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Aug. 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushball, a cutting edge of societal evolution, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, while all this other stuff is going on out there, Obama called opponents crazies.
He was in a fundraising speech out in Nevada, and he called people that oppose what he's doing crazies.
He's emulating McCain, who called people supporting Trump crazies and so forth.
And he actually had referred to the Koch brothers by name in this way, and the Koch brothers took great offense to it, thought it was very unpresidential, called him out on it.
Also, there's details on all of these things.
I just want to let you know we're on top of this stuff.
We're not able to get to all of it in every program.
Econ 101.
This is such a great story, and I don't know if it has cut through the noise out there with everything else going on.
A California pizza shop heard the call for living wage.
Actually, this is in Emeryville, which in the Bay Area is close enough.
And these leftists everywhere are demanding a living wage, not just an increase in the minimum wage, but a living wage.
And they come up with some arbitrary hourly wage that equates to a living wage.
So this pizza company decided that they could really build a huge customer base because the people who are out there touting a living wage obviously would do what it took to make it happen, right?
So they created living wage pizza.
The living wage pizza costs more than $30.
And you know what?
People haven't been buying it.
And the pizza shop owner is a little surprised.
He said, well, if everybody's talking about having a living wage, well, this is what it's going to take.
I got to charge $30 per pizza if I'm going to pay what a living wage is by these people.
I think if they support it, they'd come in and be buying these pizzas.
But the very people demanding that he pay a living wage are not coming in and buying any pizzas.
I mean, this is classic Econ 101.
It's classic socialist econ 101.
Take somebody else to pay for it, somebody else to make it happen.
Businesses have a bottomless pit of money.
You know, Democrats really do try to make people think that, that all businesses have a stash of cash that's just sitting there, not used, that the owner is siphoning and using for his own purposes, stealing from the business.
Every business owner is rich.
Every business owner has all kinds of money.
And he gets it by gouging customers and so forth.
And so this guy says, well, all right, fine.
You want a living wage?
It's going to require pizzas that cost their bills.
This pizza owner was not trying to make a statement.
Don't misunderstand.
This guy was not trying to illustrate anything.
He really was trying to follow through on a living wage.
He was trying to do his part.
So here's what it's going to take.
And he can't find any buyers.
The living wage pizza costs more than 30 bucks, and people have not been willing to buy it.
Over half, well, almost half of the American people say in the latest poll that Hillary Clinton should just give up her presidential campaign.
That is how bad it is.
Now, look at these two stories.
Here's the headline.
This is from Politico.
House Republican leaders desperate to avoid shutdown.
You know what this is about?
An explosive confrontation brewing between House Republican leadership and conservatives over planned parenthood is threatening to shut down the government for the second time in three years.
And House Republican leaders have yet to settle on a strategy to avert it.
Here's the next story.
Obama promises to shut down government if Congress defunds his executive amnesty.
So on the one hand, you have the Republican Party scared to tell, oh my God, that other government shut, oh, no, no, don't.
Here's Obama promising to do it.
If the Republicans do not pay, do not come up with the money for his executive amnesty program.
Now, the latest Planned Parenthood video, folks, this is, it was two videos that this episode reached the point where I just, I don't, I can't describe it to you.
It's unspeakable what is happening in these Planned Parenthood clinics.
The latest video thankfully doesn't show this.
It features STEM Express people and Planned Parenthood people talking about shipping.
It's unspeakable.
Shipping aborted baby heads through the mail.
They are seen almost laughing about it, speaking about it as a, I don't know, some sort of a great thing, at least as far as it's helping them accomplish their goals financially or what have you.
Aborted baby heads.
And my God, Republican Party can't even see clear to do whatever to defund that organization.
Nobody's talking about shutting it down.
Nobody has the ability to do it, but they don't deserve taxpayers.
It's just meanwhile, here's Obama promising to shut down government.
You see, Obama knows the media will blame the Republicans for it.
And what Trump is showing, get over this fear.
You have to do what's right.
There are legions of Americans willing to support you.
That's the lesson that they aren't seeing.
Breitbart News, the Census Bureau.
These are government numbers.
Anchor Baby is delivered every 93 seconds in America.
Jeb Bush got caught on this.
He went out talking about anchor babies and got caught on it.
He said, no, no, no, no, no.
I was talking about Asians.
Asians are the ones playing.
I wasn't talking about Mexicans.
Yeah, we're going to get to all that at some point.
ESPN's pulled Kurt Schilling from covering a Little League World Series because Kurt Schilling sent out a tweet on Tuesday morning, actually retweeted a post.
And it said, only 5% to 10% of Muslims are extremists.
In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis.
How'd that go?
Schilling deleted the post from his Twitter feed and said, well, you know, there are consequences to actions, and I understand mine and so forth.
And the network said the tweet was unacceptable and that they had made that point very strongly to Kurt.
He was removed from a Little League World Series assignment pending further consideration.
Schilling accepted the suspension in another Twitter post on Tuesday afternoon.
What did you say, Snenry?
What's wrong with it?
Well, no, no, it might not have been wrong.
It was just politically incorrect to say it.
You're not just not supposed to say it.
You can't.
No, not if it violates terms of political correctness.
That's another thing Trump is helping to blow up.
On August 24th, a lion mauled a guide to death during a walking safari in the same Zimbabwe Park where Cecil the Lion lived.
I'm sorry, Cecil the Lion lived.
Camp Hawongay, the company for whom the safari was being conducted, said the guide, Quinn Swales, walked with a group of tourists when the lion attacked.
Everybody was shocked.
Why not?
They're getting back for what happened to Cecil.
Everybody knows the lions talked about it.
The lions are affected by it, just like the cows that saw one of their buddies fall to the frozen lake in Pennsylvania.
New York Times reported they were looking on with fear and concern for the fallen cow, who was now at the bottom of the frozen lake.
Well, a lion is a lion.
There's no taming.
Okay, audio soundbites.
Here we go.
This is the soundbite.
This is what led to Jorge Ramos being escorted from the room at the Trump press conference before his speech in Iowa last night.
The Trump has a question about immigration during the Russian plan.
Okay, who's next?
Yeah, please.
Excuse me, sit down.
You weren't called.
Sit down.
Sit down.
No, I'm not.
Sit down.
Go ahead.
No, you don't.
You haven't been called.
I have the right to ask the question.
Go back to Univision.
Go ahead.
You cannot deport 11 million people.
Go ahead.
You cannot deport 11 million people.
You cannot defend a 1900.
You cannot deny citizenship to show that.
Sit down, please.
You weren't called.
I'm a reporter, and I have one contrast, sir.
Please don't tell me.
I have the right to ask a question.
You can't touch me.
I have a very touching question.
And Trump, no, you don't.
You weren't called on.
Sit down, sit down, wait your turn.
You weren't called on.
They gave the nod to the security guy, the security guy came over, and it was only then that I learned how little Jorge Ramos is.
Not that it matters.
I just, the guy is tiny.
I didn't know it.
You know, you see these guys on TV, they look 6'4, authoritative.
And you see this guy, you can barely see him over the pitcher's mound as he plays third base.
Jorge Ramos, an activist for illegal immigration.
That's what he is.
He's not a news anchor.
He is an activist.
He's one of the leaders of the whole concept of illegal immigration.
Now, go ahead and play the next one because in this next bite, I was originally not going to do this.
I was going to jump something else, but let's play it.
This happened in Dubuque, Ivo, by the way.
After this happened, after Jorge Ramos was escorted out, another reporter stands up for him.
And Trump said that Jorge is obviously very emotional, and there's something not right here.
President Obama has taken some tough questions from Jorge Ramos.
Is there a reason why you won't?
Because he was out of order.
I would take his question in two seconds, but he stood up and started screaming.
I told you already.
If he wanted to come back in, I'd love to have him come.
But you can't just stand up and scream.
I was saying to somebody else to, is that correct?
I was saying, yes.
And this guy stands up and starts screaming.
He's obviously a very emotional person.
He was attempting.
You know, look, everybody knows this.
I spent a lot of time last night, because as a captive audience, I was watching post-Trump analysis.
And it was funny to watch the drive-by media try to analyze what had happened here.
But I tell you, the vast majority of them actually concluded that Jorge blew it.
That what Jorge did, he walked in there and he was going to try to take over that press conference.
He thought because he was Univision and Hispanic that he would intimidate everybody.
Everybody would lay down because they're protected class right now.
And Jorge would be able to finally embarrass and humiliate Trump and expose him.
That's what Jorge wanted to do.
There's no question in my mind.
Jorge Ramos walked in that room with his objective being to take Trump out last night.
There's no question.
He had on his Dan Rather hat.
He had on his Sam Donaldson hat.
And instead, he got deported.
He got deported right out of the room.
And then a reporter says, you know, Pennsylvania having a problem answering Clinton Jorge Ramos when he's a problem when he's out of order.
He wasn't his turn.
He wasn't called on.
It wasn't his turn to get in the country.
We're going to build a wall here.
We're going to make it so that you just can't get in here illegally.
We're going to follow the rules.
Pure and simple.
So Jorge gets escorted out.
You can't touch me.
You can't touch me.
I don't think anybody wanted to.
Bill Carter on CNN's New Day.
Bill Carter, he is the New York Times TV reporter.
They've been leaving over there.
That's why I paused.
I didn't know if he was still in the New York Times or not.
I guess he is.
So who was it?
Chris Cuomo said, question is simple, Bill.
When you look at that situation yesterday, what was right, what was wrong, and what worked in it.
Well, I think it worked very well for Trump.
I think he was commanding the situation.
I think Jorge looked like he was trying to interrupt the guy, and then he had the optics of saying, get out, which sort of plays like he was deporting him in some way.
The optics were like his message.
You know, you get out unless you're polite, unless you're polite.
Now you come back.
You can come back.
Now I'll address.
But I command the microphone.
We couldn't even hear Jorge talking.
You could only hear Trump, and it sounded like he was being reasonable.
He was handling it.
To me, he controlled that situation.
When is the last time you remember a journalist not standing up for another journalist?
No.
This is the first, I can't remember a time where a journalist did not stand up for another one.
This guy, the New York Times, just threw Jorge in the back of the coyote wagon.
Normally, what about it?
Well, but that, okay, that was the Neil Monroe thing.
Neil Monroe, he asked, well, that's my point, Snerdley.
In that case, Obama was not taking any questions, and Neil Monroe, the Daily Caller, asked questions, and the media chumped him right out of there.
Chased him all the way to Washington Monument for embarrassing Obama and violating protocol.
But this is different.
This is illegal immigration.
This is the cause celeb of the campaign.
This is the Democrat Party voter registration drive is what this is.
And the lead, the general of the Democrat voter registration drive among Spanish-speaking people in this country is Jorge Ramos.
And he stands up.
It's his turn in his mind.
He's going to get Trump.
He's going to expose Trump.
He's going to finally show everybody what a phony Trump is.
He's going to end Trump's campaign last night.
Instead, he gets deported.
He gets thrown in the back of the coyote wagon.
And the New York Times supports Trump.
The New York Times says that Trump was in the right.
The New York Times says that Trump owned the search away, the circumstance, the situation.
Now, Jorge ended up on Good Morning America today and defended himself.
He said he never expected to be thrown out of a press conference.
Who was it talking to him?
It was another great journalist of our time, George Stephanopoulos, said, was Trump's reaction what you're expecting, given the disputes between Univision and Mr. Trump?
No, what I would expect is that I can ask a question as a journalist, because that's our responsibility.
And I would expect Mr. Trump to answer honestly about what he really wants to do because he hasn't given us the specifics.
But I didn't expect to be thrown out of a press conference.
Never in my life, and I've been a journalist more than 30 years, I've been thrown out of a press conference.
You weren't a journalist last night, Jorge.
I don't know why I'm calling him Jorge.
I don't even know him.
But you weren't a journalist last night.
That's the whole point.
I mean, even the New York Times realizes you weren't a journalist.
You showed up there with an agenda.
Well, all journalists do.
You know what the drive-bys all said last night?
Snerdley on CNN?
Honestly, they were comparing last night to Reagan in New Hampshire saying, I paid for this microphone moment.
They were.
And I didn't even think it was that.
They were comparing Trump to Reagan favorably.
When Reagan, somebody was protesting Reagan not letting somebody else speak or whatever.
I paid for this microphone.
Everybody cheered.
And the low-rent scum in the room shut up and got run out.
And they were comparing this with Jorge Ramos to that.
Now, Jorge claimed that he waited his turn, but he wasn't being a journalist last night.
Really knows it.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more in a moment.
Don't go.
Now, what had happened was after the Nashua, I think it was the Nashua Telegraph offered to host a debate between Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the FEC said that it would violate election rules.
So Reagan arranged to pay for the event with his own campaign money.
So he paid for the microphone.
And then people were accusing him of hogging it or not letting certain.
I paid for this microphone.
And it's a huge, huge obation.
Here is Jonathan in Orland, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network, Jonathan.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
My reason for calling is that I got a chance to see the interview.
I think it was with George Stephanopoulos on the incident that took place with Ramos.
And he made a point of saying that, you know, he believes that he needs to stand up for what he believes is true, which is disingenuous as a reporter or a journalist when they're out trying to bring the news to their constituents.
And as you pointed out, he does, like so many on the left, have an agenda, and they come forth with the guys of being a journalist, and then they go to their audience and just give them this misinformation.
I see what I saw last night was an activist trying to take a page out of the Black Lives Matter movement and interrupt Trump as he was speaking to another reporter.
And I just feel that this is just going to be an ongoing thing with these so-called journalists coming out and pretending to be that they're reporters with honest truth when they're bringing nothing but lies.
I think it's exactly right.
I think it's exactly right.
If Jorge Ramos, if Jorge Ramos said that he was standing up for what is right, well, sorry, pal, you're in the wrong business and what journalism is.
Journalism is not standing up for anything.
Although it is, it has become that, which is the, in their minds.
But that doesn't even describe who.
I think Jorge Ramos, this guy, folks, there's much more going on here than just this whole reporter journalism thing is a pure act.
Talent on loan from God.
Here is Renee, Kansas City.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rez.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
I am befuzzled by your support of Trump.
I think he's a white Obama.
He's a narcissist.
You know, Barack is a narcissist.
Donald shows all the signs of being a narcissist.
We've been married to one for almost eight years now, and everybody wants a divorce.
And that's exactly what's going on with Donald.
He has no class.
He has no plan.
And I would rather see a psychological evaluation on the candidates than a financial accountability.
A psychological account, huh?
Yeah, psychological evaluation.
Evaluations on all the candidates.
And I bet you Donald comes up as a narcissist.
I mean, what's he going to do?
If he goes and talks to Angela Merkel, is he going to call her a bimbo when she doesn't do what he wants her to do?
Who?
Is he going to call who a bimbo?
Well, Angela Merkel, anybody, any world, woman, world leader.
Is he going to call them a bimbo?
Oh, Angela Merkel.
No, she wouldn't be.
No, bimbo has a specific definition.
Well, Angela Merkel is not.
It's very unclassy.
We're in a dating relationship with these candidates.
And some of them look, they're great.
They're just like the great guy, and they say what you want to hear because you've been hurt so bad, and they're coming out and saying, but you need to listen to the little things he's saying.
He did it with Jorge yesterday.
He said, go back to Univision.
And then a few minutes later, he said, I don't even know who the guy is.
He does know who Jorge is.
But we have to make sure and listen to the little things that Donald is doing, not the flashy big stuff.
I've been trying to tell you that none of that matters to the people supporting him right now.
I know, but I want to know why it doesn't matter to you.
I want to know why it seems like because when you've talked about Obama in the past and you have said several times about his narcissist personality and how much that affects how he governs, then why doesn't the fact that Donald is a narcissist?
I don't oppose Obama because of his narcissism.
Oh, it makes a huge difference in how people relate and how they govern.
No, no.
In the first place, what is making you think?
Was I at the Trump rally?
Why do you think I support Trump?
I just don't know.
I just know that you have talked in the past about how much a narcissist Barack is.
And if you look at Trump and his behaviors, the way he handles people, he's totally the list here.
So why wouldn't the fact that Barack's narcissism does affect how he governs and the decisions that he's made for this country?
Narcissism is not the reason Obama believes what he believes.
Narcissism is a human characteristic behavioral pattern, what have you, but it has nothing to do with his ideology.
His ideology is what it is.
He can be afraid of his own shadow and still be a raging leftist.
But even though Donald, many people may agree with the stance that Donald has, what if one day he changes that stance and he is exactly like Barack and he says he's going to do what he's going to do, then he's going to care.
he's going to lose the support that he's got if he does that.
Are you still there?
He actually says on what he actually does and not be totally swayed by the honeymoon phase.
Ted Cruz and Ben Carson may be more boring, but I don't think anybody's going to want to divorce them in eight years.
Well, now you want to start throwing some other names in there.
The first thing wrong with this is that you have assumed that I'm a Trump supporter.
Okay.
And I want to know why.
Is it because I haven't denounced him?
Should I denounce him on some.
No, I have not heard any I haven't heard when you bring up Trump any of the negative things, Mad Rush.
I haven't listened to every single word you say every day, but I have not heard any negative things about him.
Do you want to hear one?
Then you didn't hear the program after the first debate?
Well, yeah, he did that in the debate.
I'm talking about his plans.
What are his policies?
You say you haven't heard me say anything.
You didn't hear the program after the first debate.
I thought his answer to Megan Kelly was atrocious.
I thought it was embarrassing.
I thought it was.
How about his policies?
What are his policies?
What are his plans?
He never has an answer for anything.
What are those?
Now, if you're saying he hasn't announced specifics, you're just incorrect about that.
Now, you're putting me in a position here where you want me to look like I'm supporting his specifics, which I'm not going to commit to that here.
I'm telling you, but he's got specifics.
He has specific plans.
Okay.
Well, he's got to have.
I know that we have been governed by a narcissist for eight years, and it has affected the way he's.
You're stuck on this narcissist business, and you're overlooking and missing so many other aspects of this that explain it.
So explain what Brock does.
No, explain his popularity with people.
And his kind of people are popular because he's the cute boyfriend.
He's the cute guy that's telling you everything that you want.
I haven't heard any of his plans.
He says he's going to do this because he is who he is.
Because he's got great people.
He's got the smartest people.
He's got the best negotiators and he's smart.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, we need a little bit more specific than that.
I just know that there are great candidates.
Give me an example.
Give me an example of somebody in the campaign who is offering specifics that you support.
Who's your candidate?
I don't know yet.
All I know, though, is that I have heard specifics from Ted Cruz.
I've heard specifics from Carly DiArina.
I've heard specifics from other people.
What specifics?
What specifics have you heard from, let's just say Cruz?
What have you heard him specify that he's going to do?
The first five things he's going to do when the first day in office.
Well, what are they?
Now, wait a minute.
This is your show.
No, did he tell you how he was going to do it, or did he just tell you what the five things are?
He said he was going to defund.
I can tell you what they are.
He's going to repeal every word of Obamacare.
Wait a minute.
He's going to repeal every word of Obamacare.
He is going to defund Planned Parenthood.
He has not told a single person how he's going to do it.
He's just said he's going to do it.
Yeah, but how has Trump told anybody he's going to do it?
Because he's going to tell them to do it.
He's going to tell Mexico to build a wall.
I'm just trying to point out here that you're not being consistent in your criticism.
The people you think have offered you specifics, they've offered you specific objectives, and they've told you specific plans and ideas that they want to accomplish.
They haven't told you how they're going to do it.
Trump has told you he's going to build a wall.
Trump has told you he's going to make Mexico pay for it.
Trump has told you he's going to go to Ford.
He's going to make sure they don't take their plant to Mexico.
He's going to go to whoever makes Oreos and tell them, if you do that, I'm never eating Oreos again.
You're not moving that plant to Mexico.
He says, I'm going to go to the port of L.A. one day, and instead of seeing ships loaded with cars made in Japan being offloaded in America, I'm going to go to the port and I'm going to see cars made in America leaving the port for Japan.
People are cheering.
But just because he says it, it's going to happen?
Just because Ted Cruz says he's going to defund Planned Parenthood doesn't make it happen either.
That's right.
That's right.
But it's not going to call anybody a bimbo and be so rude and constantly.
See, what you don't get is people find that in Trump.
He's like, they laugh at the braggadocio.
They laugh at the narcissism because they know he's joking.
Obama isn't.
Obama's so full of himself, the mirror isn't big enough.
I got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
Do not go away.
Yes, go ahead and admit it, my friends.
You are addicted to this program, the EIV network, Trump's narcissism.
Dirty little secret.
Everybody finds it funny.
In fact, I think they find it adorable.
I think most of the people supporting Trump look at his braggadocio and they just get the biggest kick out of it because I think they see the twinkle in his eye when he says it.
I'm telling you, go watch the last 10 minutes of that thing last night.
I opened the program.
The most important, if you're trying to understand this, if you are perplexed, you're not hearing specifics, you don't like Nark, go watch the last 10 minutes, the last five minutes of this thing last night and listen to Trump talk to that crowd And you will understand why they accept his sincerity.
They get him.
I'm telling you, the narcissism, the braggadocio, they laugh at it.
They turn to each other.
They elbow each.
He's infectious carries.
Obama's braggadocio and narcissism, it's not at all infectious.
It's off-putting.
Clinton had it too, but Trump is a – you laugh at it, or you laugh with it.
At least I do.
And a little full disclosure: I happen to know Mr. Trump.
I've played golf with him.
I've been with him socially.
And I just, I know Donald Trump, and you're concerned about Braggadocio.
He'll stand up for what he believes, and he's fearless, but don't in any way think we're dealing here with a totalitarian type personality.
I mean, he does run his show, and there is a big difference in running a business in a country.
There's no question.
And if you're worried, it's Obama who's trying to run this country without Congress having a say.
I know, Russia, I know, and that's what we're worried Trump's going to do from the right.
Well, time will tell.
We're so far away from that.
You just got back off, folks, and it's all going to shake out.
You know, have fun with it.
Chill.
It can't get any worse.
It turns out that the shooter in Roanoke, Virginia, the murderer of the reporter and cameraman, is the son of a former player from Humboldt State University, drafted by Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers.
His dad.
Not that it matters to anything.
Just a little factoid.
And also, you do not have to drink eight glasses of water a day.
It's BS.
Details tomorrow.
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