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Sept. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Here's the story in the uh in the weekly standard that you knew about a couple of days ago.
Oh, look at I'm sorry to make a big deal out of this, but I told Snerdley when I came here today.
I got in here this morning after he asked me if I'd had any fun with the Apple stuff.
He said, You you you look kind of ticked off.
So I'm not ticked off.
I'm just, you know, I'm I'm driving in here, I'm listening to the radio, watching TV on the audio on the radio, whatever, and I'm hearing all these people talk about stuff I did two days ago.
And I admitted it, it was somewhat frustrating.
Why?
You beat everybody with it.
I know, I know, it just it just I can't explain it.
Uh but the Weekly Standard has a piece.
Um Clinton takes tough shot at Obama.
And this is simply the reaction everybody finally caught in that sound bite where she's talking about people need a leader they can count on again, a leader that they can believe in.
Uh again.
Get this, the State Department, this and the Daily Caller.
The State Department admitted yesterday that it did not know that a career diplomat hired as the agency's new email czar had donated the maximum amount of money to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
John Kerry, I'm sorry, Jean-Francois Harry, our Secretary of State who once served in Vietnam, if you didn't know, made a big deal claiming they've hired this internet czar.
They've hired an email czar at the State Department.
Transparency czar.
They're gonna make sure this kind of stuff doesn't get out of hand in the future.
And they said, Oh, is this a reaction to the uh email server problem, Mrs. Clinton?
And Joan Francois.
No, no, no, not related to Mrs. Clinton at all.
This is just a continuing effort here at our State Department to stay ahead of everything and make sure that people can trust that what happens here is secure and private and blah, blah.
And so now they would have hired this new czar, and they find out afterwards that the czar is a heavy donor to Hillary Clinton.
Regardless of the potential conflict of interest, the spokesman for the State Department, John Kirby, also acknowledged that the new hire will be involved in processing Clinton's emails.
Her name is Janice Jacobs.
Not folks, this is the kind of stuff that people hear, and you don't hear people react to this.
The media doesn't go out and ask people what they think of this, but this is the kind of thing it infuriates people.
I mean, here we are in the midst of, and it's just one of a long line of things that irritates people.
Here we are, smack dab in the middle of a controversy over Mrs. Clinton and did she violate the law or not?
Is she getting away with it or not by having a private email absorber?
And by the way, there's another thing that just occurred to me, and it may have occurred to you a little while ago.
You know, she claimed all of these emails were personal, and that that justified deleting them and keeping them out of public view.
Thirty-three thousand of them.
Over half of the emails emails in that server she said were personal, and therefore nobody else's business.
And they had things in there like her yoga uh lessons and the uh rehearsal dinner and and wedding arrangements for Chelsea and this kind of stuff.
But it's it struck me that if she she could have stuff in there from Vladimir Putin, whoever it is, and call it personal and therefore delete it, nobody would think anything of it.
Well, not that wouldn't think anything of it, but what are they gonna do?
She's claimed it's personal.
It's gone.
Nobody will ever see.
I mean, you could literally, you could claim all of it's personal because it was sent to her, whether she's Secretary of State or not.
Now they go out and they hire a czar.
This is another thing.
Is there nobody?
How many people work at the State Department?
How many tens of thousands of nobody in there that they can assign to be the email czar?
Why do we even need an email czar?
And especially if they tell us it's got nothing to do with Hillary.
How stupid did they think we are?
And then they go out and hire somebody who's a Hillary donor.
And then it's discovered she's a donor, but it isn't gonna matter.
She's gonna stay, and it won't affect the way she does her job.
People are not swallowing that kind of stuff.
Hillary has also urged help for Syrian refugees.
Let's get back to this European migration thing.
This is somewhat uh this is getting interesting in the sense that it is possible here.
In fact, it may even be happening here.
The Obama administration is flying Syrian refugees into the United States, and it's in numbers of hundreds of thousands.
I think it's I think I saw the number 100,000 so far this year.
Hillary Clinton called on the United Nations yesterday to press countries to take in Syrian refugees, pointing to this month's General Assembly as a prime opportunity for action.
She had a speech at the Brookings Institution yesterday, and she said there should be an emergency global gathering where the United Nations literally tries to get commitments.
I obviously want the United States to do our part.
Now the smartest woman in the world, as she is also known, clearly doesn't know that for the last 40 years or longer, the U.S. has taken in more than 70% of all UN designated refugees.
Did you know that?
Oh, we lead the league in humanitarian causes, folks.
There's nobody even close to us.
In the last 40 years, or maybe longer, we've taken in more than 70% of all the people the UN has said are refugees.
And in fact, for those of you in Rio Linda, that means that the U.S. has taken in far more refugees than the rest of the countries of the world combined.
You know how many of this since 1975?
Close to four million.
This hasn't, and this is above and beyond, it's apart from the invasion of our southern border that people call illegal immigration.
So just how much more do we have to do to do our part?
And this is a constant refrain from the left, no matter what this country does, no matter what the people of this country do, it seems never enough.
We've only spent what, 10 trillion dollars, transferred 10 trillion dollars just through the war on poverty alone.
And every year, the Democrat Party comes as part of their campaign, wagging a finger and telling people that they're greedy and selfish, because maybe they want a tax cut and keep more of their money because they don't care about the needy, don't care about the poor, don't care about the hungry, the starving, the thirsty, or whatever.
We lead the league.
How much more do we need to do to do our part?
I mentioned at the top of the program that there is a new book out, and the story about this is in the Atlantic, and it is becoming increasingly challenging for me just to tell you the title of this book.
It's got the F bomb in it.
What am I supposed to do here?
And even not saying it, but spelling it out minus one letter, you still it's like saying it, isn't it?
The title of the book, the first word is F asterisk CK.
Gee, I wonder what it is.
The second word in the title is feelings.
So that's the title of the book.
Let me change the lingo just to be able to say it.
Screw feelings.
That's the title of the book.
Stop fruitlessly seeking closure with your peevish co worker.
Don't bother telling your spouse how annoying you find their tongue-clicking habit.
Sometimes honesty is less like a breath of fresh air and more like a fart, is what this thing says.
This is a book.
That's the argument of Michael Bennett and Sarah Bennett, the father-daughter duo behind the new self-help book, Screw Feelings.
The elder Bennett, Michael Bennett, is a psychiatrist and American Psychiatric Association distinguished fellow.
His daughter is a comedy writer.
Together, they provide a tough love, irreverent take on life's impossible problems.
The crux of their approach is that life is hard and negative emotions are part of it.
The key is to see your gee, here we go again.
What am I?
The key is to see your BS wishes for just what they are.
BS.
And instead to pursue real achievable goals instead of sitting out there and whining and moaning and talking about how you feel about things.
Stop trying to forgive your bad parents, they advise.
Jerks are capable of having as many kids as anybody else, at least until men's rights conventions come equipped with free vasectomy booths.
If you happen to be the child of a jerk, it's just another obstacle to overcome, but stop whining about it.
Don't tell everybody how you feel about it.
Just do something about it.
In fact, stop trying to free yourself of all the anger and hate.
In all likelihood, you're doing a really awesome job, the Bennett's argue, despite all of the here we go, what crappy things that happened.
This is incredible.
Oh, and one word, profanity is a source of comfort, clarity, and strength, they write.
It helps to express anger without blame, to be tough and face the pain.
Anyway, you talk about a book with a really great premise that goes nowhere.
It sounds like this one.
But it's an argument against this overwhelming sentiment that's taken over society that sharing your feelings with everybody is the key to intimate relationships and the key to having a fun-filled, satisfying life, doing nothing but telling everybody how what they do makes you feel, and it's not.
German newspapers print a four-page welcome leaflet in Arabic.
And a football stadium is being used to welcome migrants.
Remember yesterday and the day before the discovery that Germany is excited about these hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Can't wait for them to get to the country.
Looking forward to it.
Angela Merkel is excited, and she's also excited about how they are going to change the country.
And it all revolves around the fact that German birth rate is well below replacement levels.
And right now, German leaders really don't care who the people are, they just need bodies.
In other words, folks, somebody has to build those beamers and Mercedes and Volkswagens.
And right now they'll take anybody, no matter how they get there.
And then this in the Washington Post, the refugee crisis could actually be a boon for Germany.
Now make no mistake, the way this relates to the United States is exactly like this.
If it's a boon for a whole bunch of Muslim military-aged men to simply flood Germany, then why couldn't it be good for the United States?
And if the Washington Post is coming out here endorsing this, refugee crisis could Actually, be a boon for Germany.
They're talking about it in terms of making them an economic powerhouse again, a golden goose opportunity.
Listen to this.
The fast graying nation of 81 million is facing a demographic time bomb with a morbidly low birth rate and a flat lining population, hundreds of scruels have already shuttered.
Some neighborhoods, particularly in the increasingly vacant East, have become ghost towns.
For Germans, it has raised a serious question.
Who will build the Mercedes and I just said that?
Who will build the Mercedes and Volkswagens?
They left out beamers.
Enter a record wave of migrants, offering some of the most generous terms of asylum.
Germany has become by far the biggest host in Europe for those fleeing dangerous and deteriorating conditions.
Except many of them aren't.
Many of them are fleeing perfectly acceptable conditions.
Because fleeing war-torn strife is not just what's happening here.
Angela Merkel seems perfectly fine.
She seems to know exactly what's happening, and she doesn't care.
She needs the bodies.
Well, the Democrat Party needs the voters.
That's how all this relates, folks.
So if you have the U.S. news media praising Germany for welcoming all of these half a million or more a year.
And we're talking about numbers here.
What a bunch of reprobates the Americans are.
We need to be following the example, the great examples set by Angela Merkel in Germany.
And that's the next thing to come.
In our immigration.
I can see it being set up.
I can see it getting ready.
It won't be long at all.
And why is it happening now, by the way, folks?
Have you ever when this kind of stuff starts happening?
I mean, seemingly millions of people out of the blue, out of nowhere, all of a sudden walking all across Europe.
Really?
Just started happening what?
A couple days ago?
Week ago when?
Why?
I mean, ISIS has been terrorizing the Middle East for over a year or two.
Why is this happening now?
It's like all of those children from Central America, El Zanador, Ecuador's, all of a sudden out of the blue, they start showing up the southern border.
How?
Why?
Keep a sharp eye, because if Germany can do it, remember how many liberals think we need to be more like Europe.
This is the next thing that we're going to be hit with.
And they're going to be appealing to our conscience and our sense of goodwill and humanity.
And so if you watch the next thing to happen.
Back after this.
Okay, here we are back to the phones.
We're going to go to Swansboro, North Carolina.
This is Maria.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Um, I'm a Donald Trump supporter and a Ben Carson supporter.
And I'm trying to vacillate between the two, and I'm starting to get a little soft on Donald Trump because I'm just getting a bit weary of always having to worry about what some crazy thought he has in his head, that he feels the need to verbalize out loud.
I know he likes to boast about his approvals of 30%.
But the truth is, I I don't think he realizes this, but I think he would be at 40%.
45%.
He is an incredible person.
He's captivating.
He's exciting.
And he's pouring cold water on his own campaign by talking the way he does.
I don't want my president to sound like he's a sixth grade.
I'm sorry, but I don't.
And I think a lot of people who support Trump also support Ben Carson.
I know that people don't may not understand that, but I think, you know, Ben Carson may end up being the far better candidate.
And I think that if he does win the nomination for three reasons, I think he's unbeatable.
Donald Trump, if he wins the nomination, could end up thinking his own campaign with this rhetoric.
Carson will not, and no one else is going to sink them either.
You just said something uh interesting here to me.
Uh when you said that you think if he hadn't dispensed or if he hadn't uttered all these childish insults of people, he'd be at 40 or 45 percent.
Yes, I do.
Well now what's fascinating about that is is that he's at 32 now, which is way ahead of everybody in the latest Quinnipia.
And uh most people are attributing that they're thinking that's great.
Most people are thinking he's he's gone way beyond what anybody's expectations were probably his.
You're the only person I've heard of the news and point that he would be even higher were it not for this, while other people think they're b they're they're confused.
They can't believe he got to 32 percent while doing this.
So look, Maria, hang on.
I want to explore this further with you.
I don't have time here before the there's the ear splitting tone even as we speak.
Okay, we're back with Maria in Swansboro, North Carolina.
I think a lot of people are gonna agree with you when uh when when they hear you say that Trump would be at 45 percent or maybe even higher if uh he had not say had the uh the spats with Megan Kelly, or at least the prolonged spat of Megan Kelly.
Well, I don't know if it's any one particular thing.
No, it's a cumulative thing, though.
I talk I talk to a lot of people.
I live in a very conservative area, Rush.
I talk to a lot of people, and I hear people say, I love Donald Trump.
I really like Donald Trump, but I'm worried.
I don't know.
I you know, I I I'd like to support him, but I'm just not sure.
And you know, Donald Trump is a smart guy.
He likes to boast about thirty percent, but shame on him.
He shouldn't be at 30 percent.
A guy like him should be at 40.
Well, no, that's my that's my point.
I mean, I think it's cumulative.
You you you you say you don't want to focus on one thing, but he has uh had these personal comments about people, some people many times, others just once or twice.
But your overall point is if that hadn't happened, he'd be 45, maybe even higher.
So my question to you is can he walk it back?
Can he absolutely do I mean he can't take back what he said?
Well, now wait, he he has he has survived everything he's done so far.
And he's a smart guy.
And when he's on that TV and he's talking issues, he is captivating.
It almost makes you forget everything he's done in the past, everything that he has said.
And if you would just stay on that from here to election to to the uh nomination to election day, he's our next president.
So you are saying he needs to just stay on issues.
Well, I that's just sounds I know it sounds so cliche, but but Donald Trump, it isn't even just about issues.
Just talk to us, talk to the people.
He he can be an excellent communicator.
And he he just doesn't need to step into the gutter.
You know, just stay out of there.
That's for the that's for the blogs.
That's for the that's the you know, the comments section, uh, when people read articles.
Stay out of there.
That's not where you need to be.
He needs to be where he needs to be sitting there on interview.
He I love listening to him.
I can't leave the TV.
I said, I just want to listen to him.
I can listen to him all day long.
So he can recover from this.
He just How stop.
How?
Let me under for you personally, how you've got seems to me like that this is out there now, therefore it is real, therefore it's part of who he is.
How does he walk it back?
Does he just stop doing it and let inertia take over?
Absolutely, absolutely, because I look, I I I I like to read the comments on on certain things, and and I people want to people want to support him.
A lot of people do.
You're not gonna be able to do that.
A lot of a lot of minorities do.
A lot of sure they do.
They do.
And and I just believe that you know th they just want they want to see who he is.
He's getting twenty-five percent of the uh African American vote in uh recent CNN or Quinnipiact, one of the two.
I forget which, but well, you know, there hasn't been a vote cast yet.
Yeah, I know.
And and that's and that's key here.
And a lot of people who support Donald Trump, I I believe they also support Ben Carson.
Yeah.
And I think there's a lot of vacillating going on between the two.
And um I I think that Ben Carson is gonna start creeping up more and more.
Okay, let me let me ask you a question.
I I I' uh uh I'll tell you how this Fiorina thing happened.
And I'm not there's there's no test.
This is don't there's no wrong answer.
I just want to know what your genuine reaction to this is.
The way this all happened, he's he's granted an interview to Rolling Stone, which to me uh waste of time.
And this is the bunch that made up a huge story about rape at the uh University of Virginia.
I mean, it just literally made it up.
And I don't know why they raided, but he did it.
And what happened was the Rolling Stone reporter was granted a lot of access and followed Trump around for a week or so and gained his confidence.
Trump, the longer the media is with you, the less you are aware of their presence.
I can assure you that this is the case.
And the longer they're around you, and the more the media seems to be uh well, the less adversarial, then the the closer you think you're becoming to them.
You begin to think you can take them into your confidence in the sense that you can wink and nod and say something and they'll know you're not serious and not use it.
But that's not what happened.
So Trump is being followed around by this reporter at uh at Rolling Stone.
He uh he gained his confidence and then turned around and did a hit piece on all these things that Trump had said when Trump was of the opinion it was sort of if if not off the record that it was he thought he was dealing with a friendly.
This is and he wasn't.
Rolling Stone's never gonna be friendly to anybody that doesn't have a D by their name.
Well, I my feeling is that they didn't put those words into his mouth.
Donald Trump wants to call you know wants to uh say something about Carly Fiorina.
He can say something else.
He doesn't have to sound like this is a schoolyard fight.
I think it's silly to say that you know, look at that face.
Look at I mean it's just silly.
I heard him say I'm I'm not a Marco Rubio fan, but I heard him on on uh uh stump saying, I hate him.
I I and how do you I don't I don't want my president to say he hates people.
Yeah.
I don't want to have to worry every single day.
Oh no, what silly thing did he say today?
After you know, it it's after especially if he's president after four years, that gets old.
And I just know that I I know he's smarter than this.
I don't know why I don't know what his strategy is here, but I I if I could offer him any advice at all, I'd say, look, you he doesn't need to do this, Rush.
He doesn't need this.
No, no, he's doing it on purpose.
There's a reason behind this.
This these are not these are not I don't think they're slip-ups.
I think I think that he uh really believes that part of the reason he's doing well is this blunt politically incorrect honesty.
Do you think that he would still be like that if he was president?
Or do you think this all comes to an end?
Uh the silliness.
I don't I have any idea.
I I uh uh I don't know.
If especially if it's if if if if Putin does something bad to the country or tries to do something bad, I think he'd he'd make fun of Putin for running around without a shirt all the time.
It's embarrassing.
And you'd probably love it.
Yeah, probably.
If it was about Putin.
That would be, yeah, that that would be kind of fun.
I think Putin might even have a have a little laugh at that.
But I I just think Well, you'd be cheering that.
I'll tell you, you know, you'll here's here's another is another analogy that just to give you an idea, this is off the top of my head, but let's let's talk a little hypothetical.
So Trump has said what he said about Carly Fiorina.
That face, are you kidding?
Who's gonna ever vote for my God?
Look at them.
Now, if somebody in the media comes along and agrees with him, do you know the person in the media is gonna be raped over the coals?
The person in the if somebody some some poor talk show host out in East Overy happens to say, you know what, Trump has a point.
Have you ever that guy is finished.
Trump can say it, and we're sitting here debating.
Oh my God, I really wish he'd cut it back.
But if somebody comes along and agrees with him, it's over for them.
How about that?
Well well, I'll tell you what, Rush.
If he as long as he doesn't say anything bad about you, he might recover.
Well, but if he says if he star if he starts adding you to the mix, then you're gonna be able to do that.
Well, he w look it.
I I'll just tell you this.
If I attacked him, he would.
Yeah, probably.
He probably that's that's his modus operandi.
If you go after him, he's gonna fire back, and he's not going to apologize for it.
Leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
Leave me alone, act like you like me, I'll like you.
He's he's been very open and clear about it.
Well, you know what he can fire back.
I I don't mind him firing back.
I just don't think it needs to sound like we're in a sixth we're in sixth grade and we're in a schoolyard fight.
I think he can he can do it and sound more like a grown-up.
Well, the one thing I agree with you about, and not just one, but I really do think uh uh uh that if he would do two things, stay on this immigration thing and keep talking about it and relate it to say what's happening in Europe, keep building on it, and then introduce whatever it is he thinks on some other issues.
There are a lot of things out there he hasn't addressed yet.
I think you're right.
I think he could be at 45 percent by now.
Absolutely.
Whether he does this stuff or not, but but I think uh I think the key for him is to broaden the issue base and and to appear not just c conversant, but but he's got to have rock solid, confident ideas about all of these things that do present problems.
He's a solutions guy.
That's what people want to hear.
Well, I think uh like I said, I think he could be a lot higher in the poll, and shame on him for not being higher in the poll.
And uh and he needs and he Well, but according to you, he's still got a chance.
He can still redeem himself if he just stops it.
He doesn't even have to see he doesn't have to address it.
He doesn't see the ladies gently know what I have uh I've allowed myself to get distracted.
And he'll never do it, by the way, he'll never acknowledge he's done anything wrong.
Not in the in in the way that people do when they're apologizing.
He will never ever do that.
Unless he thinks he did.
He will not apologize because it's the politically correct or the supposed mannerly thing to do.
Anyway, uh Maria, I appreciate the call.
I'm glad you had such time.
I've got to take a break.
We'll continue here after this.
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Here is John in Denver.
John, I'm really glad you waited.
I appreciate it.
Welcome to the show.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Maha Rush you, my hero.
I uh count myself as a twenty-six-year student at the advan at the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Thank you, sir, very much.
That's what it's like to be me, folks.
That's well, I'm getting a taste of it.
So um so my problem uh you touched on it at the end of the first hour with McConnell and you said that he has the law on his side.
And that supposes that he's on our side, and I'm I'm not supposing that anymore.
And not not just McConnell, but but you know, pretty much the entire Republican leadership nationally.
Feels to me like they're just simply playing for the other side, and we shouldn't really be surprised that they don't pass anything we don't we want.
They don't stand for anything we want.
We get nothing when we win elections.
And I think it's all on purpose.
Well, uh they are obviously responding to the donor class.
That's the that's the new name that is is bandied about to explain who it is that's pulling the strings in the Republican Party.
They always have pulled the same strings of the Democrat Party, but the donor class.
And your frustration is felt by many.
This is just the latest example.
The Iranian nuclear deal is a bad deal.
It's a bad deal for the future of the world.
It's a bad deal for America.
And it would be easy, relatively easy to stop with some political gonads, because they have a law on their side.
Obama has not complied with a phase of the Corker Bill.
It requires him to reveal every detail of this deal to Congress before they vote on it.
He had to do that by July nineteenth.
He has not done it.
Not just the two side deals.
He has not revealed everything.
There's still questions that people have.
Cannot vote on it.
This is relating now to lifting sanctions, which are statutory.
They're not part of any if you wanted to play with this as a as a treaty, which would be another way to go.
But the point is, Obama is in violation of the Corker Bill, which is the law of the land.
We be hearing that phrase a lot lately.
Can't do anything about planned parenthood.
Abortion is the law of the land, Mr. Limboy, you got it.
Well, so is the Corker Bill.
It's the law of the land.
Obama's in violation of it.
The Republican leadership doesn't seem to want to take Obama on because I don't know.
You tell me what big money's interest is in Iranian nukes.
I can't figure it out, but that's what it is.
That's what we're up against.
I just remembered this is football game tonight, Steelers and Patriots.
Um prediction.
Gotta go with the home team.
The visiting team Thursday night opening game has only won once in the last fifteen years.
The 49ers beat the Giants.
Somewhere, sometime.
Think that's right.
See you tomorrow.
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