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Aug. 31, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings, welcome back my friends.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, your guiding light.
Here would have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
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Okay, let's talk a little bit about the Democrat campaign.
We spent some time on Trump, the polling data coming out of Iowa, the fact that three pretty big fundraisers have left the Jeb Bush campaign.
I mentioned that sort of in passing in the first hour, maybe just a little bit more detail.
Three top Bush fundraisers abruptly quit on Friday amid internal personality conflicts and questions about the strength of the candidate.
Now, you might recall there was a story at thehill.com last week, which in the headline of the story was, no panic in Bush fundraisers-yet.
To which I said, well, then why are you doing the story?
There must be panic.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be doing a story saying there isn't any.
And then we got the next story, which is these three fundraisers have left the Bush campaign.
Now, that is big.
I don't know how big it is, but remember that the entire Bush team strategy, you remember back in the early days when it was reported that Jeb was telling people he was going to get this nomination without the base.
He was going to get this nomination by circling around the base.
He was going to get this nomination not needing, not utilizing the base.
And that was supposed to be a big positive because the base, it's a Tea Party, kooks, oddballs, weirdos.
And we want our nominee to be considered reasonable and bipartisan and an adult and all that.
The way to attract Hispanic voters and African-American voters, and the way to attract independents is, of course, to make sure we get the nomination without the base.
Well, and the money was the route, getting all the money freezes everybody out, and they drop by the wayside.
In addition to being so many conservative candidates split the primary vote, Jeb is the, by default, winner, even if people are not voting for him.
The anti-Bush vote's being divvied up so many ways that it loses.
And that combined with the money was going to secure his nomination.
If the money starts flittering away, believe me, big donors don't like to see 5% in the polls.
They don't like to see their money going to the guy at 5%, no matter who's telling them what the strategy is.
And no matter who's telling you, bide your time.
This is all part of the strategy.
We're going to sit here unnoticed at 5%.
And we're going to zoom to the lead once everybody starts dropping.
But we need your money to pull this off.
But it's tough to keep ponying up for 5% when the action is clearly with newcomers, so-called outsiders.
And one other thing, too.
We've discussed the utter, I think it's ridiculous and the futility of thinking, Republican Party thinking that they can only win the presidency by attracting Hispanic votes.
If Romney, just to review this, based on the returns, based on the votes in 2012, if Romney had gotten 70% of the Hispanic vote, he would have still lost, folks.
And they're not going to get 70% of the Hispanic, but nobody ever has on the Republican side.
And it's not going to happen.
It's not the root.
And by the way, another, the independents are not independent.
Somebody has just established this.
Some polling unit has just established.
The independents are not independents.
They are opinionated.
Like we've always told you.
Well, many of them have become disaffected Republicans.
A lot of them are conservatives fed up with the Republican Party.
But prior to that phenomenon happening, they were mostly liberals that didn't want to admit it.
And the moderates are an even worse bunch.
These are phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and rollers and a get-go.
And the reason is moderates and independents have been told the election hinges on them every four years.
Yeah, they're the great undecided.
And that's where everybody campaigns.
And they're also smarter than everybody else.
Their minds are not made up.
Their minds are not closed.
They are open to all the issues.
And they make up their minds based on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's a crock.
There aren't any so-called, really, I don't give a rat's rear end until I hear what I want to hear, voters.
Everybody has an opinion.
Just the independents, it's all a Democrat Party construct.
Every bit of this is part of a giant trick that's played on the Republican Party.
You know why?
It's to get them campaigning for 20% of the vote instead of 100% of the vote.
That's the whole geel.
The theory is the Democrats are going to get their base 40%.
Republicans are going to get their base 40%.
The elections decided that 20%, independent, undecided.
So the Republicans buy into that and they start running campaigns aimed at the 20%.
Who's in there?
Well, African Americans, disaffected feminazis, Hispanics, Latinos, and they end up losing because they don't run a campaign for the whole country.
They run a campaign for this mythical 20% of the voting population.
Stupid.
Anyway, now it's been established that the independents are not who they really are.
Now, if you, if you, that's the Bush side of this, just to just to touch on it, we've talked about Trump and Carson in the Monmouth poll tied at 23.
But the big news in I have over the weekend was Trump's totally reversing his unfavorable and favorable numbers from May.
He's now 61% favorable.
In May, he was 63% unfavorable.
And the pollsters are saying, never seen anything like this.
It's never happened.
They can't explain it.
Nobody can turn their image around that fast.
It just isn't possible.
And the media then also thinks, especially without us, how does anybody do it?
That's what really bugs them is that Trump's doing this all on his own without them.
That means they can't break him because they haven't made him.
Which will make them hate him even more.
Now, on the Democrat side, an FBI A team is leading the extremely serious, quote-unquote, investigation into Hillary Clinton's server.
And the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information.
This, according to an intelligence source talking to Fox News, the section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 U.S. Code 793.
A separate source, who also is not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contain classified information regardless of the way it was marked up.
Well, hells, of course, she should have known for crying out loud.
That's part of the responsibility of having a security clearance, folks, is that you're supposed to know this stuff.
You know, I asked Vice President Cheney about this.
Okay, let's go back 2005, you're in your second term as vice president.
You learn that the Secretary of State has been running all of his email from a private server in a closet of a bathroom in Denver.
What are you going to do?
I have no doubt that if that had happened in the Bush administration, whoever it was would have been demoted, fired, or whatever.
Certainly they wouldn't have circled the wagons and tried to protect.
And in the case of Hillary, you know, this now, this serious FBIA team, this is more than drip, drip, drip now.
This is drip, drip stream, steady stream of stuff.
Now, it could be one of two things.
It could be another installment in Hillary's death by a thousand cuts.
There is a growing consensus of thought now in backroom quarters that she's already toast.
Just there's too much of this stuff.
They can't nominate her now.
She can't win this.
This stuff, and it's not going to stop.
It's just going to keep on dripping out.
It's not universal in the Democrat Party, but it's a growing consensus.
It may not even be a consensus yet, but it's a growing thought or fear that 2008 is starting to repeat itself.
In fact, I've got a story with that headline.
2008, it looks like 2008 all over.
From a pollster, by the way.
And of course, in the midst of all this comes the Trumpster ripping Huma and her perv husband, Weiner.
Now, what that's really all about, you know, Trump's out there saying that Huma's got access to all this information, too.
And look at her husband.
Her husband is this crazy perv.
What Trump has said, this guy is a blackmail target par excellence.
And if you have Mrs. Clinton's number one aide trafficking in all of these emails, too, that she's probably telling her perv husband about this.
So the perv husband may know some of this stuff himself.
And Trump's thinking of all the people you would not want to have access to this kind of information because his blackmail target would be this guy, Weiner.
Anthony Weiner.
Here's another State Department to release 6,000 pages of Clinton emails.
State Department set to release a new batch of Hillary Clinton's private emails today amid a broadening FBI investigation into whether Hillary mishandled classified information on her private server.
Could also be a – we always have to be aware that we can be sandbagged here.
That these 6,000 emails are going to be released and then somewhere down the road in a couple of days or a week.
Hey, there's nothing here.
She's clean as a whistle.
But then here's the story I just cited.
Polster on Hillary's Iowa stumbles.
It feels like 2008 all over again.
The latest Iowa survey has at least one pollster wondering if histoi might repeat itself.
Because at this point, eight years ago, Hillary Clinton led Barack Hussein O in the Iowa polls by the same margin of seven points that she now leads Bernie Sanders.
This uncanny parallel led the Iowa poll pollster J.N. Selzer to posit this feels like 2008 all over again.
Bernie Sanders, for his part, is out there saying, well, I'm going to say he's not talking about Black Lives Matter.
He's saying something that's actually encouraging the shooting of white cops.
I don't know if he's doing this just out of ignorance or if he really believes it.
Well, okay, what he's saying is there's just way too much.
There are too many examples of white cops dragging black people out of cars and shooting them.
When did that happen?
I mean, recently.
When did that happen in Baltimore?
That didn't happen in Ferguson.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, the one kid, the woman in Texas, dragged.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, one example versus all these others.
But anyway, Bernie's out there feeding into this, and people are wondering, like on CNN today, wonder, whoa, whoa, we can't forget the motive.
Why would the guy shoot the deputy in Houston?
Why, why, why would they?
They were really struggling trying to find a motive.
It was comical to watch good old Lincoln Chafee.
Good old Link.
I mean, this guy may be right up there among the most glittering jewels of colossal ignorance ever.
Democrat, former Republican, by the way, Democrat presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee said Friday that support for increased immigration will result in more votes for the Democrat Party.
He just admitted it.
He said, we're right on immigration.
He was making a speech at the Democrat National Committee summer meeting in Minneapolis.
He said, we're right on immigration, the fastest growing voting bloc in the country.
Of course, we want those people to be treated with respect and to vote Democratic.
That's why we want them here.
You know, everybody else, oh, no, no, Link, shut up.
No, no.
You're supposed to leave talk radio singing that.
You're not supposed to admit it, Link.
Oh, God.
But he did.
Quick timeout, my friends, your phone calls.
We owe you getting back to that.
It's been a while, so that's next.
Sit tight, don't go away.
You hear Hillary Clinton talked about boxcars and then had to explain herself.
Hillary Clinton's campaign rejected the IBM, that she alluded to the Holocaust while talking about GOP proposals on immigration.
She said on Friday, I find it the height of irony that a party.
Is that irritating enough?
I find it the height of irony that a party that espouses small government would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort.
She goes on, including the National Guard and others, to literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don't know, in buses and boxcars in order to take them across our border.
I find that only absurd but appalling.
Boxcars.
Some people say, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
She's comparing people to the Nazis.
So they put out a statement.
No, no, no, no.
We weren't thinking of the Nazis.
Jeb Bush has also used the word boxcar to describe.
You see how similar they are?
What's it got in?
Anyway.
It's good to finally have a Democrat have to react to this kind of inanity, though.
Here's Marcia Libby, Montana.
It's great to have you on the program, Marcia.
I'm glad you waited, and welcome to the program.
Yes, I have a question about the football thing.
Why wasn't the Super Bowl taken away from the Patriots for cheating, since it's a team sport, and so they all should be responsible, just not Brady?
Well, that's actually a very, very shrewd question.
I thought that all along.
But the short answer is the Patriots have been punished.
The Patriots were fined a million dollars and lost a couple draft choices.
And back in, I think it was earlier in the summer, the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft, announced that he was going to accept the penalty for the good of the league to try to speed this thing along.
And he didn't say so, but it was obvious to a lot of people that he was trying to kind of set the stage for the league to go easy on Brady and the appeal, which they ended up not doing.
But the Patriots have been punished.
Now, let's go to your question about the Super Bowl, because what you're really saying, and this is the thing that's amazed me from the beginning, and it's been lost in all this.
The Indianapolis Colts complained that the footballs that the Patriots were using could be underinflated, and they asked them to check into it.
The league did so, set up a procedure.
The balls were supposed to go to the ref, Walt Coleman.
They vanished for a period of time where the ball boys then took them to the bathroom.
The theory is it deflated them to meet Brady's specs.
Now, the point is, the point is, to me anyway, it appears that the league let that championship game be played with the knowledge that those balls might have been tampered with.
That has always amazed me, and it's been said and denied by some in the league office, not everybody, that it was a sting that they were trying to entrap the Patriots tampering with the balls.
In which case, they had to let whatever they were doing with the balls happen, and then they had to start the game with the balls improperly inflated if the Patriots were indeed doing what the Colts had accused them of doing.
And it was the Ravens, I think, prior to that that had alerted the Colts to it.
So, that has always been something amazing.
Another thing that amazes me is Tom Brady, whatever you think of him, is the marquee player of the NFL.
He is, maybe arguable to some people, but the best player in the NFL right now.
And up until this, he had a totally clean, wholesome, for the most part, I mean, everybody has some tarnishes, public image.
And why the league is trying to destroy that's got everybody mystified.
A lot of people, not everybody.
I think I, El Rushbo, have a partial explanation for it.
But it's still strange.
But it's ultimately about power, folks.
This is CJ.
Boca Raton, Florida, and it's great to have you.
Hello.
Hey, how are you?
It's been, it's a pleasure to speak to you.
I believe, you know, as high as your bar is, you're the ceiling in broadcasting.
I'm near the ceiling when it comes to legal, the legal field.
I've seen your brother.
I've read a couple of his books.
He's a very brilliant guy.
I have a couple of things I want to tell you about what you were talking about.
My question would be, because the attorneys, like even Trey Gowdy, see, a lot of these government guys, they're beyond their depth or they really don't have the right staff to deal with this.
I went to school with Bill and Hillary at Yale.
I am born May of 46, so I am their age.
I know quite a bit about them.
I had a very close relationship with Robert Boyd, and now I'm in Florida.
I still have my firm winding down in Dudley Hills, and we do white-collar, mostly white-collar problems, and all on a criminal level.
The thing I would, number one, and everyone out there should realize this, Hillary, number one, besides being Secretary of State, is an attorney.
In fact, Time magazine wrote her up years ago, I think in 89, as one of the 100 most powerful and influential lawyers in the country.
Aha, so that means that she thinks that she's above the law.
Well, in a way, but she also is an officer of the court.
When she left the State Department, she knew fully well that she had to sign those documentations.
By her not filing those forms and also by concealing evidence and putting it there, I believe the easiest thing that anyone can do, including you, Rush, your brother, Judicial Watch, Jay Succolo, go to, I believe her license is probably now either in Washington, D.C. I don't think it's in New York.
I believe her legal license is there or in Arkansas.
CJ, come on.
Now, nobody's going to do this.
Nobody's going to go after her law license on this.
Well, if you pull her tickets, I mean, that's easy to do.
You show Malteasons, which is easy.
You imagine the disgrace of a woman going to president and she was an attorney?
How can she, how can no one ever says to her, you know, what did you know about it?
She said, well, there were so many documents.
She's a Yale lawyer, a top lawyer.
So is everybody else?
I know, but so is everybody else there.
And that means they circle the wagons for each other.
You tell me, what more do we need?
Where's the indictment?
We don't need to know anymore.
The woman was violating the law just by the existence of the server in the closet in a bathroom in freaking Denver.
There's classified data passing back and forth on her server, whether she knew it or not.
That's no excuse.
Where is the indictment?
There isn't an indictment.
Why not?
That's the question.
So what else is on that server that might harm other people?
Who else, and this is the bigger question, who else was using a private server that we don't know yet?
And if they go after Hillary's, it means somebody else is going to have to be gone after because she's not going to sit there and take the phone for it if she knows other people did this.
Does Obama have a private server?
You know, they told presidents, they told you can't use a Blackberry.
You can't use an iPhone when you're president because nothing's private.
And Obama says, screw you.
I'm doing it anyway.
You make my BlackBerry work.
Well, how did they make his BlackBerry work?
Does he have a secret server?
Who the hell knows?
There's a reason why she hadn't been indicted.
There's a reason why this is dragging along at a snail's pace.
I don't pretend to know what it is, but it opens up all kinds of speculation.
All I know is we know enough here to conduct an official investigation, go for an indictment or whatever, but they're not doing that.
And, you know, you mentioned a couple of other possibilities.
Huma!
Huma was privy to these emails.
What kind of security clearance does she have?
And her husband, as Trump has pointed out, is a perv, makes him a blackmail target.
If any of this, and I try to get Vice President Cheney to react to this, if any of this had happened with Republicans in office, I guarantee, look at what they did to poor Alberto Gonzalez and he didn't do diddly squat compared to what Hillary's done.
Good lord, what they did, Al Gonzalez, is almost unspeakable in terms of the political damnation and Reputation destruction that they engaged in, and a couple other people.
And you mentioned Bork, but they did a Bork for crying out loud.
So the fact that they're all lawyers encircling the wagons, it's the ruling class.
They're going to protect themselves is what I think.
Because Hillary's not the only one doing this kind of chicanery up there.
They have this feeling of entitlement.
They're special.
The law doesn't apply to them.
Standard ordinary operating procedure.
I mean, there's so many scandals in this administration.
So many things have been happening outside the bounds of the Constitution, and nothing happens to anybody.
It's one of the many reasons people all over the country are fed up.
Because when the rule of law breaks down, that's the glue that makes everything have meaning.
The Constitution is meaningless if the rule of law and a sense of honor is not present.
Why obey it?
Why obey any law if there will be no punishment for breaking it?
Why have any respect for it at all?
And when that goes, well, as I say, that's the glue holding it all together.
We have a millennial student on the phone from Aurora, Illinois.
It's Harry.
Harry, great to have you here, sir.
How are you?
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Well, my question for you is: well, I've been to three schools, a junior college.
I transferred to a Catholic four-year school, and now I'm at the current four-year institution that I'm at.
And this morning was the first day of classes for my senior year, and I'm in a government class.
And my teacher, everything started off well.
She seemed very sweet.
She's very nice.
And she got into her background and history of teaching and all that.
And she was saying that she grew up in a very political household and that they watched, she became an activist for anti-war Vietnam stuff and an activist for the civil rights and all that.
And she said she's not objective at all.
She hates Republicans, hates Fox News.
And I'm sitting there, and she started attacking Donald Trump and illegal immigration and this.
And I kind of stood up for myself.
And I feel like I'm the minority in the class.
I felt like this for a couple of years now.
And quite frankly, I'm sick of it.
And my question for you is: what can someone like me, other conservative students around the nation do to kind of stick up for the conservative community?
Here's what you do.
I'm going to give you a couple of websites where you can go out and you can find common bond with students just like yourself who are chronicling this kind of stuff.
One's called college reform.
The other one's called a college fix.
Okay.
And these are people that are on campus like you are who are chronicling all of the examples of madcap, stupid liberalism, and they're just publicized.
You know what you can do?
The best thing you can do is what you're doing.
Just tell everybody.
Don't fight the professor.
Just don't believe her.
It's not going to serve you.
And unless she's the kind, if you can have productive disagreements in class that are not going to harm your grade, then have fun at it.
But you're not going to change her, especially since she admitted to you who she is.
You've got to take that into account with everything she teaches.
You now have a reason to suspect everything she teaches in that class.
Do not weaken and do not buckle to this.
Just make her think you are if you have to for the grade.
The grade, that's what you need going forward.
I've had people asking me this for the entire time I've been doing this program, and I've changed my advice over the years on this.
I used to advise people to be confrontational, not put up with it.
But I've gotten to the point now where it's so prevalent that it's almost more fun if you just try to take her to be as extreme as she can.
Act like you believe it and then come up with the craziest wacko examples you can of things you think she would agree with in the form of questions.
Have fun with it.
Play a game with it.
But do not, whatever you do, do not let it have a permanent impact on what you think.
Just try to laugh at it.
I mean, the woman's up.
She just admitted she's a joke.
She just admitted that she is a flawed Professor Ritt.
Well, I want to thank you, though, because, like I said, I've been sitting here and I know other conservative students and like-minded people have been sitting here for years and it's just a it's frustrating because I hate to see this happen.
I know it's like watching the news every day.
It's maddening.
It's frustrating as hell.
It's an insult to your intelligence to be lied to, like she's going to be doing to you.
Oh, yeah.
And that's, you know, I got fired once confronting a boss that was a pathological liar.
I let him know that I knew what, you know, I was fired in 30 minutes.
Wow.
I was gone.
Now that you won't be fired, you're a student.
I hope not.
But find these two websites.
And like, I've got something right here from the College Fix today.
This is from a North Carolina State University.
Get this now, Harry.
A women's and gender studies lecturer, North Carolina State, is docking her students' grades for using sexist language in class assignments.
You know what sexist language is?
No, I don't.
Well, you cannot use he or him or man.
So what are you supposed to say?
And I don't get it.
You are supposed to replace mankind with humans or humankind.
You're kidding me, right?
No, no, no, no.
Grades will be docked for sexist language in assignments.
The section concludes.
Oh, my God.
Oh, yeah.
So she'll give you probably some explicit directives like this as the course goes on.
Language you're not permitted to use.
And, you know, just try not to laugh in her face during class.
That won't work.
But it's ridiculous.
But I've got, there are even worse examples of this that I've come across in the past couple of weeks.
That there's another university that's having a total makeover of personal pronouns, and they have words that you've never, they're making up words to replace he.
My last question for you: is there any way going forward, whether it's my generation or generations behind me, to switch the roles and to preach a more conservative agenda?
Not even that, maybe just an objective agenda to spread ideas.
Well, the only way that's going to happen is if people like you and others want to try to become teachers at these schools and reform them from within.
You're right.
You're absolutely right, Rush.
And I don't know if you want to do that or not.
If you don't, then what you have to do now is figure out a way to survive this and not let it harm you.
And the best way I've found is to just find it as entertaining and just be above it.
It's frustrating as it can be.
I know.
Nobody escapes.
It's like watching a news, like I told you.
Oh, yeah.
But don't forget those two websites, thecollegefix.com and campusreform.org.
Got it.
You will love them.
People just like you who are writing daily of all of these kinds of wacko, silly examples happening on campus.
Collegefix.com, campusreform.org.
I think this program inspired both of them, frankly.
So you'll be right at home there.
Now, folks, listen to me.
Look at me.
On that College Fix website, make sure you go to www.thecollegefix.com.
Put the in front of CollegeFix, because if you don't, you're going to end up.
Well, some of you might want to be there, but most of you won't want to go where you're going to be taken.
Make sure you put thecollegefix.com.
Now everybody's going to try it.
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