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July 31, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything.
Anybody out there happens to be saying it's great to have you with us in our final busy broadcast hour this Friday is live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, talk about whatever you want.
And we today we're actually doing it.
We take more phone calls today than uh than normal, and we try to do that every Friday.
We don't always pull that off.
But we always have the intention to the telephone number's 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
I just got a an email from Coco Jr. up at the website.
Story that happened when I was away on vacation.
I was away on a golf trip the first part of June.
I had no idea this happened.
It's from the UK Daily Mail, and there is a uh there's an accompanying video of it.
And I didn't hear a thing about this when I was gone.
Now, I need to ask if uh any of you did.
Horrifying moment at uh the game preserve.
Actually, someplace called the Lion Park.
A lioness, female lion, reared up and mauled a woman to death through her car window in this South African safari park.
And the woman happened to be an editor of the TV show Game of Thrones.
Photographs show a lioness rearing up moments before it killed a 29-year-old American tourist Catherine Chappell.
Maybe Chapboo, standing on its hind legs, the animal is seen peering into the car seconds before it lunged through the open window.
Miss Chappelle, who worked as an editor on Game of Thrones, was in South Africa volunteering to work with the poor.
Uh engineer who took the photograph described how the lion retreated from the car with blood dripping from its mouth.
And there's video of this.
Do you all remember this story?
You do remember.
Was there any outrage about it?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
See, so it's her fault.
See, it was the woman's fault.
I just been told by the broadcast engineer he remembers this.
And it was the woman's fault because she driving through the this this lion park in South Africa, and she had the window down, and therefore she should have known what was going to happen.
But wait, but wait.
They told her not to open the window and she didn't even.
Why do you think she opened the window?
I bet she wanted to pet one of them.
Okay, take a picture, pet one of them, whatever.
She wanted to get close to one of them.
Uh because whatever.
It is a sad, sad story, but did they did they usually when something like this happens, they hunt down the animal and and uh destroy it.
Did they do that in this case?
They did not.
So the animal, the lion.
Okay, now what are we to make of this?
Anything?
What?
What are we to make of this?
Of course the Rush Limbaugh lesson, a tiger is a tiger.
Yes, but I mean, you see.
I I know, I know Snerdley is going back into the archives here.
Uh tiger is a tiger.
It's it's just a reminder that these are not pets.
These are not trainable.
They're well, they aren't somewhat, but they're not tameable.
Uh and they don't love you.
They they and they're wild animals, they're predators.
And but but the point is that that there was there was um contempt for the woman.
There was anger at the woman.
She made the lion killer by sucking that lion in.
She entrapped that lion by going around with a door and the window open.
Now, if that I mean, i there wasn't any anger.
That was my point.
I was hoping that we were gonna learn.
There was no anger at the lion.
It was just doing what it does.
A lion's a lion.
Okay, point proven.
Okay.
We uh talked yesterday.
Mitt Romney is out there ripping into Ted Cruz.
And I made the observation that I can't recall a presidential candidate losing presidential candidate, ripping presidential candidates in his own party in the next election cycle.
I was trying to think in the modern era, if there was an example of it, and I couldn't think of one.
And it wasn't so much trying to think of Reagan's 11th Commandment as just thinking I was thinking more about establishment Republican versus upstart Tea Party conservative wing.
And by the way, here's another thing.
I am, I've been doing uh in the course of show prep, I've been doing a just a voluminous amount of reading about the divide here between the establishment in Washington, both parties and uh the Republican Party and what's happening with Trump and so forth.
Now I knew, I knew that the Democrats had elevated the Tea Party into being something horrible and giant and bad, negative.
I had no idea.
Now that's not quite true.
I didn't fully appreciate the extent to which the Republican Party has enmity for the Tea Party.
The uh the Washington establishment treats the Tea Party.
They're genuinely afraid of it.
Let me just put it genuinely afraid of it because of its size and its power.
And the amazing thing about that is the Tea Party is not something about which is organized around an individual.
And I think this is why they fear it.
It is genuinely bottom up.
It's an effervescent movement of average ordinary people fed up with Washington who uh have just fed up with government, totally fed up with what government's doing.
Peggy Noonan has a piece today, and she says that the Tea Party and others, it's not hatred for government they have, it's contempt for government.
But the Tea Party is genuinely feared, and it's genuinely feared because it is thought to be huge, and it's put the Republican, well, the whole establishment on defense.
So anyway, Ted Cruz is not backing off the tough rhetoric that he has used to describe the Iran nuclear deal, despite criticism leveled at him by Mitt Romney yesterday.
Fired back at Romney in a radio interview.
He said, So Mitt Romney's tweet today, gosh, this rhetoric isn't helpful, Cruz said.
You know, John Adams famously said, facts are stubborn things.
Describing the actual facts, not that's not using rhetoric.
It's called speaking the truth.
And then Cruz fired another fact.
Part of the reason that Mitt Romney got clobbered by Barack Obama is because we all remember that third debate where Obama turned to Mitt and said, I said the Benghazi attack was terrorism, and no one's more upset by Benghazi than I am.
And Mitt, I guess listening to your to his own advice said, Well, gosh, I don't want to use any rhetoric, so okay, never mind.
I'll just kind of rearrange the pencil on the podium here, Cruz said.
And he's right, we do remember that debate.
I mean, Romney must have had three different slow pitch curveball softballs just.
Taylor made for Grand Slam home runs, and he didn't even take a swing at them.
Remember that?
After the first debate when Romney just cleaned Obama's clock.
Do you remember that?
The Democrats and the media were all well, what had happened to Obama?
Oh my God, does he even want to be reelected?
They were scared to death because Romney just made mints meat.
And then after that one, it was like it never happened, and like almost like Romney felt guilty for doing it, because he went into A defensive mode and did not do anything else that might offend or upset or irritate anybody.
And it was clear that the consultants had gotten hold of him.
Maybe they didn't have to, maybe he believed in himself.
The consultants had gotten hold of him and said, look, you can't keep criticizing the president.
The independents don't like that.
We're never going to win.
We have to show we can cooperate.
We have to show we can work.
So Romney shut up.
But what Cruz's point is very simple.
What are you what are you beating up on me for?
I'm not the enemy.
I am not the Democrat Party.
Why don't you start talking about them this way?
They're the ones actually doing a deal that's going to put this country at risk.
Why don't you say that?
You know, effectively, effectively, what Cruz is saying, I'm not the problem here, Mitt.
And this isn't rhetoric.
I'm simply citing facts.
And so now people are starting to ask, is Cruz following in the Trump mold?
Is Trump serving to show the way for other Republicans how to respond?
Well, maybe Trump is, but Ron Cruz doesn't need to be shown.
This is this is standard operating procedure for Cruz.
I mean, it was just two weeks ago that he went to the Florida Senate and accused the majority leader of lying to him face to face.
Now he's firing back at Romney.
But try this headline.
Well, it's not a headline, it's a paragraph subhead.
Both Obama and Romney have called Cruz's remarks inappropriate.
What has Cruz done?
He has maintained that Obama would become a leading state sponsor of terror if the agreement with Iran is ratified by Congress.
And he's argued that Iran would use a windfall, financial windfall from sanctions relief, to finance terror abroad.
He has said on that basis alone this deal ought not get done.
And then Romney piped up and said in a tweet, gosh, this rhetoric isn't helpful.
Gosh, this rhetoric isn't helpful.
And Cruz fired back.
You're telling me what's not, you got clobbered by Obama for a reason.
You got clabbered because you backed off.
You got clobbered because you didn't have the guts to keep going.
So this is uh I like this, folks.
Whatever, whether Trump's responsible for it or not.
Speaking of Trump, Trump has lowered expectations for the debate.
This is clever.
Donald Trump said yesterday he has no idea how he'll do in the August 6th GOP debate.
He said the reason he's not sure how he's gonna do is because he's not a man of words.
He's a man of action.
He was in Turnbury, Scotland at his golf course where the uh the British Women's Open is being played.
And he said to ABC News, look, as far as preparing for the debates, I mean, I am who I am.
I've never debated before.
I'm not a debater.
I get things done.
I don't talk about it, I do it.
And he doesn't have to debate in his organization.
He is the final word.
He tells people what to do.
He doesn't debate anybody.
He may ask his lawyer for an opinion now and then or this or that, but I think this is clever as hell.
I don't know how I'm gonna do.
You know, I'm not I'm not used to being subservient to other people.
I just not experienced at that.
I've never been to Trump's Turnbury course, no.
No.
The only I've I've played King's Barn and the old course in Scotland, and I played Carnoostie in steady.
St. Andrews, the old course.
St. Andrews.
Yeah, yeah.
And the first time you play it, you need a cavity because you don't know where you're going.
Uh some greens are used for two holes.
They're long and you'll see two pins and the pins are different colors, but you have to, you have to have somebody going around with it that's played before.
Uh Carnousty 40 mile an hour, sustained winds.
Those winds were so strong that the wind would blow a 30-yard chip.
A 30-yard shot, 20 yards off course.
Yeah, to account for it.
I've played in windy conditions, but not 40 miles an hour sustained.
40 mile an hour gusts, yeah.
Sustained, no.
It was fun.
It was fun.
It was one of those things to be there, done that one time.
So the old course St. Andrews, King's Marn, just right up the road from St. Andrews, which is new.
And then we play Carnousty and then bopped over to Ireland to play the K Club and Royal County Down and Port uh Port Rush.
Yeah, we made sure we went there.
Anyway, I've been not been to Trump's course over there.
But he says, I don't have any idea how I'm going to do.
You know, I uh I just I'm not used to this.
I I I don't defer to other people, and I I don't uh I I'm not a man of words.
You know, I do things, I'm a man of action.
He might well, I don't know what's going to happen.
I here's here's one thing.
Jeb Bush.
Big political story today.
Jeb Bush is being advised to pretend Trump isn't even on the stage.
Do not go there.
Do not get anywhere near, don't fall for any Trump trick.
Don't get sucked into debating Trump.
Don't do it.
And here's the theory.
These are what the Republican consultants are telling Jeb Bush.
Do not wrestle with a pig.
You look silly.
You can't win, and besides, the pig likes it.
In this case, Trump is the pig.
So they're telling Jeb, just just as best you can.
Trump's not even there.
Don't address him.
Whatever you do, don't insult him, either directly or by innuendo.
Just pretend.
Now, do you that that kind of advice, that tells me that the people advising Jeb Bush firmly believe Trump is not going to last.
And that there's really nothing you can do to help yourself right now by taking Trump out.
The best you can do is not let Trump hurt you.
And the best way to do that is to pretend he's not even there.
If he comes after you, don't even acknowledge that he said anything.
Just stay on message and don't react to anything.
No matter how tempting.
And I think these consultants and their advice is predicated on the fact that in the normal scheme of things, Jeb Bush way up here in a pedestal, and all the others are way up here on a pedestal in terms of professional politics.
And Trump's down here at the novice level.
And what they're telling him is you do not go down to be a novice.
Don't get into an argument with a fool because people can't tell the difference.
That's their that's their active strategy.
And that tells me that they think Trump is temporary, that he's not in their league, that he's rogue and rough around the edges.
Tells me they don't get Trump yet.
They do not understand yet why Trump is working, why Trump has the support.
And this could come back and bite them.
I mean, we've seen what happens in a debate when you pretend your opponent's not there.
It happened to Mitt Romney.
After the first debate, the second debate was sort of milk toast.
The third debate was one of the biggest blown opportunities in presidential debate history that I can ever recall.
Look at that.
Look at it right here.
See on the box.
Child endangerment charges after mom leaves child in hot car.
Oh, yeah, that's really horrible.
Child in a hot car, hot day, windows rolled up.
Mom just forgot.
That's horrible.
That's intolerable.
It is.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
But look at how worked up people get over that.
Nother Limbaugh, this is Mr. New Castradi speaking.
Mr. Limbo, what you don't seem to understand if a baby, a child in a car if an actual human being in a planned parenthood, you are not talking about a human being.
You're talking about Clump and Felth and Unviable Tithu Manfred and B5, what those are if nothing until the mother fifth oh.
Sadly, Mr. New Castrati is right.
Sadly, he is.
I mean, it's been taken to an extreme.
Uh I mean, if you listen to Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi will tell you that that child is not a child until the mother decides to take it home from the hospital.
And at no time before that does that child exist as a human being.
And she goes back sites row versus white for that.
Here's Robert in Fort Lauderdale, your next open line Friday.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush, you there?
Uh thank you, sir.
How are you?
Good.
How are you doing?
Good.
Runch, Mr. Sterling told me to get to the point, so that's what I'll do.
Um, no, no, wait.
Why don't you not get to the point?
Who says we have to do what Snerdley says?
Well, okay.
That's fine with me.
Oh, go ahead.
I'm just joking.
I'm just being just being jocular here, yeah, trying to lighten things up a little bit.
Okay.
Um 30 seconds.
This whole thing about this guy over in Africa shooting the tiger, lion, tiger, whatever it is, isn't that just another shot at taking down our society, our culture, not our society, our culture.
I mean, it's just like the abortion thing.
Now, hunters are demonized when the hunting industry is a vast amount of money in this country.
I mean, there was a show on local show before yours came on, and this guy, the talk show host, the guest host, was calling this guy a murderer.
The murderer of the cat.
The dentist was being called a murderer?
Yes, she called him a murderer.
And he referred to him as a child.
Guest host in Fort Waterdo.
Okay, hang on.
I have to take a break here.
We'll be back.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
The saga continues.
Rushlin boy here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Hillary Clinton.
This is great.
My greatest weakness is stupid people who don't understand why I should be president.
No, no, no, she didn't say that.
It's what she means.
Let me tell you what she said.
She was asked about her greatest weakness.
And she said this.
Well, how much time do we have?
You know, I'm impatient, and I sometimes come across as impatient, which is not always attractive.
And I I get really frustrated with people who don't understand what I think it's gonna take to make our country great tomorrow, just like we were yesterday.
What she is saying is, my greatest weakness is stupid people who don't understand how great I am and why I should be president.
Or there's another translation.
My greatest weakness, people who are too stupid to understand what I'm telling them.
People that are too dumb and too dense to understand how brilliant and advanced I am.
I'm sick and tired of having to explain things to numbskulls who don't understand what I'm trying to say.
That's what she's saying.
Now she doesn't know that.
She doesn't have because she doesn't have enough humility.
When she says, Oh my gosh, you know, I get impatient.
Sometimes I come across as impatient, get really frustrated with people who don't understand what Agate's gonna take.
She's mad at people that don't understand her, they must be stupid.
She doesn't like saying what she says over and over again.
She thinks everybody ought to understand it the first time, and never question any of it.
What she really resents is people asking her what she thinks.
She doesn't think she should have to lower herself to have to explain herself to lesser people than herself.
And I am not kidding, folks.
I know that you think I may just be flapping my gums here.
I'm not.
I'm trying to give you an honest, as I really think it to be, appraisal of Mrs. Clinton.
I think she resents having to explain to people she considers beneath her on the social scale, intellectual scale, I think she just resents having to even deal with them.
To the point, To the point that I think, back in 2008, and I think it survives even now.
I think she resents having to go through the whole campaign process.
I think she thinks she should just be coordinated and be done with it because that's what's going to happen anyway.
And all of this is just a waste of time.
And beneath her.
To have to do this the way everybody else does.
Mrs. Clinton doesn't want to ride the bus like everybody else rides the bus.
She doesn't want to drive her own car like everybody drives their own car.
She doesn't want to fly commercial like everybody else flies commercial.
And she doesn't want to campaign like everybody else campaigns.
She just wants the job.
She wants to be anointed, coronated, or what have you.
The rest of this is an act.
It's beneath her.
You can tell she doesn't like it.
And you can also tell she's not very good at it.
That's why she doesn't like it.
And there's another reason she doesn't like it.
She doesn't like people.
You have to love people to be in this business.
I would think that you have to love people.
If you decide that you're going to be president, you want to be president.
What are you signing up for here?
Aside from the rigors of the job, from the moment you announce, from the moment you decide to do this, you are committing to seven days a week, dressed to the nines, made up to the nine, whatever that is.
I mean, you the days of t-shirts and blue jeans and taking a day off now are over.
You have to go to every corner of the country, and believe me, do you think she likes going to fish fries?
Do you think this woman likes going to Iowa barbecues and hanging around farms with the smells that are on her?
You think this was all this.
This is but neither.
This is the gunk that you gotta do.
And she resents it and doesn't like it, and she's gonna do as little of it as she has to.
Because at the end of the day, she doesn't like people.
She doesn't like being around people because...
She's so far above them.
And she doesn't like having to lower herself.
She doesn't like having to act interested in people about whom she only cares about one thing, and that is how they vote.
The rest of it, she couldn't care less.
She'll talk a game like she cares and she'll try to make it, but she doesn't even pull that off.
She doesn't come across as empathetic, sympathetic.
She comes across as robotic.
I just don't think she likes any of it.
And that's what this means.
Well, you know, I get really frustrated with people who don't understand what I think it's gonna take.
That means I just frustrated stupid people don't understand what I'm saying.
Have to repeat things over to the same questions over and over again.
Meanwhile, moving on to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has launched an all-out attack on Huma and Wiener.
And it's in the UK Daily Mail.
I don't know of a single Republican, elected or otherwise, who would ever go after Huma.
But Trump is doing it.
And I don't know anybody else who would call Hillary criminal.
But Trump is.
I mean, Trump said that Clinton's handling of her emails from the start was terrible.
It's criminal.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's criminal what she did.
He is saying Hillary's right-hand woman, Huma Abid and Wiener, is the well, first thing she does, he does is call Wiener the worst deviant in the United States.
I mean, what Trump does is verbalize what everybody knows about these people.
And he verbal, and he says it.
And I don't know about you.
I mean, I the people that I uh when I endeavor to talk politics with people outside the radio show.
I mean, for since 2008, you don't, the scuttlebutt about Huma, the rumors about Hillary and Huma.
I mean, it's all anybody I know of on the conservative side cared about.
They thought there's always been a story about the relationship between Hillary and Huma.
And it's more than anything else about what is Huma knowing?
Who the hell is Huma?
I mean, what is she privileged to?
Is she who is Huma Abaddon?
Well, her mother is this or that.
She has security risk or whatever.
But the point is, none of them would ever say it publicly.
They would talk to me about it.
They'd send me emails about it.
They'd whisper about it, but none of them.
I'm talking about politicians, elected officials.
I'm talking about commentators, people that you see on Fox every day and night.
They would talk, they'd try to get me to talk about Huma, but they didn't do it.
They wouldn't.
Some of them, a couple wrote columns about it, but other than that, it was all scuttle but people talked about, but not publicly.
Well, here comes Trump launching publicly on both Huma and Wiener.
Trump is arguing that uh Hillary's chief of staff is a security liability because of her marriage to Anthony Wiener.
He says the person seeing her emails.
More than anybody else is Huma.
And who's Huma married to?
The worst deviant in the United States.
Hillary shares confidential, top of the line secrets with confidant Huma Abaddon, Trump says, who then likely spills the beans to her husband.
Wiener was forced out of Congress after carrying on online relationships with women, including an adult filmmaker.
That's not what he was doing.
He was sending him pictures.
His wiener.
He was sending people pictures, nude pictures of himself.
Forced out of Congress after carrying on online relationships.
He now has a six-figure contract advising a public relations firm that specializes in crisis communications, and Trump cannot believe that.
Trump cannot.
Here's the biggest deviant, worst deviant in the United States.
Trump did this interview in his New York office with the Daily Mail.
The person seeing her emails more than anybody else's Huma, and who's Huma married to the worst deviant in the U.S., right?
Wiener.
Challenged on whether the former New York Congressman's actually the nation's worst deviant, Trump retreated an inch.
Well, if he's not the worst, he's right up there.
He's a loser.
But the point is nobody else goes there.
Nobody else says these obvious things that everybody's thinking or asking.
And then he sent shockwaves through the entire American left yesterday by announcing his attorney general pick.
Trey Gowdy.
He said his attorney general will be Craig Outdy.
Well, Trey Gowdy is who's trying to nail Hillary on Benghazi.
But more importantly, Trey Gowdy is a conservative, and he is a uh no-nonsense prosecutor.
And he's the exact opposite of the kind of person the left wants, either as attorney general or anywhere else in law enforcement.
Here's Ken in Nashville.
Hey, Ken, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh I think the only way the left will ever oppose abortion.
It goes back to prediction you made some years ago that when technology's able to predict you know the gay gene.
And then you said like there'll probably be a mass churn against abortion.
That's that's true.
Let me let me restate this prediction I made in my own words, because that Ken, congratulations, a great memory.
And this was many, many moons ago.
And by the way, folks, let me say something else here.
Um I started the program today.
I really, I mean, I knew that I was I was going to lead off with this planned parenthood stuff because I've I've I've finally I reached my uh absorption limit with the things that the left is saying, the White House denying it, the videos are doctored.
To me, this is just, I don't know, I don't understand how there are two sides to this.
And I I know it's uncomfortable.
I didn't mean to spend as much time on it as I did in the first hour, and I know it's uncomfortable to hear, and I don't like making anybody uncomfortable.
You can't avoid it with this subject.
Um I'm not trying to guilt trip anybody.
Far from it.
I'm trying to do just the opposite.
Inspire, not guilt trip.
But this says too much about us.
What's happening in these clinics that we've learned is just says too much about where our culture is, and it's got to stop.
Now, what I said about abortion in the left, I said there's one thing that would reverse the number of abortions and maybe change the balance of power on it, left versus right.
And that's this.
The gay community, the political-oriented gay community, is all Democrat.
It's mostly leftist and all Democrat.
And therefore they support leftist causes like abortion.
I mean, abortion to them is sexual freedom.
Sex without consequence, which to them is to a lot of people is nirvana.
I said, if the day ever comes in genetic advance, if there ever is factually identified a gene that predicts homosexuality, you're gonna see the biggest turnaround from pro-choice to pro-life you have ever seen.
Imagine whenever if this were to happen, your your OBGYN can say, well, your child is gonna tend toward red hair and freckles.
Uh, we see an obesity potential here, and your child has the homosexual gene.
And the man and wife get together.
I don't know that we want to burden the child with that.
Let's abort and try again.
If that ever happens, you're gonna see the biggest turnaround from pro-choice to pro-life that you have ever, ever seen.
Have a great weekend, folks.
We'll be back here on uh Monday.
And we're we're not gonna we're not gonna ramrod this anniversary stuff down your throats again on Monday.
We'll mention it a couple times, but it's not gonna be anywhere near the focus.
Do not bring a cake in here at one o'clock or whatever.
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