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Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
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Great to have you here.
Open Line Friday, where you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Doesn't matter if I care about it or not.
Monday through Thursday, I have to care about it because I don't want to get bored because if I get bored, the listeners are going to get bored and then nobody's going to listen.
But I put that at risk on Friday.
Okay, I just saw a guy walking back into the studio here.
And right before the end of the news break at the top of the hour, and I saw on the Fox News channel, somebody was interviewing Hillary.
I don't know who.
It might have been the CNN monitor.
I don't know.
I didn't listen to it and look at it.
I just had a thought.
Oh, it's Andrea Mitchell.
I didn't see News Washington.
So this is the third interview Hillary has done in like, what, two years?
And it was about the emails.
Right.
Because Andrea Mitchell wants her to get this behind her.
Andrea Mitchell's tired of it.
She's fed up with it.
And I did see that a graphic went by that said Marco Rubio says that she's playing with fire, that she's on the verge of something blowing up.
Let me just ask all of you a question.
Is there any way, I mean, do any of you really think she's not going to be the Democrat nominee?
And if you think she's not going to be the Democrat nominee, two things.
Who is and what's going to cause her to lose it?
I mean, it's easy to, oh, yeah, this email going to blow up in her face.
You're going to be indicted.
Really?
I don't know.
And even if the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip still happens, what's it going to take?
There's going to have to be an alternative.
I mean, they're not going to dump her if there's not an alternative.
Who is the alternative?
How is this going to happen?
I can see her being the nominee even if she's indicted.
And I'm only being half funny here.
Seriously, how does it happen that she does not get the Democrat Party nomination?
If you want to take a stab at that, have at it.
I mean, I have my own answers to the question, but what good is that?
Open line Friday.
I want to hear what you think.
Here's the CNN poll.
Donald Trump often vows he'll win the Hispanic vote if he becomes the Republican nominee.
Says here, if so, he might have some work to do.
It's a new Washington Post-ABC news poll released two days ago.
Finds that Trump is viewed unfavorably by 82% of Hispanics, with 68% of them feeling strongly so.
And just 15% of those surveyed said they view Trump favorably.
Those numbers are a sharp contrast to the Spanish-speaking Jeb Bush, who in this poll is viewed favorably by 43% of Hispanic voters, a higher percentage than is usual for Republicans.
But only 39% of whites have a favorable view of Bush, compared to 48% who have a positive opinion of Trump.
Now, there are two separate polls, the names of which escape me.
I think one's Pew and the other might be IBD Tip.
I can't remember.
In both of those polls, back in May, overall, Trump's unfavorables were 61 and 63%.
And last week, in both of those polls, his unfavorable favorable had done a total flip to now.
His favorables in one of those polls is 59 and in another one, 62.
I mean, it's a total flip-flop.
And that was just voters overall.
That was not polled by ethnic group.
Now, this poll having come out on Wednesday in the Washington Post, this probably explains why Trump was going, spent so much time yesterday in the post-pledge presser speaking of his affection for Hispanics, the numbers that he has hired, and likes and so forth.
And this is what Gloria Borger was talking about on CNN yesterday afternoon when I zeroed in because she didn't quite get to say it because it was a four-panel show and everybody was trying to talk at the same time.
But she was trying to point out that Trump was backing off the red meat that his supporters love.
You know, the Hispanics are rapists, the illegals are rapists and murderers and muggers and personatchers.
And he's not talking like that anymore about them.
I know she was going to make the point that he's backing off.
He's starting to sound a little bit more presidential on this.
And she wanted to ask whether or not his red meat supporters are going to be satisfied with the new moderate tone coming from Trump on Hispanics.
Now, it's a fascinating premise behind the poll.
What is the premise behind the poll?
The premise behind the poll is this is apparently nobody can get elected president in this country unless they have the Hispanic vote.
Now, during my 27 years, now into our 28th, behind the golden EIB microphone, it seems like it's shifted.
One election, whoever got the soccer bombs was going to win.
The next election, whoever got women was going to win.
Could not win the presidency without women.
And then another year and a frequent number of years, it was African Americans.
If you don't get the African American vote, you don't have a prayer.
It is never said by any of these polling units, if you don't, as a Republican, solidify turnout among your base, you will never win.
They never poll that.
They always go out and poll things that they are confident will show the Republicans lacking, as in hated and despised by certain ethnic groups.
And that's what this ABC News Washington Post poll is.
And Gloria Borger, yesterday on CNN, she had talked to Mitt Romney.
Yes.
The standard-bearer.
You know, we won an election with Mitt Romney, right?
So she was going out and talking to Mitt Romney as though he knows how to win elections, except he didn't.
And she said that Mitt Romney got 27% of the Hispanic vote, and he told her that the Republican Party just can't do that.
They're going to have to get far, far more than if they have a chance to win the White House.
And then she cited that Romney told her that George Bush got George W. Bush got in the 40s with the Hispanic vote.
Nobody seems to want to tell the following stat, though.
A bunch of people have run the numbers.
You're probably tired of me pointing it out, but it's as long as they're going to continue trying this misdirection, I'm going to continue hitting you between the eyes with the truth.
The truth is, if you look at all of the numbers post-election, state by state, group by group, gender by gender, orientation by orientation, however you want to divvy it, what you will find, if everything stayed the same, except Mitt Romney got 70% of the Hispanic vote, he still would not have won the election.
He would not have won the popular vote, and he would not have won the Electoral College vote.
And yet they persist in thinking at the Republican establishment that they don't have a prayer unless they get the Hispanic vote.
And so Jeb goes out and starts speaking Spanish as though somehow that's going to convert to votes.
It's pandering, I think.
And how they miss.
I mean, you would think these are people who do want to win elections, right?
You would think that they want to be honest about what they have to do to win.
Why do they lie to themselves?
Why did they not tell themselves 70% of the Hispanic vote would not have won it for them?
So then what did they fall short in?
They had to fall short somewhere.
If 70% of the Hispanic vote still would not have secured a win for Romney, then what didn't they get in addition to the Hispanic vote?
Well, we all know the answer.
For whatever reason, 4 million people who voted in 2008 did not vote in 2012.
Republicans.
I don't know that they were all conservative.
I don't know that they were all part of the Republican base, but 4 million people staying home is a big number.
Now, you will see consultants and establishment types argue with that.
No, no, no, no.
I hear Limbaugh talking about that all the time.
He's wrong about that.
It's a little bit more complicated.
No, it's not.
And I've never heard them try to explain, or I haven't even heard them acknowledge the 70% stat of Hispanics that even had Romney got that, which no Republican ever has, by the way.
No Republican has ever gotten 70% of the Hispanic.
It was never going to happen.
Even if Romney had set records, he still wouldn't have won.
Now, I would think they'd want to be honest with themselves about this.
Even if it's not publicly, just honest internally.
Because winning elections is what it's all about.
But now they're sitting here.
Now they've got this ABC Washington Post poll.
And they've got to see 82% of Hispanics view Trump unfavorably.
And they're all sitting there.
See, see, we told you he can't win.
He's going to bottom out.
You see, it's going to come back.
And I just want to remind everybody that he was 60% disapproval in May in two other polls and did a massive turnaround.
I don't know if it's going to happen with the Hispanic vote.
But it has happened.
And of course, I guess we have to believe this.
It's the ABC Washington Post poll.
You can't run around and say, yeah, cherry-pick a poll and say you don't believe it.
You can't do that.
I mean, you could, but you wouldn't have any credibility.
You have to go with it.
Now, the Trump Easter Sunday golf course story.
I've been meaning to tell this a couple of days.
Now it's an isolated.
I forget why I was even going to mention the story.
It related to something that was happening.
But since I committed to telling the story, here it is.
Trump and I had agreed to play golf on a Sunday many, many weeks in advance, not realizing it was Easter Sunday.
We both show up.
Nobody, neither one of us called the other to cancel on the basis that it was Easter.
So we showed up, showed up early, balls in the air at 8 o'clock.
And about 10 o'clock, Trump's phone starts ringing.
Excuse me, what do you mean, just to rush?
He goes a few steps away, comes back, and is everything okay?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's keep going.
Phone keeps ringing every 20 minutes.
And it's Melania reminding him that it's Easter, and they've got a big thing going at Mar-a-Lago.
And we both knew it, but had not acknowledged it because we both screwed up scheduling on that day.
It wouldn't have happened, but it just escaped memory.
The idea was to play early, get it done, and be finished by noon and be able to meet church and Easter Sunday that are required.
Melania was getting worried that Trump wasn't going to make it.
So he finally said, Rush, you know, you might quit early.
I mean, we were, I think, at 15.
And I said, not at all.
Let's just hear it.
Let's just jump over, play 18, and head on in.
And that's what we did.
The reason I was going to tell you the story, it was going to relate to something that was happening at the time.
It had to do with Trump and women.
Is that he was extremely deferential when Melania was on the phone, and he did everything he could not to cancel on me and to satisfy the commitment and make it home in time for Easter.
It was just the reason I was going to tell the story at the time this came up, there was something being said that Trump, the usual selfish, self-centered, self-focused, doesn't respect women kind of thing.
And this, the reason I was going to tell the story was to personal experience and dispel all of that.
So we got it wrapped up by like 11 o'clock and everything was fine.
Everything was fine.
And as we're heading out to the parking lot, he's pointing, see that?
See that?
See that Rolls-Royce had belongs to the richest guy in Italy.
No, no, no, no, it's the Ferrario, richest guy in Italy.
And he's pointing out every car he knows whose car every member is.
It's just funny.
It was just, there's nothing about his personality is offensive or off.
You just, you marvel.
You stand there laughing at it.
At least you get into it with him.
You know, he hits the ball 300 yards off.
I've heard that he cheats on his handicap, but he doesn't.
He played to a six the day we played.
I played with him a number of times.
Every time I played with him, he plays to a six, and he hits the ball a mile.
And he was surprised when he found out when he saw how far I hit the ball.
He said, you know what?
This is really you.
You got a chance at this game.
I mean, you can't play the game.
You can't hit the ball far.
Nobody wants to tell anybody that.
You know, he's wimps out here.
I see them using a white teas lady sees.
I just have to laugh at them.
But they're members, so I look past it.
But you can hit the ball.
You can't play this game because you can't swing hard.
You can swing hard.
You can hit the ball.
You got good, solid contact.
This is a great decision.
You should keep after it.
He said, if I couldn't hit the ball 180 yards off the tee, I'd quit.
It wouldn't be any fun.
I wouldn't want to be out here.
I see these guys out there swinging everything they've got, 150 yards.
I just cringe.
I cry, my God, but they're good paying members.
What am I going to do?
I love them all, Rush.
I love them all.
But if I couldn't play, I couldn't play if I couldn't hit the ball like 250 yards, it wouldn't be any fun.
And the whole time, bragging about every hole, how it was designed, why it's better than any other golf hole in the world, why his waterfall is better than anybody else's waterfall, how Vegas copied his waterfall.
Gets a riot.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away.
Now there's another poll on Trump's favorability with Hispanics.
It is a Bloomberg poll.
And Trump has a net favorable among Hispanics of plus 51 in this poll.
So it's quite a disparity.
The ABC, Washington Post poll, 82% disapproval.
In the Bloomberg poll, 51% approval.
What are you going to do?
Here's Art in Hartford, Connecticut, as we head back to the phones.
Thank you for waving, Art.
Great to have you on the show.
Hi, Rush.
Look, I'm kind of confused about the whole Iran deal.
And my thought, I mean, the Constitution says Congress is supposed to approve treaties.
Yeah.
And that's a deal between two countries, which this is.
Yeah.
So it came, I was thinking now, why would the Republicans want to reverse the burden?
Why would they say, why doesn't Obama need to get a 66 vote?
And, you know, I think they really don't want the decision on this.
I think that they're afraid that if the treaty gets turned down by the Senate, then if we do have to bomb Archin or Fordo or Iraq or any of those places, Iraq, not Iraq, any of those places, Obama will turn around and say, this is the fault of the Senate that we're doing this.
And I think they're afraid of that responsibility.
So if they figure this way, if the deal goes bad, they can just say, you know, it's Obama's deal.
It's his fault.
So they're more concerned about the politics than they are about the principle of stopping Iran from getting a bomb.
They don't care about it.
They don't care about our dead population.
I think you're overthinking it.
I don't think the Republicans are thinking down the road at all.
I think they're thinking no further than their nose.
And it is, we just don't dare publicly criticize or oppose our president.
Obama's loved and adored.
He's African-American.
There's nothing in it for us.
So they go through the motions with the corker bill of making their supporters think that they oppose it and are fighting it when they're not.
Corker bill actually put the onus on the Senate to stop it, which it was never going to do, rather than putting the onus on the president to make it happen.
They just don't want any part of being seen as opposing Obama.
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Here's Vanessa in Vernon, Connecticut.
Hi, Vanessa.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Good day, Rush.
I'd like to say that years ago, this woman, Kim, would have been getting great support, but because of our efforts, no one understands her courage and her moral values anymore.
So I called to gloat about the fact that she is not receiving the kind of love and support that she needs because of women like Mary Bonato, president of GLAAD, and because of women like Camille Paglia, a friend of Christina Hoff Summers.
And it's the women who take the lead, Rush.
Have you noticed that they're more driven than the men?
The lesbians have driven this destruction of the youth effectively, whereas the men couldn't do it earlier.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on a minute.
I'm not sure.
I understand from where you're coming.
Are you supportive or opposed to Kim Davis?
Well, of course, I'm opposed to Kim, but I'm just saying that isn't it great that we ladies of the left have brought about a condition where she's not getting the kind of charity that she deserves, having demonstrated courage years ago.
No, wait, see, that's what's getting.
Wait a minute.
If you're opposed to Kim, she doesn't deserve any support because she's wrong.
Well, I'm just saying, isn't it remarkable how effective the ladies of the left have been?
In other words, we have a group called the Ladies of the Left that is part of the Ferris and Friends on LinkedIn.
And we've gotten together and we've formed an unstoppable group of women to destroy the youth of the country by populating the schools with propaganda.
You are calling to gloat in victory of your destruction of the moral code of the country and in schools.
Very perceptive, Rush.
That's why we admire you so much, and we follow all of your 35 undeniable truths of life.
We've stolen them and used them for our use because as the youth have been dumbed down, they don't understand.
They've propagandized and they can't speak up because they think that this woman is wrong.
And you know, she's right, but we beat her.
And we beat some of the people.
So wait a minute.
If I'm to understand you correctly here, Vanessa, you are part of the ladies of the left, some lesbians, and you've bullied and overpowered every bit of moral opposition.
You're succeeding in destroying the moral code of the country, and you're happy.
Well, of course, but not just lesbians.
The ladies of the left.
Well, I know not just lesbians, but you mentioned lesbians.
I wanted to be sure and include them in the glory.
Well, the lesbians are the leaders.
You know, the Latins had an expression, dux femina focti, dux femina facti, a woman will be the leader of the deed.
And that's why we've been able to accomplish this, where the men, for example, Henry Hay, I don't know if you're familiar with Henry Hay, but he was a communist pro-homosexual leader in the earlier years, and he couldn't get it done.
But once you give it to women, they're driven.
We are driven, and we are resourceful.
We are dedicated.
You know, you mentioned you're devoted to the word the other day, and that's why you've done so well.
We congratulate you.
Devoted to the word.
Yes, you said on your broadcast the other day that I am devoted to words and the word and the meaning of it.
And see, we got you and everyone else using a term called gay marriage.
Once you use that word, the game's over.
We win.
As soon as you drop the label homosexual.
But see, you are celebrating victory over what you are acknowledging here is the blowing up of a great moral culture.
You're happy.
That's correct.
So let's realize what has happened to us.
Shows like yours, Rush are.
No, no, no, no, no.
Nothing's happened to us.
What we're talking about is what you have succeeded in doing.
When I say us, I mean U.S., United States.
No, that's not what you meant.
Now you're starting to swerve away here.
You've got to own this, Vanessa.
We do own it.
Look at Mary Bonato.
Look at what she did state by state.
Barry Bernardo.
Mary Bernardo.
Bernardo, B-O-N-B-U-T-O, Bonato, president of GLAAD, the gay lesbian advocates and defenders.
Right, right.
She recently showed her effectiveness by putting her head up on the steps of the Supreme Court after the decision was announced.
She had been stealth up to that time.
Do you understand?
Yes, Vanessa.
I do.
I'm sure the audience is kind of perplexed right now, but I understand this full-fledged 100%.
I do.
By the way, do you know how to spell star?
I do.
Why do you ask?
Well, because you're giving all these other, you're spelling all these other words.
I don't know if you can spell star.
I spell it S-T-A-R-R.
No, L-I-M-B-A-U-G-H.
Olimba.
Yes.
We love the Rush because we got your program and we turned it to our benefit.
Well, I'm happy that you're happy.
Here you have a Democrat woman who has stood up for her religious values.
She has been run roughshod.
Her religious values have been shown not to count.
She's a Democrat, 27 years in office, and she is worthless to the Democrat Party.
They'd just as soon destroy her and put her in jail as anything else, which they have done.
Well, I've been listening to all of these young people who are children of the Tea Party types, and they're in support of her doing her job.
You see, they don't understand the virtue that she has.
And we took that ability to understand that away from them.
We poisoned their minds.
Right, you have succeeded in polluting and destroying.
You have succeeded in filling our culture with rot.
You have used your enemies in order to do it by getting us to use your language.
You have had great success, and you're calling here to laud it over all of us and thank us for helping to make your agenda happen by opposing it.
That's a big part of it.
Well, what did I leave out?
I want fellow Americans to understand how they got into this mess.
It's not a mess.
Why are you calling it a mess?
You won.
This is the America you want.
No, but it's a mess for them because there are people I love who are walking around scratching their head there saying, What the bleep just happened.
There was a book by that title by Monica Crowley, What the Bleep Just Happened, and they don't realize that the GPS, that is the government public schools, for the last 40 years have been run by.
They know they know exactly what happened.
Everybody knows exactly what's happened here.
Well, I want them to be comforted by that rush because, you know, I understand that to the victor belong the spoils.
I'm not saying they're comfortable.
No, no, I didn't.
I'm not saying anybody's comforted by it, but you seem to think that you've pulled off this gigantic coup over everybody using their aid, unwilling assistance and so forth.
And we all know how it happened.
We all know what's going on.
I think it's interesting, Vanessa, that you know, if you're on the level with me here, you know what you've done.
You know it's no good, but you still are so happy you've pulled it off that you are more happy.
You're happier that others are in misery than you are happy over what you've achieved.
And that speaks volumes, and we will be back.
Okay, using proprietary software and special algorithms, folks, we have, Vanessa has called this program before most recently back in June.
We have we've run both calls through our analytical software.
She is a legit leftist.
If you think that she was a satirical parody, satire, wrong.
She's a legitimate leftist.
This has been confirmed.
She's an example of how you should not try that at home.
Try this at home.
But she was being dead serious.
She knows full well what she's done, and she's happy she's done it.
And my last commenter is right on the money.
The woman is happier over your misery than she is at her own achievement.
And her real point was that the leftist men are a bunch of wimps and didn't get any of it done, that it took women and lesbians to get it all done.
That was the real thrust of what she wanted to point out.
I kept distracting her, but not intentionally, but just by probing questions.
Now, this would be an excellent opportunity to remind you of a book that I suggested, I think, last week.
Particularly, I have a story right here.
Millennials have a low opinion of themselves compared to boomers.
Did you see this story?
This is a Washington Post.
Millennials have a relatively low opinion of their generation.
They don't even like the label millennials to describe the group that they've been lumped into, especially when compared to baby boomers who eagerly self-identify as such.
And the thrust of the story is the millennials are not happy.
They're not sure who they are.
They don't have much faith in the country.
They're worried about their future.
They don't like all being lumped together.
They give themselves low rankings in categories like patriotism, responsibility, willingness to sacrifice, religiousness, morality, self-reliance, compassion, political activism.
59% say that self-absorbed is an apt description of their generation.
That's nothing to baby boomers.
It's 95% and growing.
But nevertheless, you know, everybody talks about the millennials as the future.
And the millennials, according to this, they're not feeling it.
Now, my buddy Mark Levin, his new book is called Plunder and Deceit.
And it is like sixth or seventh book.
And the purpose of this book, it's aimed at young people.
And I guess after reading it, my book report would be it is aimed at young people.
And it's an attempt to tell them why many of the things they support are actually to blame for their unhappiness.
Many of the things that they think are right, many of the things they think they believe in are actually the source of their destruction.
It goes topic by topic, but it's all rooted around the fact that the end of the day, what they end up supporting is big, overpowering government to fix all kinds of things that everybody thinks are wrong.
Global warming is just one example.
Healthcare is another.
But the greatness of this book is it's targeting these particularly, we say young people, they're adults, but they're young adults.
And it is an attempt to get them, because the media doesn't do it, their education let them down.
They simply are supporting their own, not destruction, but they're supporting things that are resulting in the loss of their liberty.
And as they lose their liberty, they lose their opportunity.
Everybody does.
You lose liberty, you lose freedom, you lose opportunity.
And it's an attempt with hard cold facts and data and irrefutable evidence.
It's an attempt to counter the education that they've all had and to get them to wake up and to realize what they must do in order to have a future they anticipate and look forward to.
It really, it's not slogging.
It's not heavy reading.
I mean, it could be depending on the amount of data you want to examine it to be, but just the message is crystal clear.
And again, it's called plunder and deceit.
Just search the great one.
That might do it.
Actually, Mark Levin, the author, Plunder and Deceit.
Nope, it's the best way to describe it.
Plunder and Deceit is written for young people.
It's an attempt to explain to them how the things they are supporting, they're being exploited, big government making them feel guilty and all that.
The things that they are supporting are actually eroding their liberty.
And it makes it crystal clear.
Folks, we're not here on Monday.
We have a best-of show, right?
Because it's Labor Day.
What do you mean you didn't know I wasn't going to be?