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Sept. 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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And I'll tell you something else.
In addition to all this Trump stuff, it appears like the bottom is falling out of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
And there's an ABC News Washington Post poll that has really, really bad news for Hillary in it that they are not reporting.
They're trying to mask it and cover it up.
So you've got to go out there and you've got to get the actual poll and the crosstabs to see it.
Because it's Panic City in a lot of places.
And that's why all this talk about Biden getting in the race is getting some momentum to it now.
But that it's inexplicable to me how there are people on the right side of the aisle in Washington talking about Biden.
Oh, oh, man, Joe was such a great guy.
He's so authentic.
He's not authentic.
He's a plagiarist for crying out loud.
There's a difference, like my brother says, there's a difference between being unfiltered and authentic.
And Biden is unfiltered.
He doesn't have any filters on what he says.
He looks at a guy in a wheelchair.
Stand up, Chuck.
Let him see you out there.
Oh, my God.
Good Lord.
Yeah, Chuck.
God bless you.
God love you.
Let's all stand up for Chuck.
It's just old Joe.
He's just unfiltered.
Says whatever he wants.
And when it's stupid, it's excused.
That's just old Joe.
You know, he's harmless.
He doesn't mean anything by it.
Right.
Guy that single-handedly tried not just to torpedo Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, but tried to ruin their careers at the same time.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Brand new week broadcast excellence.
Media, of course, everybody else with the Republican debate at the Reagan Library on Wednesday night on CNN.
There's two debates, 6 o'clock for the pregame debate, the pregame meal, if you will, and 8 o'clock primetime debate between the top 10, which will include Carly Fiorina.
Now, Trump was on Jimmy Fallon's show on a Friday night and gave Jimmy Fallon highest ratings in 18 months.
That's a year and a half for those of you in Rio Linda.
And the bit that they did, Trump's able to laugh at himself despite all of this talk about him being a narcissist and a bombastic braggart and so forth.
He can laugh at himself.
Now, the Trump bit that happened on the Jimmy Fallow Tonight show on Friday.
Fallon dresses up as Trump and sits down to look in a mirror.
On the other side of the mirror is the real Trump.
And they take turns talking to each other as if talking to a mirror.
And it was hilarious.
Trump was great at it.
He was, here's Trump going into the belly of the beast, wading right there into the pop culture beat, which the others are doing too.
I know Kane's been there and Jeb as well.
But Trump seems very comfortable there and probably winning over some of the millennials in the audience.
But my only point here, CNN, if everybody at CNN is expecting big numbers, you're probably going to be exceeded.
It just Trump is on one of these roles that are rare, but once they happen, you stand back and you marvel at them no matter where he goes.
It's just audience attention, ratings, however, size of crowd.
It's just through the roof.
Jimmy Fallon, highest ratings in a year and a half.
Now, here's the ABC News story.
This is actually from Gary Langer, who's their political director.
The headline, Insider versus Outsider Matchup, finds Clinton and Trump near even.
Clinton and Trump run essentially even among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup for president new ABC News Washington Post poll.
It's a testament to the strength of party loyalty as well as to Trump's anti-establishment profile and anti-immigration views.
This is written, keep in mind, by the ABC political director.
The hypothetical contest stands at 4643 Clinton Trump, a gap that is within the survey's margin of error.
Who would have even imagined?
This is why six months ago, a year ago, people start prognosticating on what they think is going to happen.
You can't predict stuff like nobody ever predicted Trump would actually get in the race.
And then if they, even if they had, nobody would have predicted Trump would still be in the race after this amount of time.
And certainly nobody would have predicted he'd be far and away blowing away the rest of the Republican field.
But the Washington Post and ABC do their best to downplay all of that.
For example, this next paragraph, the 4643 Clinton over Trump, that compares to a clear Clinton lead among all adults, 51, 39%, indicating her broad support in groups that are less apt to be registered to vote, such as young adults and racial and ethnic minorities.
And the low information crowd, of course.
And don't forget the illegal aliens that no doubt would love to see Hillary, according to this poll.
And they write there are some important provisos in evaluating these results.
Early polls are not predictive.
So ABC has found it necessary to knock their own poll here.
You don't see this much, but you do see it.
Sometimes a drive-by network will conduct a poll, and the results will come out and be totally surprising, and they'll knock their own poll.
They'll knock the sample, they'll knock the methodology, or they'll knock the timing, or they'll do something to try to dispel belief in the results because they don't like the results.
And so the guy who ran this poll, Gary Gary Langer, the political director who's writing the story, felt the need to put in a proviso saying that the polls are practically meaningless this early on.
Now, if this poll had shown Hillary trouncing Trump, this proviso would not be here.
If their poll showed Hillary trouncing Trump, there wouldn't be any reference to the poll being meaningless because it's so early.
In fact, it would be just the opposite.
In this poll that they show Hillary doing so well, she only does well among women.
And even at that, she is really bleeding white women.
It was conducted between September 7th and September 10th.
So it presumably includes some people who heard about Trump's comments about Carly Fiorina and her face, as reported in Rolling Stone five days ago.
But if this is as bad as it gets for Trump with women, then he's probably not going to suffer much fallout from that, if any at all.
I mean, that's been the pattern.
Everything Trump says that's supposed to hurt him or end his candidacy ends up helping him.
From a shocked and appalled Los Angeles Times, California Republicans echo U.S. trends favoring Trump and Ben Carson.
A new poll indicates California Republicans who favor Trump are largely motivated by opposition to illegal immigration.
It just keeps rearing its head.
Illegal immigration is why 25% of the African Americans in this country support Trump.
Illegal immigration is why California Republicans support Trump.
Illegal immigration is why Trump is neck and neck with Hillary in the ABC News Washington Post poll.
And yet inside the beltway, they're asking themselves, how is this happening?
Trump isn't conservative.
Don't these fools supporting him know that he's not conservative?
He's destroying conservatism.
It isn't about that.
It is that Trump, not only is it about that Trump's got no fingerprints on what's happening in Washington, it is also the fact that he's opposed to what's happening there and is the only one apparently fighting to stop it.
Well, maybe other than Bernie Sanders.
No, no, that's true.
Ted Crue is, that's curious to me, too.
Cruz is so good.
He's just brilliant and he's policy-wise.
He's right in there with Trump.
He's at 7%.
Ben Carson's the surprise number two.
And Trump's going after him, still going after him.
He's kind of moderated his criticism, but he's still criticizing.
He said, look, I like Ben Carson.
He's a doctor.
He's a good doctor, but he's a doctor.
He doesn't make deals.
I make deals.
This country needs a deal maker.
This country needs somebody who can stand up for it, make good deals, and win in those deals.
He's a doctor, plus he's low energy.
I don't know that he's got the energy for the job so forth.
So that's the ongoing criticism of Ben Carson that Trump continues to articulate.
But why is the LA Times, why is anybody surprised?
See, this is the thing.
You talk about out of touch or disconnected or what have you.
How in the world can anybody who pays attention to anything going on in this country, including media people, how in the world can people be shocked?
That candidates opposing everything to do with amnesty and related issues on illegal immigration are prospering.
How can anybody be shocked at that?
Another way of putting, how can anybody not know that a majority of people from all walks of life, I don't care race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, transgender, you name it, there is overwhelming opposition.
How can you miss that?
How can you continually be surprised?
I mean, who are these people that are not seeing this?
These are people in the media that supposedly have their finger to the pulse, their ear to the crimestone.
They're supposedly be way ahead of us in knowing what's happening out there.
Same thing with political professionals in Washington, focus grouping everybody.
They're supposed to know why are they so shocked at this?
Can it be they really think that opposition to amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform is only held by a relatively small bunch of kook conspiracy types?
Do they really not get the broad-based opposition to this?
Apparently not, because whenever there's a story talking about a candidate doing well because of the issue, they express shock, just like this LA Times story, the people that write this story are stunned, Kathleen Decker.
You can read the shock when you read the story.
And there's a double shock here because California Republicans, I don't know when's the last time anybody in the media actually saw one, but they are thought to be just squishes.
Republicans in California, the media think of them, they're either invisible, they're squishes, they're just hardly exist.
And yet, here they are massively supporting Trump.
That shocks them.
What, California Republicans are just as flaky as the Democrats?
It's fascinating to watch this.
It really is.
And the Bernie Sanders campaign is not burned out.
He continues to gain ground in New Hampshire.
He continues to shock and stun the Democrat Party apparatus.
Mrs. Clinton continues to fumble and whatever.
So the entire political class here is kind of turned upside down in a state of shock.
Anyway, I've got to take a brief time.
We come back to your phone calls.
Next, don't go away.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to get to Europe.
We still have an hour and a half here.
Can't do everything in the first segment, first hour.
But things are changing dramatically in Europe.
You know, whereas Angela Merkel, come on in, 800,000 immigrants this year, migrants, refugees, 500,000 every year after that.
Guess what?
German people are saying, because they don't, they're not happy about it.
It's a bit of a disconnect there as well.
And now German leaders are telling the migrants where they are going to have to live.
And the migrants and the refugees are saying, oh, yeah, you think you're going to get away with that?
So now they're trying to resurrect the borders that the creation of the European Union did away with.
And they've got an abject mess.
And it's been brought up again, you know, the age of many of the refugees, the predominantly, here's, by the way, there's one aspect of this to consider.
In terms of what's happening in Europe, 80% of these refugees are male.
And of that 80%, the vast majority of them are what is being said to be military-aged.
So people are raising questions.
Wait a minute now.
Why are these military-aged young men fleeing their countries?
Because some people think they might already be ISIS sleepers.
And so the rejoinder is, no, no, no, no, don't be paranoid.
No, no.
They are fleeing their countries because they don't want to have to be forced to join ISIS.
Oh, okay.
So supposedly, and they're all from Syria, whether they aren't or are.
They've all got, many of them have fake passports and so forth.
Supposedly all Syrian refugees, or majority of them, fleeing ISIS.
Same thing being said, you know, Obama's flying Syrian refugees into this country in the same demographic makeup.
80% male, most of them military age, 18, 21, 22, somewhere around there.
Same questions are being raised.
But here's, this is a kicker.
And I know this program is heard in parts of Europe.
And not on pirate stations.
This nation is where the Internet streams and everything.
You people in Europe, I wanted you to be – look, I hate to be the one to have to remind you this.
80%.
I'm looking at the faces on the other side of the glass as I say this.
I want to gauge their reaction because that's how I empathize with you.
If I get the reaction I think I'm going to get from them, then I know you have it too.
80% of these refugees are 18 to 21, 22-year-old men.
That means there aren't going to be enough women where they are.
Well, I'm just saying here, I mean, it is what it is.
Biology is what it is.
Something's got to give what usually does.
Rolling stone to the case.
Okay, good.
They're laughing on the other side of the glass.
Now, the details in the ABC poll got some nitpickers that I read in the email during the break.
What do you mean the bottom's dropping out of Hillary?
Okay, you don't want to take my word for it.
Here it is.
In fact, ABC, reporting on their poll, did not report this.
Instead, it was the Today Show and CBS This Morning that reported this today.
On screen graphic, crediting ABC.
Charlie Rose said only 42% of Democrats in this latest ABC poll are backing her now.
In July, it was 63% who said they wanted her to be their party's nominee.
What ABC is putting out there is that in a head-to-head, Hillary beats Trump 43-41 or 45-43, some such thing.
And that's where it stops.
What they're not telling you is that Hillary used to be in the 60s in this same poll, and she is plummeting.
And so the Today Show and CBS reported the numbers that ABC didn't.
So in the case of Charlie Rose over at CBS, only 42% of Democrats in the national ABC poll are backing her now.
In July, 63% said they wanted her to be a Democrat nominee.
He said that a majority of Americans disapprove of the way Clinton has handled the email controversy.
ABC didn't report that.
Over on the Today Show, Chanel Jones referenced ABC and said that the network's poll shows that her support among Democrats nationwide has dropped 21 points since July when the email story broke.
So ABC has chronicled a 20-point plunge, but they're not reporting it because in the head-to-head, she's got like a two- or three-point lead over Trump head-to-head in the margin of error, but they can still report her as being ahead there.
But if you go to this Gary Langer piece that I quoted on the website, ABCNews.com, in the Democrat contest, Clinton's drop is dramatic, yet not enough to threaten her lead.
She's supported by 42% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents who are registering to vote, down from 63% July.
So ABC reports it on the website, but not on Good Morning America.
It's significant, folks.
Okay, your phone calls are next.
I mean it.
I guarantee it.
Coming back.
And we start on the phones in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi, Valerie.
You're up first.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
I'm an African-American lady, and me and my sisters will be voting for Donald Trump for his honesty, telling the truth about what is really going on about the immigration.
He's the only one ahead of guts because it affects and has always affected our community.
And Democrats giving certain privileged people the red carpet throughout this entire time at somebody else's expense.
And we're putting that bill.
Also, Donald Trump has his own money.
So I don't think we have to worry too much about special interest right now, but I feel that he's very patriotic, and I'm excited about it, Rush.
And I respect all the things you're saying because it's true.
So what I'm picking up on is something that I have been wondering about for a while now, and that is at what point, and I, frankly, I've been asking this for about 10 years because it's been clear that the Democrat Party has a preference now for Hispanics, and particularly the Hispanics that come here illegally, and because that's where they're interested.
They want to get these people registered as voters.
And it's been apparent to me as a student and an observer that the Democrats obviously have more affection for and are more concerned about that group than African Americans.
And I've been wondering if it would ever come to the point where a bunch of African Americans figured that out or began to suspect it.
And you have said pretty much so here.
You think the Democrats are leaving the black community behind in favor of the new voting bloc of the Hispanics, right?
Yeah, it has been for years.
But certain people in certain positions supposed to represent the African American community do not gotten paid by the Obamas and say certain things, just like we have our certain churches.
Okay, one more question.
Before I move on, I have one question here.
I will try to find a reference point here for your support for Trump.
I know you said you're an independent, but what are your thoughts now?
What are your brief thoughts on Obama?
I never voted for him, and I don't think that he told, he did not tell the truth on certain areas.
He manipulated our hope, which really African Americans.
He's not African-American.
Okay, I think that's worth noting that we have here an African-American for Trump who has never supported Obama.
So they're going to run the gamut here, but I wanted to get that locked down.
I suspected that, my friends, but I just wanted it confirmed.
Valerie, I appreciate it.
Thank you much.
By the way, Valerie and the rest of you African Americans, here's the thing.
I'm not trying to stir up the trouble because I'm just commenting on it.
Trouble's already been stirred up.
The Democrat Party knows, in quotes, they know they have your vote.
They know they've got you in the palm of their hand.
They know, no matter what, the African-American vote is not going to vote for a Republican.
They know it.
So they can afford to take you for granted.
They can afford to not pay you any attention while they start courting the Hispanic illegal immigrant voting bloc.
Where else are you going to go?
No matter what they do, they know, quote unquote, you are never going to support a Republican, except look at what's happened.
And folks, don't doubt me on this.
Nobody in the Democrat side is looking at their two polls now that show Trump with 25% of the African-American vote.
Nobody in the Democrat Party hierarchy is sloughing that off and saying, it doesn't matter now.
It's early.
It's nothing to worry about.
There's not a single Democrat who's in the business of winning elections that is not worried about that.
They are all noticing it.
Trump is upending apple carts in both parties here.
I mean, both parties are guilty.
The establishment, both parties, are guilty of this out of touch, which, again, I don't think is out of touch at all.
I think they know exactly what they're doing.
They know exactly what the people of the country want and don't want.
It doesn't matter.
Here is Tony in Birmingham, Alabama.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How's it going?
I want to start by saying thank you for those children books.
The first thing I did when my daughters got up, they had to take a chance on every chapter after they read.
They love those books, and I appreciate your work.
Well, thank you, sir.
I want to say something, you know, being a black conservative.
I'm a Ted Cruz guy.
I love Ted Cruz.
And I've been talking to both sides, my black Democrat friends and my conservatives.
And I'm telling you, everybody's pushing principles aside for the most part.
And the reason why is because, you know, they talk about Donald Trump don't talk about freedom enough.
The Republican Party has had the freedom to do everything that they promised to do on the campaign trail, yet one thing stopped them from using the freedom that they had, and that was political correctness.
You know, these guys, I mean, even Newt Gingers talks about what Donald Trump says and what he has to stop saying.
Let me tell you something.
Anger causes people to do a lot of stuff.
Sometimes anger causes people to push aside what they know is right to just do what they feel that they want to do at that moment.
And what is happening is people are seeing that Donald Trump is stabbing the beast in the heart.
And the heart of the beast now is political correctness.
Donald Trump is showing that you're not going to make me say what you want to say, and you're not going to make me do what you want me to do.
I'm going to do what I think is best, regardless whether you like it or not.
I think that's exactly right.
And I think that's number two on the list under illegal immigration is political and how everybody hates it.
Everybody is despising the fact that one person can say they're offended over something, and whatever it is has to stop.
Either so what somebody's saying or some activity somebody's engaging in.
Right.
And you know what?
Regardless if the Republican establishment wants to believe it or not, people want to win and people want to feel like they can say whatever they want to say without having to compromise and get along just to get something done.
And people are seeing that Donald Trump, not only does Donald Trump do that, but Donald Trump, like you said, he is not a part of Washington.
As much as I love Ted Cruz, Donald Trump is one of the only ones who is not a part of anything in Washington.
Bingo, his fingerprints aren't on any of it.
People are tired of it.
Now, let me ask you something, Tony, because you said people want to win.
There's no question about it.
From George Patton on, people, Americans, want to win.
Not a trick question here.
What do you have to do to win?
I think you have to believe in something and go for it.
It doesn't even matter if what you believe in is the wrong thing.
If you believe in it, stand on it and go for it 100% without biting your tongue.
And that's what they want to see.
They want to see a win in spirit.
Right.
Go for it.
Going for it 100% is fighting for it.
You have to fight.
If you want to win, you have to fight.
You can't wait for the other side to screw up and be rejected.
You have to fight.
That is what's missing, among many other things.
That is what's missing.
And everybody talks about how congenial Reagan was, and congenial William F. Buckley was.
And they want to try to create the impression that Buckley and Reagan were these mild-mannered Clark Kent types.
They rolled up their sleeves and they got down in the muck and they fought for what they believed in.
Reagan, especially.
And he took on the Republican establishment.
You have to fight.
And I think the current establishment crop just is uncomfortable fighting.
And I frankly think that's one of the here I'm going to step in it because I'm not really trying to make any enemies here.
All I'm ever trying to do is help my side.
But I think I talked last week about age and how a lot of people fear getting older or regret getting older, even though there's nothing you can do about it.
I've always enjoyed it.
I've looked forward to being older.
And at one point in my life, I wanted to get older because I wanted to be older.
I looked at people older than me, and they seemed to be freer, more solid, more subsidy, more self-reliant, more successful, more everything.
I always wanted that.
When I was 16, I wanted to be 25.
25 wanted to be 30.
30 wanted to be 40.
Okay, so now I'm 64, so I'm not eager to be 70, but I've got a different aspect about what it is about being older.
And being older now allows me to look at people whose age I once was and gauge what they're doing, how they're doing, what they think, how they think, and adjusting to it and analyzing it.
And observe it.
And I'm telling you, I'm observing quite a lot.
I think, you know, I'm going to really stop here and think if I want to step in this or not.
I'll think about it during the break and let you know on the other side.
Don't quote.
Okay, I've thought about whether or not to step in it, and I've decided to go ahead and step in it.
I don't know if it's going to actually be stepping in it, but if it sounds like it's stepping it, if it sounds like it is unfair, unwarranted criticism, that's not the point.
It's done to be helpful.
Advice or suggestions or even analysis.
And I think one of the things that I've noticed, among many others, and discussed it in a number of different ways, about the Inside the Beltway conservative slash Republican establishment, is a reluctance to fight for things.
It seems that there is a level of satisfaction reached with simply articulating or writing a position on something or a clever take on something.
But to then advocate for it with attempt to inspire others to action or take action yourself, that's what I see missing.
Clearly, that is the case in the Republican Party.
And I frankly think that this reluctance to fight, well, I don't know what well, maybe I do know.
I think that there is a risk-averse attitude.
I frankly think that this is one of the things that makes the Republican establishment nervous about Trump.
And that is he fights, he criticizes.
He gets in there and starts throwing haymakers.
And this is just considered unsophisticated and uncivilized.
I mean, the Republican Party and certain of its advocates in the media, they continue to talk about this silly crossing the aisle and proving that we can work with the other side.
Yeah, if the other side, I promise, as President Hill said, that's a good idea.
I will listen to their idea.
I will work with them.
We will do everything we can for a sensible, bipartisan solution of problems.
And that's sorry, not going to resolve what's wrong in the country.
You don't want to work with the people who are responsible for everything going wrong.
You don't want to work with the people and help the people who are responsible for the deterioration, for the attacks on the institutions and traditions which have made the country great.
I think it makes them nervous to see Trump fight.
They think it's going to frighten off the electorate.
They think it's going to scare independents or whatever it is.
It's unmanly now to get in and fight for what you believe in, or if it's not unmanly, unsophisticated.
And it threatens social standing.
Can't ever discard that as a factor inside the Beltway.
Look at Romney and the debates with Obama.
He wouldn't even, on Benghazi, would not fight, would not go there.
Even hindsight's easy.
If I'm roming that debate and Candy Crowley pops up and starts defending Obama, I stop right there and I say, oh, wait a minute, when did we get a moderator on one side here?
I thought you're supposed to be.
I would have commented on it.
I would have done something.
But we just don't have that.
You know we don't.
And there seems to be a risk aversion to it from top to bottom.
And here comes Trump doing the exact opposite.
And I think it's one of the many things that makes people nervous about him.
Look, it is great to be conservative and it's great to go on TV and articulate it or have a blog and write it and so forth.
But if all it is is talk and published words, if there's no action behind it, if there's no concomitant or concomitant desire to spread it, to try to influence people to believe it and so forth, rather than just get yourself on record with it, then half the job is not done.
I've been amazed, this is not new, at the lack of pushback from the Republican Party.
You name it, Obamacare, Iran.
Take your pick, any of these illegal immigration, and that one, not even pushback.
It's a joint effort.
All of this is to explain, of course, why Trump is succeeding.
It's not, it really isn't that hard.
And look at, I know it's anecdotal, look at the cross-section of calls we've had today.
African-American calls, even from people who don't support Trump's one supporting crews, that they understand why.
Anyway, I got another time out there.
There's not enough time here to get started.
Well, there is time to get started, but not enough time to finish another call.
So let me take a brief time out here, and we'll come back and continue right after it.
Saturday in Boone, Iowa, campaign event.
After it, reporter says to Trump, you said you didn't really prepare for the debate last time.
Are you doing anything different for this debate?
My whole life is preparation for a debate.
You know, if you think about it, what's preparing for a debate?
There are a million different things.
My whole life is preparation.
I'll be attacked.
I guess I'm going into a lion's den.
I don't know if there.
Some people say I will be.
Some people say I won't.
Somebody will attack.
You know, somebody like Iran Paul, who's down at 2%.
He'll maybe attack.
He's been very nasty lately.
He's been very nice, very nice.
And all of a sudden, about a week ago, he started attacking because his poll numbers are down.
Okay, so Trump is hyping the debate.
That's what this is.
Trump is promoting it.
He's hyping it.
He's revving up the audience and so forth.
Now, he's also going to be attacked by moderators.
There is no question.
And I hope he knows that.
I'm sure he does.
But my whole life is preparation for the debate.
That, folks, people ask me about how do I prep the show.
I said, life is show prep, and it really is.
So that kind of resonated with me.
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