Consultants
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| There's not a single political consultant working in politics that would have advised Trump to say what he said today or would stand by and watch it said. | |
| There's no political consultant on earth in this country that would want to be associated with what Trump did today. | |
| So he's not going to get his pick, but if he does, I mean, his money talks, he might hire some away. | |
| You never know. | |
| But my point is that he can always decide to go third party with his money if it doesn't work in the Republican Party. | |
| And if he does that, and this is the idle speculation at this point, if he does that, well, you know what that's going to mean. | |
| It means Hillary or whoever the Democrat nominee is. | |
| And along those lines, we got a lot of people want to talk about this. | |
| If you're on haul, just hang in there. | |
| We're coming to you. | |
| I promise you, I guarantee it. | |
| This is from the Daily Caller. | |
| Looked it up here during the break. | |
| Between 1989 and 2010, Donald Trump gave $314,000 to Democrat groups and candidates, $290,000 to Republicans, 1989 to 2010. | |
| Trump actually donates more to Democrats than Republicans. | |
| Now, what he'll say is, well, hell, that's who runs New York. | |
| That's where I live. | |
| I got no choice. | |
| But still, Trump donated more than $4,100 to Hillary in 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007. | |
| His son gave Hillary $6,100 in 2006 and 2007. | |
| He gave the Clinton Foundation at least $100,000 according to the Clinton Foundation website. | |
| Now, again, what he'll say is, of course, I mean, these are the people running the shows. | |
| What's wrong with politics? | |
| I had to do it. | |
| That's what he said. | |
| I had to do it. | |
| I got no choice. | |
| I'm a Republican. | |
| I live in New York. | |
| If I didn't do this, I'd be a target. | |
| That's what's wrong with politics, and that's why I'm running. | |
| You think I like giving money to Democrats? | |
| I hate giving money to Democrats, but that's what our politics is. | |
| I know how that's that's how he would handle this. | |
| Yeah, that's how I keep my money in my pocket. | |
| I give to the people who otherwise would take my money away from me. | |
| You don't think I got rich by being stupid, do you? | |
| He's got any number of ways of explaining. | |
| Okay, back to the Trump soundbites here. | |
| We pick it up here with number 37. | |
| This is classic, folks. | |
| Through stupidity, in a very, very hardcore prison, interestingly named Clinton, two vicious murderers, two vicious people escaped, and nobody knows where they are. | |
| And a woman was on television this morning and she said, You know, Mr. Trump, and she was telling other people, and I actually called her, but she said, You know, Mr. Trump, I always was against guns. | |
| I didn't want guns. | |
| And now, since this happened, it's up in the prison area. | |
| My husband and I are finally in agreement because he wanted the guns. | |
| We now have a gun on every table. | |
| We're ready to start shooting. | |
| I said, very interesting. | |
| So protect the Second Amendment. | |
| We're ready to start shooting, Mr. Trump. | |
| I lost it. | |
| We're ready to start shooting. | |
| I just envisioned the actual conversation. | |
| Here's Trump on the phone. | |
| He got this anti-Second Amendment babe on the other end. | |
| And because the two prisoners escaped from the stupid prison, they now have a gun on every table. | |
| We're ready to start shooting. | |
| Interesting. | |
| So support the Second Amendment. | |
| We're ready to start shooting. | |
| Yeah, let's just keep it rolling here, folks. | |
| They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. | |
| They're bringing drugs. | |
| They're bringing crime. | |
| They're rapists. | |
| And some, I assume, are good people. | |
| But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. | |
| And it only makes common sense. | |
| It only makes common sense. | |
| They're sending us not the right people. | |
| It's coming from more than Mexico. | |
| It's coming from all over South and Latin America. | |
| And it's coming probably, probably from the Middle East. | |
| But we don't know because we have no protection and we have no competence. | |
| We don't know what's happening. | |
| This is Trump at his presidential announcement speech describing the kind of people coming here from Mexico. | |
| They're sending people who have lots of problems. | |
| They're bringing these problems with us. | |
| They're bringing drugs. | |
| They're bringing crimes. | |
| They're rapists. | |
| And some, I assume, are good people. | |
| Some, I assume. | |
| Most of them are reprobates. | |
| And because we got stupid leadership, we don't even know who they are. | |
| And now here's how he would deal with it. | |
| I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. | |
| And I'll build them very inexpensively. | |
| I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. | |
| Mark my words. | |
| Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. | |
| Nobody. | |
| I will find within our military, I will find the General Patton, or I will find General MacArthur. | |
| I will find the right guy. | |
| I will find the guy that's going to take that military and make it really work. | |
| Yeah, and this is going to resonate. | |
| All of this, all of this, I'm telling you, is going to resonate with people. | |
| And here's something else to watch. | |
| The more the media hates this and makes fun of it and laughs, the more support Trump's going to get. | |
| There was another, we don't have tape on this. | |
| It wasn't worth rowing off on tape, but he was talking about beating China, beating Japan, and how we don't have any skilled negotiators. | |
| We've got dumb people. | |
| We've got incompetent people. | |
| We've got losers in every branch of government conducting a nation's business, and they don't know what they're doing. | |
| He says, I have the smartest people. | |
| I'll get the smartest people. | |
| We will never, ever again lose a negotiation with Chinese or with a Japanese. | |
| We're going to beat everybody. | |
| We'll do very well, my friends. | |
| We'll do very well. | |
| I promise you. | |
| And the final bite, this is his description of returning home to America after international travel. | |
| We have to rebuild our infrastructure, our bridges, our roadways, our airports. | |
| You come into LaGuardia Airport, it's like we're in a third world country. | |
| You look at the patches in the 40-year-old floor, they throw down asphalt and they throw, you look at these airports. | |
| We are like a third world country. | |
| And I come in from China and I come in from Qatar and I come in from different places and they have the most incredible airports in the world. | |
| You come back to this country and you have LAX, disaster. | |
| You have all of these disastrous airports. | |
| And we'll take a break and get going with your phone calls when we get back. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, executing assigned host duties flawlessly. | |
| And here's Bob in Youngstown as we got started on the phones. | |
| Great to have you, Bob. | |
| Hi. | |
| Mr. Limbaugh, you're 100% on the money with Ross Perot. | |
| I remember that conversation. | |
| I remember your criticism at the time, and you were 100% correct. | |
| And I was on your team at that point where I felt exactly the same way, that this was really much ado about nothing where Perot was concerned. | |
| But the difference between Perot and this other gentleman is 180 degrees the opposite. | |
| This guy's ego is so big, and he has considered himself to be so right for so long that I genuinely think he wants this, and I genuinely think that he is truly the establishment's worst nightmare. | |
| He doesn't need anybody else's money. | |
| I was watching Fox News this morning when one of their commentators was interviewing some political know-it-all and he said, oh, well, you know, he's getting into the game too late. | |
| The people that know how to run a campaign are all taken up, the good ones. | |
| And I'm thinking to myself, he doesn't want any of those people. | |
| He has his own people. | |
| He doesn't want the establishment. | |
| This is a guy that knows how to promote himself and how to promote a campaign. | |
| And I think the guy's for real this time only because he's got such a damn big ego that he's going to prove himself right and he's going to be in your face. | |
| You know, I think you're very right about something you mentioned when you're talking heads on TV today. | |
| Nah, there's no chance. | |
| I mean, all the professional people have been hired already. | |
| I mean, he's getting in this thing too late. | |
| What Trump loves busting is conventional wisdom formulation. | |
| And the idea that he can't run because all the best consultants are taken up. | |
| That's exactly the kind of thing he thinks is paralyzing politics. | |
| Exactly that kind of thinking that you've got to get in this, there, you hire the right consultants. | |
| The way he looks at it and what you just said, he doesn't need an advisor. | |
| He knows what he thinks. | |
| He doesn't need somebody to help him do this or that. | |
| He knows how he wants to talk. | |
| He knows how he wants to come off. | |
| He's comfortable in his own skin and he's willing to put it out there. | |
| In other words, he doesn't, I don't think he wants to hire anybody. | |
| Is going to tell him how to phony it up. | |
| Exactly right. | |
| He's got more money than God. | |
| And plus, he's got the best of the best working for him. | |
| He's got a brain trust that would rival any university. | |
| And he's got people that know how to get the job done. | |
| These are goal-oriented people that work for him. | |
| And believe me, his ego is so big that he wants to just stand up there and say, I told you so. | |
| I've been telling you for years. | |
| The difference is Perot was really kind of a wallflower prior to him running. | |
| You're 100% correct about that. | |
| And he really, you were right. | |
| He didn't want that job. | |
| And he found every excuse. | |
| I remember his daughter's wedding was kind of the opening to him finding a way out of running for the presidency. | |
| Just the exact opposite. | |
| This guy wants it, and he wants to say, I told you so. | |
| I've been telling you, and I'm going to show you I'm right. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| You are convinced after this speech today that he wants it. | |
| Let me ask you a question. | |
| I want you to think about this. | |
| A lot of the drive-bys are saying, nah, nah, this is not about really running for president. | |
| This is just about name recognition, name ideas. | |
| Get his name out there. | |
| For what purpose? | |
| If he's not really doing this to run for president, why does he want to get his name out? | |
| What could he possibly want to accomplish? | |
| Is he hurting somewhere? | |
| Is business hurting? | |
| Is his reality TV show on Verger cancellation? | |
| What would be the reason that he would do this for publicity only? | |
| I truly believe, and I just have to go back to my original statement. | |
| He's got an ego bigger than the sun. | |
| And he's been telling the American people in Washington for years, you really don't know what you're talking about. | |
| You really have no idea how to run this country. | |
| You're destroying the economy. | |
| You're destroying the money. | |
| And I've had enough. | |
| I'm going to show you I'm right. | |
| And I'm going to get in there and I'm going to kick butt and take names later. | |
| And I really think that that's what this is all about. | |
| And I'll tell you something. | |
| The establishment are probably the most worried people in Washington. | |
| He doesn't need any lobbyists. | |
| He's got more money than they need. | |
| Wait, wait, wait a minute. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| One thing. | |
| They're not worried yet. | |
| They're not taking this seriously yet. | |
| They're laughing about this right now. | |
| Do not doubt me. | |
| They're laughing about it. | |
| I mean, you might have a couple of them who take a moment. | |
| Okay, what does this mean for me, XYZ, so forth, so on, in terms of just another name thrown in the hat here. | |
| But right now, they're all laughing. | |
| And none of the quote-unquote professionals are going to give Trump anywhere near even half a chance because he's so outside the formula that everybody says is necessary. | |
| And I also, folks, I want to remind you of something else that happened. | |
| And I'm not accusing here our old buddy Bob, but Bob seemed to know quite a bit about what Trump's motivation was, didn't he? | |
| I don't know if Bob's ever met Trump, but when you listen to Bob talk, he knew exactly why Trump was doing what he was. | |
| I found this phenomenon during the Perot era. | |
| I had caller after caller after caller telling me why Perot was doing it, what Perot was going to do after he won, everything. | |
| And they didn't know him. | |
| Now, what it meant was that Perot was resonating so well that these people just automatically assumed Perot was going to do what they wanted done. | |
| Hey, we're back. | |
| El Rushboard here at the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| This is Stacey in Fort Collins, Colorado. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Rash. | |
| It's nice to be here. | |
| I have to start out by saying that I was waiting tables in Fort Collins at Cooper Smith's Problem Brewing the day that you gave your speech for Dance Bake Sale, and I thought what a crazy bunch of people you are. | |
| And now, 20 years later, I am a Rush fan. | |
| Is that right? | |
| You were working in Fort Collins the day of Dan's Bake Sale. | |
| That was 1990, some odd. | |
| I was. | |
| I was standing on the parking garage at the top of the parking garage, and I watched your entire speech. | |
| Well, it wasn't much of a speech, as I remember. | |
| It was very short, yeah. | |
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Catholic Church's Unchanging Shape
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| But there were like 75,000 people there. | |
| It was unbelievable. | |
| I'd never seen anything like it before. | |
| And you're standing up there and say, what a bunch of kooks? | |
| These people are crazy. | |
| Yeah, now I'm one of them. | |
| And now you are. | |
| And I'm talking to you. | |
| It's surreal. | |
| It's great to have you. | |
| I'm calling. | |
| Sorry. | |
| It's great to have you here. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I'm calling on a topic I never thought I would be calling about, not politics, but religion. | |
| I am a Catholic, and I'm in so much pain today at the possibility that my Pope is spreading Marxist error. | |
| I'll refrain from judging him until I've read the encyclical, and I'll hopefully give him the benefit of the doubt, and maybe this is all taken out of context. | |
| But it will not shock me if it is true. | |
| I think there is, you know, a lot of people are using this as a way and a vehicle to discredit the church. | |
| But I want to point out that there is precedence for this in the Catholic Church. | |
| All the way back from its inception, Judas was an apostle who chose politics and power over God, and he ended up betraying our Lord with a kiss. | |
| And if the Pope chooses Marxism over the mystical body of Christ, you know, this is indeed a betrayal on a scale that we haven't seen before. | |
| And it also is a realization of what the Blessed Mother warned us against at Fatima, which was that communism would spread her heirs. | |
| So I am. | |
| I'm absolutely distraught that I have to come out and defend my church against this. | |
| But I hope that people don't use this just to discredit. | |
| And it's kind of like the Constitution. | |
| You know, we have the bedrock principles of our Constitution, and people pervert and try to use that for their own benefit all the time. | |
| So I see the church whose documents have not changed. | |
| The teaching of the church is still the same. | |
| But people are using her to push their own agendas. | |
| Well, here's the troubling thing. | |
| Politics, by its very nature, is subject to change. | |
| There's nothing, very few articles of faith in real terms in politics. | |
| You've got a plethora of different political views. | |
| You have elections where people win and lose. | |
| Various different theories are implemented and people get to experience the results of those theories. | |
| And it's, in many cases, it's hardcore fact. | |
| Religion, at its root, is faith-based. | |
| And a church is the exact opposite of politics in the sense that politics is designed to bend and shape to the will of public opinion. | |
| At least in a democracy or a representative republic, it is. | |
| Politics is designed to take the temperature of the American public and react accordingly, i.e., in elections. | |
| And there's all kinds of things that get encompassed in politics. | |
| The culture is part of politics. | |
| But religion is what it is. | |
| The Catholic Church is what it is. | |
| It's not supposed to bend in shape to accommodate the failings of the flock. | |
| It is not supposed to bend in shape so the flock can get away with committing sin. | |
| It's not supposed to redefine sin. | |
| It's not supposed, the church is supposed to, this is why the left hates it. | |
| Correct. | |
| The Pope is not speaking ex cathedra. | |
| He is not speaking infallibly. | |
| He's giving out an encyclical, which is just his teaching. | |
| So it goes out to all the bishops, and they can, you know, this isn't, you don't have to believe this to be Catholic. | |
| The bedrock principles that you have to believe as a Catholic are the same. | |
| So people can try and pervert them all they want to, but they don't change, like birth control and gay marriage. | |
| So people can try and, you know, politicize them all they want. | |
| But if you really look at the documents and the teachings of the Catholic Church, they are exactly the same as they were going back to Peter. | |
| For the most part, yeah. | |
| I mean, you've had Vatican I and Vatican II. | |
| Which is highly, you know, this has been such a wound to the faith. | |
| I'm a traditional Catholic. | |
| I hate saying that word, but I go to the, you know, to the Tridentine Mass because I do see the modernism, you know, that has seeped into our church. | |
| And it has caused a great deal of pain and suffering. | |
| But, you know, the comfort that we have is that we do have these, you know, everything about the church is still there. | |
| So if people want to, you know, love the church, they want to be Catholic. | |
| The rules have ensure the rules. | |
| But the teachings and guideposts of the church are the same. | |
| They are exactly the same. | |
| The articles are the same. | |
| Despite how much people want to change them, they are the same. | |
| And that's the point. | |
| It is not supposed to bend and shape to popular opinion. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And that's why it's valuable. | |
| That's why terms like the rock are used. | |
| But I know that the encyclical is not a religious article of faith, but the point is, and Catholics are not required to believe it. | |
| It's not part of the actual teachings of the church. | |
| But if this is true, if the Pope has come out and said that rich, it just sounds like another member nation of the U.N., the U.S. is guilty. | |
| Western nations are rich and are polluting the world. | |
| They're destroying the climate, and they've got a duty to stop and give more money to the poor and so forth. | |
| If the left can get to a Pope and corrupt an encyclical, they're going to be inspired to keep going and try to corrupt the whole thing. | |
| Correct. | |
| But the church's official teaching on communism is that it was condemned. | |
| So, like I said, this is absolutely one of the most painful phone calls that I've ever made to have to defend my church against something Marxist that our Pope has said is I can't even believe I'm living in a time like this. | |
| Well, Marxism, in the sense I was making an economic analysis, obviously the Catholic Church has to stand against communism. | |
| Communism doesn't believe in God. | |
| Communists do not permit belief in God. | |
| There's no such thing permitted or allowed. | |
| The Catholic Church can never, ever become communist. | |
| Correct. | |
| But if the Pope is coming out and he's promoting an idea that says that we should annihilate all countries and have a world government, I mean, we are at a scary and spooky place. | |
| And I think we have an obligation to speak out. | |
| I understand how you're going to make a lot of people nervous because this is the kind of thing that the church has always been a safe haven from. | |
| There are exceptions, of course. | |
| But never forget, always remember, even the Washington Post story reporting on this encyclical alludes to the possibility that it's totally made up and is a leak designed to harm Il Papa. | |
| And this has happened a lot. | |
| The Pope is reported to have said something, whatever it is, that sounds way off the beaten path. | |
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Trial Balloons and Politics
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| And people react to it. | |
| And then later it is learned, the Vatican announces the Pope didn't say that. | |
| It's taken out of context. | |
| Here's what the Pope actually said. | |
| This is the work of muckrakers trying to create problems. | |
| The Pope never said it. | |
| It's happened a lot, which is what has made me think they engage in the trial balloon aspect of politics. | |
| Float something, see what the reaction is, and then decide later whether to legitimize it or say, no, no, no, no, that's a leak. | |
| That's not true. | |
| We'll just have to wait and see on this. | |
| But this has been predicted, rumored, or what have you. | |
| This encyclical, it still hasn't been released. | |
| But even prior to today, there has been speculation that what it's reported to be today was exactly what it is and is coming. | |
| Anyway, Stacey, so many years after Dan's bake sale at Fort Collins, great to know you're still there and part of us now. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| High Point, North Carolina. | |
| Scott wants to weigh in on the Trump announcement. | |
| Greetings, sir. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hey, Rush. | |
| Really, really awesome to talk to you. | |
| I appreciate that, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| On the Trump announcement, I think personally, it was refreshing. | |
| Not all the same rhetoric and consultant gobbledygook. | |
| And, you know, it was pretty straight talk, a little bit all over the place sometimes, but I can certainly relate to his China talk, love, hate relationship with my situation. | |
| But I think the smartest thing about the announcement was not really what he said, but what he did. | |
| But what did he do? | |
| He ended his announcement about five minutes before the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Oh, yes, yes, yes. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| Something that had escaped my mind. | |
| You're exactly right. | |
| He knew exactly when to wrap up. | |
| I don't know when Bush exactly announced, but how much have you talked about Bush's announcement versus his? | |
| Because he ended it at the right time. | |
| Well, pretty much. | |
| Bush announced after the program yesterday. | |
| Right. | |
| Which was a very considerate thing to do. | |
| The Bushes are very polite people. | |
| I acknowledge this. | |
| And we're going to get to Jeb's announcement. | |
| We get to all of them at some point. | |
| I mean, there have been a bunch of them announced that we haven't talked about it. | |
| Is it, what, 16 now or 20? | |
| Well, I don't even know what the number is, but there's a lot of them in now. | |
| Well, he definitely trumped the Bush announcement, I would say. | |
| Yeah, I'd have to say that you're right. | |
| So you didn't find him braggadocious. | |
| That's not off-putting to you. | |
| Like when Trump says, hey, I'm really rich, I'll show you here in a minute. | |
| And I'm not ashamed to be. | |
| It does me. | |
| I'm sure it does to a lot of people. | |
| But I mean, there are other people in the race that are kind of straight talk, not typical. | |
| I mean, Carson is another one up there, not a political, you know, never held office, but, you know, speaks his mind and is very articulate as well. | |
| You know, you remind me of something I heard before Trump made his announcement this morning. | |
| I saw this on CNN. | |
| Some info babe, I don't remember who, was lamenting Trump getting in the race as a clown. | |
| And so the real problem with Trump getting in is he's going to make the Republican lower tier look good. | |
| And she cited Ben Carson as an example and how unfortunate that is, that Ben Carson is going to end up looking presidential because Trump getting in is a clown. | |
| And folks, let me tell you something. | |
| This is exactly, It dovetails exactly with what I was talking about yesterday, and a point that I'm going to continue to try to make for as long as we've been doing this program. | |
| Dr. Benjamin Carson is one of the finest, most accomplished human beings on this planet who has done more for people than most people in politics will ever do. | |
| And he's done it personally, not with other people's money. | |
| Dr. Ben Carson is a first-class human being and citizen. | |
| He is exactly the kind of person that you could trust running any government institution. | |
| You would trust him to babysit your kids. | |
| He's just an admirable human being. | |
| He has overcome great odds. | |
| He's brilliant. | |
| He's temperate. | |
| There is everything in the world to recommend about the humanity of Dr. Benjamin Carson. | |
| And here he is on CNN today, ripped, and said it's unfortunate that somebody like Ben Carson will be made to look serious when Trump gets in as the clown. | |
| There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on it. | |
| If it's a business suit, if it's surgical scrubs, there's not a single member of the media that could do anything close to what Ben Carson has done with his life. | |
| But he gets, and he's not the only one, ripped to shreds, denigrated, destroyed. | |
| And for what? | |
| He holds to traditional values. | |
| He believes in morality. | |
| He is just a decent guy. | |
| And he ends up a target for destruction. | |
| And he's not the only one. | |
| Same thing happened. | |
| Romney, I mean, whatever you think of Romney and his politics. | |
| As a human being, there's none better. | |
| As a man of integrity, a man of character, there's none better. | |
| These people get destroyed. | |
| And nobody stands up to defend them. | |
| Because then they get destroyed or attacked. | |
| And it's exactly that's not, it's one of the many things that's just out of whack. | |
| Compared to Hillary Clinton, you know, the other day, last hour, every government worker, every federal employee, every record about every federal employee has been hacked. | |
| Does that include Hillary? | |
| Has her private server been hacked? | |
| We demand to know this. | |
| We have every right to know whether her server's been had. | |
| The Chikoms get her. | |
| They got everybody else. | |
| And why did the ChiComs want to hack every government? | |
| It's not because they want their credit cards. | |
| The TRICOMs don't need anybody's Amex account. | |
| They want to be able to collect data on federal employees to either recruit them as spies or blackmail them or both. | |
| And that would hold for Hillary Clinton if she becomes president. | |
| You don't think the Clintons have things that they don't want people to know about? | |
| Even the Clintons. | |
| We think we know everything there is to know, but we don't. | |
| Did Hillary's server get hacked? | |
| Did the ChiComs know everything there is on that server that Hillary doesn't want anybody to know? | |
| If they were able to hack every, get past every bit of security, supposedly protecting every federal employee. | |
| Here's Mrs. Clinton's little server in Chappaqua or wherever the hell it was. | |
| Maybe that's the reason why she's not releasing 30 some odd thousand emails. | |
| These are serious questions. | |
| But you compare Dr. Carson to the Clintons? | |
| I mean, it's not even in talking character, accomplishment, intelligence, credibility, believability, every characteristic that matters, virtue, it's no contest. | |
| The Clintons can't even get on the same stage. | |
| And yet they're placed there by a fawning accomplice media that's doing the job of running around and destroying literally great, good, fine people. | |
| And I think it's just, it's, it's unfortunate how easy it appears to be. | |
| It's unfortunate how complete character assassination could end up being for somebody who just, why would you even want to destroy somebody like Ben Carson? | |
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| Why? | |
| All he's done is save the lives of children. | |
| I thought that's what mattered to people on the left and Democrats. | |
| All he's done, and so much pro bono, brain surgery on young children, that was his specialty. | |
| They even made a movie about him, a movie about his life. | |
| It was so extraordinary. | |
| It was so exemplary. | |
| It was so inspiring. | |
| Now you've got some no accomplishment twit on CNN claiming that the worst thing about Trump getting in is going to make Ben Carson look legitimate. | |
| That's what's wrong. | |
| No, no, I haven't forgotten. | |
| It's just we're going to get to Rachel Dolezall. | |
| I mean, you know everything there is to know there, but you've got to hear some of these soundbites. | |
| That's the big deal. | |
| Some of the media people commenting on that. | |
| That's the fun of it. | |
| So we'll get to all of that and still lots of other stuff, too. | |
| We don't have enough time to get it all in, but we'll do everything we can. | |