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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 in 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 the low-information voters that everything 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 crap.
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, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
How about this?
Washington Freebeak.
Oh, Apple?
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 from innovation 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 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 can't reverse the slide in iPad sales, and if your watch is having trouble, what are you doing making up 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.
Because I'm not a supreme negativist 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 to need lessons to think positive.
You've got to 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 in addition to that.
But I do think the explanation for this is interesting.
And 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 view 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, I guess it's 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 got to get out.
When the iPhone goes on sale, do you say, wow, it 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 have wanted to buy it, haven't been able to afford it.
This is a goldmine opportunity because Apple's history is that they roar back from all of these things.
Even this 200-day rolling average statistic, they've fallen behind.
They've always come back from this having happened to them 17 different times.
Hell, Catherine, when I bought some Apple stock the other day, I don't have it.
Its top is around $130 after it split.
So that was close to like $900 before they split.
So it's, I don't know, I don't have it in front of me, $130 to $1.14 right now or whatever.
I mean, it's had a significant drop, but it's a buying opportunity for people that haven't been able to afford it.
The question is, do you continue waiting and thinking 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 $28 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 tight wads.
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 it's reported Al Gore gave $243.
Biden gave $275.
Here, the Clintons 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 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, 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 principle in the foundation of risk.
It's not unusual they would do this.
The noteworthy aspect of it is that half of their charitable giving 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 Univision, they've been going back and forth with Trump over his remarks that a bunch of these illegals crossing the border part of the criminal element.
A reporter for Univision said, 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 shellacs 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 favorability next to Jeb Bush at 31%.
34, 31 for Jeb and 30% for Ted Cruz, 29% for Marco Rubio.
Did you hear Kelly Osbourne?
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 Osborne, Ozzie's daughter.
She may be perfectly nice.
She may be one of the sweetest people, but she's a low-information guy.
She has 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 recent lead.
Rosie Perez said to Kelly Osborne, wait a minute, Latinos are not the only people who clean toilets.
What are you talking about?
And Osborne's, oh, come on, you know I would never mean it like that.
Well, you said it.
This is what happens, these low information.
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 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'll 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 mean.
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 sound like one of them.
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 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 it was the first games of preseason.
No, no, no.
It's regular season.
It was the Monday Night Opener 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 front of the hotel getting ready to be driven over to the set, which is in the parking lot of FedEx Field.
Sal Palantonio, the smartest guy in the group, he showed up early to get the front seat.
So we all pile out, and Pal Antonio 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 Pal Antonio, 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 yesterday on ESPN2.
Another African-American player was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now, they got rid of the Eagles got rid of Shady McCoy, LaShawn McCoy, earlier this season.
They traded him to the Buffalo Bulls, where Rex Ryan is the coach.
And McCoy played at Pittsburgh, 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.
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 young men.
He just doesn't understand our culture.
Another player who had alleged that there was racism on the part of the Eagles head coach in getting rid of players, Sal Pal Antonio, 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 20 years that I've been covering the league, 20 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 Pal Antonio says he's never seen it like this.
In all of his years, he's 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 country, but in the NFL, with players now alleging racism in personnel decisions by coaches and general managers and so forth.
So I asked myself after I heard Pal Antonio, well, what's different now in his 20 years, 20 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, Rush, so that 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 Rushbo, who warned everybody this was going to 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, longtime listener, longtime caller, actually.
First time getting through, though.
Well, welcome.
Thank you.
It's not easy.
I wanted to make two observations based on what President Obama and Secretary Kerry, what they've been doing in the past few months.
I am an American Jew, proud American Jew.
My father was actually born in Iran.
He managed to escape and make his way to Israel, eventually meeting my mother in Israel and then coming back to America where I was born.
So obviously I have a little bit at stake here with these matters.
The first thing I want to quote for you was an interview that Secretary Kerry had with Jeffrey Goldberg.
I don't know if you read it.
He said, and I'm quoting from the article, that Iran really wants to annihilate Israel.
He doubts that Iran really wants to annihilate Israel.
Instead, he thinks that Tehran has a fundamental ideological confrontation, but it has not implemented active steps to wipe it off the map.
So when I heard that statement, I took severe offense to that based on, obviously, the wars that Israel has endured the past few years with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Look, that statement's idiotic.
That is just absolutely idiotic for John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, to say that it's just words.
I mean, the fact that.
Who is paying for the rockets that are being launched in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?
And I would also add that the families in Argentina and the Buenos Aires bombing at the Israeli embassy, which killed, I think, 29 civilians, this is not a war, you know, against the Jews in Israel, as Ayatollah Khomeini, excuse me, Khamini, in his book wrote.
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 Khamini's book, Ayatollah Khamini's book.
Well, hey, Amir, you need to check out what Obama said because Obama said, hey, these are radio saying, death to America, they're 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.
I seem to have noticed a couple of things that kind of go hand in hand.
One of them is that, 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.
But the other thing I heard was 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 that stuck with me, and I couldn't understand what he meant.
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, Barbara Bush is going to 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.
I forget exactly what he said, but he wanted 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 regain the Republican base.
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 appearance.
It's not anything they're doing.
It's the drive-bys 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.
And 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 Party, look at Brian Ross at 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-bys want everybody to think the Tea Party is in common cause with the 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 the thing he's trying to pull off here.
Numerically, he can't.
You can't win the Republican nomination without your base.
That means too many votes.
And you can't win the presidency if your base doesn't show up for you.
So He's got a lot to chew on there, but he won't go independent.
Not going to happen.
Robert, San Diego, California.
Next up, you are.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Yeah, thank you.
Let me set my cigar down here, Rush.
By the way, you know, I have had a rotten cigar day.
I have not had a good one yet.
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 just over here on Coronado Island.
Ticks me off.
It's, you know, it's legal to smoke on your own property, so I'm okay as long as I don't.
No, not for long.
Enjoy it while you can.
Thank you.
Hey, Rush, I wanted to bring up more on the Jeb Bush situation.
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 up to him.
He could have doubled down.
He could have stated something brash like, the first thing I'll do when I'm president is defund Obamacare or defund Planned Parenthood, and I'll do it by executive action.
He'd be leading in the polls before the debates 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 always going to be considered the frontrunner because of money.
If his fundraising ever falls, that's when they're going to panic, the Republican establishment side.
He's thought to be the guy that's going to raise more money than any other Republican, and that automatically to them means he's going to get the 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 Osborne's.
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 anytime 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 principle thought process behind Jeb deciding to walk back what he said 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 just, I don't know who came up with this, but it is what's guiding the Republican Party these days.
I mean, even you hear Chris Christie two weeks ago.
I'm going to Democrats have a good idea.
I'm going to tell them I like their idea.
I'm going to walk across the aisle.
I'm going to meet them halfway.
I'm going to show them we can go.
It's in their blood now, folks.
That's what they're going to do.
And there's some things I didn't get to today.
Stop lionizing Cecil and start caring about the people that lions kill.
An essay from a student in Zimbabwe.
Chelsea Clinton in the Washington Post.
Polished, practiced, and private.
Chelsea Clinton is the closest thing America has to a princess.
You see why I didn't get to that one.
I'm not getting crazy about that.
And 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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