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July 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rushlin Ball behind the Golden EIB microphone 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program and the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
All right, so here's what happened.
Some time ago, Lindsey Graham asked Donald Trump for some help with Fox and Friends.
Something about, I don't know what it was.
I mean, Lindsey can't get a job there.
He's a senator, so it had to be help him get something done or maybe get an appearance with Fox and Friends or some such thing.
And Trump said he would do it.
And he, in his mind, helped Lindsey Graham out, and then this stuff kicks up.
And so Lindsey Graham's out there with McCain and so forth, ripping into Trump.
And Trump thinks he's not grateful.
So he gave out Lindsey Graham's phone number.
He calls him a stiff, calls him an idiot, calls him a jackass.
Here's the phone number bite where Trump gave that number out.
So Lindsey Graham says to me, please, please, whatever you can do.
You know what I'm saying?
I said, what's this guy, a beggar?
He's like begging me to help him with Fox and Friends.
So I say, okay, and I'll mention your name.
He said, could you mention my name?
I said, yes, I'll mention.
And he gave me his number, and I found the card.
I wrote the number down.
Let's try it.
202.
Anyway, CNN made a big deal just a moment ago that they called the number that Trump gave out for Lindsey Graham and that it went directly to voicemail.
The recorded message was, said that it was a phone number for Lindsey Graham.
The mailbox was full.
So they next sent a text message to Graham at the same number, and it was not returned.
But, you know, here's the, I don't know if this has ever happened to you.
Has somebody ever come and ask you for a favor and you've done it for them?
Whatever it is.
And then somewhere down the road, they start savaging you or criticizing you or joining others who do.
And you say to yourself, what is this?
I helped this guy out.
What the hell is he doing here?
Well, apparently Trump's sitting there thinking the same thing happened to him.
He says, Lindsey Graham wanted him to mention his name.
I guess it was when he was on it, do a Fox and Friends appearance.
Okay, I'll mention your name.
I'll do it for you.
He did.
And so here comes Graham jumping on this anti-Trump gravy train and Trump's saying, you know, WTF, what is this?
I'm sure Trump, if he were here, would say, look, I'm not attacking anybody.
I'm defending.
You know, I get up every day.
I'm just doing my campaign and they're hitting me.
Well, I'm not going to sit here and take it.
His personality is not to rise above it and ignore it.
His personality has to deal with it head on and just send it right back at him.
Speaking of CNN, Wolf Blitzer with breaking news just moments ago on CNN.
Are you ready?
Here we go in 3-2-1.
Authorities now say the evidence increasingly indicates the Chattanooga gunman's motive was in fact terror.
No!
No!
It was?
It was terror?
They finally found the motive?
Oh, wow.
CNN is on the case, folks.
They found the motive.
Well, they didn't.
Authorities did.
Authorities now say the evidence increasingly indicates that Chattanooga gunmen's motive was, in fact, terror.
And this is the day that Obama announced that the flags of the White House are coming down to half-mast in honor.
I guess they were doing everything they could to prove that it wasn't terror.
You want to talk about another disconnect?
You think a majority of the American people, when they hear that Mohammed Mustafa Abdulaziz kills five military personnel, you think they're scratching their heads over whether or not it could be terror?
You think a majority of the American people conclude on the spot, oh my God, more domestic terror.
Of course they do.
Of course we did.
But what happens in Washington?
Every effort possible is made to find somebody else responsible.
They even tried to blame it on the American drug culture.
They tried to blame it on American rock and roll.
The American left.
I thought drugs and rock and roll people were their donors and their big buddies, but here they were going to everything they could to try to blame it on American colour, anything but what it was.
If they could have found a Tea Party guy, they would have done it.
If they could have found Conservative Talk Radio Bing, they would have done it.
They looked, it took them days and days, and then they finally had to conclude.
You know, and they found out that this guy, the shooter, had consulted the website of the American terrorists living in Yemen, Olwaukee.
And then they even tried to say, the authorities did, Washington, even CNN.
Well, it wasn't ISIS.
It wasn't ISIS.
No, no, it wasn't ISIS.
It was Al-Qaeda.
It wasn't ISIS.
Okay, Al-Qaeda, that's fine.
No big deal there.
Fine in this.
Al-Qaeda, it was, oh, we can tolerate that.
Just amazing.
It's like the story from Breitbart.
Today, the Judiciary Committee House is going to hear testimony from Americans who have lost loved ones to criminal alien violence.
Illegal aliens.
There's another story here, folks, of a immigrant who is a convicted felon accused in fatal stabbing, this new London, Connecticut Haitian immigrant, who was released from prison in January after serving a sentence for attempted murder, back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month.
Now, just Sunday, this is Tuesday, a couple days ago on Meet the Press, F. Chuck Todd declared that NBC and their investigative journalists could not find a single study that links violent crime and immigration.
And all this was to discredit Trump.
You know, Trump had successfully converted the immigration issue from being about him to about the issue following the murder of Kate Steinley in San Francisco.
Well, now, I'll posit again: a majority of the American people are clearly aware of the things that have gone wrong with illegal immigration above and beyond the original lawlessness of just being illegally in the country, then the crimes committed by some of these people and not being properly punished for them have the American people outraged.
It's why there has never been a majority support for amnesty.
The American people don't want any part of it for a whole host of reasons.
And yet, on Sunday on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, we can't find a single study that links violent crime and immigration.
So, what are they doing?
They're trying to destroy it.
Is not a defense Trump?
Not there yet.
But here's Trump making this an issue, and they're out trying to destroy Trump or anybody, by the way, who's speaking out against amnesty and Obama's executive amnesty and actively ignoring the reporting of all of these murders and other serious criminal acts by illegals.
And you know who's got the numbers that Chuck Todd couldn't find?
Federal government.
The federal government's own numbers say there have been 25,000 homicides by illegals.
It's an epidemic.
We shut down the country over nine people shot in Charleston.
We stopped everything over that.
25,000 people murdered homicides by illegals over a period of years.
And there's NBC News and Meet the Press.
We can't find a single study that links violent crime and immigration.
And he wasn't the first.
There was somebody else on TV last week that tried to make the same claim when Trump brought the issue up.
We can't find a single study.
There's not a single study.
Breitbart News sent a note to Chuck Todd.
Say, hey, Chuck, you ever think about trying to government's data?
There's a bunch of government data, F Chuck, that points out the number of homicides committed by illegals.
If we can find it, you can find it.
Not one of these crimes would have occurred absent the immigrant who committed it.
In other words, without admitting these individuals, there would have been at least 70,000 fewer sexual assaults.
That's rape.
25,000 fewer slayings, 125,000 fewer robots.
This is indisputable.
These are crime statistics from the federal government.
70,000 sexual assaults by illegals reported.
Well, if they weren't here, they wouldn't have happened.
And you can't say, well, they might have happened, Rush, somebody else might have committed them.
No, no, no.
It doesn't work that way.
We're not talking stats and averages.
We're talking real people and their behavior.
70,000 sexual assaults by illegals.
They wouldn't have happened if they weren't here.
25,000 fewer murders.
25,000 fewer, they wouldn't have happened if those people hadn't been admitted.
125,000 fewer robberies.
Robberies, these are crimes committed by illegals.
Drive-bys, Democrat Party, Washington establishment, Wall Street Journal editorial page, whatever.
Ignore all of it.
It's an aberration.
It doesn't mean anything.
It has no relationship to reality.
Apparently, Chuck Todd and his research staff were also unaware that in 2009, 57% of the 76 fugitive murderers most wanted by the FBI were foreign-born, either illegal aliens or aliens given visas.
And I give you that stat again, a lot of numbers.
There were 76 fugitive murderers in 2009.
76 most wanted by the FBI.
57% of the 76 were foreign-born, either illegal aliens or aliens given visas.
It's not that they couldn't find it.
NBC's covering it up, as is the rest of the drive-by media, covering up the evidence, government evidence of criminal activity perpetrated by illegal immigrants.
From the Chattanooga stack, Brian Ross of ABC News, Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Abdulaziz followed Al-Qaeda cleric online in 2013.
And it turns out the third paragraph.
But there's no evidence so far that Mohammed Abdulaziz was inspired or directed by ISIS to carry out a bloody attack on U.S. military targets of the sort the Syria and Iraq-based terror group has publicly called for.
What difference does it make whether Abdulaziz inspired by ISIS propaganda or al-Qaeda?
But here's Brian Ross at ABC.
It apparently makes a big difference.
It'd have been really, really bad if ISIS had been who had inspired him.
But since we're just al-Qaeda, what?
Are the crimes less impactful?
Because this is just sick.
So NBC News, ABC News, doing everything they can to cover up what I'm convinced a majority of the American people already know.
And from the United Press International, I haven't heard from them in a long time, UPI, even with the steadily improving job market, what steadily improving job market?
Well, what is that?
There is no steadily improving job market.
Unless you believe the 5.7 unemployment number, I forgot.
If you immerse yourself in the illusions, the delusions, and the lies, then I guess you would believe that there's a steadily improving job market.
Okay, let's just go with it.
Even with the steadily improving job market and the economy gaining ground.
Sorry, I can't just read this and not react to it.
But I'm going to try.
I'm going to get to the thrust of this, okay?
Even with the steadily improving job market and the economy gaining, I just don't want you people to think that I'm being fooled by this.
I have to stop and snicker at this because it's BS.
I just want you to know that I know it's BS.
They're not fooling me, okay?
Final time.
Even with the steadily improving job market and the economy gaining ground, more American children are living in poverty today than they did before Obama was elected, when the economy bottomed out in 2008.
The Ann Casey Foundation 2015 Kids Count Report found that nearly 22% of children nationwide living in poverty in 2013, it was 18% when Obama was running for president.
18% then, 22% now.
So how's that war on poverty going here, folks?
Looks like we're losing the war on poverty.
There are more children in poverty now than when Obama was running for the White House and since he won it.
And there are policy reasons for this, folks.
Obama policies, Democrat Party policies.
But of course, that's not going to be concluded.
Not only the Limbaugh theorem will be in full force here.
And Obama will run around.
If he talks about this, it'll be mysterious forces causing this to happen.
And he's going to be outraged by it.
He's going to get to the bottom of it.
And he's going to do what he can to fix it.
This is not who we are.
This is not who we are.
It's America.
This is not the American we are.
And I'm going to find out what's happening and we're going to fix it.
All the while ignoring that he's the reason.
His policies are the reason.
Okay, I got to go.
Be back here in just a second, folks.
Okay, here's Brennan in Bakersfield.
He's been waiting for a long time, and I got to get to him here.
I really appreciate your patience, Brennan.
Thank you.
And great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
My dad and I are longtime listeners, and I'd say I speak for him when we say you're a true patriot.
Thank you.
I'm a millennial, probably by just the age part of the definition.
I'm 24, but I don't believe in Bernie Sanders, and I think that the climate has more to do with the sun.
So I guess in that respect.
Well, look, see, this isn't.
They're trying to tell every millennial is a liberal Democrat.
That's another thing that they're trying to make us all believe.
We know that's not true.
It can't possibly be true.
But that's one thing they say.
You feel compelled to tell us that you're not a Democrat because you assume everybody thinks every millennial is.
That's how they do this, folks.
They convince everybody.
Anyway, so I'm glad you called.
What is the point?
So the point of this would be: a lot of the outlets I'm sure you go to and frequent, you say that you go to tech blogs and things like that.
It's just, I would want your two cents on what to do.
As a millennial, I know you get them, they call in now and again and ask you to weigh in, but I'm talking about within less than a day of all this stuff coming out about Planned Parenthood.
This website I frequent on the very front page had an article about how we should encourage women to donate their aborted children to science.
I mean, and these people are agreeing.
They say, yes, oh, you're right.
These women, they should understand that it's not just a waste of their baby, that it's going to help somebody.
And that one life should, you know, help out millions.
And that's really what it's about.
And it just, it blows my mind.
And I'm super disheartened as someone who lives here and who's planned on establishing a family here.
And, you know, I plan on getting engaged at the end of the year.
And I've got big plans for my life and my family going forward.
And when I see things like this happening, especially as young as I am, it's very, very easy to lose hope, especially when all the news is just, it's just nothing but fear-mongering.
And, you know, how can you blame you for that?
Okay, see, here's this is, I think, another good teachable moment.
And I'm going to rely on what I think is my common sense and faith in a majority of Americans.
Now, I didn't hear everything you said, and what you've said scrolled beyond my ability to read it.
But did you say that you read on a blog somewhere that you're seeing people urge women to do what with their babies?
Donate their, well, they'll call it fetal tissue.
I call it babies, but they're encouraging women now to donate fetal tissue.
They advocate what Planned Parenthood does.
Oh, okay.
They're advocating pregnant women to go and have their baby's body parts harvested.
Yes, and there's people agreeing to it.
It's crazy.
Yeah, but see, this is the thing: it's got you all down in the dumps because this is not the world you want to live in.
And you're seeing a blog and you're seeing some comments on a blog where people think it's a good idea.
I'm telling you, it is not a majority of the country.
Most, if they saw that, particularly people older than millennials, but even most of them too, would be repulsed by this.
I don't, this is, remember, we, as a country, went to war to stop another country that was in effect doing things like this.
It was World War II, and it was Adolf Hitler and the Germans.
We have not become that.
We may have pockets of our perverted, sick culture that have become that, but it's not who we are.
It's not who the majority of the country is.
And do not assume, just because you read it on a blog and because the words are printed somewhere, that it represents a majority of thought.
Okay, promised them long enough time to get to them now.
It covered much of the other stuff in the news.
So yesterday, last night, the New York Times had a little blog post that I was supporting Trump.
I was not supporting, I was rallying you to supporting Trump, which is not what I was doing.
But they got other quotes accurately.
So it was not bad because they quoted me accurately.
The only thing they messed up was, I mean, I'm not rallying support for Trump here.
All I said was, just to repeat it one more time, that normally targets like this apologize, beg for forgiveness, go away, and we're rid of them.
Trump's not doing that.
And the presumption always is that a majority of the American people are also offended, also outraged, also want the candidate to slink away, go away.
I've never believed that's the case.
I've never believed that the media speaks for a majority of people in circumstances like this.
Anyway, all this ends up being talked about last night in CNN.
Anderson Cooper talked with Mark Halperin, Jeffrey Lord from the American Spectator, Kathleen Parker, a whole bunch of people.
This actually is a montage first of the discussion that took place with all the people commenting.
Rush Limbaugh actually talked about today and praised today.
Rush Limbaugh defended himself.
The biggest news from today on this subject was not that poll, but Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh is already on this.
Rush Limbaugh's approval doesn't prove that Donald Trump can get anywhere near the Republican nomination.
As popular as Rush Limbaugh is, he's a niche character in the landscape of the media.
That was Howard Feynman, who was obviously miffed that I had hijacked the Trump story.
If anybody should have been mad that I hijacked the Trump story, it'd be Trump.
But it was Howard Feynman.
Rush Limbaugh's approval.
There wasn't approval.
My approval was based on the fact that Trump is not acting like a coward and slinking away.
How many times?
Folks, I'm sorry for having to be written on it.
I know you're probably sick of me explaining this today.
But you see how no matter how many times I explain, some people are incapable of understanding it.
No matter how great a communicator I am, no matter how crystal clear I am on this, Rush Limbaugh's approval doesn't prove that Trump can get anywhere near the nomination.
As popular as Limbaugh is, he's a niche character in the landscape of the media, which means, which means he doesn't mean anything compared to us.
The drive-by media, the mainstream media, we're huge, we're big.
Limbaugh's off in a corner, just a niche.
That's what he meant.
He didn't mean that I was a niche in the American within the influence of the American people.
Anyway, here is the first bite with Anderson Cooper last night talking to Jeffrey Lord about all of this.
And the question that Anderson Cooper says, look, in your mind, was Trump taken out of context with these comments on McCain?
Do people misunderstand what he was saying?
I absolutely think he was taken out of context.
I actually think that the biggest news from today on this subject was not that poll, but Rush Limbaugh spending a considerable portion of his show addressing his very conservative audience about how this is a teachable moment in terms of how the media treats conservatives.
Somebody makes a misstatement or something that the media wants to emphasize, statement X, they zero in on them and go after them until they sort of put their tail between their legs and apologize and leave.
And Donald Trump is not doing that, was Rush's point.
And that this kind of thing happens all the time.
And this is different.
He was quoting me accurately, saying this is different.
And they continued the conversation from that point.
Isn't this also what Rush Limbaugh does?
He plays soundbites on his show and discusses them in great detail.
I mean, that's what he does.
So it's a little disingenuous to suddenly say we're picking on words here.
Well, you know, I listen to Rush every day for three hours.
So I think that, you know, the media representation of Rush is not exactly what the actual Rush show is.
I agree with that.
I mean, he gives a lot of context.
And I agree with you on that.
I mean, I'm not making a blanket statement about him.
So, so.
I mean, Jeff Lord characterized the program correctly, and Anderson Cooper agreed.
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
What this was about, Jeff Lord really is agreeing with Cheryl Atkinson, who has reported the Washington Post actually misreported what Trump said about McCain.
Actually misreported it.
And she has written a piece clarifying it.
She's not supporting Trump.
She makes it clear.
She says the Washington Post did not get the story right.
They did not report that Trump four different times said that McCain is a war hero.
He is.
And he's a hero because he was a prisoner of war and captured.
McCain had that different.
Trump said that four different times.
The Washington Post did not report that.
And Jeff Lord is talking about how he thinks a lot of what's been reported about Trump is out of context.
And Cooper said, well, you know, Limbaugh does the same thing.
He plays these soundbites and he only takes little clips of what people say and then he launches.
But the point here is, if I may speak in my own, not defense, but to explain how we do things here.
You know, the thing that I don't think people who don't listen to this program obviously get about it.
And people even on the left who do listen, I have no desire to trick people into believing things that aren't true.
There's nothing to be gained from doing that.
There certainly is no future in it professionally.
But if you're one who cares about things like I do, and if, as I've admitted, I'm trying to persuade people to agree with me, I want it to be substantive and honest.
There's no way I want people to end up agreeing with me if I'm lying to them.
So I try to include as much context about every soundbite I play here as I can because we don't have time to play the whole sound bite.
We edit it for length based on a whole bunch of factors.
And I spend a lot of time setting every one of them up.
I do a better job and a more honest job of explaining liberalism and what liberals say than they do.
I dare say that you, the people in this audience, have a greater understanding of liberalism than simply watching a liberal news network would teach you.
Because they're about camouflaging who they are.
They are about masking themselves.
I want you to know exactly who they are.
I try to put as much of this in context as possible because I want you to get the point and the real point.
I don't why I guess some liberals think whatever it takes to convince people, if they have to lie, if they have to leave things out, leave things out of context, they'll do it.
I don't see any purpose in that.
I don't see how it benefits me or anybody to get you to believe something if it isn't true.
Anyway, this conversation continued with Jeffrey Lord now talking about the conservative base and how they might be reacting to Trump.
The base, if you will, the conservative base of the conservative movement, the Republican Party, certainly feels that the media does this to various conservative figures over the years, including Rush Limbaugh, I might add.
Absolutely.
And that the end result desired is to get the guy, whoever it is, off the stage.
And here you have Donald Trump saying, you know, not only am I not going, I'm going to double down and you're not going to get me out of here.
Right.
Arguably, I agree with you on that.
Okay, so Jeff made his point, and he convinced these people of what we were actually talking about on the program yesterday.
And he was back on CNN this morning.
Was back.
I think we've got that.
Okay, just a couple of more here.
This is CNN's new day today.
Anna Navarro, who is a Republican consultant, Jeb Bush supporter, and Jeff Lord from the American Spectators Back.
And Allison Camarada is the anchor.
She says, all right, what's your take on Rush Limbaugh?
Now, I'm not running for anything, folks.
I'm not a candidate.
Just last night, the day I hijacked a couple of networks.
And anyway, here's what Anna Navarro said.
Rush Limbaugh is a guy that goes against the current.
He is the type of guy that takes on these causes.
Here's the thing, though.
Rush, who is a conservative, a true conservative, is coming to the rescue of a guy who is a fraud.
He is not a conservative.
You know, a lot of people, I'm not coming to the rescue of anybody.
I guess I'm going to have to figure why do people think this.
Well, okay, okay, maybe because I'm not dumping on him that they think that means I'm coming to, you know, I'm the actual, I'm a great example of an objective observer here.
If you want, I'm acting as America's anchorman.
I'm just watching what happens here, and I'm telling you what's different about this.
And I'm saying it's going to be cool to find out what we learn from this.
Because I think it's a teachable moment.
And then Jeffrey Lord says, well, now, look, Donald Trump has given millions of dollars to various causes, to veterans over the years.
What's Governor Bush done?
I'm asking just generally.
I don't know.
Well, I think you should look it up.
Maybe instead of listening to three hours of Rush Limbaugh every day and reading, you know, Ann Coulter's book, every time you come on here, that's what you quote.
Maybe you should go and have some original research and original thought.
Jeff Bush was very good for the military.
As you know, Florida is a big place for veterans.
Something that he focused on.
Whoa, Jeff's question kind of got under her skin there a little bit.
Well, maybe you ought to go do your own original research and get some original thought.
Jeff, Jeffrey Lord is original.
Make no mistake.
Here's John in Dayton, Ohio.
Hi, John.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Fifth-time caller, Jittos, and I'm also reading The English Spy Right now by Daniel Silva.
It's a great book.
It is.
And I've got probably about 25% of it to go.
I have a little bit more than that.
I'm about two-thirds of the way through.
I've read all of his books and all the Vince Flynn's based on your recommendation.
Well, thank you.
The reason I'm calling today is John Kasich, threw his hat in the ring for the presidency.
And I'm pleading with all of your listeners to wade through the 16 people that have now announced and just listen to Kasich because I liken it to the callers that say to you, you know, they can't believe there's somebody out there that thinks like them and speaks like them.
And that's what I've gotten from Kasich over the years in Ohio.
And I just want everybody to give him a chance because I really, really think he's the conservative that we've been looking for.
Well, I'm just going to let me jump in here and just tell you, I know a lot of people who are eager to support Kasich.
And many of them are previous donors and fundraisers for George W. Bush.
So I think he's going to surprise people.
He's going to have more original support going in than a lot of people think.
Find out.
It won't take long.
That's right.
So I've been acting in this whole Trump story like a drive-by journalist.
No, no.
I've been acting like a real journalist.
I've been looking at the Trump thing objectively, and nobody recognizes it.
They think it's support because I'm not condemning.
See, this is my point.
Because I don't join in the condemnation of Trump like everybody else apparently is.
I must be supporting him.
And I haven't uttered a syllable of support for Trump.
Anyway, we'll have to continue dissecting this tomorrow because we're out of busy broadcast time right now.
But there always is tomorrow, folks.
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