Aug. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| We continue to set new lows. | |
| Just would you would you believe now menstruation has become a political issue in America's presidential campaign. | |
| And wait till you hear it's not it's there's much more going on here than you know about this, folks. | |
| And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump or Megan Kelly or red state, uh anybody Red State, maybe they want to change their name now. | |
| I mean, that could be seen as uh insensitive uh given the uh awareness of this that has been raised. | |
| Greetings, folks. | |
| Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh back at them for a full week of broadcast excellence. | |
| The telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882 and the email address, Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com. | |
| I just one little thing to get it out of the way, and then we'll move into what's actually important. | |
| Cecil the lion's cub, or Cecil, sorry. | |
| Cecil the lion's cub killed by rival lion trying to mate with his mother. | |
| I told everybody this was gonna happen. | |
| After Cecil the Lion was killed, everybody's worried about what's gonna happen, and I'm you know, people do not understand how wild animals work because we humanize them and we we think of them uh as pets even when we're looking at them in a zoo. | |
| And I warned everybody the the the the uh the people at greatest danger here were Cecil's kids because other male lions had move in and try to kill them and establish their own bloodline, and here it's happened. | |
| One of Cecil the Lion's young cubs has been killed by a predatory big cat who was trying to mate with his mother. | |
| This says the Sunday mirror can reveal it. | |
| What is it? | |
| The London newspaper, the Sunday mirror can reveal his horrific death has sparked fears that the remaining seven cubs of Cecil's have only days to live after their father was illegally slain on a trophy hunt. | |
| And by the way, remember the original story had that Jericho was originally one of Cecil's buds. | |
| I guess they had formed an accord or a coalition. | |
| Turns out that Jericho has moved on and started his own pride. | |
| He has had absolutely nothing to do with Cecil's pride. | |
| So he's not going to be defending the Cubs, which is what some of the experts thought would uh would happen. | |
| Despite all this talk about a coalition between Cecil and Jericho, we are told that Cecil get this. | |
| Did you know this? | |
| That Cecil even killed Jericho's father when he refused to be driven. | |
| I mean, these lions, you don't know, folks. | |
| You try to humanize these for your kids, and uh here we have one story where Cecil is killed by this hunter, and it's the worst thing in the world of what lions do to each other. | |
| It's just it's amazing. | |
| Cecil himself was a murderer. | |
| Very, very careful how you say that. | |
| You must also keep always keep the children in mind when discussing this. | |
| This could be extremely shocking. | |
| It could ruin a child's day if they hear about this in the uh in the wrong way. | |
| Okay, now look, the this dust-up stuff that happened and continues to happen since the Fox News debate. | |
| I'm sorry, the presidential debate on Fox News on Thursday night. | |
| A piece of advice that nobody's asked for. | |
| For Mr. Trump. | |
| Mr. Trump. | |
| Uh get back to the issues. | |
| That's why you're where you are. | |
| Get back to the issues. | |
| Get back to immigration. | |
| Tell us what you think about whatever the issues are. | |
| That's what put you on the map. | |
| Even despite the polling data, I would give that advice. | |
| This is I mean, this is really all you need to know at this stage, although There's much more to this than just this current poll, but for the moment, there is this NBC poll that they do, it's an online poll that they claim is as scientific with a margin of error as any other poll that is out there. | |
| And Trump went up in this poll. | |
| Trump went up one point from 22 to 23%. | |
| NBC News does this poll, by the way, with SurveyMonkey, which SurveyMonkey is an online polling company that is more than anybody can do an online poll. | |
| You put your website up, put yes, no, whatever, and then anybody can vote countless thousands at times and it's skewed and it doesn't tell you anything. | |
| SurveyMonkey is an actual polling unit that has attempted innovatively to establish an online poll that ends up being scientific. | |
| They have a particular sample in the way they do it, and they have combined with uh with NBC, and this survey was taken through the Fox News debate. | |
| And the bottom line is that Trump's comments about Meghan Kelly have not yet hurt his standing in the Republican Party. | |
| And if it has, it isn't showing in the numbers. | |
| Trump is at the top at 23%, but the real big news is who else went up? | |
| In second place is Ted Cruz, up 7%. | |
| In third place is Ben Carson, up 3%. | |
| He's at 11. | |
| Carly Fiorina, 8%. | |
| That's up from 2%. | |
| Marco Rubio, 8% unchanged. | |
| Scott Walker lost three points since the debate, he's at 7%. | |
| Jeb Bush lost three points. | |
| He was at 10%. | |
| He's at 7%. | |
| So despite all of this that has happened and all that's been reported and all the uh uh associated controversies. | |
| According to polling data, just like it was after the McCain incident and just after it was, just like it was after after Trump uh said what he said about illegal Mexican immigrants and so forth. | |
| Every time one of these things happened, I mean, how many how many times did you hear over the weekend this was it? | |
| Trump has finally stepped in it. | |
| Republican leaders, establishment leaders, this was it, and it isn't yet. | |
| His numbers went up. | |
| Now it went up one point, 22 to 23 percent. | |
| Uh but it still went up. | |
| And for Jeb, it was in at least as far as this polling data is concerned, it was an absolute terrible night. | |
| So Trump is still in the lead after all of this. | |
| Now, this overnight poll was conducted for 24 hours from Friday evening into Saturday. | |
| And during that period, Trump stayed in the headlines due to his comments about Meghan Kelly and the fact that he was disinvited from the Red State gathering in Atlanta. | |
| And a lot of, you know, when these things happen, there's an initial reaction from every quarter with people opining as to what the result will be, what it all means, what's going to happen. | |
| And the only evidence we have now is this poll, and they will continue to come. | |
| The polling data will continue to roll out, and we'll see at uh at what point whether any of this starts if any of this searching for his everybody's looking for things to happen here as expected. | |
| Traditionally, as the candidate goes out and says something controversial, it hurts him. | |
| Candidate goes out, says controversial, supposed to apologize, doesn't apologize, supposed to hurt him. | |
| None of that's in play here. | |
| We are in uncharted territory. | |
| Uh a lot of people have not seen anything like this before, particularly in in recent years. | |
| And I there's an observation that I uh I made to a friend of mine sometime over the weekend, I forget Which day, but I was reading all of this stuff all day Saturday, all day Sunday. | |
| I was reading the drive-by coverage of the controversy surrounding Trump's remark about blood here, blood there, blood everywhere, and so forth. | |
| And I was amazed, ladies and gentlemen, that I couldn't find, and it may have existed, it may have happened. | |
| The Washington Post, the New York Times, I couldn't find a story that actually condemned Trump for this. | |
| There were all kinds of stories reporting it, but there wasn't any condemnation, like there usually is for any other Republican who would say anything like this. | |
| There is derision, there is mockery, there's snarkish. | |
| This was purely objective reporting. | |
| There was not one snarky comment. | |
| And I don't know what it means, it's just an observation that I made, but it was they reported these things verbatim that Trump said, and there was no, in the next sentence, in the next paragraph, there was no outrage from the reporter. | |
| There was no shock. | |
| There was no expression of disbelief. | |
| It was just objectively reported. | |
| This is what Trump said. | |
| I mean, there wasn't even any, and this continues the Republican war. | |
| There was none of that. | |
| It was actually objectively reported. | |
| Well, I don't want to insert myself in this, as you know, but I guarantee you anybody else but Trump says something like this, and they happen to be a Republican, and it is going to be, they are going to be lamb-based and ripped to shreds forever for it. | |
| So there's all kinds of different dynamics at work here. | |
| And I have adopted the position of just stepping back and absorbing it all before entering into any kind of analysis, because this is uncharted territory. | |
| Now my instincts have been right up to a point when I thought that Trump would not be hurt by what he said by McCain, when everybody in the drive-by media did. | |
| And I did not think Trump would be hurt by what he said about Mexican illegal immigrants and whatever other illegal immigrants he was talking about. | |
| For a host of reasons. | |
| I think there are a lot of people in the Republican establishment who to this day do not know who their base voters are. | |
| And they do not know what's on the minds of their base voters. | |
| They continue to apply and attach conventional wisdom that doesn't apply here, and as such they continue to be shocked and dismayed and perplexed by all of it. | |
| To the point that there aren't any experts. | |
| I mean, you can turn to every television network or any television network you want and listen to the expert commentary. | |
| There isn't any expertise on this because nobody's seen this before. | |
| No, not that we haven't had scandal, but I mean, we we've not seen candidate increase his position in polls after such comments and behavior. | |
| We've never seen it, never seen it. | |
| And I guaranteed you the wizards of smart, the political ruling class are beating their heads against the wall trying to figure this out. | |
| And their latest explanation is, well, you know what? | |
| The reason why you guys on the left, Trump's not really a Republican. | |
| He's just his own brand. | |
| He's just Trump. | |
| People are not associating Trump with the Republican Party. | |
| He's not really a Republican, he's just Trump. | |
| And as such, he has his fans. | |
| And no matter what he does, his fans are going to stay with him. | |
| This is the latest attempt by some of the establishment to mollify themselves. | |
| But we'll get into this deeper as the program unfolds. | |
| There was a major disturbance in Ferguson, Missouri. | |
| There was a uh an observance, the one-year anniversary of the uh the unfortunate death of the gentle giant in uh in Ferguson, Missouri, and the anniversary came and there was an observance and a disturbance, and there were shots fired and there were protests and all kinds of stuff, and I was Asking myself, how in the heck can this happen? | |
| Isn't Obama running the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department now? | |
| Didn't the DOJ go in there and take over? | |
| How could the DOJ of the Obama administration have lost control of this? | |
| I thought they were gonna make sure that this kind of disturbance never ever happened again in places like Ferguson. | |
| Because that's why they were gonna go in and take over. | |
| So it's it's uh all of it just continues to keep the society roiled. | |
| Uh all of it prevents there being any kind of just even common ordinary everyday peace. | |
| Uh contentment. | |
| So we sit here and we will chronicle it and we will analyze it as it happens. | |
| We'll get started with that with the aid of all relevant audio sound bites so we come back. | |
| Do not go away, folks. | |
| Okay, the best way to get all this stuff in play out there is do it in some semblance of order. | |
| We'll start the audio sound bites Friday, NPR all things considered. | |
| White House correspondent Scott Horsley reporting about the impact of the 5 p.m. pre-game meal debate. | |
| And you'll hear why this is interesting. | |
| The audience for that early forum was only about a quarter the size of the primetime debates, but Pitney says the resulting buzz could still give a boost to Fiorina's struggling campaign. | |
| This morning Rush Limbaugh was praising her, and that's very important because people listen to Rush Limbaugh. | |
| And some of them are in a position to write checks to candidates, and I suspect Carly Fiorina's uh fundraising is gonna pick up as a result. | |
| That was Friday. | |
| That was before this NBC poll was released yesterday, showing that Fiorina and Ted Cruz and Ben Carson are up big in this uh NBC, monkey time, whatever it is, monkey uh monkey, whatever it is, poll. | |
| Umkey. | |
| Again, Trump at 23 up one percent, cruise 13% up seven, Ben Carson eleven percent up three, Fiorina was up six points to uh to eight percent. | |
| Now we move on to Friday night. | |
| CNN tonight, Don Lemon interviewing Donald Trump. | |
| And he said, let's talk about Megan Kelly, because you brought her up. | |
| She did push you. | |
| She pushed a lot of people. | |
| But what is it with you and Megan Kelly? | |
| I have no respect for it. | |
| I don't think she's very good. | |
| I think she's highly overrated. | |
| She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. | |
| And you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. | |
| Blood coming out of her, wherever, but uh she was uh, in my opinion, she was off base. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now when that I'm I'm just gonna I'm just being uh well when I first heard that comment, I was clueless. | |
| I had no idea. | |
| What in the world is he talking about? | |
| Blood coming out of her eyes? | |
| You know, I'm the mayor of Realville. | |
| I didn't see any blood coming out of her eyes. | |
| And then blood coming out of wherever. | |
| Honestly, I did not associate it with anything. | |
| I was I drew a total blank. | |
| I did I don't know what blood in your eyes even means. | |
| And then but but the blood, no, I'm just looking, I know I'm making myself out to be Mr. Naive, but I had no idea. | |
| I had literally no clue what that was. | |
| I didn't figure it out until I saw other people say what they thought it meant. | |
| And then I went, oh, no wonder everybody's upset about this. | |
| But I didn't, I'm just shooting you straight. | |
| I don't mind admitting that whatever this is, naivete or or whatever, but I just did not. | |
| You know, it's not something I think about all the time. | |
| It it just it's so seldom on my mind that it's not anywhere near the forefront of my mind, and so and then lo and behold, I'm doing show prep over the weekend, and guess what I find? | |
| People magazine. | |
| There's a new trend. | |
| It's called free bleeding. | |
| Where a woman does not use feminine products when she's menstruating. | |
| It's apparently a new thing, and people magazine thinks it's absolutely fabulous. | |
| And it's a story about a woman named Kiran Gandhi. | |
| She's played drums for the singer MIA, and so she decided to run into London Marathon without a tampon while she was on her period. | |
| And people magazine's as excited as they can be. | |
| Folks, I mean, here's her quote. | |
| Let me just quote her. | |
| I ran with blood dripping down my legs for sisters who don't have access to tampons, and sisters who, despite cramping in pain, hide it away and pretend like it doesn't exist. | |
| So we had sensitivity awareness and consciousness raising. | |
| For women who can't afford tampons. | |
| We were overwhelmed with this stuff over the way. | |
| Here's a time break coming up. | |
| We'll continue when we get back here, folks. | |
| I'm not making this up. | |
| So somebody, somebody tell me, why is it necessary to raise awareness of adminstration if it's the first thing everybody thinks when they hear Donald Trump say, blood coming out of whatever? | |
| Look, I don't make the news, folks. | |
| Don't get irritated with me here. | |
| I'm just telling you, people magazine's got this story about this woman that ran the London Marathon without a tampon, bleeding freely for four hours in this race, and they're praising it. | |
| She raised awareness for her sisters who can't afford tampons. | |
| What's the next thing that's going to happen? | |
| We're going to import this woman to the U.S. and make a TV commercial with her, speaking out in favor of Obamacare. | |
| So that Obamacare will now cover tampons for everybody. | |
| And how many a month are they going to be able to have to provide? | |
| And so we're going to go through this whole routine again. | |
| And that's just part of what this woman had to say. | |
| This woman, she's just a nutcase from through and through, and she is a Harvard business school graduate. | |
| She did this to empower women to her wearing a tampon is an example of male oppression. | |
| Because men invented them and men designed them in the heck with it. | |
| And it it it's it violates nature, and it certainly is it's a way that women are kept in line and kept secondary and so just absurd silly stuff. | |
| And it's being championed here by People Magazine. | |
| There's even a term for this free flowing. | |
| I doubt it's gonna free bleeding. | |
| I'm sorry, free bleeding. | |
| I think it timing was just amazing here, given Trump's comments. | |
| But I just back to those. | |
| I it it took me a while to figure out what everybody else or a lot of other people thought that Trump meant by that. | |
| You know, I as I say, I'm a genuine literalist, maybe to a fault, and it just didn't make any sense. | |
| I had no idea. | |
| Blood coming from the I've never heard the phrase, so I didn't know what it meant. | |
| I mean, I did, I had to in I imagine that it meant she was angry, sort of like saying breathing fire, but I've just never heard the phrase before than the other stuff. | |
| So then, back to Trump, Don Lemon. | |
| Now, a lot of people are wondering about this language when it comes to women. | |
| Do you worry that that kind of talk might drive some women voters away? | |
| I'm also not a fan, you know, uh the great Mike Wallace was a friend of mine. | |
| In fact, he did me on 60 minutes. | |
| He was phenomenal. | |
| It was a phenomenal 60 minutes. | |
| But he was a friend of mine, he was a tough cookie, and he was great. | |
| And the son is only a tiny fraction of Mike. | |
| Believe me, there's a big difference between Mike Wallace and Chris Wallace. | |
| Because I watched him last night, you know, blood pouring out of his eyes, too. | |
| And I'm saying to myself, what am I doing? | |
| I'm here in front of all these people. | |
| I'm doing Fox a favor by doing this show. | |
| And what am I doing? | |
| Sorry. | |
| I just laugh. | |
| It's a routine. | |
| It's a routine, it's non-fab, but nobody's ever seen anything like it out of somebody running for political office. | |
| He's violating every rule there is out there, and it up to now is working. | |
| Depending on what working actually is defined as being. | |
| Then Sunday morning on CNN, State of the Union, Jake Tamper interviewing Trump, says you said blood coming out of her wherever. | |
| No, I said blood was going for wherever, because I wanted to finish the sentence because I went on to something. | |
| I wanted to get off of the whole thing and get back onto subject of jobs or whatever we were talking to about right after that. | |
| So I didn't even say anything because I didn't even finish the thought. | |
| I was going to say nose and or ears, because that's a very common statement. | |
| Blood pouring out of somebody's nose. | |
| It's a statement showing anger. | |
| And he then continued with this as further explanation. | |
| Only a deviant would say that what I said was what they were referring to. | |
| Because nobody can make that statement. | |
| Well, among that list of deviants would be Eric Erickson, Jeb Bush. | |
| Lindsey Lindsey Grant, Carly Fiorina. | |
| Okay, Carly Fiorita. | |
| Okay, I mean, give me a break. | |
| I'm sorry for laughing. | |
| I missed. | |
| But anyway, there's so much at play here. | |
| Uh so much to to weed through. | |
| Uh but the story here, I mean, that what what is this poll from NBC News and uh survey monkey that shows no harm, that shows no damage. | |
| And now the the whole subject matter has gone off in a bunch of different tangents, uh, with people wondering, well, what was Fox doing here? | |
| Did Fox have a plan to take Trump out? | |
| Was there or was there not? | |
| Uh, who was involved uh in in that? | |
| Uh then the the whole red state thing with Trump being um disinvited, people weighing in on this. | |
| And it's it has veered away from things that uh campaigns are usually about, i.e., issues and substance, and has become totally devoted and about various personalities, which in the American pop culture is a winning formula these days. | |
| And I'm just I have to tell you folks, this is it's uncharted territory for for me anyway. | |
| I d I can't I can't come here with a firm, this is what I think about this or that. | |
| Um, because it I have really have to sit here and just observe more of it as it plays out. | |
| I mean, I have reactions to things. | |
| For example, I've got a bunch of emails from people over the weekend, you better deal with Erickson. | |
| If you don't deal with Ericsson, then you're not up to snuff. | |
| What do you mean deal with Ericsson? | |
| I wrote, but you better, you know, you you can't let this let me let me tell you something, folks. | |
| I have had a policy for I don't know how long. | |
| Right or wrong, good or bad, I do not purposely try to destroy people on my team. | |
| Now, if they do that themselves, fine, and nothing I can do about it. | |
| But I do not do that. | |
| I do not enter any kind of competition with anybody else on my team, supposedly engaged in the big prize, and that is reversing the direction and trajectory of this country. | |
| I I try not to get sidetracked by offering opinions on what this commentator said or this commentator said, whether they're now disqualified or and I've heard all the criticisms, and a lot of people have had many, but it's not what I've done in the past, and I don't feel comfortable, I never have felt comfortable doing it. | |
| I don't I don't think that it's my role here. | |
| People have their lives, they do what they do, they say what they say, and they survive it or not. | |
| But I have never viewed myself as someone who's gonna I in fact I've always been irritated when it happens by others. | |
| I remember Ollie North said something that was in politics way, way back about a Ron Contra, and a whole bunch of people in the conservative movement wanted to Ollie! | |
| Well, how could it just you're embarrassing us and they want to disregard Oliver North and disqualify him for being part for this and I thought we we we eat our own. | |
| We throw our own overboard. | |
| I don't see the Democrats ever doing this. | |
| I don't see the Democrats or the Liberals being judgmental on their own people throwing them over. | |
| In fact, we're just now beginning to get a taste of it watching what's happening to Bernie Sanders. | |
| With his Black Lives Matter stuff. | |
| It's rare when it happens on the Democrat. | |
| Bernie Sanders was was bullied off the stage again. | |
| He was either in Seattle or Portland. | |
| Now, meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is attracting crowds that Hillary Clinton can only dream of. | |
| There is a real fissure in the Democrat Party, and the drive-bys are not interested in it because of this Trump Fox News Red State thing. | |
| But the Democrat Party is in huge big trouble. | |
| Their presumed coronation frontrunner is in big trouble in more ways than one. | |
| She's in not just because she's a dry ball. | |
| And not just because she has no charisma. | |
| And not because she's she's really not that bright when you get right down to it. | |
| And she really is not infectious. | |
| I mean, when Hillary Clinton shows up, there's nothing it wants to make you get on her team. | |
| Here's Bernie Sanders, a little 80-year-old guy or whatever he is, running around become the darling of leftist progressive extremists in this country, except for one group, the Black Lives Matter group. | |
| And wherever he goes, they try to show up and they bully him off the stage. | |
| And you see this little 80-year-old guy, and he gets bullied off the stage. | |
| Meanwhile, this guy is drawing crowds of 25, 30, 100,000 people. | |
| And Hillary Clinton cannot draw flies. | |
| Now I think there's huge problems on the Democrat side. | |
| Obviously that the media doesn't want to focus on them because they're having too much fun with this uh this this Trump business and uh and Fox News uh and so forth. | |
| But eventually, folks, all this is gonna blow over. | |
| Eventually it's all gonna be yesterday's news. | |
| Life goes on, and there's gonna be, I don't know what something's gonna happen, could be later this afternoon, could be tomorrow, could be next. | |
| Somebody, something is gonna happen, and it will become the new focus. | |
| And there'll be new players on the stage and new focuses of attention and new outraged cries of we can't let them get away with saying that, or we m and the cycle just uh repeats. | |
| But as I said opening the program, and you know, my advice is worth exactly what anybody's paying for it, which is zero. | |
| And that is, in fact, I'm just objectively looking at this. | |
| Trump is popular for a host of reasons. | |
| One of the reasons Trump is popular is because of the positions he has articulated on issues that a significant number of Americans consider to be very important. | |
| And he has said things on those issues that this significant number of Americans happen to agree with. | |
| And I think it would be in his best interest to get back to them. | |
| Just my harmless feudal little opinion here. | |
| Not presuming to tell Mr. Trump what to do. | |
| But I just think you know, you dance with the ones who brung you, and you never forget why you are someplace, and he's there because of which it's time to hear more from Mr. Trump on other issues that also are considered to be very important. | |
| And if he does that, then he'll take the rest of the campaign with him. | |
| And he can he can he can see to it that this stuff is left in the left in the dust if he wants to. | |
| But I know he enjoys this. | |
| He has fun with it, and it's uh, as far as he's concerned, he'd look at the polls and say, I don't know what I'm talking about. | |
| He's doing everything right and winning. | |
| I don't know what I'm talking about, but he does, because look at his poll numbers. | |
| I totally understand that, but I'm thinking long-term here. | |
| Uh for him. | |
| Quick time out, we'll come back and maybe get your phone calls in the mix here, too. | |
| Sit tight, my friends, I'll rush bow on the EIB network back before you know it. | |
| Welcome back, my good friend Zell Rushbone the cutting edge. | |
| Grab son by number six. | |
| Here's uh make sure. | |
| Hang on, six, I'm sorry, uh. | |
| Now, a couple more. | |
| Six and seven. | |
| This is continuing a CNN State of the Union. | |
| Jake Tapper. | |
| After Trump says that his blood remark was about showing anger, he added this. | |
| Only a deviant would say that what I said was what they were referring to. | |
| Because nobody can make that statement. | |
| You almost have to be sick to sort of put that together. | |
| Well, among that list of deviants would be Eric Erickson, Jeb Bush. | |
| Take a look at his past. | |
| Lindsay Clindsey Graham, Carly Fiorina. | |
| Okay, Carly Fiorita. | |
| Okay, I mean give me a break. | |
| Okay, so Trump is saying that the real deviants are the people assuming what he meant that he never said it, but that they're thinking it, so they're the trash minds. | |
| They are the real difference. | |
| Here's a back and forth on Meet the Press with uh with Trump and F. Chuck Todd. | |
| F. Chuck Todd says, why can't you just apologize? | |
| Donald. | |
| Why can't you just apologize saying, you know what? | |
| I'm sorry, some people took it the wrong way. | |
| You seem to have an allergy toward apologizing. | |
| I said nothing wrong. | |
| It's a very common statement. | |
| I said it about Chris Wallace. | |
| Let me go back to the premise of Meghan Kelly's question. | |
| I found ten instances. | |
| Sometimes in your book, sometimes in your Twitter feed, you went after people like Bet Medler. | |
| You went after people like Gail Collins. | |
| This is what some women find offensive, Mr. Trump is that you go to looks. | |
| It's a disparaging thing. | |
| It's something out of madmen, sir. | |
| I was attacked viciously by those women. | |
| Of course, it's very hard for them to attack me on looks because I'm so good looking. | |
| But I was attacked very viciously by those women. | |
| Very hard to attack me. | |
| So they have to attack me viciously in other ways. | |
| Have some comments about this. | |
| I'm going to hold them in abeyance because I want to I want to move forward here. | |
| Just not let me go to the call, calls and phones now. | |
| Salina, Ohio with Josh. | |
| Josh, uh, you weigh in your first here. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Thanks a lot for taking my call. | |
| You bet. | |
| Um, listen, I I was really excited when when Trump got in the race, and I think a lot of conservatives were. | |
| But all he does now is attack people. | |
| It's it's getting ridiculous. | |
| I mean, I thought the Fox debate was great. | |
| I thought it was fair across the board. | |
| He attacked them all. | |
| He's attacked Eric Erickson. | |
| Carly Fiorina, who is now my number one favorite, absolutely love her. | |
| I don't, this is not helping. | |
| This is not helping. | |
| How is he going to handle world leaders? | |
| Just go out and call them names when they when they make him mad. | |
| It's childish. | |
| It's like he's it's like he's a little kid. | |
| I I don't understand it. | |
| It's getting ridiculous. | |
| And um, then tell me something. | |
| Give me your theory then as to why his numbers continue to rise. | |
| Well, I don't have a theory. | |
| I don't know. | |
| That's what's troubling. | |
| I thought after this weekend we would have seen. | |
| Exactly. | |
| We haven't. | |
| See, that's my whole point. | |
| Uncharted territory. | |
| So here's all I can figure. | |
| Here's all I can figure. | |
| You know, I just said that I think Trump needs to get back to the issues. | |
| I mean, that, you know, codifying or very succinctly repeating what I said, needs to get back to the issues. | |
| But nevertheless, even when he doesn't, this stuff that he's doing, nobody's seen it in its own way, it's refreshing. | |
| Don't forget that there is, don't know how big, but it's large. | |
| There's a percentage of the population that is totally fed up with the political class, including the media. | |
| And they have wanted things said to people and about people for the people they've been voting for for years, and they haven't heard it. | |
| I mean, the media is not loved. | |
| The media in some cases is despised, and Trump is giving it right back to him in ways that many people in this country have dreamed of happening. | |
| And as such, he comes off as refreshing even when he's not on message or when he's not on issues. | |
| He comes across as somebody that says things they would like to say, things they have wanted to say, things they have hoped other people would say. | |
| Because frankly, I'm gonna tell you again, I don't think that a lot of these big players, including in the media, have any idea who their audiences are. | |
| I don't think, particularly the drive-by's, I don't think they have the slightest idea the size of and the amount of real anger out There directed at them. | |
| It goes so far beyond the fact that they're biased. | |
| It's way beyond that now. | |
| And Trump, the only guy addressing it. | |
| Whether he's talking about issues or them. | |
| Take a quick time out, we'll be back. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| I don't know where the time goes. | |
| It's the fastest media program out there, fastest three hours in media. | |
| Rushlin bought. | |
| We barely scratched the surface here today. |
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