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Aug. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program are all over the place, meaning voluminous and omnivorous.
We don't just do one thing on this program.
We go wherever the host's interests take us.
And believe me, I'm interested in all kinds of things.
Not just the universe of politics.
The thing is the universe of politics encompasses pretty much everything.
Politics is in sports now.
Politics is in entertainment now.
And it's always been my contention that if you could convince a low information voters that everything they're they're they're consuming is politics, and that 90% of it is liberalism.
Well, maybe we don't want to put it that way because they think they like this entertainment cramp.
But you get my drift.
Politics is everywhere in our country today, or pretty much everywhere.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks, as always.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
How about this?
Washington Free Beakle?
Yeah, I'll get back to Apple here in just a second.
My take is a little different than the soundbite we just had from Justin Danhoff.
There are a lot of people who think that the CEO's focus on social issues is a distraction fromnovation at Apple.
They've got this project to build an electric car.
That's what Project Titan is that he referred to here.
And these analysts are what the hell is that?
I mean, even if you have one, it's not going to be up and running for four years.
How can we how can we recommend your stock on the basis of that?
You guys aren't a car company.
I mean, that's the reaction they have.
If you if you can't if you can't reverse the slide in iPad sales, and if your watch is having trouble, what do you do in making a car?
The CEO would say, you don't understand our business, and my job is to grow.
There's any number of explanations here.
But my take on this is a little bit different.
Um because I'm not a supreme negativist.
Um as a general rule.
My attitude is not pessimistic about everything.
Some people are.
I mean, it's a natural state.
Thinking positive takes work, right?
It takes effort.
You have need lessons to think positive.
You gotta go out and buy a book to find out how to do it.
But we all know how to be negative.
It's our natural inclination.
So I may get back to that.
Anyway, I've got so many other things I want to get to here.
Um in addition to that.
But I do think the explanation for this is uh is interesting.
And they some of this concern about the focus on social issues is eh.
That's who they are.
It's nothing new for Apple.
I just got an email from a friend that made a good point, though.
It's this.
A quality product.
Let's just use the iPhone.
Quality product goes on sale.
What do people do?
They flock to buy it.
People that have not been able to afford it, it gets the greatest day in the world.
You mean the iPhone's on sale and they make tracks.
The company that makes the iPhone goes on sale.
Stock price falls.
Oh my God!
Oh my god, the company's imploding.
Oh my god, this is horrible.
We gotta get out.
When the iPhone goes on sale, do you say, wow, must be a bunch of crap.
I'm not buying one of these.
Nope.
If you've been frozen out and you haven't been able to afford one, that's when you go get one.
Consequently, stock price plummets like it has to a lot of people who've wanted to buy it, haven't been able to afford it.
This is a gold mine opportunity because Apple's history is that they they roar back from all of these things.
Even this this uh 200-day rolling average statistic they've fallen behind.
They uh they've always come back from this having happened to them 17 different times.
Hell, Catherine went up and bought some Apple stock the other day.
I don't have it.
Its top is around 130 after it's split.
So it's it's it that was close to like 900 bucks before that.
So it's I don't know, and I I don't have it in front of me.
130 to 114 right now or whatever.
It I mean, it's it's it's it's had a it's had a significant drop, but it's it's a buying opportunity for people who haven't been able to afford it.
Uh The question is do you continue waiting and for it to think it's dropped more before you buy, or do you take the plunge now?
Remember our old buddy Pascal.
If it's happened once, it can happen again.
Much more likely that something that has happened will happen again than something that has never happened will happen.
And Apple came close, but they've never gone bust.
They've always roared back.
Half, Washington Free Beacon, half of Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable giving last year went to themselves.
Half 50% of Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable giving last year went to the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
According to a review of the latest financial disclosures from their private foundation, the Clintons earned more than $88 million in 2014.
They claimed $3 million in income as charitable tax deductions.
According to tax returns released by Hillary's campaign last Friday.
Now the Clintons only donated, according to Hillary's tax returns, a measly 10% of their income to charity, even when they were giving half of it to themselves.
A bunch of tightwads.
You know, the Democrats are among the least charitable...
I mean, elected Democrats are among the least charitable giving people on our earth.
I mean, one year was reported Al Gore gave 243 dollars, Biden gave 275.
Here the Clintons giving uh giving 10%.
And you know what they will tell you?
Why should we give our money?
I mean, these people are already getting money that we're getting for them via taxes.
The government's giving them all kinds of why we don't have to give them any money.
We are arranging for them to be given all kinds of federal money.
That's what they would privately tell you.
The campaign emphasized Clinton's charitable giving in a press statement saying that it represented 10.8% of her income in 2014, roughly half of that money, 1.8 million appears to have been channeled to the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Now you can give to your own foundation.
I mean, it's how in many people's cases, that's the only way it grows.
Not everybody opens a foundation and starts asking people to give money to it.
A lot of people establish foundations as their means of charitable giving, and they add to the uh the principle in the foundation area.
So it's not unusual they would do this.
The noteworthy aspect of it is is that half of their charitable giving is uh is going to their own foundation.
Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen, has a higher favorability rating among Latino Republicans than Jeb Bush, and every other candidate in the Republican presidential field according to Univision.
Univision is our country's top Spanish language network.
And you know, Univision, they've been going back and forth with Trump over his remarks that a bunch of these illegals crossing the border are part of the criminal element.
A reporter for Univision said uh it's a public policy polling survey, by the way, which is a lib dem group, I think it used to be out of North Carolina, it might still be.
Trump leads 34% approval of Hispanic voters, surpassing Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.
But this is a survey among Republicans.
This did not survey everybody, it's a survey of Republicans.
When Trump goes up against Hillary, Hillary shellacks Trump 61% to 28%.
But that is to be expected at this stage.
What is unexpected is that after Trump made His comments.
He leads in support from Republican Hispanics over all other Republican candidates.
He's got 34% again in favorability next to Jeb Bush at 31%.
34, 31 for Jeb, and 30% for Ted Cruz, 29% for Marco Rubio.
Did you hear Kelly Osborne?
She was on the view.
Now here's a great example.
This is low information, entertainment whiz bang on a drive-by media show.
Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy's daughter.
She may be perfectly nice.
She may be one of the sweetest people, but she's a low information.
to be.
She tried to call Trump out on The View.
She says, if you kick every Latino out of the country, who's going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?
You know what I mean?
So the full quote is from Kelly Osborne.
If you kick every Latino out of this country, who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?
You know what I mean?
Now on this program was also the whoopster, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Michelle Collins, and Raven Simone, or Simone.
And they were talking about Trump and his uh his his recent leading.
Rosie Perez said to Kelly Oswald, wait a minute, Latinos are not the only people who clean toilets.
What are you talking about?
And Osborne said, oh, come on, you know I would never mean it like that.
Well, you said it.
This is what happens, these low information.
But they go out and they utter what they think is brilliance.
They get called on it and they deny saying it.
So she said, she said, hey, if you kick every Latino out of this country, which nobody's ever suggested doing, by the way.
Let's let's establish that.
Nobody's ever suggested.
But Kelly Osborne clearly thinks that's what Trump wants to do.
So if you kick every Latino out of this country, then who's going to be cleaning your toilet?
No, he's got more than one, Kelly.
It'd be toilets.
He's got more than one on his airplane, Kelly.
Not to mention his mansions and his homes and his condos and apartments, but whatever.
If you kick every Latino out of the country, who's going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?
Hey, Rosie Perez says.
Latinos do more than that.
Hey, come on.
You know I would never mean it like that.
No, you only said it.
Classic low information behavior.
Say it.
People react to what you say, and then you deny meaning it.
Come on, you knew what I meant.
You knew what I mean.
No, what do you mean?
Well, we all know that Latinos clean bathrooms.
No, no, no.
That's not what I said.
I didn't mean it that way.
And it just is a cycle that repeats.
Don't ever get in an argument, folks, with a low information voter, because people watching will not be able to tell who's who.
You will become one of them.
You'll you'll you'll sound like one of them.
You'll you have no choice but then to get down to their level to talk to them.
And when you do that, you then confuse the uh the people out there.
Here is Sal Palantonio.
He is a sports reporter at ESPN.
And he's been there a long time.
I met Sal Palantonio when I was at ESPN for those ill-fated five weeks.
And uh it was the first games of preseason.
No, no, no.
It's regular season.
It was the it was the Monday night opener at uh at FedEx Field, and all of us were in the ESPN van.
It wasn't a bus, and it was Sardine City in there.
We're sitting in the out front of the hotel getting ready to be driven over to the set, which is in the parking lot of FedEx Field.
Sal Palantonio is the smartest guy in the group, he showed up early to get the front seat.
So we all pile out, and Palantonio is already there, and the rest of us are sardined in the back.
And we sit there still for five or ten minutes waiting for a straggler to show up.
And during those five or ten minutes, Sal Palantoni, nice guy, started telling me about his history in politics in Pennsylvania.
And I think he told me he had at one point worked for at the time a current Pennsylvania politician.
Anyway, just to establish who he is here.
This was uh yesterday on ESPN two.
Uh another African American player was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now they they got rid of uh the Eagles got rid of uh Shady McCoy, LaShawn McCoy earlier this season, they traded him to the Buffalo Bulls, where Rex Ryan is the coach.
And uh look uh McCoy played at Pittsburgh at college, the Panthers said that he thought Chip Kelly got rid of him because of the fact that he was black.
He said he thinks that Chip Kelly doesn't like African Americans so much.
Well, some people paid attention and looked into it, but it never really became much of anything.
And then the Eagles traded another player to the Steelers earlier this week by the name of Boykins, a quarterback.
Steelers are shortened cornerbacks that can play.
And this guy, when he got to Pittsburgh, he said, you know what, Chip Kelly just doesn't understand our culture.
African adult, African American uh young man.
He just doesn't understand our culture.
So another player who had alleged that there was racism on the part of the Eagles head coach in getting rid of players, Sal Palantonio was on ESPN to discuss this phenomenon.
Here's the third rail that we've never heard before at this level over and over again, and that's race.
It's become such a big part of the dialogue within the country in the last year because of what's happened between the police and the African American community over and over again, all over the country, the president of the United States talking about it.
In the twenty years that I've been covering the league, twenty years plus, I've never heard African American players publicly bring up the word racism and race and differences over race between a coach and player multiple times.
This to me feels different, and I don't have the answer.
So here's Sal Palantonio says he's never seen it like this.
In all of his years, he'd been covering the NFL 20 plus years, he's never seen this, where race was the central focus of so much, not just in the in the country, but in the NFL, with players now uh alleging racism in in personnel decisions by coaches and general managers and so forth.
So I asked myself after I heard Palantonio, well, what's different now in his twenty years, twenty plus years covering the National Football League.
What's different?
Why is race so much a focal point of everything that goes on?
And I remember there was a guy on the radio back on February 22nd of 2008, who made a prediction.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia?
We can end the civil rights squabbles that we're having.
It wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
Yes, it was I, El Rushbow, who warned everybody this was gonna happen.
And I have to take a break now because of the constraints of the programming for the clock.
Okay, time to head back to the phones here.
This is Amir in Pittsburgh.
It's great to have you on the program, Amir.
Hi.
Hey Rush, uh longtime listener, long time caller, actually.
Uh first time getting through, though.
Well, welcome.
Thank you.
Uh it's not easy.
Um I wanted to make uh two observations um based on uh what President Obama and Secretary Kerry what they've been uh doing in the past uh few months.
Um I am uh an American Jew, proud American Jew.
Um my father was actually born uh in Iran.
Uh he managed to uh escape and make his way to Israel eventually, meeting my mother in Israel and then coming back to America uh where I was born.
So obviously I have um a little bit at stake here, you know, with these matters.
Um the first thing I want to quote for you uh was an interview that Secretary Kerry had with Jeffrey Goldberg.
Um I don't know if you read it.
Um he said, um, and I'm quoting from the article, um, that Iran really wants to annihilate Israel.
Uh he doubts that, excuse me, he doubts that Iran really wants to annihilate Israel.
Instead, he thinks that uh Tehran has a fundamental ideological confrontation, but it has not implemented active steps to wipe it off the map.
Um so when I heard that statement, uh, I took severe uh offense to that based on obviously the the wars that Israel has endured the past few years with Hamas and Hezbollah with.
Look, that statement's idiotic.
That is just absolutely idiotic for for John Kerry, who served in Vietnam to say that it's just words.
I mean, the Who is paying for the rockets that are being launched at Tel Aviv in Jerusalem.
And uh, and I would also add that the families in you know Argentina and the Bioness Air's bombing at the Israeli embassy, which killed uh, I think 29 civilians, um, you know, this is not a war, you know, against the Jews in Israel, as you know, Ayatollah Khomeini, excuse me, hominy uh as in his book wrote, uh, you know, he outlines a whole theory as to why they want to wipe Israel off the map.
Right, and how to outsmart America in the process.
Yeah, I've seen the hominy's book, Ayatollah Hominy's book.
Well, hey, Amir, you need to check out what Obama said, because Obama said, Hey, these in radio saying that to America, then nothing.
And it's a bunch of straggler extremists making common cause with Republicans, Amir.
Mark and Houston, you're next.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Yes, thank you, Rush.
Um, I seem to have noticed a couple of things that kind of go hand in hand.
One of them is that uh, you know, you never hear anybody talk about the Tea Party anymore other than a couple of times you've mentioned it.
It's almost as if they refer to us now as the Republican base, which I kind of like that, you know.
I think that's kind of what has happened.
They go hand in hand.
Um but the other thing I know I heard was uh when Jeb Bush made a comment before he even announced his candidacy, was that in order to win the nomination or the presidency, you'd have to lose the primary.
And and that stuck with me, and I couldn't understand what he meant.
And it's and and I'm starting to see what's happening now.
What is the possibility that this guy, Jeb Bush, ends up having to lose the primary of the Republican candidacy and turn around and run as an independent himself, which would make the media happy.
They would love that entire scenario.
Well, that I must tell you now, that is a scenario not even I have contemplated.
Jeb Bush running third party.
That's just his family might disown him if he did that.
I think Barbara would spank him.
Not because he lost the primary, but if he ever goes outside the party, runs as an independent, I have Barbara Bush is gonna track him down and put him over her knee and spank him.
You just a Bush would not do that to the Republican Party.
But let me explain to you what he meant by winning the nomination.
Uh I forget exactly what he said, but he he wanted his his objective is to win the nomination by losing to the base.
And that of course numerically isn't possible.
So what he really meant was that he wants to become the nominee and not have everybody think that he's a Tea Partier.
He's going to win the nomination by getting the votes of those people, but he's not going to be proud of it.
He's not going to get the Republican base.
Um I I it's an interesting observation you've made that we're not hearing about the Tea Party much.
That won't last much longer.
The Tea Party is going to be making an app.
It's the drive-by's that are refusing to reference the Tea Party.
Now there has to be a reason for that.
And since you bring this up, I haven't actually contemplated it.
off the top of my head, I can think of a couple scenarios.
But they use Tea Party as a pejorative.
Whenever they do news about the tea, but look at Brian Ross and the Aurora Colorado movie shooting.
The first thing Brian Ross did at ABC News was try to link the shooter to the Tea Party.
So the drive-by's want everybody to think the Tea Party is in common cause quickly death to America Iranian extremists, like Obama said today.
Jeb wants to win the nomination, but he wants everybody to realize he did it without the base.
That's that's that's the thing he's trying to pull off here.
Numerically, he can't.
You can't win the Republican nomination without your base.
And you can't win the presidency if your base doesn't show up for you.
So he's he's he's got a lot to uh chew on there, but he won't go independent.
Not gonna happen.
Robert San Diego, California, next up you are.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Thank you.
Let me set my cigar down here, Rush.
Um by the way, you know, I have had a rotten cigar day.
I have not had a good one yet.
I have I've had tough draw, I've had bitter flavor, I've had to throw four away today.
It's not a good cigar day.
How's yours?
Oh, mine's good.
I'm I'm just over here on Coronado Island, and um ticks me off.
Um it's legal to smoke on your own property, so I'm okay as long as I don't know.
No, not for long.
Enjoy it while you can.
Thank you.
Hey, Rush, I wanted to bring up more on the Jeb Bush situation.
Um I think yesterday, after Hillary spoke, he was at a crossroads.
He had the option to do one or one of two things.
Choice one, which he took was to be fearful that he was going to lose the moderates, which you correctly define as people who are afraid to admit they're liberal, or two served upon served up to him.
He could have doubled down.
Uh he could have stated something brash like the first thing I'll do when I'm president is defund Obama or defund uh Planned Parenthood, and I'll do it by executive action.
He'd be leading in the polls before the debate started tomorrow.
He had the opportunity to be a conservative and quickly took the usual way out, not surprisingly, I'm pronouncing his candidacy over.
Well, don't do that.
I mean, I get your point, but he's gonna he's always gonna be considered the front runner because of money.
Uh if his fundraising ever falls, that's when they're gonna panic.
Uh the Republican establishment side.
It's he's he's thought to be the guy that's gonna raise more money than any other Republican, and that automatically to them means he's gonna have nomination.
But you have a brilliant point.
It's another way of phrasing it.
We talked about this in the first half hour of the program.
So Jeb goes out there and he utters something totally inoffensive and totally true.
He says, with all the money we're spending, I don't think we need to be spending a half a billion dollars on women's health care as he lists all the other health care programs that we're spending, and he, by the way, is praising them, and they're all federal programs, and he's praising them.
He didn't get in trouble with his base for praising the federal government's health programs for women.
He got in trouble for one half sentence, although I don't think we need to be spending half a billion dollars on women's health.
All hell broke loose on Twitter, which led to all hell breaking loose on the media.
And you're right, at that point, Jeb could have doubled down and defended what he said and taken the opportunity of all this attention to explain it and double down on it and establish a position on it.
And instead, he walked it back and said, he did a Kelly Osbourne.
It's not what I meant.
I was talking about Planned Parenthood, and then he again rattled off all these other federal health programs for women that he supports and loves.
Now, the reason he did it is not a mystery.
The Republican establishment.
We're getting to the point where that phrase is being overused, so maybe it would suffice to define them.
Just think of the consultants.
The guys these candidates hire to run their campaigns and to advise them on what to say, where to say it, when to say it, how to say it.
And there is a universal belief throughout the Republican hierarchy, and it is we cannot be critical of anything happening today.
We must acknowledge that people have expressed a desire for these things.
We must pledge, we understand that, that we can do it better, that we can do it smarter, that we're not going to take anything away, and we don't have a problem with President Obama.
We don't have a problem with women, we don't have a problem with black people.
So any time there is the slightest hint that a comment a Republican makes could be taken as confrontational argument.
They're going to walk it back.
It's pure defense.
It is the prevent defense.
It's make sure we don't offend anybody.
It's this notion we can govern.
We must show we can cooperate.
We must show we are even tempered.
We must show that we can cross the aisle and work with our opponents and acknowledge that when they have good ideas, we will incorporate them.
All of that is what was the guiding.
I want to say principle thought process behind Jeb deciding to walk back what he said and uh and clarify it.
But as is always the case, the reaction was, oh, what a good guy.
Oh man, you see, now Jeb's the kind of guy we can that was not the reaction.
Andrea Mitchell went out there sort of praising Hillary for making sure Jeb didn't get away with it, make sure Jeb got told what for.
They were all happy that Hillary humiliated and embarrassed Jeb and make him walk it back.
Because they don't want to cooperate.
They don't want to get along with us.
They don't like us, they don't want us to be here.
It's a it's just I don't know who came up with this, but it is what's guiding the Republican Party these days.
I mean, they even you hear Chris Christie the two weeks ago.
I'm gonna finish if Democrats have a good idea, I'm gonna tell them I like their idea.
I'm gonna walk across the album, I'm gonna meet them halfway, I'm gonna show them we can go.
It's in their blood now, folks.
That's what they're gonna do.
Stop lionizing Cecil and start caring about the people that lions kill.
An essay from a student in Zimbabwe.
Chelsea Clinton and the Washington Post, polished, practiced in private.
Chelsea Clinton is the closest thing America has to a princess.
You see why I didn't get to that one.
I'm gonna get crazy about that.
And uh Putin and Russia on the march, while we're all worried about a lion that got killed, Putin is engaged in old style Soviet expansionism.
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