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July 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So you know how last week everybody's asking me to explain to them why Apple stock plummeted after having and reporting such a successful quarter?
Well now, because people were so dazzled and impressed with that explanation.
Now I got people asking me to explain why Twitter is in trouble.
Because Twitter's everywhere.
I mean, you can't go five seconds without hearing the word Twitter or tweet.
How could it possibly be losing money?
Well, I can tell you, and if I have time to squeeze it in today, I realize it's not a priority except for you shareholders.
I might.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, Hump Day, middle of the week.
Of course, Hump Day may not be applicable anymore.
I'm reading that there's no such thing as the 9 to 5 job anymore.
That is, if you can find a job.
I'm reading there's no such thing as the 40-hour week anymore.
And you know why that is?
Because evil corporate chiefs demand that their employees think about the job all the time.
And therefore, people do.
So the 9-to-5 workday is kind of kaput to.
All these tried and true traditions just flittering away.
But Wednesday used to be hump day.
You get this day behind you.
Therefore, over the hump, three gone, two to go, and hello weekend.
Anyway, we're still here, and we got three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
I have a simple question.
I understand.
I love Cecil the Lion.
I understand it.
I understand crying.
I myself was ravaged with sadness when I heard about the death of Cecil the Lion.
You know why?
Because even when talking about a lion, it was in a game preserve.
It wasn't a pet.
I mean, you're never going to make a pet out of a predator beast, but it still is the essence of innocence.
And it wouldn't do anything to us if we didn't threaten it first.
And it's just senseless for somebody, I don't care whether they're a dentist from Minnesota or a terrorist from ISIS.
It is senseless to be let onto a game preserve, preserve protection with a bow and arrow and think you are engaging in sport while you kill a lion.
It's just senseless.
And I understand the sadness.
People have an attachment to animals that is inexplicable.
What I don't understand, Jimmy Kimmel broke down almost in tears last night on his program.
And the very same people who will express sadness, tears, shock, dismay over the death of Cecil.
I love cats too, you know, and I think Cecil's a great name for a lion.
In fact, if I ever get another cat, I'm going to name it Cecil in honor of this one.
My own cat was disappointed when she found out Cecil was killed.
All animals are worried about this.
Understand that.
But how in the world can you get teary-eyed and misty-eyed and sad and at the same time participate in burying what's happening at Planned Parenthood?
Can somebody explain that to me?
What do you mean well?
What do you mean well?
Is this too controversial a question?
What do you mean well?
Is this somewhere I shouldn't venture?
I do know how the animal people are, but I know that most animal people are also the same.
They have the same attitude toward human beings.
Look, I understand the difference.
Human beings, adult human beings, they're not the essence of innocence, but babies in the womb are.
Babies in the womb are more innocent than any animal is.
But a lot of people, that would be an argumentative statement.
I understand that.
But a baby in the womb, I mean, you can't get a more pure definition of innocence.
Now, I understand there's a picture of Cecil the lion as he's alive and sitting there over his harem with his harem and looking like a lion, looking like the king of the jungle.
He's sitting there and he's just enjoying life and everything's fine and dandy.
You see that picture.
Then you hear the news that some reprobate with a bow and arrow was let in there for 50 grand and claim it was hunting.
There's no hunting.
That wasn't any sport myths.
Cecil had no idea.
It was at night.
Cecil had no idea.
He's in a game preserve.
Understand all that.
And there aren't any pictures of the baby chop shop operation.
Understand that.
And we are a photo and image-driven society.
But nevertheless, I'm just, it's a matter of curiosity, concern that so much emotion can be dredged up.
And justifiably, I mean, I'm with you on this Death of Cecil business.
But I'm also just, if not more sickened by what Planned Parenthood's doing.
And I said, Planned Parenthood has hired this PR firm called SDRK Knickerbocker or some such thing, and their job is single-purposed.
Bury the story.
They are harassing drive-by media to the extent necessary to get them to ignore the story.
For example, Politico ran just a little bitty blurb about this and how it just makes a lot of people uncomfortable and his SDKR Knickerbocker bunch just jumped on him and Politico retracted or deleted it from their webpage or did something.
That's what they're trying to do is get the story buried.
They're not even going to try to argue the story.
They're not even going to try to say we all misunderstand it.
They're not even going to try to say there's great medical research to be had here.
They're not going to say it's just a clump of cells.
They're not even going to try to say it's an unviable tissue.
They're just going to lean on their buddies in the drive-by to suppress the story.
I have another question, ladies and gentlemen.
Tom Brady, quarterback New England Patriots, replaced his legal cell phone, a Samsung.
That almost made me change my mind, by the way, about this whole story that Brady admitted he had a Samsung.
But I was able to get past that.
Tom Brady admits that he replaced his legal cell phone, and he must be guilty.
And over here, Hillary Clinton destroys her illegal email server, and she must be innocent.
We give Hillary the benefit of the doubt.
And she's a former Secretary of State.
She's a presidential candidate.
She is accepting huge payments in her family crime foundation from foreign governments who are hoping she's going to be elected president because she's thus been bribed.
Did owe her husband.
She gets the benefit of the doubt.
Tom Brady, guilty.
Automatically guilty.
You ought to read the New York Post.
Now, I understand.
New York Post equals New York Jets equals hate the New England Patriots.
And I understand Spygate.
I understand all of this.
But man, some of the vitriol today aimed at Brady.
It's just fascinating.
All of this is fascinating.
Robert, well, it's Steve Serby in the Post.
And let me just give you the headline.
One way Tom Brady can move on from the mess he created.
And that's mild compared to the substances.
We'll get into it here.
I'm just setting the table for everything coming up on the program today.
Robert Kraft showed up unexpectedly at a press conference.
This is the first day of training camp for the Patriots.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, and full disclosure, Robert Kraft is a good acquaintance of mine, a close acquaintance of mine.
And his wife, late wife, Myra, were very close to us.
And I can't begin to tell you the betrayal that he feels.
He admitted in his press conference today that he bit the bullet.
You know, the Patriots were fined a million dollars in a couple of draft picks in this whole deflategate thing.
And Robert Kraft admitted today that he was attempting to build a bridge of cooperation, magnanimity with the league by accepting and not fighting that fine and the penalty of the two draft picks.
And he was enraged for him.
He was enraged.
He apologized to the New England Patriots fan base for making such a huge mistake of having faith and trust in the league.
This, I know it's football, and I know to many people it's a game.
It's big business at the same time, particularly to people in it.
This, what's happened here has, I mean, you don't know the friendships, the business relationships, the degree of protection various entities help each other with, support, and all that.
It's just all been blown to bits with this.
This goes beyond whatever ultimately happens here with Brady and his punishment.
And we'll get into this in great detail, of course, as the program unfolds.
Let me go through some headlines here to give you an idea of what's coming up.
Twitter stock sinks as execs warn on user growth.
I don't have any problem with any of you curious about how in the world Twitter can be losing share value.
I mean, you can't watch the news.
You can't read the news without seeing the word Twitter or tweet multiple times a minute.
It's got to be one of the most recognizable brand names all over the world.
It's got recognizability, name recognition that would require trillions of dollars to buy.
And somehow the people that run this have not figured out a way to monetize all that?
Stunning.
I have my theories.
I will explain them to you.
Study, frequent social media use may take toll on teens' mental health.
May take, no question about that one.
The colossal hoax of organic agriculture.
The missing Hillary emails that no one can explain.
I can, and I will.
Third Planned Parenthood video released as Senate Republicans seek to end funding.
Reported two-month gap in Clinton emails coincides with escalating violence in Libya.
Newly discovered Lois Learner email shows IRS tried to cover up tea party targeting and more.
So we've got a full boat here today, folks.
We're loaded in addition to that.
Oh, another animal story.
You may have heard about this.
A landscaper by the name of Jason Falbo II, F-A-L-B-O, has been given one year in jail for running over a family of ducks with his lawnmower.
Now, who would do something like this?
All he got was a year guilty, pleaded guilty.
He's 24 years old, pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty charges.
He mowed down the ducks on May 2nd at the home of a family that was caring for the ducks in Wellington.
Police say that in all nine ducklings died, their mother and two ducklings survived.
You know, some of you may know, may have remembered me saying I play golf now and then.
And one of the places that I play, just in the last, well, I don't know, month, a mother and father duck have given birth, and we see them escorting their little chicks all over the golf course.
And when we see it, we stop.
We try to get as close as we can just to get a good look at little chicks, but those adult ducks, they start quacking at us.
And they tell us to stay away, but we let them pass wherever they want to go.
Swim across the lakes.
They walk across the tea box.
They even walk on the green.
We will stop what we're doing because we love animals on the golf course.
And we are fascinated with nature.
I cannot imagine doing this with a lawnmower.
It's just, I don't know, terribly sad, ladies and gentlemen, all kinds of things happening like this all over our culture.
Prolonged standing.
This is a new study.
Prolonged standing at work can lead to long-term health problems.
Somebody better tell them that at the Apple Watch.
The Apple Watch makes you stand up every hour.
I mean, if you turn it on.
All these people out there saying, couch potato, that'll kill you.
That's dead.
That's like getting cancer.
You don't want to do it.
Now standing up at work can lead to long-term health.
Folks, we can't escape it.
Some of you are going to be surprised to hear this, but we're all going to get sick at some point and die.
By the way, just as a reminder, failed to get to it yesterday and the day before.
Am going to get to it today.
The 13 things mentally strong people do not do.
Procrastinating is not one of them.
And I'm not procrastinating on it.
I'm just not squeezing it.
I'm making priority-based judgments.
And I've determined on the fly, each of the past two days are things more important than this.
Not procrastinate.
How the hell could you accuse me of procrastinating it?
It's a value judgment I'm making a value of the news in this substance.
Geez, me procrastinate?
The one guy in the country shows up for work every day reliably.
You can count on it.
You don't ever have to worry unless you know it's vacation day.
You never have to worry about it.
Procrastinate?
My own staff with insolence and disrespect.
Lovingly presented, of course, jokingly so.
Also, another story, Seattle minimum wage.
It is another teachable moment.
Oh, not only are they losing jobs, the beneficiaries of the minimum wage don't want it because it's now jeopardizing their welfare receipt.
The recipients are earning too much and may not qualify for welfare.
So it's a double whammy against the minimum wage increase crowd.
I also, I'm looking at this Trump campaign.
You know, every day, the Trump campaign, what's the way to put this?
Every day, the Trump campaign gains a little more substance in the eyes of observers.
And what I mean by this is, and before Trump even got in the race, the smart money said, he's not going to run.
He's just going to do tempt people with it and tease people, raise ratings for his TV show and this sort of thing.
He'll never release his financial data on that form.
They all have to fill it.
Then he did all that.
Then it became, he's not serious.
He's doing this.
He's a bloated bigot egotist.
He's going to do this just for his own personal aggrandizement.
And he's going to get out long before it's a factor.
Well, he stayed in longer than anybody thought.
And then the smart money said, he's going to implode.
He's going to step in it.
He doesn't have the discipline.
He's not a serious politician like we are.
He's not a serious candidate.
He's going to say something and step in it.
Then he said something.
He said of John McCain, yeah, he's a war hero, but I actually don't have a lot of respect for guys that get captured.
I'd rather honor those that don't.
Smart money said, that's it.
That's it.
Didn't take long.
We knew it.
Trump's out of there.
No way he survived that.
Not only did he survive it, he thrived because of it.
It actually contributed to his growth and an increase in polling numbers.
Then the smart money said, well, this just can't go on.
It's a circus act.
He's a clown.
I expect he'll get tired of it.
And by the time the kids start going back to school, that's when we'll be finished with Trump.
He'll be out of it with the first debate.
He'll show up at the first debate.
Something will go wrong.
The smart money has been wrong every stage here.
And at every stage, the Trump candidacy has gained people taking it more and more seriously each and every day.
And now the smart money is starting to analyze why.
Now they're starting to get worried.
And now they're starting to try to analyze why is Trump working?
Why do so many people like Trump?
Why is this happening?
And it's made me think about things in this regard, although I always have.
But I'm focusing on a story not long ago that I found.
Back we are, Rushlinbo, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Okay, now a couple things on this Trump story.
Let me just continue this meme here for just a second.
And then some great soundbites coming up here from Ash Carter, Secretary of Defense, and John Kerry.
Did you hear what Kerry did?
Did you hear what he John Kerry admitted before a congressional committee yesterday that with the new sanctions money that the Iranian yes, they could kill Americans?
Yes, they can kill Israelis.
We're going to be monitoring this.
Yeah, they could kill a man.
At any rate, staying focused and on the subject.
The Trump campaign, every day, people are becoming more respectful of it.
I'm talking about the political experts.
I'm not talking about you people, the voters.
You're already in.
And many of you who are siding up to Trump, you understand why, and you know why you're doing it, and you have your reasons.
And, you know, there's a phenomenon happening with Trump, by the way.
And it's something that usually only happens with leftist politicians.
Trump is so personally likable that to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what he believes.
It's the fact that he believes something and is willing to stand up for it that has people, that has drawn some, not everybody, of course, but because it takes a whole cross-section of personality and people types to make up a support base.
But there's some people who don't care what he thinks.
It's just that he's so different, so unique, and so real that they're happy to support it for now.
But within the political class, there's abject fear.
Because every, well, not every, but many of the articles are items of conventional wisdom that inform them that a guy like Trump has no future and is going to implode, not happening yet.
Every prediction they've made has fallen flat about Trump's campaign imploding or Trump himself imploding.
I mean, look at what happened here with this rape attempt.
How many people do you think could survive this?
Let's look at, let's dissect this for a second.
Yesterday, this sleazy, cheesy, second-rate little website, the Daily Beast, runs a story that Trump raped Ivana when they were married.
And they admitted later on TV they did it simply to get even with Trump because he accused Mexicans of being rapists.
So it was time to see if Trump could take a dose of his own medicine.
There was no news value here.
There was no truth to it.
But this is the kind of thing that usually happens to Republicans.
And when it does, the usual thing that happens is the Republicans cave.
But in the case of Trump, not only did he not cave, but the woman he supposedly raped stood up and said, no, he didn't.
And I still love the guy.
And I think he'd make a great president.
But even if she hadn't done that, it wouldn't have hurt Trump because it wasn't believable.
He just doesn't fit the profile, if you will, of somebody who behaves that way.
He's not somebody that has to commit crimes in order to have intimate relations with women.
People just instinctively understand this.
So it was a flailing attempt, a failed attempt, and it was an attempt to capitalize on another phony meme that the media has attempted to establish, and that there is a male-dominant rape culture in America, primarily on America's campaign.
So much so that the media feels comfortable reporting and supporting a totally false story, such as frat boys running wild and raping whenever they want on campus at University of Virginia.
Except it didn't happen.
The drive-by media reaction was, well, okay, it might not have happened here, but we know what's happening.
We know what's happening, and this was a great story to raise awareness.
But wait a minute, there was no truth.
It doesn't matter.
We did our job.
We raised consciousness.
Rolling Stone magazine is who did that.
And they're back here today.
What the Trump and Cosby allegations reveal about rape culture.
What the Trump and Cosby allegations?
Anybody ever heard of Bill Clinton?
If you want to start relegating people to side-by-side status, you don't put Trump next to Cosby on this.
You put Clinton.
There's a big story out today, by the way, in the drive-by media just destroying Cosby's wife, Camille, as an enabler.
That she knew it.
She knew that her husband was getting a hold of Qualudes and essentially date raping all these babes into submission.
She knew it.
She let it happen.
She enabled it.
And then, when it was discovered, she tried to defend her husband from it.
And they're just excoriating her.
I'll find the story in a minute.
Does that remind you of anybody?
Does it remind you of Ivana Trump?
Does it remind you of Melania Trump?
Does it remind you of any Trump woman?
Or does it remind you of maybe Hillary Clinton, who ran the Bimbo Eruptions Unit in the Clinton campaign and the White House to deal with women who came forward and claimed that Bill Clinton sexually abused them?
Hillary was right in there with Betsy Wright, running the Bimbo Eruptions Unit, the purpose of which was to destroy the women who came forward with the allegations about Bill Clinton, to threaten them, to intimidate them, to maybe bribe them.
But it was clear what they would do.
They would publicly defame and impugn any woman who said she was going to come forward with a true story about what Bill Clinton did to her.
And yet here we have Rolling Stone magazine, what the Trump and Cosby allegations reveal about the rape culture.
This is the magazine that wrote the lie about the rape culture at UVA, and here they are back.
And they think they're going to hurt Trump with this.
This is the kind of thing that's going to propel Trump even more if it gets a wide berth.
If it stays within the Rolling Stone universe, nobody's going to know about it.
But if it escapes that, and if the drive-bys try to pick this up, it's only going to help Trump because people are going to realize what a bunch of phony baloney plastic men had a good time rocking rollers this is, and what a fake, phony, transparent attack and attempt.
On the heels of New York Magazine's moving interview and photo project with nearly three dozen women who've publicly accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the Daily Beast published a reminder this week that Ivana Trump once made a similar accusation, similar accusations against her then-husband, the Donald, except that she didn't.
At the most, during the divorce, she said she felt violated in an emotional sense.
Ivana Trump categorically denies there was any kind of rape.
But what's the truth matter to Rolling Stone or many in the drive-by media when they can push their fantasy about a rape culture and now try to attach Donald Trump to it On the basis of an allegation that has been blown to smithereens by the supposed victim.
They write here in the Rolling Stone: regardless of what happened that night, what's undeniable is that Donald Trump is a sexist pig of the First Order.
Really?
Undeniable?
That Donald Trump is a sexist pig of the First Order.
Here you go, folks.
This is what passes for journalism at the 21st century.
Rolling Stone used to be very hip.
Rolling Stone used to be defining.
This is pathetic.
This doesn't even reach the standards of Gawker.
Regardless of what happened the other night, that night, what's undeniable is that Donald Trump is a sexist pig of the First Order.
You people want to build Trump's support?
You keep writing this dribble.
Trump's continued presence in the Republican race has, in some ways, been a godsend to the Democrat Party, not to mention late-night hosts that we love.
Now, with this erupting scandal, there isn't a scandal.
It is also an educational opportunity for the rest of us.
We have a chance to talk about what exactly makes men rape.
Well, except that there isn't any here, unless you're talking about Cosby.
Have you seen anything more ridiculous?
Now, against, here's the thing, though, folks.
This is the thing to remember.
If Rolling Stone were trying this, pick any of these other Republican candidates.
They could make it stick.
Do you see?
Can you just pull a name out?
I mean, pick a name of any Republican.
Rolling Stone running a story like this.
The drive-by media picking it up, amplifying it, maybe not reporting it verbatim, but raising the question sort of like, holy seriousness of the charge is so much more important than the nature of the evidence.
It's a serious charge here, Donald Trump rapist.
We need to take this very seriously.
We need to make a look.
It doesn't go anywhere with Trump, but can you imagine them running this story about any of these other Republicans?
It would pick up traction and it would have life.
Well, with Trump, it's going to flop.
And it already has flopped.
What we have here is an educational opportunity to show how the leftist news media actually lies about rape.
I mean, this is incredible to me.
The original liars, the original fabricators, Rolling Stone, exposed as a publication that made it all up on the University of Virginia, is back now lumping Trump and Cosby.
Trump, undeniably, a sexist pig of the First Order.
Nowhere in this story will you find the name Clinton.
Nowhere will you find the name Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton.
You won't find it anywhere.
And if there is any couple that comes close to associating with and being next to Camille and Bill Cosby, they have to be Bill and Hillary.
And the Washington Times has a story here that I happen to put together with this Rolling Stone piece.
Ready for this?
Appeal of the family man.
Donald Trump has huge lead among Republican women voters.
Trump is standing everything on its head.
Every theory, every formula is upside down.
Establishment types think that women are going to hate Trump.
Ways too braggadocious.
The hair is yucky.
He's all about himself.
He's not touchy-feely.
Women are not supposed to like this guy.
And he is leading a huge lead among Republican women.
And there's much more to this, folks.
I went back.
Myron York had a story on May 2nd of 2013, two years ago.
And the headline of the story, winning the Hispanic vote would not be enough for the Republicans to win the presidency.
And this has been well known.
And the reason it's important is the Republican establishment is still, as we speak, the entire campaigns of the establishment frontrunners oriented toward winning the Hispanic vote.
They think, they believe, they've been told by the left and the Democrats and the media that they can't win the White House unless they broaden their base with Hispanics, and they believe it.
And it isn't true.
They could double the support Romney got of Hispanics and still lose.
And I will explain this and much more.
I mean, you sit tight, folks.
As always, it's going to take all three hours to get to everything we've got today.
All right, get this, folks.
Get this.
Stop what you're doing.
I need you to listen to next 30 seconds.
I don't even need to say that.
You people are glued here for three hours.
What am I talking about?
On the same day that we get a headline from Rolling Stone: what the Trump and Cosby allegations reveal about rape culture and whatever it all means, we know that Donald Trump's a sexist pig of the first order.
That's in Rolling Stone.
Guess what?
Thehill.com just tweeted.
Thehill.com just tweeted.
Just in Cecil the Lion Killer donated to Romney.
I kid you not.
This, whoever working at Hill.com is attempting to get Brian Ross's job at ABC.
I guess the dentist's name, Walter Palmer, the name of the, Walter Palmer, the dentist that killed Cecil the Lion.
TheHill.com dug deep and they found out this guy donated, what was it, $5,000 to Romney, I think was the number.
$5,000 donation to Romney, I think it was.
21st century political journalism from thehill.com.
And the tweet, by the way, has a side-by-side picture of the dentist standing over the dead body of Cecil the lion right next to a portrait of Mitt Romney.
Is this not pathetic?
And what if they had found this guy donated to Trump?
I don't know, folks.
There just aren't any words for this.
There really aren't any words.
I often say that there are days I feel like we're in the twilight zone, that we're on the astral plane, that we're not in the same universe.
But you see, fits the meme.
Republicans, mean, mean people.
Republicans kill animals.
Republicans who kill animals donate to Republican presidential candidates.
Democrats, by omission, nice people.
I wonder If we'll ever see thehill.com go out and find some reprobate American citizen who has committed some atrocity and find out that he's also donated a Planned Parenthood, and TheHill.com would run a tweet with side-by-side photos.
No, because it would never occur to them.
This tweet is made to look like a newsflash, by the way.
This just in.
Cecil the Lion Killer, Walter Palmer, donated to Romney.
I'll take a break on this.
It's getting...
I feel like I need to take a shower here.
Okay, now it's more than just a tweet.
Thehill.com has a full article.
Cecil the Lion Killer donated to Romney.
A Minnesota dentist who authorities say killed a beloved Zimbabwe lion named Cecil donated to Romney's 2012 campaign, five grand.
And they list the local Minnesota congressman the guy also donated to.
How pathetic.
It's just sit tight, folks.
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