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Sept. 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, the one and only, the most talked about program, the most talked about, quoted host, the most listened to program, and it's Friday, all in one big bundle here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
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One big, exciting, busy broadcast hour remains.
Let me run through some of the other news items here that we haven't yet gotten to.
Before we get back to the audio soundbites, right there.
Oh, yeah.
I have number 2829 standing by on the sound bites.
In fact, what the heck?
Let's do those now.
This is Hillary.
Every network stopped everything to cover this.
And it was exactly one hour ago.
She was just appalled.
Hillary was appalled over what Trump didn't say.
She couldn't believe what Trump didn't say.
She couldn't believe that Trump would not correct this bigot in his audience.
So she's in Durham, New Hampshire, at a press conference, a press availability, and an infobabe said, it was just yesterday that a man at a Trump rally stood up and said, we have a problem in this country.
It's called Muslims.
He went on to say that Obama is a Muslim.
He's not even American, and that there are terror camps with Muslims.
First of all, what do you think about that comment?
Secondly, how would you have responded if someone said that in a town hall of yours?
I was appalled and, as you may know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric and calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land to start behaving like a president, to show respect, and to stand up for the truth.
He knew, or he should have known, that what that man was asking was not only way out of bounds, it was untrue.
And he should have from the beginning repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before.
Well, she was just appalled.
She was just appalled.
She's appalled at what Trump didn't say.
She was appalled at what Trump didn't do.
And then she said that she hopes that he apologizes because a reporter said, well, Lindsey Gramnesty was in Iowa, and he said that this is a defining moment in a campaign for Republicans and all candidates.
He said that Donald Trump should go on national TV and apologize for what he said about Muslims and about the president.
What do you think?
Donald Trump's now canceled his campaign appearances today.
Should he go on TV and apologize and make this right?
Or was he just trying to appeal to supporters who may have prejudiced and racist views?
Let's find out.
Let's see what he does.
I think that his taking a time out to think hard about what happened last night, what he did not call out or repudiate at the time, gives him the chance to express his regret about that kind of behavior and those sorts of comments in one of his political events.
I hope he does.
That's such a setup.
Trump didn't cancel his events today because of this.
Even CNN acknowledges he canceled his events today because of a business deal that was supposed to get done yesterday that didn't, that requires his attention.
CNN is making it look like Trump may have also decided to cancel his events today because of what happened last night.
But they imply that, or they want you to infer it.
They don't actually say it.
Mrs. Clinton just said it.
So this is how a lie starts and spreads around the world.
As far as Hillary's audiences are concerned, Trump is now deep in thought.
Trump's holed up somewhere deep in thought, contemplating the egregious things his stupid supporters said last night.
And Hillary approves.
She hopes he apologizes.
She approves of this moment of reflection that Trump is engaged in after she was appalled by what had happened.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton has yet to apologize to the families of the kids killed in Benghazi for lying to them about it.
She told them it was a video.
She knows full well that video is not responsible.
She and the president of the United States lied to these people about what happened in Benghazi by blaming it on the video.
They haven't apologized.
Said candidates should tell the truth.
I did not have sex with that woman.
Ms. What?
Lewinsky?
That's right.
Not a single time.
It was like five or six.
Never, ever.
I didn't do it.
Ah, these people, they got it.
This is why so many people get so frustrated because the hypocrisy never, never sticks to these people.
And they're such hypocrites.
And they just get rid of it, get away with it all the time.
Hey, look, folks, I'm not trying to dump rain on the parade here, but New York Times' new White House campaign to encourage legal immigrants to become citizens so that they will vote.
Legal citizens, we're talking about 8 million people here.
White House officials announced the start of a nationwide campaign yesterday to encourage legal immigrants to become American citizens, which could add millions of voters to the electorate in time for the presidential election next year.
With about 8.8 million legal residents in the country who are eligible to become citizens but who haven't yet regime officials said that they were trying to make it easier to complete the final steps to citizenship.
I bet they are.
Here's a form.
Hold it out and we'll stamp it.
I bet they're making it easy.
The White House is working with regional immigrant groups to organize more than 70 citizenship workshops in the coming week alone.
Also in the work.
See, this is an emergency.
They're hoping to get this done with amnesty.
But it doesn't look like that's going to happen soon enough.
So now they're going this route.
Local initiatives to make immigrants feel more welcome.
Well, hold it.
Hold it a minute.
Initiatives to make immigrants feel more welcome to who?
I thought the regime already did that.
I thought immigrants loved the Democrat Party.
I thought immigrants loved Obama.
I thought, what do we make them feel more welcome?
Also, a revision, get this, this is what they're pushing, a revision of Justice Department regulations that would make it easier for people who want to help immigrants naturalize to obtain credentials to provide basic volunteer legal assistance.
Like La Raza, I'm sure they mean La Raza and all of the Democrat lawyers that La Raza can come up with.
You know what they basically want to do here?
They just basically want to pass out a form that all these people have to do is get and take it someplace and have it stamped by a government official or automatically a citizen.
The White House is aware of federal figures showing that about 60% of immigrants eligible to naturalize are Latino and about 20% are Asian, both groups that voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
Nearly a third of legal permanent residents eligible to naturalize are Mexican.
And you can bet the farm none of this would be happening if the White House thought these immigrants might vote Republican.
There is no way any of this would be happening if they thought these people were going to vote Republican.
Now, if the government can handle 8.8, let's round that up to 9.
If the government can handle 9 million, if they can find them, they can identify them.
They can speed up the process by which they become citizens, 9 million people.
How is it that they can't handle 11 million illegal ones?
We're always told 11 million, 12 million.
No, it's not possible.
You realize how many there'd be?
It'd be like deporting 50,000 a day for two years.
It ain't going to happen.
It's a pipe dream.
Forget it.
We haven't the law enforcement people.
We don't have administrative staff.
We don't have the buses.
We don't have anywhere near.
We can't do it.
But somehow we can find eight, nine million people.
We know who they are.
We know there's 9 million people out there from Mexico and Central America and Asia just chomping at the bid to vote Democrat.
We know they're legal.
They're not citizens.
We know this.
We know where they are.
We can find them.
We can rouse them up.
They can be found, the point is.
Somehow, finding 9 million people to vote Democrat, that's not too tough.
That's not too hard at all.
We can get that done by time of next election.
We get this done in 12 months, folks.
We get this done in 13 months.
But finding 11 million to deport or otherwise return, not possible.
Just can't do it.
Forget it.
The Associated Press is reporting that Il Papa, Pope Francis, hits Cuba.
Is he with Cuba tomorrow?
I'm getting confused.
The trip, I don't know when he's going to be in the States.
Okay, so it starts in Cuba tomorrow and gets here later in the week.
AP has a story.
It says Pope Francis plans to meet with Cuba's president.
That'd be Raul Castro.
And don't doubt that Fidel is going to be there, colostomy bag and all.
Pope Francis plans to meet with Cuba's president and its priests, its young and its sick, its churchgoers and its seminarians, as he travels around Cuba starting Saturday.
But he will not meet with Cuban dissidents.
The absence on Francis' agenda of any meeting with the political opposition to Cuban leadership has sparked bitter critiques from dissidents who say that they feel let down by an institution they believe should help push for greater freedom in Cuba.
That'd be the Catholic Church.
One such person said the Pope should exert more pressure.
In many cases, political systems have come under international pressure, and that's resulted in change, and that's what needs to happen in Cuba.
Papal observers say it's likely the Pope will speak strongly to Cubans about the need for greater freedom in their country and may speak to Raul Castro in private about the same topic.
You know what they're going to do?
Obama is going to use the Pope to open up the embargo.
Obama, they're making no secret about this.
They're calling the Pope the most popular man in the world.
And so Obama is going to hide behind the Pope to expand all of these things that he wants to do with Cuba and other countries in the name of doing it because the Pope wants it.
Plus, he gets his title up to the Pope.
I mean, the Pope's the vicar of Christ.
He's a Catholic, Obama, Church of Christ, Christian, and so forth, especially after the Trump boondoggle.
Supposedly, that's not his made to order, isn't it?
Obama and Il Papa.
So that is true about the embargo.
They're going to try to expand and get rid of the embargo.
They're using the Pope to do it.
And again, there's this story from yesterday about how the administration, Obama, has invited just a precious few people to meet the Pope.
A transvestite, a pro-abortion nun, a gay marriage advocate priest.
I don't know, Bruce Jenner.
No, no, no, no, Bruce Jenner will be there.
Caitlin Jenner.
No, Caitlin Jenner won't be there.
But really, Obama has assembled a group of people that it is popularly assumed the Catholic Church condemns, disapproves of.
They don't.
You know, they have great love for the sinner, but it's an in-your-face.
Okay, Pope, here you are.
Here are these people.
Here's a transvestite.
Here's an LGBT cross-dresser.
Here is a nun that believes in abortion.
Here is a priest that wants to perform gay marriages.
Okay, Pope, here it is.
Now, the news is being reported as though this is all Obama's idea.
And there's some people who think that this is a show of disrespect.
How dare he?
I don't know that this is all Obama's idea.
I think we've, I think this Pope has phrased this.
I read somewhere today where there are people calling him a Marxist, a socialist from Argentina.
Clearly liberal, clearly anti-capitalist.
My point is, I'm not so sure that the Pope's going to be all that offended by this guest list.
I don't know that.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not saying it.
I'm predicting it.
I just tell you, I wouldn't be surprised if we later found out that this group is part of what Pope Francis asked for.
I mean, what?
Come here to the United States and do an in-your-face kind of thing on the kind of people it is assumed we discriminate against, we consider oddballs and kooks, that we mistreat.
I mean, it's made to order for a leftist activist, that kind of thing, which is it's pop, it's what Obama's done throughout his entire administration.
So.
Anyway, quick time out here.
We'll get back to your phone calls.
That's next on the EIB.
Okay, our old buddy Ed Morrissey and Hot Air has just posted that the Vatican is objecting to the White House invitation list for the papal visit.
At practically the same time, Barack Hussein-O has decided the U.S. has to shut its eyes to dissenters in Cuba suffering under the yoke of oppression by the Castros.
He plans to offer a lesson in dissent to Pope Francis.
Obama has extended invitations for the Pope's first state visit to a transgender activist, a gay Episcopal bishop, the leader of a group of nuns that wants changes to Catholic teachings on abortion and euthanasia.
Needless to say, the Vatican is not pleased with this attempt to lecture Francis on the Catholic belief as longtime Vaticanista Francis X. Roca reports.
It's in a Wall Street Journal, essentially.
I must tell you, this is a huge sigh of relief to learn that the Vatican is not happy about this.
And also, it does not surprise me at all that Obama would do this.
You know, folks, look, Obama's a Democrat.
Okay, first and foremost, for whatever else, he's a Democrat.
And we know one thing, Democrats, leftists have very little affection for the Catholic Church.
You know it, and I know it.
And this, when I first saw this guest list, this is in your face.
I thought it's beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency to do this.
But it fits right in with Obama.
So anyway, the Vatican is objecting.
I don't know what that means.
I don't know how that's going to manifest itself.
And Ed writes here, you know, when the Saudis visited the White House this month, and they did, King Salmon showed up.
You know what that guy did?
He took over the entire four seasons Georgetown Hotel.
They had to kick people.
You should have seen the number of Mercedes-S-Class cars and suburbans and escalades at Andrews Air Force Base to greet the king and his entourage.
There have to have been 100 cars lined up waiting to pick people up off the king's jet and whatever other jets bring in his entourage in.
Anyway, he meets with Obama.
They met there in the Oval Office.
And so Ed asks here, did Obama invite women's rights activists to dinner with them?
Did Obama invite Ian Hersey Alley to discuss the need for reform in Islam?
No, of course not.
Was he in your face to the king of Saudi Arabia?
No.
But he is going to be in your face to the Pope.
And the Pope, you'd have to say at least, forget Catholicism first.
The Pope is one of Obama's soulmates.
Ideologically, maybe not theologically, but ideologically, the Pope and Obama, anti-capitalist this, America's guilty of that, right?
I mean, they're soulmates.
Yay, yay!
Yes, I knew there were going to be more mentions of my name in there.
All right, well, I've misplaced half the audio sound bites.
Maybe here they are.
I'm looking for the last two.
Richard Sherman, what are they, number 23 and 24?
Yeah.
Well, they're not the last two, but half 23 and 24.
Richard Sherman, the cornerback for the Seahawks in trouble.
He's not down for the struggle on this Black Lives Matter thing.
And they're out gunning for him now.
In the meantime, here's John, Mount Clemens.
What?
Where's Mount Clemens?
Michigan.
Michigan.
Great to have you on the program, John.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Today's the day I became a Donald Trump supporter.
Yet another red herring, non-issue being made an issue.
And I think people who have supported Trump, especially after the immigration thing, now I know where they're coming from.
And we are so sick and tired of the sync offense of the media, be it Hillary Clinton or the rest of the Republicans up there, like Chris Christie, who's already saying what he would have done if an audience member would have made these statements.
We are so sick of those things being elevated to an issue of substance that I don't think we can take it anymore.
I totally respect your advice, or not advice, but what you think Trump should do as a strategy and pointing out the hypocrisy.
And hypocrisy is always a great thing to point out as a strategy.
But if I were Trump, I would bottle what I'm feeling right now in supporters of his or people who are going to come to him.
And that is I would look at Chris Christie and the rest of them, and I'd say, great, you would have done that.
Well, what do you do?
How is you doing that going to push back terrorism?
How is that going to provide jobs to intercity African Americans who are looking for work?
How is that going to accomplish anything?
And Americans are just damn sick and tired of you people jumping on anything that someone might say, not even me saying it, by the way, someone in my audience, as if that's the do-all end-all.
Boy, what would that have solved, Russ?
You got it.
How would that stop a tumbling stock market?
And I don't want to lose my second thing because it dovetails into the event in South Carolina.
Let me point this out to you.
I don't need to hear from Donald Trump's people that he had a business conflict, which I totally believe.
This man catapulted to the front by allegedly offending an entire group of people, mostly the media, because people like me could see through he's not anti-Mexican.
He's not anti-Hispanic.
He's not a racist.
And if you support him, you're not one either.
So the man who made his name now and lost a contract with Macy's, lost whatever he had with the SPN, PGA Tour, that man's going to be afraid to come out of his house now because some guy in his audience made these statements.
How does that make any sense whatsoever?
No, no, if they hope.
No, no.
Again, they are trying.
No, follow me on this.
You're exactly right.
What they're trying to do is create a mindset among everybody, including Trump's supporters, that he's hiding.
They want Trump to have to come out and respond to them.
They want Trump to respond to this.
That puts him on the defensive.
That's what they want.
They want him to apologize.
They're bullying Trump.
That's exactly what this is right now.
This is a giant combination.
Look at Republicans and Democrats joining forces, the club, the establishment, trying to bully the guy.
They want him to come out and respond to what they're saying, which they hope puts him on the defensive here because they don't think they're battling or rattling him.
What they want is for his supporters, which you claim you now know when they want you thinking he's afraid to show his face today.
Well, they thought that would happen three or four months ago with the illegal immigration statements and comments.
And look at what happened there.
Here's the problem.
I'm starting to think this guy is blessed because just as, as you reported earlier, not that people are leaving him, but they're getting bored with him, the news cycle.
This is the same thing they tried to pull on him with his statements about immigration.
So what's going to happen now, these idiots, is the same backlash that led to people saying, you know what?
His point is correct about immigration.
We don't care that we should run from him because he may not have said it in a way that is as politically correct as the media and some other people who just want to jump on him are going to say, we're going to see through that, and we're going to start talking about the substance of what he said.
What they're going to do now is the same thing.
You watch.
His numbers will go back up because Chris Christie's and Gramassy, they'll all overplay it, act like they have the vapors, have to go to their room.
And, you know, if I was Trump, I'd say whatever.
Well, wait a minute now.
It's not, no, no, no.
It's not automatic that his numbers are going to go up.
He's got to do what he's always done if the numbers are going to go up.
What has he always done?
He's always doubled down.
He has always doubled.
Every time one of these things happens where they expect an apology, he's done the exact opposite.
He has doubled down.
If Trump will be finished in a week, if he responds to this in an apologetic way or in any way that appears, makes it look like he is behaving in a way demanded by all of these critics, Hillary, Christie, Gramnesty, media, you name it.
Now, I want to play, I wasn't going to play this today because this is becoming a regular part of the Trump speech.
And I didn't want you people getting a wrong idea from it.
But now it's appropriate to play this.
This is how he opened, well, not open.
This is near the open of his remarks last night in Rochester, long before this supporter of his asked the question.
This has become an almost regular mention that he makes.
Remember this.
When I first announced, and this was an incredible two weeks, believe me, Rush Limbaugh said, I have never seen anybody receive more incoming, a word I never heard before.
Incoming means really bad press.
I mean, it was incoming.
But he said, I've never seen anything like it.
And then he doubled down.
I doubled down and it's true.
And he said, nobody would have done that because I knew the problem.
I knew what was happening.
That's so just even as recently as last night, he is recounting for what he did.
That's what put him on the map.
Everybody's demanding an apology.
He doubles down.
Double down on McCain.
He doubled down on the illegal immigrant criminals.
He wasn't talked off of it at all.
And there's no question that that's a significant reason why he has support.
And the media is also – don't fall for this story, by the way, John, that he's peaked.
That's a politico story that I'm sure they've had in the drawer here for a couple weeks or months, waiting to trot it out when they think it's appropriate.
They ran that story today because Carly Fiorina is universally acclaimed as the debate winner on Wednesday night.
So it's axiomatic that what would follow, oh, it's over for Trump.
Trump is peaked.
Trump's not as exciting.
Trump's not getting his many Twitter mentions.
So what they're trying to imply here is that Trump's numbers are going down.
They haven't gone down.
Trump's numbers don't have any area to recover.
He has not lost any ground here.
Everybody is under the belief now because of this story and all this controversy that Trump's numbers are plummeting, and they're not.
Anyway, I have to take a break.
I appreciate the call, John.
Thanks much.
Don't go away, folks.
Back with much more after this.
Very quickly, Lou in Brooklyn, line five.
Great to have you, sir.
EIB Network, Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Yes, thanks for taking my call.
You know, they tried to marginalize Trump during the last debate by sort of asking if people would trust him with his, you know, the launch codes and his finger on the nuclear weapons.
And my answer to this is, he's the guy.
Because if our enemy knows what Okay, I know what he's going to say.
We got a bad cell connection.
He's saying that Trump is the guy, the one guy he would want to have the nuclear codes.
By the way, Lou, I'm glad you brought that up.
I forgot to mention that Thursday, and that did incense me.
That Trump nuclear codes, that was worse than marginalizing.
That was calling Trump unstable and insane and all of that.
And they tried that with Reagan.
And even when Reagan was president, people remember when Gorbachev came for a state visit in 68, when the first gorbasms happened, Washington elite was finally, oh my God, safe, finally safe.
Gorbachev, the responsible one, is coming.
Maybe he can talk Reagan since not launching the codes.
It was constant during the Reagan years.
This so-called fear of Reagan's finger being inches away from the new.
There were editorial cartoons about it.
And I thought, that was a Jake Tapper question, by the way, at that debate, asking these other guys, you feel comfortable with Donald Trump's finger out of nuclear codes or whatever.
What a base, tired, worn out, pointless question.
We've got a guy giving our enemies nuclear weapons, folks.
And we're asking Donald Trump or other candidates to weigh in on whether or not we want Trump nearby the launch button.
What we need to be asking is somebody thinking about maybe rebuilding our safety net called Star Wars.
Okay, Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks.
What did I do?
I had it right in front of me here.
I can't.
I'm sorry, folks.
I'm losing things that thought I had it put at the top here.
Pages are sticking together now.
I pull it out somewhere.
Well, I can't find it.
So I know there's two sound bites.
What I don't have is deleted.
I don't know what happened.
I can't remember who asked him, but here, the sound bites are self-explanatory.
Play the first one: Richard Sermon in trouble because he didn't fall in line with what Black Lives Matter means.
We need to deal with our own internal issues before we move forward and start pointing fingers and start attacking other people.
We need to solidify ourselves as people and deal with our issues because I think as long as we have black on black crime and one black man killing another, black lives matter.
The nation matter all the time.
You should never let somebody get killed.
That's somebody's son.
That's somebody's brother.
That's somebody's friend.
He's getting roasted now in the black community because he talks about black on black crime.
He says, if you're going to talk about Black Lives Matter, you better talk about black on black crime.
And that's no, you don't talk about that.
Black Lives Matter deals with only one thing, white on black crime, which is not nearly as prevalent as black on black crime.
But the Black Lives Matter crowd, it's not all lives matter.
No, no, no, no.
It's only Black Lives Matter because that's all that's being killed, usually by white cops.
So here comes Richard Sherman.
He says, look, I came from where you guys are talking.
I came from Compton.
I worked my way up.
I went to Stanford.
I got no help.
This is not going to solve anything.
I don't want to be enemies with these people that you want to be enemies of.
I work with these people.
I've prospered among these people.
If you're going to talk about black on black crime, you better talk about, or Black Lives Matter, you better talk about black on black crime.
And he is getting roasted for this.
And next, this really added more insult to the injury.
Now he defends the cops.
I don't think all cops are bad.
There's some great cops out there who do everything in their power to uphold the badge and uphold the honor and protect the people out in society, but there are bad cops.
And I think that also needs to be addressed.
I think the ignorance should stop.
You know, I think people should realize that at the end of the day, we're all human beings.
So, you know, before we're black, white, Asian, Polynesian, Latino, we're humans.
Richard Sherman, number 25, cornerback Seattle Seahawks.
And he finds himself deep in the pool of controversy here because he's not following the script.
Takes a lot of guts.
Takes a lot of guts.
Let me tell you something, folks, for a sports guy.
These people do not speak out this way because they endorse products and they try to hide.
Michael George, a Democrat, but he never talks about it.
He doesn't flaunt it because Republicans buy Nikes too.
And same with Barkley.
You know, Barkley may go off the deep end, but he always brings it back.
Tiger Woods, you never know what he is or what he isn't.
I mean, because people of all political persuasions buy golf shirts and clubs and stuff.
And Sherman, he's got his own endorsement deals.
Nike, I'm not sure who is with, but you just, this is really courageous.
It's gutsy.
You don't find athletes taking stands like this.
And I think it's great that he is.
They have tremendous influence.
Look at Brady endorsed Trump.
Did you hear that?
Brady came out and endorsed Trump.
When's the last time Tom Brady involved himself in politics at all?
It just doesn't happen.
And I've always secretly, I've always wished more of these guys would because of the influence they have.
The reasonable ones.
The ones that care.
I mean, I'm talking the ones that are involved, not just the ones being paid to do it, but the ones that actually care.
They do have influence.
By the way, I should point out that Michael Smith on ESPN2, it's a program called His and Hers.
Michael Smith, I think it's African-American reporter ESPN.
Said, Sherman doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's wrong.
He needs to read more before he starts talking about things like this.
He applauds and admires athletes speaking out, but Sherman didn't know what he was talking about here.
But the ESPN guy does, of course.
See?
And I hope you have a great weekend, folks.
We be back on Monday.
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