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Sept. 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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What's so funny?
What's somebody laughing about?
Yeah.
What do you mean you're trying to figure out EIB history?
In terms of what?
Whether I'm going to appeal something.
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It's too late.
It's too late to buy the emails.
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna, I was gonna I was gonna make an offer on those uh hacked Hillary emails, and if I was the buyer, if I had the privilege of being able to buy, I was gonna donate to the FBI.
Uh but it seems that the person who hacked into Hillary's email server has pulled the emails off the block and turned them over to the FBI anyway.
Himself.
This is from radaronline.com.
They say they have exclusively learned this.
The uh the hacker told Radar Online, after speaking with my lawyers, I was advised I could not legally sell these and to get rid of them, and to turn in everything I had to the FBI.
Sound legal advice the hacker got the hacker.
Hey, I got her emails, they got 33,000 of them here and are on the market.
What am I bid?
And his lawyer said, You don't want to do this.
So he pulled them and gave them over to the FBI.
Anyway, folks, it's great to have you back here with his telephone number 800 282882.
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Okay.
I've been threatening to do this for two days, and I have just other things have taken precedence.
So I now am going to just discipline myself.
We're gonna do this now.
I mean any big deal, it's just something I've had on the top of the stacks here for two days, and I just kept it actually turned out you know what my instincts on this, I knew if I waited that all hell would break loose over this, and it has now.
So even when I think I'm screwing up, I'm actually not.
Even when I think that I'm making a mistake, I'm really not.
Here's how it all started.
This is Tuesday in Miami, after a campaign stopped, Jeb Bush spoke with reporters and a reporter asked him in Spanish.
Your campaign put out two important statements criticizing Trump's record.
Why are you now reacting to Trump?
Me attaca caladia con barbaridades con cosa que no con ciertos workers palabras el echo de que este hombre no es conservador.
He supports people like Nancy Pelosi, he gave money to Hillary Clinton, he's been a Democrat for more time than Republicans, he said he feels more comfortable being a Democrat.
So he doesn't have a record because he's not been a person who has served, like I, for eight years as governor, but he's not a conservative.
I feel like I'm listening to a UN speech.
Now I think missing is the translator.
That was Jeb Bush.
Speaking Espanyol.
Basically, you know, I have the transcript.
You want to hear what he said?
I mean He said Nancy Purosi.
And he had uh he's a Hilary Clinton.
But other thing.
But stop and think what this was.
This is the presumptive nominee.
The presumptive Republican nominee.
Here, now that play this again.
It speaks for itself.
This is the presumptive in many quarters now.
the desired, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Because he attacks me every day.
He attacks me every day with barbarities, with things that are not true.
What we did today is only to put in his own words the fact that this man is not a conservative.
He supports people like Nancy Pelosi.
He gave money to Hillary Clinton.
He has been a Democrat more than the Republican.
He said he feels more comfortable being a Democrat.
So he doesn't have a record because he's not a person who has served, like me, for 8 years as governor.
But he's not a conservative.
No, he's not a conservative.
the regular.
Alright, here's what he said.
why are you reacting to Trump?
Well, because he attacks me every day.
He attacks me every day with barbarities with things that are not true.
What we did today was simply put in his own words the fact that this man's not conservative.
Backing people like Nancy Pelosi's giving money to Hillary Clinton.
He's been a Democrat longer than he's been a Republican.
He said that he feels more comfortable being a Democrat.
So he he doesn't have a record because he hadn't been a person that served like I have for eight years as governor.
But he's not conservative.
Okay, fine.
I here's the next question for the reporter.
Mr. Governor, what is your strategy to counterattack this Trump phenomenon?
I imagine you have to be worried.
I think we need a proven leadership of a conservative who can change the direction of the country.
And the issue of Trump makes it harder, because man is not a conservative, he has no career that can be said that he is a conservative, and, also, it's about to personalize everything.
If you don't agree with him, you're an idiot, or stupid, or who doesn't have energy, or blah, blah, blah.
All right, what he what he said there was question again, uh what it what is your strategy to counterattack this uh Trump phenomenon?
I mean I imagine you must be worried.
Well, I am worried about the future of this country, and I think we need uh tried leadership from a conservative so that we can change the direction of the country.
And the subject of Trump, it makes that more difficult because the man's not conservative.
He doesn't have a record where you can say that he's conservative.
And besides that, he tends to personalize everything.
If you're not in total agreement with him, you're an idiot or stupido, or that you don't have energy, or blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so Trump reacted to this by saying, you know, I like Jeb.
He's a nice man, but he really should set the example by speaking English when he's in the United States.
Now he ri when he's in the U.S., he ought to speak English.
He he should set the example, he should lead by setting the example.
Now, from that, we have, at least on CNN and in other quarters of the drive-by media, we have a full-blown controversy.
And the controversy is about Trump.
Many in the drive-by media and their associates are saying that this proves that Trump is a nativist.
Now, if you don't know what a nativist is, it's not pretty.
Nativist is an insult.
It's what the Wall Street Journal calls those of you who are opposed to open borders.
If you are opposed to open borders, if you want the law to be adhered to, you are a nativist.
It's not a pretty thing.
It's a cut.
It is an insult.
And so now Trump is being called a nativist, and they actually had a number of televised chat sessions on CNN about this.
And it became a controversy.
That English should be spoken in America.
it became a controversy that Trump said Jeb should lead and speak English.
Now, Trump had his defenders on CNN, but there were more people condemning Trump for speaking English than...
You people that don't understand the Trump phenomena, you don't seem to understand all you're gonna do by continuing to harp on Trump.
You're just gonna add to his support, and you're gonna further energize the supporters he's already got.
Because this to them is not controversial.
This is simple.
English is the official language of this country.
It should be spoken.
If anybody is going to amount to anything in this country, they have to learn English.
It is the language of our country, but But now it is becoming controversial to say that.
It's braggadocious, it's uh it's nativist, it's uh xenophobic to say that.
Now, every day, folks, there are things that happen in our country that make us pause and say, gee, man, we're losing our culture.
Uh, one of those little things might be the lyrics of a song or the subject of a movie.
And then other days there are things that happen that totally shock you, that make you realize we're farther gone than you even knew.
And this is one of those to me.
Where a guy who suggests that a presidential candidate ought to speak in English.
He's the controversy.
He's the problem.
Trump or anybody suggesting that the presidential candidates ought to speak English.
That's a controversial.
I understand go ahead and speaking Spanish here and there.
You want a Spanish audience, you want to show your worldliness and your talents and your skills and so forth.
But Trump's reaction to this was somewhat commonsensical.
The Washington Post reacted to Trump.
They said with that, Trump may have sparked yet another debate about whether or not to make English the official language of the country.
In response, top Bush campaign aides fired back, suggesting that Trump's comments about English put him on a one-man mission to kill the Republican Party.
Really?
Suggesting that English is the official language of this country is tantamount to destroying the Republican Party?
Having the audacity to say that?
Maybe even worse, having the audacity to believe that English is the official language of this country.
That can destroy the Republican Party.
No wonder the Republican Party is in dire straits.
This is if this is astounding to me.
And then here's a another quote.
This is an editorial page editor, Fred Hyatt at the Washington Post.
Listen to this.
When we lived in Moscow, people used to ask my wife and me, who are you by nationality?
And we'd say we were Americans.
Well, invariably the response would come, yeah, yeah, but who are you really?
Russia, you see, is kind of a melting pot, like the U.S., but ethnicities don't melt in quite the same way.
People consider each other first as Armenians, or Tatars, or Jews, and only second as Russians.
So Fred Hyatt here is saying, yeah, Russia, nobody's a Russian first.
They're an Armenian first, or they're uh uh whatever else first, and then they're Russian.
And then he said, that's that's the kind of thinking that Donald Trump and the Republican presidential candidates who are pathetically jumping on his nativist bandwagon would bring to this country.
Are you kidding me?
Would bring it's already here, Mr. Hyatt.
What where in the world are you paying attention?
It's even worse.
We now have we've had Afro-Americans for I don't know how long, and African Americans.
We've uglo Americans.
We've had female Americans.
We we we genderize people before we give their ethnicity.
This country has been the process of Balkanization for years.
What do you mean bring it to this country?
Trump is going to bring this kind of Balkanization?
It's already here.
This guy's exactly opposite.
Trump and other people who think like he does are standing up in opposition to this kind of Balkanization.
We're Americans, and then whatever else second.
And if you review immigration in this country, let's go back to the Ellis Island days of immigration, when Eastern Europe, Western Europe was sending all kinds of refugees here.
They were coming from Poland, they were coming from Italy, they were coming from uh From Ireland, all over the place.
And they came here to be Americans.
They came here to be Americans first.
They did maintain their individual ethnicities.
They set up neighborhoods.
So the Irish lived in certain places and did certain jobs.
The Italians in New York had certain neighborhoods, did certain jobs, but they came here to be Americans first.
They didn't come here to be Italian Americans.
They didn't come here to be Irish Americans.
They came here to be Americans.
They came here, they wanted to become Americans, they did.
They assimilated.
And that became the primary thing they were proud of.
That's what they wanted.
That's not what's happening now.
What's happening now is the exact opposite.
There is no assimilation.
There is no melding or melting pot, if you will.
There is a purposeful balkanization going on, brought to you by the modern day Democrat Party and specifically Barack Hussein O. We have Mexican Americans, we have Hispanic Americans.
We have gay Americans, we have LGBT Americans.
We have Muslim Americans.
We have Americans is always second.
The ethnicity is always number one.
And the modern day Democrat Party wants it that way because they think America needs to be punished.
Because we've been too big for our britches.
We've been too big, we've been too powerful, and we acquired our power in ill-gotten ways.
We stole it, we stole the resources from other people and other countries.
It's absurd and obscene, and this balkanization that's happening in this country right now, they support it.
It's one of the ways you rip apart the fabric of this country.
By diluting what it is to be an American, by making an American seem less important, in importance than anything else about you.
And for Fred Hyatt, the editorial writer for Washington Post to sit here and recount his days in Moscow and say, this is what Trump is bringing to a Trump is raising his hand and trying to stop this.
The conservative movement, the Tea Party, whatever you want to call them, are doing their best to stand up and stop this dilution of what it means to be an American.
We all are.
This is incredible.
And the fact that this has become a controversy, the fact that speaking English in your own country and standing up for that is fighting words, it's incredible.
And I've got a story here.
La Raza has come out and gotten involved in all this.
Guess who?
Jeb Bush.
And they're slamming Trump for English language patriotism.
And we're supposed to bow down.
Oh, well, we're going to want to offend La Raza.
Really?
This is one of those instances where it lets you know it's worse than you thought it was.
You know, this pledge business, folks, I have to tell you, I I think the Republicans are making another mistake.
They think they're winning big here by getting Trump to pledge he won't go third party.
But what's really happening, what's really happening is all these others are at the same time pledging they will support Trump.
That's much bigger news to me than the fact that Trump won't go third party.
You know why Trump won't go third party?
Third parties don't win.
Trump, if he's in this for real, he wants to win.
Third parties don't.
But what's happening now is that all these other Republicans are pledging to support him if he gets a nominee.
There's a classic.
Not realizing what they're doing moves by the Republican Party.
How many, how many old immigrants do you know?
Like maybe your grandfather, grandmother.
They refer to where they came from as the old country.
They assimilated.
They became Americans.
Over in the New York Daily News.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, New York Archdiocese, wrote a piece.
It's unbelievable.
Contained in his piece in his op- in the New York Daily News.
Cardinal Dolan.
Nativism rears its big haired head.
Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric is a sad return to a terrible American tradition.
I mean, this is no different than Fred Hyatt that are worried about, you know, Trump's bringing nativism back.
Nationalism, xenophobia, nativism.
That isn't what is happening here.
That's just it's mind-boggling and incredible.
Anyway, I've got to get to your phone calls here, folks.
We'll do that coming out of the break here at the bottom of the hour.
Otherwise, they're just going to keep piling up.
And I've got to start sometime, so it's next.
Look, all of this is a reaction to Trump suggesting that Jeb Bush lead by speaking English.
Now here's the here's the story in Bright Brain.
Your phone calls are coming up here in Jiffy.
Donald Trump told Brightbart News that former governor Jeb Bush should be speaking English, not the Spanish he spoke to attack Trump in Miami this week in the campaign trail.
So I like Jeb.
He's a nice man, but he should really set the example by speaking English while in the U.S. Now I it sounds simple.
The idea that this is a profundity, the idea that this is a controversy now.
It's just mind-boggling.
Here comes La Raza.
As Donald Trump continues to surge into polls, he's received increasing attacks from pro-amnesty rivals like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
And now here comes La Raza backing Jeb Bush, slamming Trump for English language patriotism.
Trump's call for language patriotism, however, received a stinging rebuke from the ethnic advocacy group La Raza.
By the way, do you know La Raza is federally funded?
It is.
I didn't know it either until I read the Victor Davis Hansen piece on the air to you yesterday.
Federal taxpayers subsidize La Raza.
And here they are.
Every time Trump opens his mouth, he widens the gulf between the Republican Party and Latino voters.
La Raza doesn't care a whit about the Republican Party.
La Raza wants the Republican Party to not exist.
La Raza is the Democrat Party.
And here they are worried what Trump is doing to the to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party doesn't need any help in creating problems for itself.
Sadly.
What is this language, patriotism?
Where the hell did that get started?
How in the hell is the fact that the official language of this country now is even remarking on that?
Suggesting that, supporting that somehow is phony?
Braggadocious, nativist patriotism.
All right, to the phones.
Promised Mike in Double Oak, Texas.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I wanted to uh uh call in uh take issue with your characterization of people who disagreed with uh Brady ruling as being uh the uh envy gang.
Uh it seems to be it's it's more kind of like the uh Trump supporters who are a little bit tired of uh the liars and the cheaters uh kind of taking advantage and hiding behind legalistic uh terms and you know just uh kind of putting one over, and people just don't want to see the uh that slide into their sports.
You know, if someone cheats, they'd like to see him get punished and and you know, follow the rules.
Uh okay, let me first thing to be clear.
I didn't say everybody who was gonna be angry that Brady skated.
I said some are gonna be defined by envy and jealousy that nobody should be that good looking, that tall, nobody should be that good athletic and win all those championships and get the girl.
Nobody.
And there are people that just want people like that cut down to size.
It's no different than the people who vote Democrat because the Democrats tell them they're gonna raise taxes on the rich.
Yeah, yeah, you punish you, man.
Doesn't change their lives at all.
Brady suspended for four games doesn't make somebody better looking and is not gonna get them the girl.
But they're still gonna be made happy about it.
Now you can't deny that there are those guys out there hoping Brady got four games because they wanted him to suffer like they think they do.
No, there's always going to be that that joke, but I think that a larger majority are would like to see their sports not be contaminated by some of the the politics and legalism that goes on in the regular world.
They'd like their sports to be a little less uh you know a little more straightforward.
Right.
Well, okay.
Uh let me take a let me take a stab in the dark here.
And this is not at you.
I'm taking a wild guess.
Are you let me first ask, are you one who thought Brady should be suspended for some games and fined here because of what he did with the footballs and being underinflated?
Actually, I didn't care how the punishment took place.
I just wanted the NFL to take action against the only team that's been caught shooting twice in the last ten years.
Ah, and let me let me guess where it started.
Okay.
It's not spygate.
I'll bet you a dollar to a donut, it's the tuck rule.
And I'll bet you have been ticked off ever since that night, the tuck rule.
Am I right?
No, sir.
That was that wasn't what started it for me.
I I just really I I would like to see the rules be followed.
Okay.
Well, look, I'm not trying to I'm not I'm not trying to impugn your attitude or disqualify it.
Don't I'm not being contentious.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not lumping that that uh I'm not loving you in the group of uh people that wish Brady was not so good looking.
Um but I think that this all started, or a lot of it did with it.
Do you even remember the tuck?
You don't nope, you don't know what the tuck rule is.
Oh, you don't know what the tuck rule is.
Okay, we've got to go back.
Brady's first season.
When whenever that was, uh early 2000s, this is 2015, which has to be 200 two or three.
Doesn't matter.
The starting quarterback at the time was Drew Bledsoe.
In a game against the New Jersey Jets.
A Jets linebacker by the name of Mo Lewis hit Bledsoe so severely that Bledsoe had to be taken to the hospital with internal bleeding and almost died.
That opened the slot for Brady.
Brady became the quarterback halfway through the season, and they end up making the playoffs.
They have a Saturday night first prime time playoff game in NFL history, other than the Super Bowl.
It's at Old Foxboro Stadium.
It's a snowstorm.
It's the Oakland Raiders.
The Patriots are losing.
It's near the end of the game.
The Patriots have played a good game, but the Raiders have played an even better game.
And the Raiders have did everything, they've they faced every obstacle in the game.
It was, I think, third down and something.
Brady goes back to pass, and to everybody watching the game, he sacked and fumbles and the Raiders recover.
End of game.
Run out clock.
That's it.
Referee comes in, says, Nope, incomplete pass.
Brady was not trying to throw.
He was trying to tuck the ball back into his body.
Therefore, when you are when you're when you look like you're gonna pass, but you're not, you're trying to bring the ball back, and you fumble, it's incomplete.
It's not a fumble.
Well, Raider Nation had an absolute cow.
Everybody blew up.
They thought, who paid what to get this route?
Nobody ever heard of the tuck rule, much less ever seen it invoked like this.
So the the Patriots keep the ball, they go on and score, they tie the game, and then in overtime, Vinateri kicks like a 50-yard field goal in three feet of snow, a big win, and they go on to win a Super Bowl.
And there are people who think that the Patriots have illegitimately been winners ever since that game.
That was the tuck rule.
Now you add everything after Spygate and whatever else that was entailed.
Spygate, by the way, there are people who firmly believe that it wasn't just video.
They think the Patriots were intercepting audio signals from the other team's bench to the quarterback in order to determine what play had been called or what was coming.
And Goodell threw away all the evidence in Spygate.
He destroyed all the evidence after handing out his punishment.
And ever since then, there have been people of the belief the Patriots got off easy.
Belichick got a half a million dollar fine and so forth, but no games were taken away, and they're delayed.
And I think it's some owners, too.
I think some owners have been holding a grudge, thinking the Patriots are getting away with all this stuff.
And I think it's one of the reasons why they were so insistent going after the team here.
But that was the tuck rule.
The tuck rule is the beginning point for all the people who think the Patriots get away with cheating.
What's three strikes?
So what that's three strikes.
No, no, they're not getting any punishment.
That's the whole point.
The league got punished today for trying to enforce the rules on the Patriots.
For whatever reason.
Look, we've been through that in the first hour.
I'm not going to relive that.
But the that that's that's what the tuck rule was.
And uh it had been around since 1999, but I don't think anybody I d I never can recall it being called before that night.
Nobody could.
You look at the play today, it's a fumble.
There's no, I mean, even Bob Ryan, the dean of sports writers of the Boston Globe, had a column on it a couple of days later.
It was a fumble, he wrote.
It was a fumble.
It nearly ran him out of town.
Well, for a time.
Tuck rule.
Nobody could tuck rule.
Are you kidding me?
He looked like even if he was trying to bring it back in, he still fumbled it.
What the hell tuck rule?
Who says you get to hold on to the ball after you fumble it just because you're trying to tuck it?
What the hell is that?
People were saying.
It was the 2001-2002 season.
There was like a minute and a half left in a game, minute 50.
The Raiders were up 13 to 10.
Brady goes back to pass.
Charles Woodson sacks him.
Greg Beekert recovered the fumble.
The Raiders recovered the fumble.
Game over.
The referee, da-da-da-da-da-da-walt Coleman.
The Oakland Raiders refused to ever play another game in the league if he was the official.
So he was never assigned a Raiders game from that point forward.
Al Davis refused.
If I'm not mistaken, Walt Coleman, that was a it was one of these knees they did on review.
The call on the field was a fumble.
And they reviewed it, looked at a call to the Tuck Rule.
Walt Coleman, if I'm not mistaken, was the game official in the AFC championship game earlier this year, the deflate gate controversy game, in which the game balls delivered to him disappeared for like a couple of minutes after he had measured their weight and oh, I think it's Walt Coleman.
Anyhow, back to the phones.
Here's Alex in Temecula, California.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, Alex Hi.
Thank you so much, Rich.
Um, straight to the subject.
Um in regard to Trump, Trump and uh and Bush and the fact that uh English uh is being our our first language.
My father was born in Vodovostok, Russia, and migrated through Siberia into China and then came to the United States, San Francisco.
And I was born 70 years ago.
I'm 70.
But but the one thing that he insisted upon was that I speak English, only English, and that I become an American.
And that the uh the the fact that I was an American was primed his patriotism because he was one of the most patriotic people I've I've ever known in my life.
He passed away 20 years ago.
And um and I I just it's it's sad to me that it's becoming uh incorrect or politically incorrect to be an American and to be able to speak English as a first language that uh I'll tell you what it is.
I'll tell you what you're exactly right.
What is happening here, slowly but surely, do not doubt me.
You're you're gonna think this this may sound a little over the top.
What's happening here is that it is becoming something of guilt.
It is guilty.
You are guilty to be an American.
So if in the United States of America, a presidential candidate goes out and starts talking Spanish, speaking Spanish, and another candidate say, you know, I think you ought to speak English.
Then all of a groups rally around the guy who spoke Spanish, and then furthermore, condemn as a nativist and is a bad guy, as uh as a xenophobe, the candidate suggests that English be spoken because it's the language of the country.
What on earth makes this controversial?
What where in the world is it controversial that the national language of any country be spoken?
What it well, it doesn't fit with the outreach program, but it's more than that.
There has to be something overall overriding that.
I'm sure the outreach program, we're trying to reach out to Hispanics because we want to get their votes, the Republicans, blah, blah, blah.
That's but that's if I can just address that, that is a that is a sign of just how pathetic.
We really believe here that Hispanic voters are so whatever the word would be, that all we have to do to get their votes is pander to them, that somehow a candidate speaking Spanish is gonna be enough to get their vote.
And so it's not the thing.
The thinking is it maybe that may be the thinking of the Republican Party, but there's something overriding it.
There's something that there's an umbrella under which that falls, and that is that America itself is unjust.
That America itself is not legitimate.
It is flawed deeply from its founding.
You you cannot get one place to the other without believing that.
Because there has to be an element of guilt.
You are committing you are behaving guiltly.
It's not that you feel guilt.
That's not saying that.
I'm saying you're committing a crime.
You are guilty of believing in America's superiority by insisting that English be spoken.
That's nativism.
That's populism.
That's xenophobia, that's racism or what have you.
And the only way those kinds of theories can exist is if you have already accepted that America's existence is illegitimate, that its founding was immoral and illegitimate and unjust, and that all of this is part of the process of correcting all of the unjust immorality and illegitimacy of the founding of this country.
In other words, English as the official language is illegitimate because the country is.
The country exists because it was built on the backs of slaves.
Whatever they want to say to disqualify the greatness or any other aspect of this country.
I mean, to me, this is I couldn't believe when I got up today and I read about this, and I thought that there was really a deep controversy here over the fact that Trump had said, so you know who ought to speak English.
That that became controversial, and that it was something for which Trump was overwhelmingly guilty.
It's committed some grave error.
What do you have to believe in order to think that?
Anyway, I'm up against it on time here, my friends, but fear not there's always more, and we'll have it when we get back.
What's exclusionary?
Oh.
Yeah, speaking English is exclusion.
It's exactly what I'm that kind of idiotic thinking that speaking Spanish is exclusionary.
And uh discriminating.
It's cockeyed.
By the way, folks, the Kentucky clerk that refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, she's been put in jail.
She was uh found in contempt of court today and ordered her into custody.
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