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Oct. 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Where are you?
Great to have you back, my friends.
Rushland Boy here behind the Golden EIB microphone, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
I just got an email from a very, very, very close friend of mine.
By the way, speaking of a close friend, how about those Steelers last night?
Did you stay up late and see that game last night?
No, that's called game plan now.
NFL Rewind doesn't exist anymore.
You paid for that?
Way to go.
I have never seen a walk-off touchdown like this.
I'm sure it's happened.
I just haven't seen it in regulation.
You see it in overtime all the time.
And the situation was the Steelers had, well, it was third or second in goal from the one-yard line, half-yard line, five seconds left.
Down three on the road in San Diego playing the Chargers.
Michael Vick has had a sort of off and on night.
He performed well in the last drive.
Steelers had seven points or six points on a pick.
Interception.
The offense has been ragged all night, but the running back, Le'Veon Bell, has had a really good night.
He's over 100 yards and so forth.
So what do you do?
You're on the road.
Do you kick the field goal, tie the game, go to overtime, or do you go for the win?
Tomlin, the coach of the Steelers, went for the win.
Le'Veon Belt with no time left scores the winning touchdown.
And this is the kind of win that can change a season.
Steelers have an just impossible schedule remaining.
It's really, really a tough row to hoe here.
But what a great game it was to watch last night.
And the baseball playoffs are in full swing.
And a lot of upsets happening.
You know what happened?
The Royals yesterday, they were playing when this program ended.
And the Royals went into the eighth inning down, what was it, four?
They were down four.
And the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who we all love, sent a tweet out congratulating the Astros for winning and moving on to the American League Championship Series.
The problem was the game wasn't over.
There were still two innings to play.
The Royals end up winning the game 9-6, taking the game back to Kansas City for game five, which is the last game of series tomorrow night.
Now, today, the Cubs and the Cardinals, they have an elimination game for the Cardinals today.
If the Cubs win today, it's over.
Cardinals will lose that series.
Cubs will win it.
And the Mets and the Dodgers tonight.
And both those games are on TBS.
And that's a big New York audience that's going to be watching TBS and not watching CNN.
And the debates.
This is the best time of year for sports fans that you can pie field.
If you like baseball, you like football.
This is the absolute best time of year.
There's something important happening practically every night.
And if you throw college football in there, if you like that, then you're really in Nirvana.
Now, all of this reminds me, a close friend, snortly you want to hear this.
A close friend of mine said, I think you missed the point of the Brooks piece.
He said, keep a sharp eye now.
If the Brooks piece gives other Republicans cover to start blaming you for everything.
This friend of mine said, a lot of these elected Republicans, the stories in the news media constantly say how afraid they are to oppose you.
They don't want to be.
Remember that story last week?
None of them want to be speaker because they'll have to deal with me, which I think is utter nonsense, by the way.
I think it's total BS.
But the stories are out there.
So this friend of mine says, you better just keep a sharp eye because that Brooks piece could be covered.
Now all these Republicans who think you're in the way, all they got to do is agree with Brooks.
They don't have to come out and hit you on their own.
They've just got to agree with Brooks.
He says, you keep a sharp eye.
They could be ready to throw you overboard inside of two days here.
I said, well, I don't know.
This has happened many times before.
This is not the first time somebody in the drive-by media has taken after me.
I thought it was an interesting point.
And by the way, if it were to happen, there's a lot of, there's a, well, let me just leave it at that.
I don't want to try to foretell the future on that.
But if things play out here as I think they're going to, I will be honest with you and tell you, yep, yep, yep, I was going to tell you that, but then I pulled back rather than make the prediction.
You know, folks, it's not just David Brooks.
Barack Hussein Oh, the President of the United States.
This is on the New YorkReviewofBooks.com, their website.
Not to be confused with the New York Times.
The New York Review of Books.
What do you think the New York Review of Books is?
Well, yeah, this is some literary thing for the publishing community.
Well, it sounds like it's a bunch of people that review books, the New York Review of Books.
If that's what it was, that'd be no thing.
But these people are every bit the far left lunatics that the New York Times is.
They are left-wing advocates, disguised as literary intellectuals, reviewing only the finest works.
So anyway, Obama shows up.
They've got this sort of like a podcast thing that they do on their website.
And he was having a conversation with Marilyn Robinson at the New York Review of Books.
It's called President Obama and Marilyn Robinson, A Conversation in Iowa.
And during the interview, Obama said this.
People always, I think, were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa.
And the reason I did was, first of all, I had the benefit that at the time, nobody expected me to win.
And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media and making me scary.
Yeah, he's got this on the brains.
I live rent-free in his brain and in Bill Clinton's and in Hillary's.
I live rent-free in all three.
I'm the original Airbnb, except I don't pay for it.
I am in their brains.
Obama is out there constantly blaming Fox and conservative media.
That's me.
So it's not just Brooks.
And this is not the first time for Obama.
But you know what's wrong with the whole premise of this question is wrong.
When he says, people always think we're surprised about me connecting with folks in small town.
He didn't connect with people in small town Iowa.
He's talking about winning the Hawkeye Caucasi.
Do you know how he won the Hawkeye Caucasi?
You remember how he won the Iowa Caucus?
He bust everybody in from out of state.
They changed the rules on who could go to a caucus.
He didn't win any small-time Iowa fans.
I mean, other than traditional Democrat cauckey goers.
He didn't make any connection with small-town Iowans.
That's just revisionist history based on the fact that he won the Hawkeye Caucy back in 2008.
And, you know, Hillary was expected to win.
That was the first big upset.
The Hawkeye Cauckey that was supposed to launch Hillary on her coronation.
And Obama comes in and wins this thing.
And he did it with a lot of people bust in.
And I mean, it was almost an in-your-face flouting of the rules of the Hawkeye Caucasi, as I recall it here.
Remember, this is the guy.
Let's go back to April 6th of 2008.
This is a Democrat fundraiser where he's speaking and he doesn't know that there's somebody with a camera and a microphone in there.
They get better than they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like that.
That's the bitter clinger comment.
Here's Obama talking, oh, yeah, I had a great connection with small-town Iowa.
Yeah, man, they loved me before Fox News got hold of me and before conservative media got hold of me and made me scary.
They love me there.
But in April of 2008, this was during the campaign.
This is shortly after the Hawkeye caucus, in fact.
Obama, oh, yeah, these people, they get bitter.
They cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.
I know you remember that comment.
This is Obama describing Middle America.
This is Obama describing what he thinks of the average ordinary Republicans out there.
Small-minded, feeble-minded, bigots, racists, go to church every Sunday, pro-lifers, maybe a pickup gun, back window of the pickup truck or a shotgun in the back window of the pickup truck.
And they don't know anything.
They're not very bright.
And they cling to all these things that give them faith when they're being overrun by things they don't understand, like people like me or women or, you know, anybody didn't white, you know, they freak out and they cling to their guns or their religion or their antipathy or what have you.
And that same guy is out trying to say, yeah, I was loved by small town Iowa.
The problem is he didn't like small towns.
He doesn't like small towners.
This is a guy trying to eliminate suburbs, or at least eliminate the voting power and economic power of suburbia.
Robin Roberts on Good Morning America Today was talking about Bill Clinton and whether or not he was going to be in Las Vegas.
I mean, he's got his wife there.
Big Democrat debate.
Where's Der Schlikmeister?
Former President Bill Clinton.
He is there in Las Vegas with the frontrunner.
He is not expected to be in the room tonight.
No, but I'll bet you he's in town.
Maybe out at the bunny ranch.
But he's well, no, he wouldn't have to pay for it.
He'd be an honored guest.
No, he's not going to be in the room, but of course he'll be in town.
Is there any doubt?
Here's Hillary.
Last night I mentioned that she went over to Trump's hotel and tried to, I don't know what you'd call this, harass or jab or tweak Trump while he's supposedly, she's down on the street shouting insults.
He's supposedly up in the hotel enjoying some time off, supposed to be terribly frightened by what Hillary's doing out there.
This is what she said.
You know, some people think Mr. Trump is entertaining, but I don't think it's entertaining when somebody insults immigrants, insults women.
That is just unacceptable behavior.
So how does Hillary Clinton get attention?
She goes out and talks about Donald Trump.
Again, I want to remind you, this is a point that I made two hours ago in the first hour of today's busy broadcast, and this is that CNN has been downplaying expectations, ratings expectations for their debate tonight.
And I'm asking, how do you do that?
You've got Hillary Clinton.
You have the next president of the United States on your network tonight.
You have the presumptive Democrat nominee, the presumptive next president.
You've got the smartest woman in the world, the former Secretary of State, the wife of Bill Clinton.
How do you get bigger than that?
What are you doing downplaying your ratings expectations?
I think CNN ought to be hyping this debate, building up expectations.
Isn't it up to Hillary to draw the crowd?
I mean, these are people running for the presidency.
Is it not up to them to be compelling and interesting enough that people want to tune in to watch?
What CNN knows is the numbers of this debate are not going to even approach the numbers on a Republican debate, and so they're making excuses right off the top.
And their excuses are to cover for the fact that nobody cares and nobody's interested in Hillary Clinton.
And nobody's other than to watch maybe a train wreck or somehow be entertained in some other way.
And Trump said he's going to live tweet the thing.
I'll bet you Trump's Twitter feed has more participation and more interest and a bigger audience than CNN does for the debate.
In fact, Trump's live Twitter feed might help generate some audience.
So people have to watch the debate and see what Trump says about it.
This did not make Carol Costello happy over at CNN.
She's very, very snarky about Trump doing this.
There was a tweet from Donald Trump, quote, at the request of many, and even though I expect it to be a very, very boring two hours, I will be covering the Democratic debate live on Twitter, although he said Democrat debate, because you know what Republicans mean when they say Democrat.
No, Democrat is what we mean.
It's not Democratic Party, it's the Democrat Party.
And this is a little snarky about that.
Obama wasn't through, by the way, when he starts blaming Fox News and conservative media for people thinking he's scary.
In his proclamation for Columbus Day, President Obama said that European explorers to the new world ushered previously unseen disease, devastation, and violence into the lives of Native Americans.
Obama acknowledged that Columbus inspired many and allowed for generations of Italians to follow, referred to the explorer as an ambitious navigator with an insatiable thirst for exploration that continues to drive us as a people.
Though these early travels expanded the realm of European exploration to many, they also marked a time that forever changed the world for the indigenous peoples of North America.
Previously unseen disease, devastation, and violence were introduced to their lives.
And as we pay tribute to the ways in which Columbus pursued ambitious goals, we also recognize the suffering inflicted upon Native Americans, and we recommit to strengthening tribal sovereignty and maintaining our strong ties.
Doesn't Obama preach strengthening tribal sovereignty all the time?
When, in fact, what we need is for people to assimilate rather than engage in tribal sovereignty.
But anyway, look at what Obama does here.
He praises Columbus as an explorer and as an adventurer.
But the results of Columbus's arrival here are all negative.
There isn't one positive.
Columbus ushered in the Western Europeans is what ushered in disease, devastation, and violence.
You can't find a positive aspect of Western Europeans arriving on this continent in Barack Obama's words or in his mind at all.
And it only became the biggest, greatest, best country in the history of humanity.
But how does he see it?
Disease, devastation, violence.
And that's what's being taught in public schools today, folks.
And that's why, that is exactly why I'm writing these children's books.
The fourth one we just announced, Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner, it's in pre-order now and goes on sale on October 27th.
Got to take a brief time out.
Be right back.
Stay with me.
Another friend has written about the Brooks speech.
You did any of your other friends wrong.
This is not about anything other than the establishment of the Republican Party is totally frazzled and at its wit's end, and they have to lash out and blame somebody for it, and it's you.
They're losing Boehner.
They can't control anything.
The conservative caucus is taking over the House of Representatives, and so they've got to lash out and blame you.
So that's what you think it is, Snerdley.
All right.
Well, whatever.
I don't know.
Who do I write to thank?
I mean, that's the real question.
To whom do I send a thank you note?
Because I know it's not Brooks' idea.
I'm sure he had no problem doing it.
Pam in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I want you to know that my grandson and I thoroughly enjoyed the Rush Revere books.
But Snerdley said to get right to my point, and you were talking earlier about speculation of Donald Trump's withdrawal.
I have my own speculation of Hillary Clinton's withdrawal.
I think she'll be feigning some kind of health issue to get out of this race because who could possibly, you know, everyone seemed to accept the fact that because of a head injury or whatever, she didn't know what was going on with Benghazi after she said during her last presidential run, who would you want to answer the phone at 2 a.m. in the morning?
Well, we know we don't want her, that's for sure.
Is that to the point, Snerdley?
Whoa, it sounds to me that the callstrainer really came down on you during this call.
You are the first caller that's ever talked back to the screener on air.
Well, I've talked to Snerdly twice before, and I got to speak with you, so I tried to listen to you.
Okay, so Snerdly rejected you twice, put you through the day.
No, no, no, he didn't.
So you're talking back to him now.
How is that brief enough, Snerdley?
Getting used to him.
So you think Hillary's going to withdraw, and the question is when should she withdraw because she suffered a head injury during the sniper-snipper fire incident?
Well, something.
Why is it that the media never went into detail about why?
Because she's Hillary.
They're not going to.
Look, we'll take this up.
We will.
I will when we get back.
It is the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
El Rushbo behind the golden EIB nicrophone.
It's an interesting thing.
Our last caller was referencing that the media is constantly running stories on when will Trump drop out when he's never said that he would.
He was answering a question about his opponents, and he said, If I were two points, three points, four points, I was hopelessly at the bottom of these polls, I would drop out.
And that became Trump says if he starts losing in the polls, he will withdraw from the race.
And he's never ever said that, and they're obsessed with it because that's what they want.
And our caller said, in the meantime, isn't the real likelihood that Hillary Clinton would withdraw?
Because if you look, you can find stories that her health is not good.
And it's not just that she hit her head, had a concussion.
There's just her overall health isn't good.
There are stories out there how her staffers are concerned, and this or that.
The media is never going to do stories on Hillary withdrawing, though.
It's the last thing in the world they want, and it's not something that they will speculate about.
And I don't know.
Since I can't imagine doing this anyway, my running for president, I mean, I just couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it because it's a whole stupid reasons.
I just couldn't do it.
But these people that do have a in Hillary's case, I think she's missing a lot of the things that most, quote-unquote, ordinary candidates have that propel them.
And the biggest thing these people have is almost a maniacal belief that the country needs them.
That things are either so dire or in some other state that only they can fix, only they can resolve issues.
It's an ego thing, and it's not bad, but it is something that is necessary psychologically to propel you through this and to put up with everything that goes along with it.
Because it's totally abnormal.
And the minute you announce you're a suspect, the media, especially if you're a Republican, start to destroy you.
The Democrats and the media, which is one group, try to find everything they can about you to ruin you, not just defeat you, but ruin you and your family.
So it takes some real interesting psychology to want to do that.
I don't think Hillary has any of that.
I think in Hillary's mind, it's owed her.
It's an entitlement type thing.
It should be a coronation.
I think she's lived it long enough that she really does believe that everything she's done to save her husband and save the party and save the country, blah, blah, they owe her and they owe her big and they even owe her more now than they did in 2008 because 2008 was hers.
That was the deal.
And then they threw her overboard the first moment somebody they liked better came along.
And I think that sting is still painful.
I think that sting is still stinging.
And I think there's a lot of resentment and a lot of anger over it.
And in Hillary's case, that manifests itself as even more entitlement.
And I think in this go-around, she's not relying on people and their word.
She's been taking all this foreign money.
She has been taking all of these donations from outside sources.
I think that she's got ammo, shall we say, to use if they try to bring forth another Barack Hussein Obama on her?
And that could just be Biden.
But I guarantee you that when she sees news stories about all these Democrats wanting Biden, I guarantee she gets together with Huma, and they start cursing people in the Democratic Party left and right.
And they call Bill.
And what the hell's going on, Bill?
Who is this?
What do you mean, Biden?
This is mine.
It's mine.
It was mine in 2008.
It's mine now.
What are they doing?
I guarantee you, in this climate, there's no way she's going to give them the satisfaction of dropping out.
Not for any conventional reason, like it's over.
I can't win.
Now, if there's an illness there that nobody knows about, that's a whole other thing we can't know.
But I just don't see Hillary Clinton dropping.
I think Her whole life, and believe me, she thinks of herself as a victim.
She is the number one victim.
She has, she's the most cheated on woman in America.
Look at what she's put up with.
And really, all that she's gotten for it is health care in 1993.
Yeah, you can say, Senator, but she had to be elected to that.
And Secretary of State, big whoop.
She had to do that because Obama asked her, but she didn't want to do that.
But you don't turn that down if you're going to run for president later on.
You got to show party loyalty and all that.
She didn't want anything to do with that.
That's why Benghazi, she didn't care about it.
She didn't know what was going on.
That whole job was just a placeholder for her.
So he's got this big sense of entitlement, coupled now with a bunch of resentment and anger over the fact it didn't happen in 2008, coupled with her victim mentality.
And don't doubt me on that.
So I don't see her pulling out or withdrawing from the race.
In her mind, she probably thinks that she's running for re-election.
Essentially, 2008 was hers, and going back 1992, she's in the White House for eight years with her husband.
And it should have been her then, too, and all that, given he wouldn't be anywhere without her.
I can see her telling herself this every day.
And you know how women are when they get together, start talking about their husbands.
You imagine her and Huma sitting around.
Can you imagine that conversation about Weiner and Clinton?
Man, would you love to be a fly on the wall for those talks?
Okay, here's Victoria in Kingsford, Michigan.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi.
Hey.
Okay, so I'm one of those loony liberal 20-somethings, and my dad, he pretty much agrees with everything you say, and I pretty much disagree.
But I love my dad more than anything in the entire world.
And I hate it when we fight.
And we're both passionate about these things.
And I just want advice on how to talk to my dad.
If you have anything that you think I should read, anything that you should think I should keep in mind.
Wait, I don't yet understand what the problem is.
Well, whenever we start talking about anything like global economics or, you know, foreign policy or the environment, we end up getting in a fight every single time.
Wait, are you not a conservative?
No, I'm not.
Oh, you're not a conservative.
Oh, that's the problem.
So your dad's very conservative and you're not.
No.
Oh, okay.
So you're a liberal?
Yeah, and my dad's conservative, and he's my favorite person in the world, and I love him more than anything.
And I hate fighting with him.
And I just want to know how he and I can communicate better and what I should do.
What can I do on my end to help us get along better when we talk about politics?
Otherwise, we get along famously.
You get along famously on everything but politics, you say?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, I need to collect some information, and I need you to answer me as honestly as you can.
Yes.
When you are in these conversations with your dad, who do you think, honestly, is the most rigid and inflexible, you or him?
I honestly think it's a pretty big, it's a tie when it comes to that.
And then we both start to feel like we're insulting each other's intelligence.
We both start to get frustrated.
Okay, so what do you, you love your dad, which I understand.
You love your dad, and you wish you probably agreed with him on things, but you don't.
And you don't want to change your core beliefs, and yet you don't want to have these disagreements.
So you have you thought, just for the sake of getting along and the comedy of everything here, because you love your dad.
Have you thought about maybe suggesting that you and he not talk about those things when you're together?
Dad, do you think we can do that?
Do you think we can agree to not talk about this stuff?
Do I think you can agree to talk about this?
I'm asking my dad right now because you're on speakerphone.
Well, we should agree not to talk about this stuff.
Okay, Rushbumba is telling us that we should avoid that.
I think that that's going to have to be the answer.
Okay, well, that was just my first stab at this.
So your dad's there with you here.
Yeah.
Okay, so understand I'm a little bit of a disadvantage because of my hearing, so I'm having to read what you're saying as it's transcribed.
So I'm a little bit behind you here, so don't, I'm not confused.
I'm just waiting.
I have to wait to catch up to what you're saying.
When your dad gets added in, it's a little more confusing.
So that would be one thing, but I gather you would actually love to be able to talk to him about these things and still not have anger and war break out.
Yes, that would be perfect.
Well, you might try something along the lines of, Dad, you know what?
You're older than I am, and you've lived much longer than I have, and you are much wiser, and you know much more than I know right now.
So maybe you're right.
Give me time to catch up to you, or something like that.
And then keep talking about these things.
Well, I will keep an open mind.
Because you'd love your dad.
You don't, I mean, do you, this anger that you have with him?
Do you?
I mean, it doesn't lessen your affection for him at all.
No.
It doesn't make you want to not be around him as much, right?
Not at all.
We just get heated once we start talking about it.
Well, see, let me tell you what his frustration is.
I can almost his frustration, he loves you so much, and he is very passionate about what he believes.
You are his daughter.
He only wants the best for you.
He really, really hopes, since he totally trusts everything he believes.
He really, he wants the best in the world for you, and he thinks you're not going to get that until you start seeing things the way he does.
And if you just let him know that you understand that all he really cares about is your best interests.
And I think all of these disagreements can be managed, if you will.
So as long as you're not suspecting motives, get bad motive out of the way.
As long as you both recognize that all of this is rooted in love and both of you wanting the best for each other, you ought to be able to manage it.
And then the next thing you should do, Victoria, is start listening to this program every day, all three hours, and the problem will resolve itself.
Say, Victoria, very quickly, I wanted to offer you something that you could give to your dad if it works.
You still there?
Yes.
Okay, does your dad have a cell phone?
Yes.
What kind?
An iPhone.
He has an iPhone.
Would he like a new one?
I could send you a new iPhone that you could give to him as a result of you having taken time to call this program to try to, you know, family unity and so forth.
Just as a little gift, something you could give him.
Oh, my gosh.
All right.
Now, what, do you happen to know what cellular carrier he's on?
ATT.
Okay, does he want a big one or a regular size one?
What do you think?
He just left with my mom to go to a doctor's appointment, but I'm going to guess that he wants a bigger one.
Fine and dandy.
So I'm going to send him a big boy, an iPhone 6S Plus.
And you hang on, Snerdley, get the address.
We'll send it to you, and then you can give it to him if you want.
So amazing.
We love family togetherness here on this program.
It's one of the many services that we provide.
And so don't hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get your address.
And you can a little surprise you'll have for him.
Well, okay, I'll offer her one too then.
I'm no one to be accused of only offering the conservative one.
So offer her.
Jeez!
Try to do a nice thing and still get critics.
Okay, well, we'll have unique analysis and commentary on whatever happens tonight, both the two baseball games and the Democrat debate.
Right.
So thanks for being with us today, folks, and we'll be back here tomorrow, 21 hours.
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