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July 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Righto, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh with a final busy broadcast hour of the EIB network today.
And we are here at 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com Okay, folks, and just one more thing here about the Trumpster.
And it just so happens, just so happens to dovetail nicely with that point that I was just making, which I think, and there have been a number of profundities that I have offered and uttered today.
And this one is as well.
And it is that Trump is actually lighting up.
He is coalescing.
He is exciting a cadre of voters, the exact voters Republicans need to win.
And the ironic, the Republicans are, it's hard to say, but these are the people the Republican Party don't seem to be interested in.
Or maybe it is they just take them for granted.
Assume that those voters are always going to be there while they openly make tracks to the Hispanic community to try to secure more of those people.
They alienate people in the process.
But from public policy polling, and I know it's a left-wing bunch.
So we take that into account.
But here is the latest number from public policy polling.
Trump's favorable with Hispanics versus Jeb Bush favorables with Hispanics.
What do you think?
Who do you think is in the lead in this category?
It ought to be Jeff.
It ought to be Jeb Bush going away, right?
Not so much because anything has happened, just because what we know about formulas.
We know the Republican Party is making great strides, made great efforts to appeal to Hispanic voters.
And Jeb Bush has long been known as someone the Republican Party thinks Hispanic voters would actually flock to and love.
Well, as we speak, Donald Trump's favorables with Hispanics are at 34%.
Jeb Bush's are at 31%.
And that number of Trumps leads the Republican field.
MediaResearchTV.org blogged.
This is a public policy polling poll.
Trump leads the Republican field among Hispanics.
34% favorability.
Jeb Bush is next at 31.
Now, I know it's early.
And any and all of this could change.
But the thing to keep in mind is that this Trump candidacy has gone in stages here, folks.
From he's never going to get in to, okay, he got in, but he's not going to stay.
He's just doing this for show.
He's just trying to hype something.
He's going to be out of this in a couple of weeks.
To, well, we didn't realize he's going to stay in this long.
Okay, but he's going to screw up.
He's not a professional like we are.
And he doesn't understand our business.
He's going to step in it at some point, and that'll be it.
And then we can get down to business.
And then he stepped in it.
Except he didn't.
They thought he was gone after this McCain contretin.
I, a lone voice across the fruited plain and the Purple Mountain Majesty, telling everybody it's not what you think.
Trump is not behaving according to the rules here.
He's not apologizing, not begging forgiveness.
He's doubling down.
You watch, people are going to love this.
His numbers grew.
Now is, well, he'll be out by September.
Time school starts.
It's not going to last.
I'll tell you what's happening now.
Republicans and Democrats alike, alike, are beginning to ask themselves, have we been wrong from the get-go?
Does this guy really want to win?
Gulp.
Gulp?
Does he really, is he going to stay in this?
Oh my God.
That's what they're asking themselves now.
Now, moving on.
A quick question.
Tom Brady replaces his legal cell phone and has to be guilty.
He had a Samsung phone out there.
He and I got an iPhone 6 by his own admission.
When I saw that he had a Samsung, questions were raised, but I didn't make a big deal of it.
He says he gets rid of phones every four months or six months because he's too famous, like me.
He's too famous.
He has to get rid of the phones because too many people get.
But that that seemed kind of honestly, that seemed kind of flimsy to me.
And especially when I heard that he couldn't furnish the text messages because they weren't on the phone.
They never are on the phone.
Unless you're actually talking about SMS text messages on your iPhone, the green bubbles, cellular text messages, yeah, those are not kept, or those are on the phone.
They are not on a server anyway or anywhere.
And the cell carrier, ATTT Mobile, they hold them for three or four days, maybe.
I think Verizon holds them longer than anybody else.
I don't know who he services with.
But if he's using an iPhone, well, wait, he was using Samsung before.
Samsung would be either texts or WhatsApp or, you know, I'm sure that Android has its own messaging app, a bunch of them.
And those are all on servers.
Getting rid of your phone doesn't get rid of your messages.
At least not all of them.
But Brady says he routinely does this, he and his wife both because just get too famous and too vulnerable to start fresh.
But regardless, here's Brady legally replacing his legal phone, and he must be guilty.
Hillary Clinton destroys her questionable and perhaps illegal server, and she must be innocent.
Brady doesn't get the benefit of the doubt.
Hillary does.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, feels betrayed in a big way.
Robert Kraft, a couple of months ago, Patriots were also fined over this deflate gate story.
They were fined a million dollars and penalized with the loss of a couple of draft choices, draft picks.
And Robert Kraft decided and publicly stated he was going to accept the penalties, pay the fine, lose the draft picks, rather than fight the NFL because of unity and respect for the league and comedy and all of that.
And he admitted today that he also did it hoping that it would facilitate a reasonable settlement in the Brady case.
And it didn't.
So today he goes the first day of training camp at the Patriots.
He shows up, addresses the media, and apologizes to the fans for what he said was a stupid mistake of trusting the National Football League.
So go to the audio soundbites.
This is at Foxborough.
This is at Gillette Stadium.
And this is the first of three that we have.
In the vast majority of these cases, there's tangible and hard evidence of the infraction for which the discipline is being imposed.
And still the initial penalty gets reduced.
I continue to believe and unequivocally support Tom Brady.
I, first and foremost, need to apologize to our fans because I truly believe what I did in May, given the actual evidence of the situation and the league's history on discipline matters, would make it much easier for the league to exonerate Tom Brady.
Unfortunately, I was wrong.
I'm telling you, he feels betrayed and devastated and disappointed because he's admitted it here.
He gave up the fight of the penalties thinking that that act would be a show of good faith and the people in the commissioner's office would respond with either an exoneration or a serious reduction in the suspension and ultimate penalty of Brady.
He really thought, I mean, that's how mannered and cultivated people do things, and there are unspoken agreements that this kind of behavior is going to be reciprocated, and he feels like he got slapped in the face.
And he apologized.
I mean, this is, to me, this is apologizing to his fans for his stupidity.
He's not stupid.
He's apologized because he, he, not stupidity, his mistake in trusting the league.
And believe me, Robert Kraft, I mean, look, it's the Patriots, and people hate them, and there's Spygate, and people think, I mean, there's all kinds of theories that the commissioner didn't penalize them enough at Spygate.
This is to make up for that.
There's a lot of owners out there pressuring Goodell.
Hey, you don't let them off this time.
They got off too scot-free after Spygate.
That was real cheating.
They still haven't paid the president.
All these allegations are going.
Nobody knows what really happened, but this kind of stuff's flying around out there.
And if there is another lawsuit, which it appears there will be, all this double surface, and it'll eventually be known whether it happened or not.
But in the midst of all this, you know, the league's been under assault, the league's been under attack, and Kraft is one of these owners that believes that he's always put the league first to protect it, to defend it, to represent it.
And he just doesn't, I mean, he's beside himself at this.
He thinks it's such an insignificant thing, the air pressure at a football.
And his quarterback supposedly not cooperating.
Now, one thing, I said the league is very crafty when it comes to PR.
Because right now, everybody thinks that Tom Brady destroyed his phone to avoid producing evidence.
You think that?
And we all thought that when the news was released yesterday, even on this program, remember when I said, oh, folks, this is big news.
The NFL upheld Brady's suspension and they've just accused him of destroying his phone.
So you let some time go by and you find out that what happened was, and the NFL admits it, it's on page 11 or 12 of their release yesterday, that Brady didn't destroy the phone.
He says he gets new phones every four to six months, that his lawyers assured him that he didn't need to keep his current phone, that they were done with it at the league.
This is what he's saying.
His lawyers advised him.
Gets rid of the phone that supposedly had all this evidence on it.
And then the league even admits that Brady offered to give the league the names and phone numbers of everybody who he had texted with in the past six months or eight months so that the league could then contact them and see if they had any of the text messages they had received from Brady and that they had sent him.
And it sounds like cooperation, and the league rejected it on the basis that that, no, that's not how this is done.
We're not going to hunt around out there.
There's no guarantee those people still have the messages and so forth.
You didn't produce them when we asked, and that's the end of it.
So the Brady camp is saying, wait a minute, we didn't destroy evidence.
And that's why everybody's concerned that the Patriots, they don't understand why would, and this is a, by the way, just from the standpoint of business, you have to ask yourself a question here.
I know that a lot of people hate the Patriots, and I know a lot of people hate Brady because successful winners are hated by losers.
It says it's human nature, okay?
But the league is not supposed to be caught up in all that.
I mean, here is arguably a pretty good-looking face for the NFL, given all the people who play this game.
He's got one of the best faces of players out there.
He has a great reputation as a winner.
He's not out there doing all this other stuff that players are getting fine.
Why in the world, people are asking, why in the world would you want to go after a reputation like that that is so successfully tied to the reputation of the NFL?
And Kraft alluded to that in his remarks.
He was like, well, I don't understand this.
Why in the world we league want to target itself this way?
He thinks the league's targeting itself by targeting Brady.
Here's the next Kraft soundbite, by the way.
Yesterday's decision by Commissioner Goodell was released under an erroneous headline that read, Tom Brady destroyed his cell phone.
It intentionally implied nefarious behavior and minimized the acknowledgement that Tom provided the history of every number he texted during that relevant timeframe.
And we had already provided the league with every cell phone of every non-NFL PA employee that they requested, including head coach Bill Belichick.
Yeah, here's the last one, just another portion of Kraft's remarks today to the media at Gillette Stadium.
Back in May, I had to make a difficult decision that I now regret.
I want to apologize to the fans of the New England Patriots and Tom Brady.
I was wrong to put my faith in the league.
Given the facts, evidence, and laws of science that underscore this entire situation, it is completely incomprehensible to me that the league continues to take steps to disparage one of its all-time great players and a man for whom I have the utmost respect.
Okay, anybody out there want to tackle that one for me?
I mean, that's a pretty good question, given the facts, given the evidence.
Okay, the whole sentence.
Given the facts, given the evidence, given the laws of science, they claim they've got support the Patriots do, the Brady camp from the American Enterprise Institute, by the way, that that whole air pressure thing was a bunch of fade-made-up science, phony bologna Wells report was weak and so forth.
They think they've got the evidence on their side.
But the question is incomprehensible to Kraft that the league is trying to destroy the reputation of its best player.
He doesn't make sense.
And then when you say that, the next question is, but what if he did it?
Brady.
Does anybody want to tackle that for me?
I know I answered it ages ago, but I want to see how many people remember.
Somebody want to answer for me.
Why would the league want to destroy the reputation of one of its greatest all-time players?
Okay, now when it was over, grab sound by number four.
When it was over, Robert Kraft said, okay, now I'm through.
And the real reason you're here is up next, Bill Belichick.
So everybody thought, wow, Belichick's going to weigh in on DeflateGate?
Holy smokes.
So Belichick gets up there.
And the first question, Coach, is there something flawed about the system here, the organization?
You keep ending up in these cheating controversies.
Can you explain why?
It's already been addressed.
Could you elaborate a little?
No.
Why not?
Because it's already been addressed.
People have a lot of questions, you know.
Public fan.
You heard what Robert just said.
It's already been addressed.
We're on to training camp.
We're on to Cincinnati.
We're on a training camp.
We're on to Buffalo.
We're on a training camp.
So Kraft finishes, introduces Belichick, makes it look like they're all there to hear Belichick, not Kraft.
Nobody's expecting Kraft.
was a surprise show and i think that but this first question See, you know what this question that this reporter asked?
There are a lot of people, particularly in the New York sports media, who still seethe over Spygate.
And they think the Patriots are a bunch of cheaters and that they probably still are and that they never got properly punished.
And there are a lot of people who are okay with all this because it's what should have happened back during Spygate.
This first question, Coach, is there something flawed about the system here, the organization you keep ending up in these cheating controversies?
Can you explain it?
It's already been addressed.
Could you elaborate a little?
No.
Why not?
Because it's already been addressed.
We're on to training camp.
You heard, Robert.
Get me out of here.
I hate dealing with idiots, particularly people in the media.
We're on to training camp.
Back to the phones we go.
There's still sound on the Brady story today from the drive-bys.
And boy, it's brutal.
It's brutal to Brady.
I don't know.
No matter how much I think I know, no matter how much I know, I learn, I will always have to admit to being surprised by people, the way they think, what they say, how they do it.
Anyway, people have been waiting patiently.
So we're back now to Chris in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Did I say it, Rush?
And I would like to say that the reason why Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump are liked in this country is because you're not out trashing the country on a daily basis.
Interesting observation.
You think that's all it is?
You know, you listen to Trump, and when he talks about somebody, he says, I met this great guy, or I did this great thing, or I've been to this wonderful golf course, or I've met these awesome people.
And you don't hear that anywhere else.
You don't hear that from anyone else.
We haven't had a positive person that talks like that since Ronald Reagan.
Well, you know, now you put it that way, and that is an interesting observation.
A lot of people, what you're hearing as upbeat and positive, other people hear as braggadocious.
Trump bragging about the people he knows.
And the people he knows are the greatest people.
And the business projects he's doing are the greatest projects.
And the people that don't like him, they're the losers and so forth.
But he is upbeat and positive.
And he's, I mean, his whole slogan is here, make America great again.
And there's nobody opposed to that, oddly, other than people on the left.
Like I mentioned the other day, and like I read the other day, the Democrat Party is made up of two groups of people.
Those who hate America and those who really, really, really hate it.
In 1968, the Democrat Party was made up of liberals who loved America and those who hated it.
And they had a war with each other at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago.
And the Democrat Party today doesn't have that kind of divide, but there still is a divide.
Those who just hate America and the ones that really hate it.
But Trump is positive that way.
Greatest golf course, greatest building, greatest supporters, greatest people, greatest country.
You're going to make mince meat out of China.
We're going to teach them a lesson.
And you're right.
You don't have politicians talking like that.
That's considered to be impolite or not politically correct.
Patty in Longview, Texas, you're next.
Your turn.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'd like to share with you why I'm actually leaning to supporting Trump.
I am a Latina, and the reason why I really, really like him is because he treats me like an American.
He hasn't pandered to me like Bush speaking Spanish.
I left all that.
I don't want to hear him speak Spanish.
I'm an American.
He is the only one that has not done that.
And I have felt like a true American, like I used to back in the 80s when I first came here.
And as far as McCain, you had a caller that this country owes McCain because he's a war hero.
This country has paid them, paid him and everybody, and then some.
So, no, McCain doesn't, it's not owed anything.
So Trump's comments about McCain did not change my opinion.
Well, I understand that.
The point that I should have made to the guy, you're talking about Lewis, who called, I think, from Omaha.
And the point I should have made to him that what Trump is actually, these are not his words, these are the words of an analyst looking at all this.
But the analysts said that one of the differences in Trump is Trump is not devoted to making heroes out of people involved in losing causes.
And too much of America today has become devoted to heroes in losing causes.
And we're not interested in losing.
As George Patton said, Americans love a winner.
Americans think they are winners.
And we're not losers, and we don't want to honor losers and have that be what we're known for now.
And I'm fascinated by analysis like that, with people who are trying to explain what is inexplicable to them, and that is why so many people are supporting Trump.
Do you realize the number of political professionals who have slightest idea what's going on?
I mean, you get right now, it's their business to understand why people vote for whoever.
And they are befuddled over this support for Trump.
And they're having trouble separating themselves personally from their business.
They don't understand it.
In their playbook, in their formula, Trump should be ticking everybody off.
Everybody should be running him out of the campaign.
He's so brash.
He's so politically incorrect.
He's so offensive.
And the exact opposite happens when Trump does this stuff that they think should run him out of the business.
He gets more popular and gets more support.
And they don't think it's real because of that.
They think it's temporary and not very deep.
And as such, is going to evaporate at some point.
And that's largely a hope.
But try this on for size because this is where I think we are.
Let's do a hypothetical for the fun of it.
Let's assume that Trump stays in and goes all the way and is really, really, really close to getting a nomination and has done it in his new way and has got deep and loyal support.
Do you think the reaction of the Republican establishment is going to be, wow, this is cool.
We got a lot to learn from this.
Are they going to forever reject it and disdain it?
Probably the latter, right?
Because Trump is never going to get past being an interloper.
That's what Reagan was.
For all, you know, when Reagan was president, everybody wanted to be in the light.
Everybody was a Reagan advisor.
Everybody was the consultant that told Reagan how to win because success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.
But Reagan was always considered an outsider or an interloper.
And when he was gone after his eight years, okay, it was time to erase them.
And it was time for the establishment to get back to business as usual.
And this, you know, Republican voters are, whether they're consciously aware of this or not, they are aware of it.
They're aware this, the winning formula is not adopted.
And when it wins, it's rejected and not supported in large part.
And it just makes them angrier and angrier and just deepens their support for the outsider candidate.
In this case, Trump.
So we'll see where this all goes and where it all ends up.
Because I'll tell you, the professionals have no idea right now.
I mean, you'll hear him on TV, he's going to be gone by time.
He's not going to make it.
Doesn't even really want to win this.
He's just in this.
And they're telling themselves that all of you people supporting Trump are going to be just devastated and sad, and you're going to end up feeling betrayed and used when Trump gets out, leaving you high and dry.
And they're worried you're going to be so mad, you're just not going to vote in the next election.
It's going to be handed to Hillary.
That's the fear they have of what Trump ultimately represents.
Back after.
Okay, quickly, Cleveland.
Michael, welcome, EIB Network.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's a great honor.
Hey, I had a question.
I usually, I've been listening to you for years, and I usually can figure things out by deciphering things that you say and taking your advice and stuff, but there's something I can't figure out for the life of me.
There's a huge story in Cleveland right now, and I'm not hearing any coverage in any of the national media.
Another illegal alien is accused of murder, attempted murder, and attempted rape on a 14-year-old who was just arraigned today.
It's on the front page of Drudge, and I haven't heard anybody talk about it, and I cannot figure out for the life of me why it's not getting any coverage.
And I thought maybe you, with your wisdom, would be able to try somebody.
I can't figure it out, Russ.
You can't figure it out.
You are so flattering, I can't believe it.
Very the RNC convention is going to be here or what?
But I can't figure it out.
Yeah, we can't.
We're all stumped by this.
You know, I'm glad you called, but because we're all talking amongst ourselves here why this story isn't getting talked about.
We can't believe it's not being talked about.
You have another illegal alien committing crimes, near murder, rape, and so forth.
And nobody wants to talk about it.
Because the answer is obvious, obviously.
The answer is obvious.
This just does not fit the narrative that illegal immigration is good for America and that illegal immigrants are hardworking, industrious people that just want to become great Americans and enjoy the American dream.
It doesn't further the Obama and Chamber of Commerce objective.
So anyway, Michael, I'm glad you called.
Well done.
Extremely, extremely well done.
Grab Soundbite 6.
I want you to listen to Bill Roden, New York Times, talking about Tom Brady on CBS this morning.
Charlie Rose said, so the idea of destroying the cell phone, simply the straw that broke the camel's back.
They had to stick with the original ruling.
Is that right, Bill?
No matter how much you love him, this is a game changer.
This completely changes his legacy, which I thought before I heard about this yesterday.
You know, well, nothing could really change this guy's legacy because blah, blah, blah, blah.
But once you destroy evidence in any investigation, I don't care where you are, you cannot do this.
This is about almost borderline criminality.
And frankly, the thing that surprises me is that this guy is still playing.
I mean, he's disrespecting the attorneys, some great attorneys.
He's disrespecting the league.
He's disrespecting the game.
Folks, now you see how you see why Robert Kraft is a little bothered here.
The NFL puts out this story toward the end of the day, yes, that Brady destroyed his cell phone and destroyed the evidence.
And we learned later in the day, once the NFL full report, that that didn't happen.
That Brady helped him try to offer to help reconstruct the evidence.
It's just not that cut and dried.
And then to say, I'm surprised the guy's still playing after he's disrespected these great lawyers and he's disrespected these great attorneys and disrespected the league, still playing.
Bill Rodens at the New York Times, he had plenty of time to figure out that the NFL pulled a PR move yesterday with this releasing of the news that Brady destroyed evidence.
Some people still think he did.
And here's Willie McGinnis, who played this number 55, a great linebacker for the Patriots, played with Brady in the NFL network yesterday afternoon.
He was asked, what did you think when you heard that he had destroyed the cell phone?
I mean, you don't destroy something if you don't want somebody to see it.
He didn't want somebody to see what was on it.
Now, the other thing is, if you send out an email, you send out a text, it has to go to somebody.
So somebody was on the other end of those messages.
They retrieved those cell phones.
So they have evidence.
The commissioner said that there's damning evidence.
They felt comfortable.
This is, boy, this is amazing.
Again, what really fascinates me, really does, is there's no doubt what this is.
They have made a conscious effort to damage Brady's reputation.
And he's one of the best guys in the league.
On the surface, it's puzzling.
Anyway, I'm at the limit of time here, folks.
I have to bail out.
Well, we just have to pick up where we left off when we get back tomorrow, which is what we'll do, depending on what happens between now and then.
But count on one thing.
We'll be back 21 hours.
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