All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:56
August 11, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
And we are back at it.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Happy to be with you, my friends, is always the case.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly, as is also always the case, here behind a golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I just got a very clever email.
That is uh forcing me to uh think about something.
The emailer, I'm paraphrasing it here, reminded me that I'm on record as often saying that polls this far out are meaningless, and that I don't pay any attention to them.
So why are you hyping all this Trump polling data rush?
You yourself have said that you don't start paying attention to polls until you get down to the you know the summertime of the actual campaign year.
And that is a it's it's a good question.
I I I find myself getting caught up in this stuff, and I think the reason is that we've not seen it before.
And I I can't emphasize that enough.
By everything that's happened in this uh world of politics within our lifetimes.
I mean, let's be honest, folks.
Uh Donald Trump should have been gone, I don't know how many times in this race, but he's not.
And we've not seen this before.
Nobody has.
I mean, we've seen candidates like this before, not as good, uh, not as charismatic, but they have fallen by the wayside very quickly.
In practically every previous campaign, if somebody was not obviously a professional politician, once that was spotted, they were finished.
They were not taken seriously, and they were they were gone, and they didn't get very far anyway.
Well, that's another rule that's been broken here.
Trump is by no means a professional politician.
In fact, you know what he admitted to the let me let me let me find uh a sound bite here.
Trump got back on the issues.
Let's start here at number six.
Trump got back on the issues today.
He's he's he's now taken a break from responding to attacks, hitting back, personally attacking people, he's back to the issues.
But it's the second soundbite I have coming up here that is also indicative of how we've not seen this before.
The first is from Fox and Friends this morning.
Steve Ducey said ISIS is a problem abroad and a problem here at home.
You have made clear that you would use force to go after them.
Are we talking boots on the ground?
I say this.
I didn't want to go there in the first place, but now we take the oil.
We should have kept the oil.
Now we go in, we knock the hell out of them, take the oil, we thereby take their wealth.
They have so much money, they have better internet connections than we do in the United States.
They're training our kids through the internet.
We have to knock out their wealth.
The other thing through Saudi Arabia and other places, tremendous money's flowing in, we have to stop that flow of money.
But take the oil, knock the hell out of them.
Now, this has been part of Trump's repertoire even before he dreamed of getting into any political contest.
I mean, years ago, you go back to post-9-11 of 2001, you see a Trump on TV, and this was his theme.
What are we doing?
I mean, going into Iraq, and what are we doing, leaving them with the oil?
Why, if it weren't for us, they would have a country.
We should get first dibs in the oil.
Why are we allowing the Chicoms and others to come in and bid on it?
And of course, the answer was we're the big superpower.
We have to appear magnanimous.
We can't run around the world conquering things and taking this is the attitude.
Uh there's already enough hatred and disgust for us.
So we have to let the little guys have a stab at some wealth.
We guess, you know, the leftist argument is that we've run around the world and we've stolen the wealth that we have, we haven't really created.
It's what Obama and his gang believe.
That the United States has really just run around the world and co-opted everything.
We've we've stolen the natural resources and wealth of other nations, and that's how we're rich.
And uh it's not fair.
So important.
Trump's Trump doesn't buy that, of course.
And his thinking is common sense.
Hey, look, if Iraq, if Iraq is in danger of falling, and if we go in there to save it, and there's an immense reservoir of oil there, why the hell shouldn't it be ours?
We're the ones that saved it.
Why are we giving it away?
This has been a theme of his.
Okay, so he's back to this today.
Now, tactically, and he's doing this with ISIS.
Now it's it's one thing to say, and it sounds really good to go get the oil.
How are you gonna do this?
This is an to go get the oil out of Iraq, this is another invasion.
And then after you invade the country, you've got to hold it.
You've got to you don't just go in there and get the oil.
There's a whole lot of military things you have to do first before you get it.
And then you've got to deal with the uh with the UN and all kinds of people.
Uh but just on the surface, what Trump is saying makes imminent common sense.
And believe me, there are people all over this country who love this country who think attitudes like that are what has been missing.
There are nations all over the world that ought to be saying thank you to us, ought to be offering us some of the oil that we are protected for them.
It ought not even be a question of us having to go in and take it.
Trump comes along and stands up for America.
He comes along and stands up for what's right, people's view.
And so this view is widely accepted.
Now, this next bite, CNN, Chris Cuomo, says that uh Rich Lowry says that you're the most fabulous whiner in the world.
And you've shown that if it were, if you were to sit across from Putin or Mexico or Middle East leaders, that as soon as they said something you don't like, you'd become a whiner and snipey, and you'd start attacking them as losers, and you wouldn't get anything done.
What do you say to that?
I am the most fabulous whiner.
I do whine because I want to win.
I'm not happy.
And I'm a whiner, and I keep whining and whining until I win.
And I'm going to win for the country, and I'm going to make our country great again.
How do you work with government?
You can't just come back at everybody.
I've been better than that.
When one self government, hey, Chris, I'm worth more than 10 billion dollars.
I can do what I want.
And what I've been doing is working.
You can't just come back and you know something?
There's a lot tied up in this bite.
Number one, can you think of any candidate anywhere for any office who admits to being a whiner and turning it into a positive?
Can you think of any Brian?
Can you think anybody's ever tried that?
Hey, number two, you notice Chris Cuomo says, you just can't come back at everybody.
How are you gonna work with government?
You just can't come back at everybody.
This is something I think the left operates on.
I think the left attempts to silence its political opposition by insulting them constantly and making it look like they are whining if they respond to it.
I think whether Chris Cuomo knows it or not, it's a tactic that his side uses to quell opposition, to silence opposition, which is what their objective is, it's at least Obama's.
You know, these people are not interested in a debate.
They're not interested in a free flow exchange of ideas.
They are into eliminating opposition.
And I would say that that's Trump's attitude toward our enemies.
Why do I want to get along with them?
Well, what's the point of making a deal with them if we're gonna lose?
I want to win.
And if if if I don't care to whine about it, I whine to win, Chris.
You show me any winners who whine.
And uh I don't think Trump and these other people are defining wine in the same way.
Uh a whiner is a helpless complainer.
There's nothing helpless about about Trump.
I Maybe wine's not the correct word or whiner to describe what he does.
He just refuses to take insults.
He refuses to chalk it up as that's the way the game is played.
Those are the rules, and you move on.
Somebody attacks him, by God, they're gonna hear about it.
You can tell.
The man's in love with himself.
He's rich, really rich.
He's got 10 billion dollars.
Tell me how I'm losing.
Como tell me, tell me how I'm losing.
I got 10 billion.
And then the next one, this is uh back to Chris Cuomo, CNN.
Cuomo said smart men's always good to women.
What do you mean?
I've always been good to women, and there will nobody be better to women as a president because when I talk about health issues, I will take care of women like nobody else can.
Certainly Jeb Bush doesn't even know what he's talking about.
He admitted that the other day.
And believe me, that will be his 47%.
His statement on women's health issues will take him down.
You've got to go with the punches, like the boxers say.
Right, but you have to have a core set of ideas.
You have to get this through and pass to a vast rep. We can't just keep signing executive orders all over the place.
You have to have core principles that people can grab on to and vote for you.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton won't.
She won't take care of it like I will.
How can you say Hillary Clinton won't take care of women's health in the world?
And I'm much more capable than she is.
Now, before you react to this, I want you to think of something.
You've seen Trump's TV shows.
A lot of women on those shows, right?
A lot of women in management.
How many, I don't know.
Uh somebody, somebody have uh how many women that have worked for Trump have sued him?
Any?
I mean, how many how many discrimination suits have there been against Trump?
I can't think of any, not saying there haven't been any.
How many women that have worked for Trump have gone public and say he doesn't pay us fairly?
He uh uses us.
To me, I mean, I just a casual observer.
I think Trump loves women.
I think he's all about women.
And I know that he has them in positions of power and authority within his company and his organization.
Um just shatters all of these conventional wisdom beliefs.
Like Chris Cuomo, what do you mean you'd be better than Hillary on women's issues?
Chris Cuomo can't even comprehend that there would be anybody better than Hillary on women's issues for whatever reason.
Here comes Trump claiming that he would be far and away better on women's issues than Hillary, and Chris Cuomo has no idea what to do with it.
Such a foreign foreign concept.
Trump's saying, well, because I'm a more capable person than she is.
And we know that the women that work in the Obama administration do indeed get shortchanged on salary compared to the men.
And don't we know that about Hillary's office too?
Haven't we heard that about Hill?
Isn't it true that the women in Hillary, their Senate office did not make nearly what the men made?
Except maybe for Huma, who gets paid by everybody, it seems, and it's a probably exception.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll repeat it.
I said the first hour, Snerdley's asking me to repeat something.
I said, I have this.
Something I would like to see.
The first Democrat debates, October, did you say the 13th?
Well, it's somewhere there.
It's in it's in Nevada.
And it is it the 13th?
It's my mother's birthday.
Anyway, Margaret Thatcher's birthday, too.
Anyway.
You know, after the Fox debate and the first round of questions to Trump.
And there were a lot of people saying, you know, that kind of stuff.
Nobody ever asked Democrat candidates that kind of stuff.
Well, I've got a way.
I got a way it could be done.
You need a female moderator.
Take your pick.
It'd be uh Koki Roberts could be Andre Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
But you need maybe a male moderator, actually.
Just just to reverse things, just to keep it consistent.
Mrs. Clinton, it's time for the first question of the debate on CNN.
And the moderator says, Mrs. Clinton, let me mention seven names to you.
Paula Jones, Juanita Bruder, Kathleen Willie, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Beth Dozerit, Denise Rich.
And of course, the crowd would be booing and hissing, and Mrs. Clinton would be frowning and trying to fake a smile while all that's going on.
And the moderator says, now tell us.
How can you look at anyone with a straight face?
Paula Jones, Juanita Rodrigue, Cataline Willie, Jennifer Flowers, Beth Dozer is Denise Rich, Monica Lewinsky.
How can you go to anybody with a straight face and talk to them about family values when it takes a village to satisfy your husband?
You don't think that the drive-by media would be all over that moderator?
That'd be the last debate that moderator ever did.
I have no idea what Hillary would do with the question.
But I mean, if we want to have tit for tat, if we want to see similar treatment, which people are told me, you know, we never see something like this in a Democrat.
Well, this is a way we could see it.
Bob.
Tuesday, October 13th.
Okay.
Put it on the calendar.
We don't have we'll have to do that.
Seeing that it'll be doing a countdown, a minute-by-minute countdown for three days prior.
So we don't have to put it on the calendar.
Here's Bob Brunswick, Georgia.
Great you called.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Very well.
Thank you.
Good, good.
Hey, listen, I I I just wanted to make a comment.
You know, I I really want to support Trump.
Um, and uh, you know, he's been saying a lot of things that we've been waiting for, and you know, it's kind of exciting and a different time in politics.
We haven't seen this in probably ever.
Um, I want to trust that he's an honest broker, but you know, especially you know, I I want to trust that he's an honest broker, but you know, he has had many different positions over the years.
But my issue is is that the phone call, there's never a there's never a coincidence with the Clintons, and his phone call to encourage him to to encourage uh Bill's phone call to encourage uh Trump to run.
Oh, yeah.
Really, um, that's a large wall that I have to climb to uh to to get over to support him.
Um I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but uh don't you think what's happening right now, all the dust up with Trump, don't you think that that plays, especially the first question in the debate plays right into the Clintons' hands.
They were just loving that.
Uh well now that's a secondary think about that.
The first two of them there.
The first question plays into the what do you mean?
The raise your hand question.
The uh the Oh, the raise your hand question of third party business.
Oh, I was thinking the other question about the names he's called women.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I I I I again I like uh I like him slapping political correctness right in the face and not backing down on it.
But what I'm saying is the phone call bothers me because there's no coincidences with the Clintons.
There's none.
And for him to make a phone call to Trump before he decides to get in, and then all of a sudden he gets in, and seeing what's happening now and all the dust up, I mean, all I mean, that that debate was full of substance, but all we're talking about is Trump, you know.
Um, and to me, it just plays right into Clinton's hand.
He goes, you know, if if the potential of him going a third party, it's hello, Hillary in the world.
It's a legit that's a legitimate concern.
Uh a lot of people have it.
Uh well, I want to know what you think.
I want to know, you know, considering that you've told us for 28 years, there are no coincidences when it comes to the Clintons.
What do you think?
Well, you're asking me if I think that there is a Clinton Trump cabal that has been arranged behind the scenes and the Trump is doing this at the behest of it with the wishes of the Clintons to sabotage the Republican campaign and field into the is that is that the specific Well, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, you know.
It's not conspiracy, it's political strategy and a conspiracy theory.
Hey, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I just I just find it a little bit suspect.
Um, you know, and well, here, hang on a minute.
I'm gonna make you own this question.
If you hang on through the break here, I will come back here and and and tackle this.
I want to get to the real meaning of your question.
Now back to Bob in uh in Brunswick, Georgia.
Let's Bob, let's review what we know about that phone call.
Okay, there are two versions of that phone call.
The Trump version of the phone call is wait a minute, I'm not sure there's a Trump version.
The Clinton version of the phone call is yeah, we made a call.
We didn't talk about the campaign.
We didn't say just a courtesy call.
I didn't talk about it, didn't urge him to do anything.
The other people talking about the call say that Clinton did call and urge Trump to go for it.
Republican Party needs new Jews, conservative movement needs new juice or whatever.
Two thoughts on this, Bob.
Honestly, I really believe that the fact that we have heard about that call means it didn't happen.
If that call had really happened, if Bill Clinton had really called, like you have asking me, if Bill Clinton really called Donald Trump and told Donald Trump, made a deal with him to run to screw the Republican Party, make sure he ran as a third party candidate to give it to Hillary, we would have never heard about.
We would have never, we would have never heard about that for the phone call leak came from Clinton AIDS.
The fact that we've heard about this call came from a leak by Clinton aides.
Now let me give you having Trump, I mean Trump's so honest, why doesn't he just say the phone call never happened?
Uh I don't know.
I'm not sure how he's as he has he commented on this at all?
Well, I don't know if he has or not, but I I haven't heard he said, I mean, believe me, if the phone call didn't happen, I would think Donald Trump would say the phone call never happened.
Like he's been doing like he's been, you know, being honest with everything else.
He would have said, he would have said immediately the phone call never happened.
I just I just think if all of this is a deep Clinton ploy to get Trump in the race, they wouldn't want to undermine the whole thing early on like this by leaking it and alerting everybody's attention to it, such as yours.
But on the other side of it, now wait just a second now.
Are you aware of how close to the Bush family the Clintons are?
Particularly Bill Clinton.
Oh, sure.
I don't know if you are.
Bill Clinton goes to Kennethport every August.
Barbara Bush has called Bill Clinton a son she never had.
Right.
Bill Clinton and the Bush family are tight.
Ever since Obama sent them on this charity, the tsunami thing, Bush 41 and Clinton and Bush 43 and Clinton have gotten pretty close.
What's to say that Clinton didn't call Jeb?
Urge Jeb on.
We uh we don't but look, as I say, you're you're not you're not being a conspiracy theorist.
I mean, this is a we know that there was a phone call.
Yeah.
That we we think they did a Clinton's leak that there was a phone call.
Well, if you have if you ever interviewed Trump, ask him what exactly was did he encourage you or he didn't?
You know, to me, it seems like uh a uh a situation where there's no you think Trump would answer that?
I can tell you right now how he'd answer that.
Well, if he didn't make the phone call, he said the phone call never happened.
No, no, Trump Trump's people said it happened.
Oh, well.
I don't know how he'd answer it.
Well, I can think you're here.
I can think of, I can think of any number of ways that that Trump uh would now now here's a let's see, what do I have for what's the somebody tell what the website is?
You guys print things out in there.
Oh, CNN's website.
Trump denies Bill Clinton talked him into running.
And I let's see, this Donald Trump said Friday that a phone call he had with former President Bill Clinton had no bearing on his decision to seek the White House, despite coming several weeks before he kicked off his bid.
My mind was already totally made up.
I was already running essentially, Trump uh told Don Lemon Friday night CNN.
Um, I'm Hillary's worst nightmare.
We we didn't really discuss this.
We didn't discuss whether I was running or not.
And by the way, the Clinton people who leaked the call also said that they didn't talk about Trump's campaign or Trump running or anything.
But I know that doesn't erase your concern.
You're sitting out there's a legitimate concern because Trump won't take the pledge.
Right?
Right.
Well, we'll see, Rush.
We'll see.
Uh it's a long campaign.
That's exactly right.
16 more months, and we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
So I appreciate it, Rush.
And I appreciate uh your 28 years, which I've been here for.
So let me ask you one other, let me ask you another question.
Not a not a trick question, and I just it's uh may sound silly.
What do you think has a better chance of happening?
Trump getting out of the race or Hillary not finishing the race.
Wow, that's a good question.
Um that's uh that's a really good question.
Because all this is predicated on Hillary's nominee, right?
And it may not be in stone yet.
I mean, uh you take a look here, and there's there's all kinds of forces mounting out there in opposition to her, and her polling data is is plummeting.
It's fading.
The blooms off the rose here.
There's nothing automatic about her nomination right now.
Well, it's uh don't you think it's still kind of a long shot for for anyone, including Bernie Sanders or or uh or Joe Biden to I mean realistically I do not precise.
I don't think it's a long shot.
Nope, nope, not because of 2008.
Okay.
I don't think it's a long shot at all that Mrs. Clinton's not the nominee.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't say the odds are that she's not the nominee, but I don't think it's a long shot that she's not the nominee.
It's happened once.
She was on the way to being coronated.
You know, and by the way, in 2008, she was arguably more destined to get the nomination than she is this year.
And it didn't take much to split the Democrat Party down the middle.
And you look at these crowds that Bernie Sanders is drawing, and there is a common denominator in 2008 and 2000, well, 15, 16, here we're in 2015.
The common denominator is whenever anybody in a Democrat primary other than Hillary Clinton gets into it, there is rabid enthusiasm for him.
There was rabid enthusiasm for Barack Hussein Oh.
There is building rabid enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders.
And you've also got O'Malley out there lurking, and and Biden possibly.
You just said it, it's really really early.
And front runners this early really have only one direction they can go.
I mean, how when you're at the top, what happens?
Hillary spokeswoman, this is from August 6th in the Politico.
Hillary spokeswoman, Bill Clinton did not give Donald Trump advice.
This is my point.
Folks, if this happened, nobody's gonna own up to it.
If Bill Clinton called and made a deal with Trump to run, and if he doesn't get the nomination, go third party and steer everything to Hillary, nobody's gonna admit that.
But they do admit that the phone call happened.
So I understand.
I understand your concern about this.
Like I say, just because you're paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Every hour.
El Rushbow behind the golden EIB Mike Roman.
Folks, Hillary might even be indicted before election time for all we know.
Not that that would hurt her.
You know, the uh it's very, very difficult for Democrats to run afoul of the law.
And even when they do, it doesn't seem to hurt them.
If the if if people knew the truth about this woman, I mean, going all the way back to the bimbo eruption stuff in the Arkansas moving forward, how she enabled Clinton to be with all of these women and destroy some of their lives.
She was the enabler.
She was the one that led the charge, discrediting these women to this email stuff, the server, the fact that the ChICOMs have hacked so much of our government computer system, the Russian reset, Benghazi.
The fact that that this woman has not been damaged by any of this?
Seriously, is a testament to the power of pop culture in uh in this country.
And that's why, you know, all bets are off here.
I mean, pop culture, let's face it, pop culture is part and parcel of uh Trump's staying power as well.
Although his, I think is owing to much more than pop culture.
There's a, as I've discussed, there's a deep, deep, deep reservoir of unrequited anger on the part of I think at least half of the voting population of this country.
Live it over the last seven years.
Anyway, here's Jerry Eugene Oregon.
Great to have you on the program, Jerry.
Hello.
Uh, good morning, Rush.
Uh, you know, I've been hearing some of uh Trump's old interviews with him talking about how liberal he is, his gay rights, yeah, and uh abortion support.
It makes me think he'd make a really good conservative Democrat if he was to switch parties right now while he's on top, get his nose in the door before Hillary's indicted, who would stop him from getting nomination?
Uh there's no such thing right now as a successful conservative Democrat.
Well, but Trump's breaking all the rules.
Yeah, but but but not in their party.
He's breaking the rules in the Republican, he's not breaking the rules in the Democrat Party.
Yeah, but that's because he's not there.
Well, but even if he I okay, this is a new one.
Look, it I understand this.
Let me let's just put this out there, okay, because we're time here is dwindling.
And this is the second call in this half hour that has a central theme to it that the caller is not voicing.
I'm gonna put it out there.
Trump is a fake.
Trump is a fraud.
He isn't who he says he is, and one of these days everybody's gonna wake up and see it.
And what if this is true, Rush?
What if I'm right?
What if what if Trump is a fraud?
What if he really is a Democrat?
What if the Clintons really did make a deal with him?
What if he really is pro-choice?
What if he really is pro-gay marriage, pro-gay rights?
What if he is pulling the wool over everybody's eyes?
What do we do then, Rush?
That's what these two callers have said.
My answer is let it play out, folks.
It's early.
And the uh the people who are are going to finish at the top of this thing will finish at the top.
Substance will win out here.
Uh I have I have confidence that it's just it's early here.
It's and all of these what ifs, no way of knowing.
But if you had if if they manifest as doubts, then your decision's made.
Trump's not your guy.
At this point.
I mean, it's simple as that.
Back in a second.
And that's it, folks, for today.
But there's always tomorrow.
And we will eagerly await it, eagerly be here.
Anticipate being here.
Make sure you are too.
Rush Limbaugh.
And the excellence in broadcasting.
Have a great rest of the day and uh great evening.
Best you can.
▲
Export Selection