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I had a lot of emails yesterday asking how Rush is.
Well, he had a jackhammer headache, uncontrollable weeping eyes, and he was projectile vomiting.
And then the doctor said, well, you know, maybe you shouldn't listen to the guest host.
I can't remember.
Who was the guest host again yesterday?
Anyway, I just, don't worry.
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So he's resting up.
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If you wish to participate in America's number one radio show, I would love to hear from a Hillary Clinton fan because they seem to be thin on the ground and even thinner on the ground if they're male.
There's a big story in National Journal today headlined Hillary Clinton's Problem with Men, which is basically an echo of the slate story about Joe Biden's problem with women yesterday, Hillary Clinton's problem with men.
But there's also other developments on the email front.
They now have evidence that cyber attacks on her email server were originating in China, South Korea and Germany.
These are the ones that they know about once she got some product that allegedly makes you secure from these things and they can identify where the attack is coming from.
My website has been attacked a couple of times from Iran for some reason.
I don't know what these mullers are so uptight about, but they can identify the source of the threat.
And these threats came from China.
These attempted cyber attacks on her server came from China, South Korea and Germany.
And as I said yesterday, you know, in a sense, the criminal investigation, the FBI investigate, the FBI is now sending agents into the State Department to seize computers to identify emails and email chains from the Clinton era.
This is the woman who is running for president as heir presumptive to Barack Obama.
And the FBI are going into the State Department and taking away computers.
And I reckon she can probably weather all that.
The problem is that the email scandal and the email criminality, for which someone almost certainly will be going to jail for now, it's just the Clintons are holding meetings in Chappaqua to identify who is going to be their designated fall guy for this.
But that distracts from the fact that even without the email scandal, she's a terrible candidate.
This is what this Hillary Clinton's problem with men story is all about.
That she does as badly with men as Republicans do with Hispanics.
And this gets to the point about why people are worried about Trump becoming the nominee because he is high unfavorables, which might matter in certain elections.
It would matter if he were running against Bill Clinton, say.
But it doesn't matter if you're running against Hillary Clinton and you look at her unfavorables with men.
And it helps to explain by the way why the whole Hillary is first female president hasn't worked to her advantage because of these huge colossal negatives she has among Democrat men.
And that's why it doesn't matter going for a Bernie Sanders or a Joe Biden.
These are both, you know, whatever they are now, 87-year-old white men.
Because in the Democrat Party, a man is like a woman anyway.
So he's not threatening or menacing in the same way because he's a nice, sensitive new man type.
So in other words, it's easier for Bernie Sanders to win over women than it is for Hillary Clinton to win over men.
So she's got this male problem.
She's got this other problem on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, where she was before it or she was against it.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, who's an aide to Hillary, was on NPR yesterday.
And I think it was yesterday.
And she was maybe the day before.
And she was asked to identify what Hillary Clinton's accomplishments were, because as Carly Fiorina likes to say, flying is not an accomplishment.
She flew everywhere, but what did she do?
She had the reset button with Russia, which Putin is now using to conquer the entire Middle East as well, because he's basically done wrapping.
He's wrapped up Ukraine, so he's now moving on, getting those warm water ports in Syria shored up.
So that's the reset button in Russia.
What has she got to show for it?
And eventually, Anne-Marie Slaughter said, well, she laid the groundwork for this fabulous Trans-Pacific Partnership.
And apparently, unaware that Hillary has revised her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and she's now against it.
She was for it before she was against it.
Now, I don't hold either of her positions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership against her, because we all know Hillary Clinton doesn't have a position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Bernie Sanders is a genuine socialist.
He is a socialist.
He has always been a socialist.
He is a philosophical socialist.
He wants to implement it.
He believes in it.
He wants to spend $20 trillion establishing a socialist America.
That's who he is.
And he's unashamed about it.
Hillary Clinton doesn't believe in anything except that she should be president and she and her family should go around living like kings on somebody else's dime.
That's Hillary Clinton's only core belief.
You know, all this, I'll never stop fighting for you.
I'll never stop fighting for you.
Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton believes in the Clintons.
That's all.
And she believes in particular that she is entitled to be the next president.
She has no core beliefs to betray.
None.
And so it's not worth wasting time on what is her genuine position on this Trans-Pacific Partnership, because she doesn't have one.
But what this aide of hers touting on NPR, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as one of her great accomplishments, laying the groundwork for it, tells you this.
It tells you that she can't, even as an unprincipled, croniest, sleazy, low-life, she still can't be a competent, unprincipled, croniest, sleazy, low-life.
It's all very well saying, oh, what we need in America right now is an unprincipled, croniest, sleazy, low-life, but we're entitled to a competent, unprincipled, croniest, sleazy, low-life.
And what this tells you, when on the eve of her disavowing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, you've got someone going out on national radio talking it up as one of her great accomplishments.
What that tells you is that there is no control, there is no authority, there is no organization in her campaign.
That in itself tells you why she's going nowhere.
But this story about her poor numbers with men is very revealing, and we'll get to that later in the show today.
We have some breaking news from just about 45 minutes ago.
It was revealed that Airmen First Class Spencer Stone, who was one of the guys who helped take down that gunman on a train going from the Paris-Amsterdam train as it was passing through Belgium, he tackled this gunman and he survived happily.
And he was awarded the Lesion d'Honneur by Président Hollande in Paris.
And he was stabbed last night outside a Sacramento bar.
They did not think he would survive.
This was in the early hours of Thursday morning.
He suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso, and police initially thought it was a homicide investigation.
But he's apparently in stable condition now, and it looks like he will pull through.
It's a remarkable situation because if you recall the shooting in Oregon that the president's going to be speaking about occurred in the college town, attended by Alex Scarlatos, who was another of the men involved in pushing back on this Paris Amsterdam train against this armed gunman.
So these guys have an actuarially unlikely rate of suffering for what they helped do on this on this French train.
But he has been stabbed in the chest.
And I find this interesting because all the talk now is of gun control, gun control, gun control.
This guy is lucky to survive multiple stab wounds to the torso.
We have a situation in Jerusalem right now where they've had this series of really vicious stabbings where people are just, sometimes they're not even stabbing with knives.
They're just using screwdrivers and whatever they have to hand, where basically Muslims are stabbing Jews with whatever they have to hand in Jerusalem.
And yet the president is still talking about gun control as if gun control is going to be the answer to anything here.
And I would like to talk today about what Ben Carson said.
Because Ben Carson has got Ben Carson, people can have their views on him as a presidential candidate, but there's two things that are characteristic of him.
He's thoughtful.
He's genuinely thoughtful.
He's a soft-spoken man, but he's a thoughtful guy, genuinely thoughtful, not just poser thoughtfulness like Obama.
And he actually gave an answer that showed he'd given some thought to what happened at this community college in Oregon.
And he has been pilloried for it, whereas it's absolutely the sort.
And I'm going to defend him today because it's absolutely the sort of thing you should be able to say.
Because it's more important.
It's more important than just striking an attitude about how beastly guns are or all the rest of it.
Because two things you can say.
Even if you look at it from the Democrats' point of view, if you ban all guns tomorrow, there's still going to be over 300 million of them in the country.
If you were to do what the president seems to be hinting at, because he keeps citing British and Australian examples, if you were to embark on a gun confiscation program, there's still going to be 300 million guns to confiscate.
That is going to be a hell of a big government program if he were to try and implement it.
If you were to look at it from a pro-gun point of view, which is to say, look, okay, you've got 37 gun laws that criminals break, so let's pass a 38th gun law, and the 38th gun law will be the charm, and they won't break this one.
If you look at it from a pro-gun point of view, criminals break all existing gun laws and they'll break whatever gun laws are passed.
So we're still going to have things like what happened in Oregon.
So the question is, what do you do about it?
Ben Carson gave an honest and thoughtful answer.
He, in fact, was one of the few politicians in either party to actually give some thought to the question and offer a practical solution, and he's been pillowed for it.
And that's exactly what is wrong with our political discourse.
So I want to say a word about Ben Carson and defend him on this position when we get back.
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While we're speaking about all the other ways, apart from guns, you can die.
The Associated Press has a story today that over one, it turns out over 1,310 people were killed during a crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca a couple of weeks ago.
That's 500 deaths more than the official death toll that Saudi Arabia gave, because like getting the corpse count correct to the nearest 500 is apparently beyond the capacities of the House of Saud.
But instead, AP went through the death totals from just 17 of the more than 180 countries that sent pilgrims to the Hajj.
And Iran alone had 465 of its citizens killed in this crush.
Egypt had 148.
Indonesia had 120.
Boom, boom, boom.
Next thing you know, it's at least 1,313 people die in a crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
So maybe we need Hajj control.
Maybe we just need to put some Hajj control laws in place that would prevent 1,313 people at least.
And they've only counted from 17 of the 180 countries represented at the Hajj.
Maybe we need to have Hajj control.
Maybe it's the way the Confederate flag killed all those people in that black church in Charleston.
Maybe it's the Koran that should be blamed for killing all these people, 1,313 people at least in this Hajj in Mecca.
That's the latest death count.
And again, by the way, do you remember that little boy who was on all the front page of the newspapers about three weeks ago, a four-year-old boy who drowned?
His father was taking him from Turkey to Greece as part of all these big migrations to get into Europe.
And this four-year-old boy drowned and he washed up on the beach.
And the world's photographers all photographed his poor little four-year-old body on the beach.
And it was all used as a form.
This is an indictment of the entire Western world and the heartlessness of the rich world in doing nothing for this little dead four-year-old boy who's on the beach and we're photographing him and we're putting his picture on the front pages and he's leading all the nightly news shows and all the rest of it.
And that one little boy, you know, this is who was it, Stalin?
One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic.
The death of this one little four-year-old baby boy is an indictment of the entire Western world.
But the death of at least 1,313 people during the annual Hajj to the holy city of Mecca is just business as usual in Saudi Arabia, so nobody cares about that.
But we've been talking, we were talking about the other ways to kill people, like this poor Ahmed Spencer Stone just stabbed in Sacramento.
And what those guys did on that French train is there was a gunman, and they rushed him.
The three Americans and a British businessman and some other middle-class professor, I think it was, joined in.
And they did something that's right.
You can't, the most important vital moments are when these kind of incidents begin and before the guy has managed to get control of the situation, taken control of the room.
Your best chance of staying alive is to act in the first few seconds.
And that's what Ben Carson was saying.
You have to rush him.
You have to do what those guys did on that French train.
Everyone thinks, because the three Americans, two of them were connected to the armed forces, everyone sort of thinks vaguely they must have had guns on them.
No, the guy had the guns.
They were unarmed railroad passengers.
And they decided to act and they knew to act and they rushed him.
And that's what matters.
And that's what Ben Carson is saying.
He's not saying anything bad about the people who died, but he's saying that these things are going to occur from time to time.
And you have to give some, we give some thought to all kinds of, we worry all that we tell, we fill our young people's up.
I was talking about it yesterday, we're about climate change, which in the year 2100 could affect sea levels in the Maldives.
And we teach our young people to worry all the time about sea levels in the Maldives in the year 2100.
Who knows what will happen in the year 2100?
Sea levels in the Maldives might well be fine.
And anyway, it's a very small population, and they're all Sunni Muslims, so they can all just move to Dearborn, Michigan, and they'll fit right in.
So we teach them all the time to worry about that, but we don't teach them to worry about something that, again, is unlikely, but does actually happen from time to time.
And that's what Ben Carson was doing.
What matters is the vital first few seconds when somebody does something like this.
You have to move fast before he takes control of the room, when he still hasn't got his landscape figured out.
And how many guys are on this side of the room and how many girls are on that side and where the doors and the windows all are.
Before he's taken control of the environment, that's when you have to act.
And that's what Ben Carson was saying.
We are breaking news.
Kevin McCarthy, who I was talking about yesterday, put his foot in his mouth over that Benghazi business, has dropped out of the race to succeed John Boehner as speaker.
Kevin McCarthy has just dropped out of the race.
We'll talk about that and all the rest of today's news straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
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As I said, we got breaking news just a couple of minutes ago.
Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, has withdrawn from the race for House Speaker.
Not entirely due to my attacking him yesterday for his remarks on Benghazi.
I think other people were finding it a bit difficult too.
Amy from California, I don't know whether she's one of his constituents, but she called from his home state to defend him yesterday, but it was not enough.
And Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn from the race.
Jason Chaffetz, who is also in the race, he's an interesting fellow because he was actually targeted.
He was leading these investigations into the Secret Service.
You know, the Secret Service who had the big Cartagena hooker scandal.
They're taking all these hookers.
They were on an advanced trip to secure Cartagena for the president's visit and availed themselves of some of the most expensive hookers in the city.
And as a result, I love, you have to love the way big government responds to these things.
Big government, then the Secret Service introduced a program making it forbidding Secret Service agents from having foreign nationals in their rooms.
The issue is not that they're foreign hookers, the issue is that they're hookers.
And it's not an improvement to say, well, now when they're on a top mission with the president on the other side of the world, we're going to send some Cleveland hookers to keep him company in the evening.
That is not the answer to this.
So anyway, Jason Chauffetz has been leading the investigation into this.
And in return, the Secret Service improperly accessed all his personal information and tried to find something on him that they could stitch him up for.
So it would be very interesting to see what's going to happen if he were to emerge as speaker.
But anyway, that is the breaking news.
Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn as speaker.
I was saying, I was talking, I was defending Ben Carson, who was saying that you should, when you're in this situation, you've got to rush the guy.
You don't want him to be able to have the time to take charge of the room.
The most important thing is to recognize who he is.
He's a man who wants to kill people, and the likelihood is he's going to kill people.
And so you don't want to make it easier for him to kill people.
You don't want to do the shelter in place when you don't want to do the get under the desk thing.
They did everything he said at a college in Kenya a couple of months ago.
I have a young lady over in that part of Kenya who writes to me all the time.
And she was very devastated by what happened at this college.
And then he asked them all, once they were all cowering and in position, he asked them all to identify whether they were Christian or Muslim, and he killed all the Christians.
There was a worst case in the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
A guy walks into the room.
He tells the boys to go to one side of the class.
He tells the girls to go to the other side of the room.
And then he tells the boys to leave the room.
And they go outside and they wait in the corridor.
And he shoots all the women.
And when he's finished shooting all the women, he walks out of that room into the corridor past all the so-called men.
And not one of them does a thing to stop him.
And that guy was Gamil Garby.
He was the son of an Algerian Muslim wife beater who evidently had issues with women.
And the left up north, as down here, never wastes an opportunity.
So they use that as an opportunity to institute a gun registry and to denounce the violent testosterone rage in all Canadian men.
That story actually exemplified the lack of testosterone, that these men, quotes, meekly obeyed, having separated themselves from the women, meekly obeyed the order to leave the room and then stood passively in the corridor as he shot all the women.
The most vital time in any of these situations is the first few seconds.
And somebody says, somebody criticized Ben Carson, who was at the college, and says, you wouldn't know, well, you wouldn't know what it's like.
It's all very tense.
It's all very traumatic when it's there, when it's happening.
And that's true.
And that's why we should teach people how to think about these things before it happens.
And that's what Ben Carson is doing.
He's saying, look, everyone complains about these gun shootings.
Every time they occur, some school here, some college there, some church there.
Well, why don't we actually accept that there are these people in our society and they're going to be trying this once every six months, once every four months.
Somewhere it's going to happen.
Why don't we think about it and actually have a strategy for dealing with it?
Don't let the guy take control of the room.
Charge him.
Your odds are actually pretty good if you think about it, if you act in the first few seconds and you do it before he's had a chance to take control of the room.
Ben Carson said about the only useful thing that anyone has said in this whole, in all the pitiful soundbites where people are just like the president rushing to the airwaves to default to his anti-gun thing.
Ben Carson actually said something of practical value.
And it is of practical value.
I went to, I was in Iraq about a month after Saddam Hussein fell.
I was there on my own.
I drove over the border from Amman.
And I didn't give a lot of thought to it, except I'm not a brave guy.
I'm not particularly in shape.
If I have to run a long distance, I get rather out of breath and puffy, so I'm not terribly nimble when it comes to running away from danger.
But I gave a bit of thought to what would happen if things turned bad.
And remembering what happened to Daniel Pearl and all the rest of it, you think to yourself, you don't want to get in the car.
If you get in the car with these guys, you're dead.
So you've got to give some thought as to what you're going to do if they're trying to force you to get into the car.
And as it turned out, I did have an awkward incident at an abandoned rest area on the main road from Rutbah to Baghdad.
And as I said, I'm not a brave guy.
I'm not a fit guy.
I'm not in SEAL Team 6.
But like Ben Carson, I want to live.
And I think about these things.
And the decisions you make in the first few seconds, which is his speciality.
He's operated on people who are on the verge of death.
And anyone who's been in an operating room knows that something, you plan your operation.
It's going to take so many minutes.
You're going to do this.
You're going to do that.
And something happens.
There's something three-quarters of the way through, something funny goes on.
And, you know, we've all seen on the hospital dramas.
Oh, we're losing him.
We're losing him.
And Ben Carson has been in that situation and knows that in that split second, the decisions you make will determine whether somebody lives or dies.
And that's what he was doing when he gave his answer on what people should do in this college situation.
He thinks a lot about life and he understands that the most important decision in those situations is when you act in the first few seconds before the guy has taken control of the situation.
And Ben Carson, I'm not saying I support him for president.
I've got a lot of problems with him when he talks about foreign policy and everything.
But on this issue, he's getting a bum rap from almost everyone in the media.
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Let's go to Dennis in beautiful San Diego.
Dennis, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Good morning, sir.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm answering your invite for any Democrat Hillary supporter to call in.
I happen to be a Marine veteran, an ex-cop, a Democrat, and I support the next nominee in the Democratic ticket for the 2016 election, which I believe is going to be Hillary.
And why do you support Hillary?
For the same reason I support the Democratic Party.
National defense and labor issues are the two biggest issues to me as a Democrat.
And the number one reason I'm a Democrat is I firmly have always believed and always will believe that in addition to faith-based assistance, our country must always uphold the assistance to our poor, those in poverty here on American soil.
And why do you think Hillary, I'm interested to know why you think Hillary will do better than that than Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is a full-ball socialist.
He's all for redistribution to the poor.
I believe that Bernie Sanders is a fine man, and if he's nominated, I will support him.
And as regarding Hillary, there's only going to be one nomination, and that's the one that I will support.
Will they?
Okay, so they probably will.
You're for the Democrat, nominee whoever.
Now, you say you want to help the poor and whatever.
What do you mean by that?
Because the problem right now in America is that if you're born in the bottom 20% in America, you're more likely to be stuck there than if you're born in the bottom 20% in any Western country.
I'm going from the OECD statistics in Geneva on the world's economies.
If you're born in the bottom 20% in America, you're more likely to be stuck there than if you're born in the bottom 20% in most other countries.
And so we're turning into, then even the United Kingdom, for example, it's easier to go from some broken down council flat to Downton Abbey than it is to go from the bottom 20% and get out of it now in the United States.
That's the American dream dead, as Donald Trump said.
So why would you have Hillary, who embodies crony capitalism, the crony capitalism, the credentialism, the rule by Ivy League experts that keeps the bottom 20% in the bottom 20%, why would you think that's going to do anything for poor people in America?
Yes, sir.
Well, let me put it in this perspective.
I'm also a former divorced single father.
I raised three children by myself for 15 years in poverty.
I worked very hard to provide.
And many times here in America, just the way my dad taught me the lessons of the Great Depression that he survived in.
And for the very same reasons, sometimes right now, today, this very moment, kind of like what Mr. Dr. Carson was talking about, when something happens like right now, there are all over America people who need today, Right now, a gallon of milk, some meat, fruit, vegetables, food, and a roof over their head.
Yeah, there's...
They can try to make their way up, sir.
Yeah, no, no, that's...
That's true.
There's just under 50 million people on food stamps.
There's the entire Obama was sneering at Rutherford B. Hayes a couple of years ago.
There's the entire population.
Rutherford B. Hayes, if he came back today, would be amazed that the entire population of the United States in his day is now living on food stamps.
What I want to know is what gets you off food stamps, the way you said you had it tough, you were raising three kids on your own as a single dad and all the rest of it.
What gets you out of that is having economic opportunity.
I mean, the United States already, if you look at government expenditures per person, the United States spends more than France.
It spends more than Germany.
It spends more than Italy.
It spends more than Canada.
It spends more than Spain per person on government programs.
In Canada, it's about $16,500.
In America, it's over $19,000.
But you're saying America already spends more on per person government expenditures than any other Western nation, but we still need to spend more still.
Well, what I was saying is we need to continue it and not to cut it.
Just using my own history as an example, when those times came and I was very deeply grateful for the help so that I could keep a roof over our head and buy groceries.
Now, the way I climbed up, you are right.
It was by working hard in a job and then using that to get a work history going and then working my way up higher to a better job and then living a better life in a better environment for the kids.
You are right about that.
But what I'm saying to you, sir, is that it takes both.
It takes the combination of those good paying jobs and the assistance for the ones that are at the bottom level right now.
And their kids can't wait until the next congressional election.
No, their kids can't.
Here's what their kids can't wait for.
Their kids are stuck in a public school system that is one of the worst in the world.
And to take your point about how we need to use, in effect, more tax dollars, we need to transfer more money to help poor people.
America spends more per student on public education than anywhere except Switzerland.
And the Swiss have something to show for it.
We don't.
Our grades are mediocre.
The longer you spend in the America, at elementary, at the grade three tests internationally, we're kind of competitive with developed nations.
By the time you get to middle school, we're going down into the toilet.
And we spend more than anyone except Switzerland.
So are you saying we should be spending more than Switzerland?
Because we've got nothing to show for it.
No, sir.
I'm saying we should continue what we have and build from there as far as, I mean, the families to build themselves up from there.
Okay, okay, Dennis.
We've got to take a break.
But thanks for your call.
I think you'll find, though, even in Democrat terms, if you seriously want to have a more redistributive nature society, you're better off with Bernie Sanders than you are with Mrs. Clinton, who basically, her approach to redistribution is it gets redistributed to the Clinton Foundation that redistributes it to Bill Hillary and Chelsea.
That's how redistribution works at that end of the Democrat Party.
We'll be back in just a moment.
Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn from the race to succeed John Boehner, and the election's been postponed, which means that John Boehner, amidst all the tears, there were apparently people left the room crying at the Republican caucus.
Amid all the tears, John Boehner says he's staying until whenever the postponed election comes.