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July 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, Donald Trump just got off of his Boeing 757 in Laredo, Texas, and is now meeting the media, swarmed on the other side of the fence, and is explaining whatever to them.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
By the way, his cap says making America great again.
And I'll tell you what's funny, I think it is, I think it's CNN.
I've got both monitors on here, and I'm just reading the closed captioning.
I'm not listening to it.
And they had some political analyst on CNN.
Trump gets off the plane, and he's seen he's wearing khakis, a white shirt, open collar, and a navy sport coat.
He's got his white cap on.
And the CNN analyst said, and no doubt, it's promoting one of his properties, one of his golf courses, or something to do with Trump.
And so everybody, I'm sure, started seeing what the cap said.
And it took a while for people to get close enough.
And the cap says, making America great again.
It doesn't have anything to do with a Trump property.
So whoever said it, and whatever network it was, got it all wrong, as usual again.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
The Capitol Hill newspaper is reporting that a local union representing Border Patrol agents has opted out of providing assistance to Donald Trump and his traveling party on his visit to the border with Mayco today in Laredo, Texas.
Quote, after careful consideration of all the factors involved in this event and communicating with members of the National Border Patrol Council at the national level, it has been decided by local 2455 to pull out of all events involving Donald Trump.
This from the local union president, Hector Garza.
Garza said, make no mistake, our border with Mexico is not secure, and there's no doubt we need to have an honest discussion about that with the American people.
But we're not going to be here with Trump as he attempts to have that conversation with the American people.
Hector Garza said that the local group intended to provide on-the-ground perspective to Trump and media in attendance, but that it never discussed endorsing Trump or any other presidential candidate.
Despite the great danger, Mr. Trump is traveling to Laredo, Texas to proceed with the visit to the border Trump's campaign said in a statement.
It's unfortunate the local union border patrol agents received pressure at the national level not to participate and ultimately pulled out of today's event.
They are being silenced and are very unhappy about it.
It can only be assumed that there are things the politicians in Washington do not want Americans to see or discuss.
You know, these people are going to have to learn, and I doubt that they will, that they can't deal with Trump the way they deal with every standard ordinary everyday politician because he's not one.
He's a businessman.
And if they don't start looking at him that way, and a winning businessman, a competitive business, if they look at him and they continue to try to react to Trump and shape coverage of Trump based on politics, they're going to miss this.
So whoever's behind this, they think they're going to embarrass Trump.
And they think they're going to harm Trump by having the Border Patrol Union pull out.
They're not going to be winning.
They're not going to provide assistance, security, whatever.
So whoever made this call thinks they're going to embarrass Trump.
And they're going to make Trump look bad.
And they're going to make it look like nobody involved here wants to have anything to do with Trump.
So what does Trump do?
He comes out and says, it's very dangerous where I'm going, but I'm still going.
And it's very unfortunate that somebody in Washington pulled these courageous Border Patrol agents away.
It's obvious that people in Washington have things they don't want me to see and tell the American people.
They're never going to get the last word with him.
And until they stop trying, they're not going to figure this out.
They're never going to get the last word.
As long as there are cameras, microphones, and ink next to where Donald Trump is, he's going to get the last word.
They're never going to win this contest.
They're never going to be able to.
I opened the program today with a very salient point.
I'm going to remind you again.
This is Thursday.
It is depending on when you start counting five or six days from when McCain, Trump made this supposedly end of career statement about John McCain.
He was to be gone by now.
Remember, he was not going to be able to survive this.
Why, he had stepped in it so bad.
He had stepped in it so big.
Every expert on the Republican and Democrat side, every media expert, every analyst, chuckling, laughing, applauding, saying that Trump had finally done what they all knew Trump was going to do.
He was going to step in it so bad that he couldn't get out of it, and it's bye-bye Trump.
The Washington Post had that.
The New York Times, everybody had it.
Bye-bye Trump.
It was nice knowing you.
Too bad it didn't last longer.
Well, it's Thursday.
And it's evidenced now that he's not been hurt by it.
I don't know if it helped him.
I think it probably did, but it has not hurt him.
The Wizards of Smart got it all wrong because they do not know.
They haven't figured out just what they're dealing with here.
They actually have an invader.
They have their business.
It's called politics.
He's not one of them.
He is not a politician.
He is barnstorming into their territory.
And believe me, that is something they resent like you can't believe.
And I say that from personal experience too.
He's an interloper.
He's coming from where he's an expert and a success, but he's not wanted in politics.
And he's not permitted.
They're not going to let him in the club just because he wants in.
They're not going to embrace him.
You know, he's out there talking, I'm going to go third party.
The Republican Party isn't showing me any respect.
Republican Party isn't looking like they might help me if I get the nomination.
Well, if that's true, then I'm just going to go third party.
They're not showing me any respect, and they're not.
They don't know what they're dealing with here.
They're never going to get the last word.
They cannot apply standard, ordinary, everyday formulas in politics to him.
As this demonstrates, I guarantee you, if any other Republican, I take your pick.
I don't care.
Any Republican that is entered the primaries here and is seeking the presidential nomination, anybody else had said that about McCain, you know damn well what would have happened.
After the first three hours, they'd be on TV on their hands and knees begging to be forgiven.
And they would be saying they're sorry.
And they would have called McCain personally.
And they would have gone to visit McCain.
There would have been cameras and got down on one knee.
Please, Senator, I don't know what happened.
That was not me.
That's all right.
It's okay, Sean.
It's okay.
It's okay.
He's in a high-pressure situation.
I know that.
And then that guy would have been gone.
The party would have seen to it that he's never going to be heard from again because he's such an embarrassment.
That's the formula.
Trump doesn't play by those rules, and here he is triumphing.
His numbers are going up.
The more he talks, the more popular he becomes.
So let's go to Trump Audio Soundbites.
This is last night, Anderson Cooper 360 interviewing Trump.
And they're talking about his campaign.
And this is the first bite that we have.
Let's talk polls, first of all.
Washington Post poll on Monday, great news for you.
A huge lead in the Republican field.
Quinnipiac poll came out today, though.
Not so good news for you.
In the general election voters, Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, you have the worst favorability ratings of anyone, Republican or Democrat.
Negative favorability ratings almost two to one.
Hillary Clinton also did badly.
I haven't seen it.
I really don't know.
Talking yesterday, Jeb Bush said, if we embrace this language of divisiveness and ugliness, we'll never win.
I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham.
I couldn't care less about Lindsey Graham.
He's registered at, I think, zero in the polls.
I guess it was Lindsey Graham who called me a jackass.
So am I supposed to say, oh, it's okay if I'm called a jackass.
You have to fight back.
The country has to fight back.
Right.
Trump says that he's fighting to save the country, and that's exactly what needs to happen.
Everybody else needs to be fighting to save the country.
And if he wins, he will change his tone.
Oh, I think so.
I think I dealt very differently.
Do you have the temperament to be president?
That's what, I mean, that's the question that Jeb Bush was really raising about the divisiveness, about the language.
I mean, the kind of, I mean, like, you take it, you have a no-prisoner's approach.
Somebody attacks you.
I don't have that.
I'm very different than you would think.
Right now, I'm fighting because I'm number one in the polls by far, and I'm being attacked on all sides.
In my opinion, when attacked, you have to, you know, defend and attack back, okay?
It makes common sense, does it not?
I mean, I'm not trying to inject myself into all this, but that's what I do here every day.
And I get called an attacker.
You and I, we all do this.
We get up, we look at the news, or maybe it happens the night before, and we see somebody or something that we hold dear under assault.
We see an institution.
We see a tradition.
We see a personality.
We see a person under assault.
Being attacked, usually for being conservative or whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
We come here every day and I defend those people or the institution or the tradition, whatever it is, marriage, you name it, I defend it.
For this, I'm called an extremist and an attacker.
That's all Trump is saying.
I'm minding my own business, and all of a sudden they call me a jackass and they call me this.
I'm not going to sit there and just ignore it.
So the next question from Anderson Cooper was, well, look, that Quinnipiak poll in Iowa, back to that poll among general voters.
You only want to talk about negative votes.
Why don't you bring up the positive polls?
I did.
Excuse me.
You start off the interview with a poll that I didn't even know existed.
I think it's very unfair.
You're talking about a poll I never even saw.
All I know is I have a very big group of supporters.
And I think one of the reasons is that you're waving.
Let me tell you, the people don't trust you, and the people don't trust the media.
Right.
And I understand.
You know, I've always been covered fairly accurately because it was usually a financial press.
And, you know, numbers are numbers, okay?
And my numbers happen to be great.
So I was always sort of treated like fair.
But I find that 60, 70% of the political media is really, really dishonest.
Now, I want you to ask yourself, before I phrase that, make that point, remind you that we all have said for years, and we've said it very often, that it's not just Democrats and liberals who are our opponents.
It's the media.
We have to overcome the media.
The media is not a referee anymore.
The media is on the other team.
And we constantly talk about how we have to overcome them too.
And whenever this is said, usual criticism is, come on, grow up.
You know, it just doesn't sound good to start blaming the media, crying about the media, crying about the umpires.
It never got anybody anywhere.
And so Republicans dutifully, they just slog on.
They do what they can.
Media is allowed to totally exhibit their bias, their prejudice, and so forth.
When is the last time you heard can remember a Republican challenging somebody in the media for how they are doing their job?
I can remember one.
Maybe you can remember others.
Well, Newt at the debates is one when he was talking about education and a number of things.
But the big example, and there's really not many of these, you have to go back to what was it?
Was it 1992?
Or was it 1988?
Dan Rather interviewing George H.W. Bush.
And Rather is asking Bush where he was during some seminal event.
The implication was that Bush had cut and run, wasn't somewhere.
And George Bush said, hey, Dan, you know, things happen.
I remember when you walked off the set, when Wimbledon coverage went long and you walked off the set because you were mad the news wasn't and rather lost it.
This is my physicist.
Interview, not about me, sir.
Well, you're making it about you, Dan.
I mean, look where things happen to people.
I remember you walked off the set.
You didn't do your job one day.
You want to come down on me.
Let me tell you what really happened, Dan.
And he answered the question.
That's the last big example.
And Rather never forgot it.
Never forgot it.
I mean, I'm convinced that that incident was one of the many things that led to his fake story on George W. Bush and the National Guard and all that.
So anyway, these are the kind of things that Trump's doing that Republican voters have longed for and have expected the people they're donating to and voting for to do at the same time.
Because to them, to Republican voters, the enemy's obvious.
And the way the enemy's working is obvious.
And they're not being challenged.
And Trump is not taking it, is the point.
And that's why I knew from the get-go that he was going to resonate with people.
Be right back.
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Sit tight, my friends.
Back with more in a minute.
800-282-2882.
Here you go.
It's now official.
According to thehill.com, Donald Trump takes top spot in poll conducted after John McCain remarks.
So I'm going to reach around and pat myself on the back because I predicted it.
And I was telling anybody who would listen, do not fall for this standard operating procedure.
He's gone.
It ain't going to work this time because he's not playing by the rules.
He didn't apologize.
He doubled down.
Anyway, leading in a poll referenced by the Hill.com after the McCain comments.
Now, the George H.W. Bush thing, it was 1988.
What happened was Bush had agreed to be interviewed by Rather for a general profile.
And all rather wanted to talk about was the Iran-Contra scandal.
And there was something in the Iran-Contra scandal where George H.W. Bush as vice president had not been around us and it rather kept talking about, and you weren't there.
And finally, Bush got so exasperated, you know, I talk about why I want to be president.
And Bush said, it's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran.
How would you like it if I judged your career by the seven minutes you walked off the set in New York?
And that rather walked off the set because he was mad that Wimbledon or some tennis or might have been in the U.S. Open ran over and was going to take minutes out of the CBS evening news.
And he was ticked to be relegated to backup status to a sporting event.
Anyway, here's Sean in Modesto as we got to get a phone call in here, folks, or I'm going to get accused of things.
Sean, I'm glad you waited.
I really appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hi, Maggie Didozrush.
It's a great honor to be on the program.
Thank you very much, sir.
I can tell.
I can hear the excitement in your voice.
Yeah, well, I just wanted to call out this rhino, Donald Trump, who has pulled the wool over the eyes of this great Republican Party.
Go ahead.
Well, just three short years ago, in 2012, Mitt Romney was running against Obama.
And during the debate, Mitt Romney suggested illegal immigrants should self-deport.
Now, did Donald Trump say, no, Mitt Romney's too weak on immigration?
He's soft on immigration.
No.
He said that Mitt Romney and the entire Republican Party were mean-spirited on immigration.
And he has yet to explain that statement.
Why?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe he is explaining it by changing his mind on it and acting as he is.
Can he explain why?
Can he explain why he's changed his mind?
Well, if somebody asks him.
I mean, has something changed in the last three years?
I don't know.
There are a lot of people that are pointing this stuff about him.
There are a lot of, I mean, you can find columnists, pundits, commentators that are pointing out that they think Trump is actually.
I've heard it said that Trump is actually working for Hillary to divide the Republican vote, to destroy the Republican banner, continue to wreak havoc on the Republican brand.
I've heard all of this.
Well, I can make the argument for that, but I want to focus on his actual record so far.
Now, to this day, he says he hates Obamacare, but he doesn't say why.
It's because it doesn't go far enough for him.
He wants single-payer health care.
All right.
Hang on.
I got to take a break here.
And if you can hang on through the break, we will continue when we get back.
Can you do that?
I will do so.
I kind of knew you would.
Yeah, I didn't have any doubt about that.
And we're back with Sean in Modesto, California, who wants to treat us through evidence of Donald Trump's duplicity or fakery or hypocrisy or what have you.
So you left off with, he used to be, at least according to his statement, a supporter of Obamacare and more, that he wanted single payer.
He didn't want to support Obamacare.
He didn't think it go far enough.
Okay.
And what are some of the other things?
Because I've heard others go through this list of all the money and Democrats he's given to a New York, such as Schumer and Hillary.
And he's always said to that, well, it's where I live.
It's protection money.
And I got to contribute to everybody where I live.
Yeah.
A lot of people are cowards like that.
Cowards, okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
But So do you think it's not possible that Trump has, shall we say, grown?
Now, mostly in our culture, when we say people have grown, it means they're becoming liberal.
Trump appears to be evolving away from quote-unquote liberal issues to more centrist or conservative positions, but that would not be growth.
So you don't think he's actually genuine.
Timing is quite convenient.
Timing is quite convenient.
So you don't think he's genuine here?
You think he is fooling everybody and getting away with it?
Oh, I think he was for a lot of things before he was against them, but I guess that's allowed in the Republican Party now.
What are you demonstrating?
Sean.
He's going to have one or two issues.
One or two issues.
Sean, wait a minute.
I've been under a popular misery.
Sean, wait a second.
Do not be contentious.
You have no reason to be yet.
I'm sorry.
I'm just.
I was under the impression that you were a Republican trying to save the party.
You actually are a liberal Democrat trying to use Trump as an example of how duplicitous or rotten all Republicans are.
No, no, I am not.
I have.
Listen, I am 23 years old.
In 2008, Obama was running for president.
On my first day of my junior year, a kid, just two rows in front of me, turned to the one in front of me and said, did you know that Barack Obama plays basketball?
And then I immediately jumped in and said, did you know that John McCain was in a North Vietnamese prison camp for five years where he had both of his arms broken and then refused to reset?
So he can't even lift his arms above his shoulders now?
I mean, I do not like a lot of John McCain's policy positions.
But he's trying to put a liberal Democrat like Obama and I'm right.
Wait, wait, I don't understand.
I mean, all that's true.
Obama does play basketball kind of poorly, and McCain was a prisoner of war.
What's that got to do with Trump now?
What's it got to do with Trump?
Trump is a phony.
Oh.
He is a phony.
Well, if he is, he's going to be exposed.
Phonies will be with as much media time as Trump is getting, as much media, and as much desire as there is by a lot of people to expose him as a phony.
It'll happen if he is.
A lot of people I know, I love, know, and respect.
They turn a blind eye to every, every sin, every piccadilla, every thing Donald Trump has ever done.
Oh, come on.
Grow up.
That's what we always said about Bill Clinton.
That's our constant refrain complaint about Clinton, about Obama.
You can't tell people that love these guys the truth about.
What's the lick of difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton?
Makes no difference between Trump and what.
There is not a lick of difference.
Oh, there is no difference.
No.
They are exactly the same in my book.
There is a big difference.
There's a big, big difference.
Trump is richer.
Yes, he's rich.
Richer.
Richer.
He's got a lot more money than Hillary.
He's really rich.
Who to this day supports massive tax increases on job creators?
Who to this day supports massive tax increases on jobs?
Hillary Clinton does.
Every Democrat walking does.
Like I say, there's not a lick of difference.
Oh, so you're saying Trump supports tax increases on job creators?
Yes.
I didn't know that.
He supported 20% increases on people in the top marginal rates.
Trump did.
That's a popular political position to hold.
Everybody supports taxing the rich, including the rich.
Look at Warren Buffett and Stupid Gates.
These clowns are out there promising to give everything away to malaria researcher, whatever the hell it is.
This is how the rich inoculate themselves from the barbarians at the gate trying to take their money.
It's a standard operating procedure tactic.
And you're rich.
Look at the Kennedys.
The biggest complainers about rich people were the Kennedys.
Every rich person in public life whines and moans about the rich and thinks the rich aren't doing their share.
It's how they keep the barbarians away from their houses.
It's a standard operating technique.
Well, you haven't persuaded me yet, but I'm just going to tell you here, Sean, that if what you say is true, and if Trump is running a giant scam, and if the real Trump is much closer to a liberal or progressive than the way he's sounding, it will end up being exposed.
I'll tell you why.
He's got too much media.
If Trump is lying, if Trump's making it all up, he's going to have to have a great memory to remember all these lies that he's told all these places.
It's very, very difficult to carry off a giant scam like this when you, as the scamer, are the focus of all this media attention.
Because at some point you slip up.
At some point, you trip up.
Well, yeah, of course, unless you're Bill Clinton.
And then when you trip up, they marvel at how cleverly you got out of it.
It's fun to watch.
But anyway, you keep trying to alert people to this, Sean.
Keep trying to save the Republican Party from making this horrible mistake.
Because there are people out there that will really appreciate you.
A couple of quick soundbites here.
First, let's go back.
We've got this contentious interview between George H.W. Bush and Dan Rather.
It was January 25th, 1988.
And it was during the interview.
And as I say, it was just supposed to be a campaign profile, which Rather turned into a prosecution on Iran-Contra.
I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. Vice President.
Dan, this is not a great night because I want to talk about why I want to be president, why those 41% of the people are supporting me.
And Mr. Vice President, a whole career, it's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran.
How would you like it if I judge your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?
Now, the interview ends there because Rather was rendered speechless for a, for television time, a long time.
And then he started mumbling and stumbling.
Mr. Vice President, interview, not about me.
I'm the journalist.
We don't talk about me.
Well, you brought it up, Dan, old buddy.
I mean, you walked off the set there in New York.
And that interview, by the way, that launched Bush.
You know, up until that time, people like George Will were calling him a lap dog.
You know, I am very fortunate that I'm blessed with a good memory.
I remember this stuff like it was yesterday.
Bush was being creamed.
He was being accused of lying about being a conservative.
He was just pretending to be Reagan's third term, but he really wasn't a conservative.
And conservative media back then, which in many cases really was conservative media back then, they were calling Bush a lap dog.
I mean, that was George Will put himself on the map with that comment.
And he was generally considered milk toast.
This happened, and it changed everything overnight.
And it took Dan Rather a long time to get.
I don't think he ever did, really.
And the reason he didn't is because of self-consciousness.
Dan didn't get over it because he thought everybody remembered him because of that.
Wherever he went, that's what he thought people thought of when they saw him.
Because it was an embarrassing moment in his career, and he thought that's what everybody would associate with it.
So when you have that kind of self-consciousness about things, even now, you know, some network, what is it, HBO?
I don't know who.
Somebody's putting a movie together over Rather being fired at CBS.
And who is it playing?
Robert Redford, I think, is playing Rather.
Yet as Robert Redford's playing Rather, and this whole movie is based on the fact that Rather got railroaded and that he was right in this phony story.
And this is how the left does things.
Like HBO is doing this movie on the Clarence Thomas and Na Hill hearings.
Well, that happened a long time ago, back in 1990.
But you see, there's a whole generation of millennials who never saw it.
They've been taught it.
They've been taught what a bad guy Clarence Thomas is and what a heroine Anita Hill, but they haven't seen it.
So it's time to make a movie.
The left doesn't let their big things forgotten from generation to generation.
And somebody has decided to do a movie exonerating Dan Rather on that National Guard story, too.
So that's.
Okay, quickly, grab audio soundbite number 23.
By the way, Kate Blanchette is playing Mary Mapes in that movie.
And the movie is being produced by some outfit called Mythology Entertainment.
I kid you not.
That's the name of the movie company.
And it's based on Mary Mapes' book, Truth and Duty.
So it's obviously going to be bogus.
Ernest Moniz, Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy, testifying next to Kerry today about the Iranian nuke deal.
Senator Bob Menendez, not a proponent of the deal, says, is it true that the Iranians are going to be able to take the sample?
Because chain of custody means nothing if at the very beginning you give what you're given is chosen and derived by the perpetrator.
The question makes no sense, but just listen to the answer.
This is a roadmap worked out between the IAEA and Iran.
They have, we do not have those documents that are, as is customary, confidential between the country and the agency.
But clearly, they know that they must have and be able to articulate a process with integrity in terms of making the measurements and being able to analyze them.
What Moniz is saying here is that these side deals that they don't know, they're not even written down.
There's a roadmap worked out between the IAEA and Iran, the side deals, these two side deals I told you about first yesterday.
He said, we don't have them, the documents.
It's not written down.
We haven't seen them.
It's just incredible.
Well, we haven't seen the documents.
Customary and unconfidential when the country needs you.
There's no reason we should see the documents.
Jesus, it just doesn't.
Look, Planned Parenthood, I didn't have a chance to get to this today, and that's my bad.
I should have.
But There's a great story here, and I'm going to hold over this stuff to Lamar because there's going to be more tonight and tomorrow.
This story is going to keep on giving.
Planned Parenthood is really worried about what future videos are going to show.
And among the things they're worried about is the fact that the group here that did the videotaping has evidence of Planned Parenthood dissecting aborted babies for organs.
Dissecting after birth.
This is beyond what you've heard about making sure they don't crush.
That's the actual abortion.
This is dissection of aborted babies.
Planned Parenthood on tape talking about.
So Planned Parenthood, the people that murder and butcher babies are now calling the outfit that's exposed all this a bunch of extremists, but they are getting really worried about what's coming.
And I told you that there's a mountain of stuff that we don't yet know that it's just sick.
It's just, it's reprehensible sick.
And some Democrats are trying to go through the motions of circling the wagons and defending these people.
And that is going to be a huge mistake.
The DOJ, Department of Justice are going to look into this, but nobody knows what they're going to look into.
And don't be surprised if this new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, decides to investigate the agency that videotaped Planned Parenthood.
Don't be surprised if that happens.
I mean, we're talking about committed leftists who protect each other, circle the wagons around each other.
So this is a huge, huge story.
The Democrats are doing their best to make sure nobody thinks this is anything special.
They're trying to keep it from being reported in drive-by mainstream media.
So far, they've succeeded, but it's just, it's sickening.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
I owe you an explanation.
It was requested.
The Apple stock price, why did it plummet after such a great quarter of economic results?
I'll explain all that.
Planned Parenthood.
There's a bunch of other things, too, I need to get to tomorrow.
Promise.
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