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Sept. 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, there's lots of news out there here today, folks.
And we're going to start getting into it here in the final hour and a busy broadcast day today, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address lrushbo at EIB net.com.
The latest on the shooting of the police officer north of Chicago.
As far as I can tell, there aren't any real updates except that the FBI and the U.S. Marshals have joined the manhunt.
The cop pronounced dead.
We got three shooters, two white, one black.
They had been seen committing some kind of crime, and the cop gave chase.
So it was not like in Houston where the cop was just shot cold blood in the back of the head, filling up his gas tank.
These perps actually had done something cop was giving chase and was shot, still waiting for more details to come in.
Now the uh the Pope declared today that he is allowing all priests in the church's upcoming year of mercy to absolve women of the sin of abortion if they repent with a contrite heart.
Reflecting his, this is an AP story, reflecting his papacy's central theme of mercy.
Francis said in a letter published today by the Vatican that he has met many women bearing the scar of this agonizing decision to abort.
He said that God's forgiveness cannot be denied to those who repent, and thus is giving all priests the discretion to absolve the sin in the holy year of mercy, which runs December 8th this year to November 20th next year.
Now, I look, I'm not a Catholic.
I've consulted some Catholics, some devout who think this is really not news.
In the big scheme of things, the idea of forgiveness, uh absolution from a priest, a confession, that in a normal scope of things, it's not that big a deal.
I, as as I'm not a Catholic, so I don't really know.
Uh terms of this, I'm actually just a layman, but I mean I I have a question.
Just a simple, innocent little question.
Why just during this year?
Why can't there be mercy every year?
Or why isn't there?
And I'm sure Catholics can answer that for me if I wanted to dig into it.
Okay, some people have said, you know, Rush, you're really doing us a disservice.
You're glossing over these Hillary emails like they don't mean anything because you think you figured out a brilliant strategy.
What's in them?
What's it?
Okay, okay, I understand that.
I know everybody wants the titillation.
I'm not gonna retract anything I've said about it, but I'm just here are the headlines of the stories detailing what's the latest in the document dump of Hillary's emails.
Hillary received a plan to impeach Clarence Thomas.
It was an idea put forth by David Brock of Media Matters for America.com.
He sent her a memo entitled A Memo on Impeaching Clarence Thomas.
And it contains information from David Brock about his book, The Real Anita Hill, and uh other things about Justice Thomas's personal life.
The document that Brock sent her details some things that Brock himself has learned potentially intimidating women close to Justice.
What what what it Brock admits in this email that he went out and bullied women to get them to change what they had told him for his book.
He had a bunch of women that used to work for Clarence Thomas, and they told him things that exonerated Thomas.
He went back to them, and in his note to Hillary, he admits to using journalistic sleight of hand to try to bully these women into changing their stories so that he could lead an impeachment of Clarence Thomas.
No real word on Hillary's reaction to it.
It's another email from Sidney Blumenthal.
John Boehner's alcoholic, lazy, and banal.
He is loosh, which is sort of like gauche.
He is loosh, he's alcoholic, he's lazy, he's without any commitment to any principle.
Louche means dubious, shady, disreputable.
It's L-O-U-C-H if you're wondering.
This email to Hillary from Blumenthal said he's not Gingrich, the natural leader of a revolution riding the crest into power.
He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty.
He said that Boehner twitches if the conservative base makes gestures that might undermine his position.
Boehner's neither feared nor loved.
He's a would-be delay without the whip.
He's the one at the end of a leash.
And Clinton wrote back after all this, needless to say, I'm so distressed over all this.
She was being facetious and sarcastic.
Sid Blumenthal also trashed David Axelrod, who is Obama's right-hand man.
Now, Blumenthal, Hillary wanted him at her desk at the State Department.
Obama told her, nope, you cannot hire the guy.
I don't like this guy.
This guy's a sleaze bag, and I don't want him anywhere officially in my administration.
Hillary said, okay, and she hired him anyway, and he was being paid by her foundation and a couple of other entities.
And that's pretty much what was in the document dump today.
125 emails containing classified information.
But again, it's just a steady drip drip drip drip drip drip with with no call for action to do anything about it.
So the purpose or the end result is that all of this is going to end up boring people.
If it's that bad, why isn't something happening to her?
If it's that bad, you know, low information motors.
Gosh, if it's what she did is that bad, why aren't there any charges?
Why are people standing up and saying she's got to go?
Why aren't there any indictments?
And it'd be legitimate questions.
Audio sound by time, want to take you back to me, January 27, 2014, right here behind the golden EIB microphone.
You know, it's fascinating to me.
The liberals, it turns out do hate football.
It apparently has been latent, and this push in the last two years has brought them to the surface.
Hypermasculinity, I would define honestly as patriotism.
I think that's one of the things that bugs them about football.
But hypermasculinity to these guys is just plain old masculinity.
Men being men is hypermasculinity.
What else do you think hypermasculinity is?
It has to be just plain old masculinity.
From the standpoint of your average leftist male.
Masculinity to them is what?
It's not no, no masculinity to your average leftist male is not masculinity at all.
So therefore, genuine masculinity to them is hyper masculinity.
This is a game.
The only reason people like this game is because they get to watch war.
They get to watch hypermasculinity and war.
It's a substitute for watching war.
People love violence, want to consume violence.
These are the things I was saying that the left uses to criticize football.
And your average leftist male.
Masculinity is bullying.
Masculinity is is predatory behavior.
Masculinity is bad to your average male leftist wimp.
They make fun of it.
They think it's barbaric.
It's solving issues with your fists and bullying, and it's uncalled for.
This is all in a monologue about the attacks on football that had started on the left.
Now the reason for this is that the media is all a buzz with a new movie trailer.
Yes, a new movie is coming out on Christmas Day.
You Know what it's called?
Concussion.
Yeah.
And it stars Will Smith doing a Nigerian accent.
He portrays a Pittsburgh forensic pathologist.
Dr. Bennett O'Malu, who was uh uh Pittsburgh uh UPMC Medical Center.
And he is the first doctor to, or he discovered what is being called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is brain disease brought on by playing football.
And you can only discover whether somebody has it in an autopsy.
It cannot be diagnosed, it can only be presumed.
He autopsied the former Steeler Center Mike Webster.
And discovered that Webster had all these lesions in his brain, and the guy concluded that it was because of all of the lifetime of hits on Webster's head that caused this.
And this movie, starring Will Smith is all about how this guy desperately tried to get the NFL to listen to him, and they didn't want to hear from him, and they didn't want him to go public, and they didn't want him saying a thing about this because it's gonna destroy football and so forth.
And so the media's all excited, because now we have a movie talking about this brave doctor single-handedly bringing to everybody's attention this horrible disease brought about by playing football, and we're finally gonna get down to the nub of it.
And this this trailer trailer's two minutes.
We got 20 seconds of the trailer for you here.
When I was a boy, heaven was here, and America was here.
You could be anything, you could do anything.
I am the wrong person to have discovered this.
If you don't speak for them, who is that was a woman telling the doctor, if you don't speak for them, who will?
He was being encouraged to go public.
Football was killing people.
Anyway, you probably seen if you watch any TV lady, you knew you've probably seen this trailer by now.
And it's it's uh I saw something great interview today at CNN.
In fact, Cookie, you might want to see if you have this right before 11 o'clock.
CNN had uh former linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons named Chris Draft to discuss this, and boy was he great.
He was so well spoken about this, and he made the point that the problem with this movie is that it's not about now.
It's about a long time ago, and ever since the time this movie is about, all kinds of things changed to make the game safer, and he details some of them.
But I told you, I warned you people this was coming, and they're not gonna let go of it, just like when the drip drip drip happens at Ken Star or anybody, they don't stop till they get their scalp.
And I I guarantee you it may go fits and spurts, but they're gonna continue on this crusade against the brutality of football for whatever purpose, just to see if they can do great damage to it.
Big corporation, a lot of money, so it's it's a big target in that sense.
Quick timeout, do not go away back with much.
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Here's Obi in Sanger, California.
Obi, great you uh call, glad to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, thanks, Russ.
You're doing a great job.
Um, on the Hillary situation, uh, you know, we all know that she's uh deleted anything that might incriminate her, so the only thing we're gonna see are things that either make her look good or make the Republicans look bad.
But there may be an angle to be played, and that is for years we've heard how the NSA data mines uh the internet data mines uh phone calls.
Uh geez, I have to believe they uh must have recorded her uh internet messages, and I have to believe that uh some Republicans are sitting in committee uh chairman positions on some national security uh commissions where they could order the NSA to turn over uh the emails, her emails to the FBI.
Uh you know some Republicans like that.
No, no, no, you might.
I don't.
Well, not so I'm asking you.
Pardon me?
That's I said why I'm asking you.
Uh I'm I'm just saying that uh No, I know what just the emails are there.
No matter what she's redacted, they're there.
We can see them if somebody wants to take the trouble to get to them, we can see them.
People that she sent them to probably still have them.
Yeah.
People that she re people who replied to her.
I mean, that those emails are somewhere.
She still has them.
But the ones that she has released are just a waste of time.
Uh and then I guess my other comment is simply that uh I'm definitely for Trump.
He's the only person that I've heard that has the guts to speak up to political correctness, and uh and he sounds like he has the uh business uh knowledge to uh help us turn around and get our manufacturing baseball.
Okay, I want to run a little test with you.
Sure.
There's no wrong or right thing here, so don't uh don't don't feel like you're being challenged.
It's not that.
I just ran across something here in the news.
It is uh it's a story in the hill.com.
Trump meets with Hispanic Chamber of Commerce leader.
Now, before I give you details, does that alarm you or not?
No, he's a good salesman.
Okay.
Here's the pull quote from the story.
Now, this group, by the way, has a boycott that they have recommended that all the people that believe in them not buy anything related to Trump.
Condos, apartments, neckties, vodka, whatever else he said, don't buy it.
There's a boycott on, okay?
So Trump goes and talks to him.
The pull quote of the story is it's kind of interesting.
The dichotomy between the private Donald Trump and the public Donald Trump.
He listened in here a lot more than he spoke, said the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce guy to CNN, which first reported the meeting.
He never once interrupted me.
He didn't call me any names.
He didn't tell me I was a perv.
He didn't tell me I was stupid.
He didn't, in fact, he didn't say much.
He just listened.
Now, despite the meeting, the Hispanic chamber guy says that uh they're not yet going to lift the boycott of Trump brands, but they were shocked.
They were shocked.
They expected this bombastic bellicose guy to walk in here and start insulting him, and he barely said anything.
He just listened.
Yeah, well, he's he's a c he's uh uh a clever uh not clever, I don't mean that in a bad way.
He's an intelligent businessman, and I think what he's doing is he's saying, I I want to pick up his constituency by uh showing them or convincing them that it's in their best interest to vote for me.
And I think that uh there's a you know, there's a point to be made there that a lot of Hispanics uh it's in their best interest to for to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
Yeah.
There's a lot of them out there that think that, by the way.
Yeah.
You know, this idea that all Hispanics are monolithic and they're all in favor of every illegal alien coming and staying is a big, big myth and misnomer.
Yeah, well, but again, on the another important point with Trump is the political correctness issue.
Uh the other candidates uh are just a little weak on that, particularly uh Carly uh uh, you know, she jumped in and supported uh Meg uh Kelly uh against Trump uh uh and uh played the uh you know feminist victims.
Well, you know, that's that's the solidarity of the vaginas.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we need to fight this political correctness is true.
Wait a second now, that the the vaginas have monologues.
We know this.
There was a play.
All right, bleep it.
Let's not even play it.
Just just Mike just hit the bleep button.
No, it's not too late.
We didn't we haven't gone anywhere.
You telling me it's too late to bleep it now.
Anyway, we need to fight political correctness.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Before I get back to my broadcast engineer who may be yanking my chain here, OB, I just want to clear one thing with you.
Sure.
So when when you hear that Trump goes and talks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce guy and doesn't say much and just listens, you are not worried that he's not who he really is to you and might have gone in here and sold out.
That doesn't cross your mind.
Not at all.
As I said, he's an intelligent businessman.
He's trying to determine how he can turn this around in his benefit.
All right.
Okay.
That's and you got faith in the guy.
Absolutely.
Uh I'm putting my money there.
Okay.
You would.
You'd put Your money there in addition to your vote.
Well, I've already sent money and I'll send more.
And I've got his sticker in the back of my Porsche, his bumper sticker.
You got a Trump bumper sticker on the back of your Porsche?
Absolutely.
What kind of Porsche?
Well, this one just happens to be a uh a uh uh a boxer, I guess.
But I've got one on my Range Rover also.
This guy's laughing over fact he's rich, folks.
A Porsche and a boxer in a in a in a Range Rover, do you say or landlover?
Range Rover.
Range Rover.
What color is it?
Candy apple red.
Brand new.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
I traded in my Aston Martin on it.
Man, you are really you're a winner of life's lottery out there.
Well, I'm like Trump.
I made mine and commercial real estate.
Where is Sanger, California, and what happens there?
It's in the well, actually, it's our closest town.
Uh, we actually live in the mountains, 30 miles above it.
It's uh below King's Canyon National Park.
We're right, we're in Wonder Valley, which is uh California's oldest dude ranches down the street, and uh we're from Southern California, but I I like the mountains here, and we sold our stuff down there and moved up here.
You need a lot of cars up there, I can tell.
Sports cars for running in the hills here.
Yes.
All right, OB, thanks, thanks.
Now, Mike, are you yanking my chain?
You could you you you weren't able to bleep that?
Oh, come on.
We've got I can't give a you you you just didn't because you wanted that out there.
All right.
Look at vagina monologues, it's a female solidarity.
It's all it was.
Everybody knows I'm a big Carly fan, so just lighten up.
It's a joke, folks.
It was a joke.
Okay, the last guy we had on the phone, the rich guy from Sanger, California, Obi, with the Porsche, the Land Rover, uh, and the Aston Martin he just got rid of.
We have this uh uh uh checked it during the break.
Uh it's a poll from investors business start again, investors business daily tip, T I P P the IBD tip poll.
And it's recent, and it found that forty percent of Hispanics support mandatory deportation.
It's not just that they oppose illegal immigration.
It is that forty percent of Hispanics support mandatory deportation.
This idea that there's a monolithic anti-republican uh attitude from Hispanics on amnesty and all this, just a myth.
I mentioned it yesterday, many days before, and there's a story here.
This is from Breitbart.
Mike Flynn headline Republicans chasing an Hispanic Unicorn.
And it it opens this way there is no greater political miscalculation, no greater political fraud than the idea that Republicans have to moderate their positions on immigration reform in order to appeal to Hispanic voters.
This fiction began with George W. Bush's aborted attempt at comprehensive immigration reform in early 2007.
That's all you need to know.
Now the story goes on and on.
There are many poll quotes from this, but it's it's this is one of these great unknowns.
The Republican Party does not need to do what they're doing.
They are guaranteeing if they support Amnesty and they try to moderate their position and ignore the opinions of 40% of the Hispanic population, the majority of their base, they're all they're gonna do is guarantee the unending invasion of new Democrat voters.
And yet they have been it's hard to know if they really believe this, or if it's inexplicable, their attitude.
It's inexplicable their belief in the face of facts and polling data.
They think they can't win the presidency without pandering to Hispanics, meaning they have to support amnesty and illegal immigration.
It's the most it's one of the most perplexing things about the Republican establishment, and there are many.
Here's Chris Draft.
Cookie got the sound by the former linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons.
He was on with uh Carol Costello on CNN today.
And they were talking about this movie, Concussion.
And they played the entire trailer.
This is Will Smith portraying the Nigerian doctor who discovered the uh the the the brain damage and disease that comes from years and years of hits to the head.
And uh she said, you're a former linebacker.
You are you're gonna are you gonna watch the movie?
She laughs.
Everything she reports.
It's the most amazing thing.
I'm just imitating it.
You're you're a former linebacker.
Jeez, are you are you gonna go watch the movie?
Are you you're concerned?
I mean should the NFL be concerned.
What's important is realizing that that movie is not about right now.
That movie is really talking about something that happened around 2007, uh 2006.
So a lot has happened since that time.
Right now, with training camp just finishing up, NFL players they can't even do two-a-days anymore.
As we get into the regular season, the amount of uh actual contact practice has been dramatically uh decreased, and then really just the concussion protocol across the league is drastically changed.
He wanted to continue, and I wanted to hear what he had to say, but they ran out of time.
They had to come out in the 11 o'clock break.
But that's um uh Chris Draft is a former linebacker for the Falcons, and I haven't heard anybody put it in in context perspective like that.
He's exactly right.
This movie coming out now is actually about the way things were long before a bunch of reforms have taken place.
And you know, if you go watch a movie, how many of them are gonna be aware of that?
Hannah, in Durham, North Carolina, we have this is a 10-year-old caller uh who's been holding for for quite a while here, and uh she's it's it's her turn now, and I I'm happy to welcome you to the program, Hannah.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Very, very well, especially since you called.
Thank you very much.
So what's up, Hannah?
Um, I would like to talk to you about the books because my brother and I both love them.
Well, thank you very much.
Phil, what do you want to say?
Um, I think that um when you open a typical history book, it tends to be boring.
But when you open Rush Revere books, you learn a lot more, I feel, and they're a lot more fun to read.
Thank you as kids, especially.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate your saying.
Have you read all three?
Yes, sir.
Do you have a favorite?
The brave pilgrim, definitely.
Really interesting.
And I'm uh let me guess, you're you're you probably have a favorite character would be Liberty.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, why would that be?
Because he's hilarious, clumsy and sarcastic.
Yeah, that was easy to write, and I just had to think of myself.
Well, I'm glad that you enjoyed him, Hannah.
I've I've how old you say ten years old, and how old's your brother?
He's seven.
Seven.
And do you read to him or does he able to read the books himself?
Um my father or my mother read them to us at night.
Cool.
All right.
Well, you know, I I'm I'm always uh really excited and very flattered when I hear from people like you who I mean people like you for whom the books are written.
And it's such an important subject.
American history.
We're so unique.
This country's so special.
And I worry that uh people your age are not actually gonna be taught the the truth about so much of the foundings and a great opportunity to reach you, and I'm really flattered that you like the books.
I can't thank you enough.
I want you to do you have the audio versions of the books of me reading them uh on C D. Have you had you have those?
Yeah.
Uh let me send them to you because this is a great way to experience them in a different way.
You've already read them.
You can sit around and listen to them as read by me, the uh the author.
And we'll put together a little package of things here for you to send for you and your brother, Hannah.
If you just hang on, she's in Durham, North Carolina.
Do not hang up the phone so Mr. Snerdley can get an address uh where we can send some stuff out to you.
Thanks so much, Hannah.
Really, really appreciate it.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh this is Melissa, Peoria, Illinois.
Hi, Melissa, great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
This is just such an honor, and um I just love listening to your show, and uh you just crack me up.
Um the thing that I am struggling with is um I'm a I'm a new listener to your program, and um I've always kind of considered myself a liberal, but I feel like that has changed over the years.
And so um over the past few years I've been trying to educate myself and be open to other views, and I've been listening to you more than listening to Glenback.
And it makes sense.
I mean, it's to me it's common sense.
Um but what really has me bothered is I'm a huge Facebook user, and I'm always posting things with the intent to inform.
I don't make fun of people.
I don't I I try to set a good Christian example.
Um I think I posted one thing on Facebook one time that was like this cartoon of Helly Hillary Clinton, that it was hilarious.
I couldn't help it.
Other than that, I know how you feel.
I other than that, I I try to do set a good example.
And every time I do, there's a couple things that bother me.
Um I don't get enough support from my conservative friends on my course on my posts.
I feel like I'm kind of alone.
You know, I I'm where are their voices too?
And I'm I'm tired of being bullied.
I I know how you feel.
I know you do.
But what bothers me even more are the posts that my liberal friends what they say.
It's so negative.
It's it's it's angry, it's mean, and I even point that out.
I say, why do we why do you have to be so angry?
Let's just discuss this.
What's and that's all my re the responses that I get from my liberal friends, most of them are of that nature.
And I just don't get it.
I'm so frustrated.
I want to befriend those people, but I don't want them to win.
I don't want to give them the satisfaction.
I don't want to be I feel like I'll I'm still being bullied if I defriend them.
And I want to keep posting things to inform people.
I it's my responsibility.
And I just want my conservative friends too to back me up more.
Well, uh there's a lot there.
Um first off, thank you.
I'm glad I'm glad you found this program, and I'm I'm I'm glad that you found it uh helpful as to uh being on your own, uh g get I I you can do it.
Yeah, you I tell already you can do it.
It'd be nice if you had some support, but you might not get as much as you uh want in in a lot of areas in life, by the way.
But you're following your heart, you're following your mind, you're doing what's right, you're trying to persuade people.
The biggest obstacle you have uh you're not gonna persuade people on the left, at least if you do, they're never gonna let you know that you have.
Uh and Melissa, y you you say you're relatively new to conservatism.
One of the things I've you know, I'm 64.
My whole life I have I have noted how angry they are all the time.
They're never happy.
No matter how much in a political sense they win, they're never happy.
And I've concluded there are many reasons for it.
The primary reason is that what upsets them the most is that there's any opposition at all.
They're not interested in debate, Melissa.
They don't care about your point of view.
Yours isn't valid.
Their problem with you is that you exist.
The better you are at expressing your opinion, the bigger problem you present to them.
They're not interested in debate.
They don't think they should have to.
They don't try to win debate.
They try to destroy your reputation, your character, uh people's impression of you to discredit you.
They're not happy because there is opposition.
And they're never going to be happy, and you can't make them happy.
Anybody, actually, the happiness is a personal responsibility, I've always thought.
So you just keep doing what you're doing.
You'll never know how many people you are truly influencing.
Most people do not want to admit that they didn't know anything until you told them.
Everybody wants to think they're independently smart.
The best way to persuade somebody is to make them think that they've changed your mind.
The The art of persuasion is to set up circumstances to which the conclusion you want is obvious.
They come to the conclusion and they think they're brilliant for arriving at it.
Not that you are for steering them to it.
That doesn't matter.
If you really want to persuade them, understand that very few are going to say, wow, Melissa, you really open my eyes.
Some will, but not all.
So you have to seek refuge and confidence in the belief that you know you are doing right, believing right, and set the example.
And let the chips fall.
You'll end up uh having uh much more happy people around you than you'll realize.
You know what?
Mr. Snerdley, ask if she will give us her number so we continue this.
I'm out of time here.
Uh be easier for us to call her back sometime than for her to get back through.
That's it, folks.
We are out of time.
There's some things I didn't get to today that uh get to tomorrow.
Nothing earth-shattering.
There's some more things we've learned about the uh the shooter in Roanoke, Virginia.
This guy was a real nutcase.
Anyway, you got that.
Whatever happens between now and tomorrow, we'll have it.
We'll see you then.
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