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Jan. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I know, I've got all this Trump stuff, but I have to tell you this stuff happening with Hillary Clinton.
I mean, we gotta we just have to enjoy this.
Who knows how long it's gonna last, but right now it's worthy of savoring.
So you sit tight, still have loads of stuff to get to in this hour, do my best to get to all of it.
Telebound number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo.
At EIB net.com.
All right, back to the audio sounds right.
This is Mrs. Clinton.
She was in uh Drake at Drake University Des Moines Iowa last night, this interview on Fusion TV network.
The three Democrat candidates participated in a presidential forum.
It wasn't a debate, it was these uh correspondents and anchors and reporters at the fusion.
It's a joint effort between Disney and Univision.
It is an English language Spanish network targeted at Hispanic millennials, from what I understand.
So the uh see, university student, Drake, university student Thalia, on Geno, said white privilege is a term people are talking about.
So what we've had here so far from the questions at this at this forum.
We had questions about white terrorism and how it's worse than Islamic terrorism, Mrs. Clinton's agreed.
And now we have a question of white privilege.
And this student at Drake says, uh, like white privilege, like it's a term people are talking about more openly these days.
Certainly people like me, uh, like have always known what it means, always understood what white privilege means.
Can you tell us what the term white privilege means to you, Mrs. Clinton?
Like, and can you give me an example from your life and career when you think you have benefited from white privilege?
It is hard when you're swimming in the ocean to know exactly what's happening around you so much as it is when you're standing on the shore, perhaps watching.
Look, I was born white middle class in the middle of America.
I went to good public schools, I went to a wonderful college, I went to law school.
I never really knew what was or wasn't part of the privilege.
I just knew that I was a lucky person, and that being lucky was in part related to who I am, where I'm from, and the opportunities I had.
All right, folks, I'm sorry, I have to break this down.
I mean, I I just can't let this go by and not parse.
Okay, this first bit it's hard when you're swimming in the ocean to know exactly what's happening around you.
Now I suspect what she was trying to say there is that white people don't realize they have white privilege, just like fish don't realize they're wet.
Does a fish, for example, know that it's in water?
Of course not.
The only thing a fish knows is when it's not.
But it doesn't know it's in water.
Does your laboratory retriever know it is a Labrador retriever?
Does your dog even know it's a dog?
So what Mrs. Clinton is trying to say here is, well, you know, when you're in the ocean, uh, and you're all wet, um, you don't know what's around you.
But when you're standing on the shore, why you're looking at the ocean, then I don't know what.
You know everything going on around you.
Look, I was born white, middle class, middle of America.
I'm sorry!
God, I'm sorry.
I didn't have to get doing it, please.
Forgive me.
I didn't know.
That's what she's trying to say here.
I went to good public schools, it wasn't my fault.
I went to a wonderful college.
Don't hold it against me.
Just because I'm white, I can't help it.
God, if I could be something besides white, I would.
I wouldn't trade my female in this, but I would trade my white oh, but God, I am so guilty.
That's what she wants them to believe.
I went to a wonderful college.
I went to law school.
I never really knew what Was or wasn't part of the privilege.
I was just your average white American taking advantage of everything that was given to me.
I didn't know what I was doing.
If I had it to do over it again, I wouldn't have accepted any of it.
I would have given it all to you.
Please forgive me.
I feel so bad.
And I feel lucky.
And it was in part related to who I am and where I'm from and the opportunities.
So she admits that she's swimming in white privilege, but don't hold it against me because when you're swimming in the ocean, you don't know what all is around you.
This whole notion of white privilege needs to be nuked out of public discourse anyway, because it is, well, for lack of a call, reverse racism.
But it what it really is, folks, is just the next, not so disguised, actually, attack and assault on the founding of this country and the institutions and traditions which were set up at the founding.
The effort here is to portray the founding as racist and bigoted and sexist.
And in doing so, you portray the country which came from the founding that way.
So here you have all of these lily white Democrat politicians who do not pay their staffs with equal pay.
They don't have diversity on their staffs.
They're mostly Lily White everywhere, but they have to make excuses for it.
So Mrs. Clinton is saying, I didn't know.
I know, yes, I benefit.
I didn't know.
It's not like I knew I was privileged white person and try to take advantage of it and score everything I could.
I just didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
I was white, but I didn't know what it meant.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
And for the most part, leftists get away with this.
Because their intentions, of course.
Uh so and if they promised to go after other beneficiaries of white privilege, then they're loved and adored.
Next up, same place, Des Moines, Iowa, Drake University, the moderator, Jorge Ramos, said President Bill Clinton, 1994 with Operation Gatekeeper, built new fences at the border with Meiko.
You said you voted as senator to build a barrier to keep illegal immigrants from coming in.
So would you commit right now not to use the word illegals or illegal to refer to undocumented immigrants?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
That was a poor choice of words that you're not going to be able to do.
You won't use it as undocumented.
I haven't used it since.
I won't use it in the future.
What's the difference between your idea and Donald Trump's idea on building a wall with Mexico?
Well, everybody that I know of in the Democratic Party, and it used to be Republicans too, who favored immigration reform, also favored border security.
No.
We we've already said you said that.
Well, I voted for border security, and some of it was a fence.
I don't think we ever called it a wall.
Maybe in some places it was a wall.
But it was aimed at controlling our borders.
Okay, so she apologizes for being white.
She acknowledges that there is white terrorism and the police are guilty of it.
And now she's apologizing for calling illegal aliens what they are.
Illegal.
And she's apologizing for voting for a border wall by saying it really wasn't a wall, it was a fence.
And it's a big difference in a fence and a wall.
Besides the Republicans are the ones that really wanted to do it, and you should blame them, not me.
Because I'm not going to call them illegal anymore.
Now this is the she doesn't, she doesn't shine here, folks.
Um I I don't think Jorge Ramos uh particularly scores any points.
It's not that's not my point.
She doesn't come across here as anything but a hypocrite.
But it in this group it largely won't matter because she's got a D by her name, which gives her all kinds of uh leeway and latitude.
Uh to be obfuscational and dishonest, disingenuous, uh, what have you.
But I think this stuff's instructive.
This woman's not skilled.
She's she doesn't come across as personable.
Uh, and she's pandering, apologizing, saying whatever people are demanding that she say, feeling whatever they demand that she feel, uh, hoping to end the night with people thinking that she is sincere, and she's nothing but calculating in a typical politician's way.
So I just I just think she's in trouble.
And I I think she resents all this and really didn't expect to have to endure any of this.
But it's all being made possible by the surge of Bernie Sanders that's cut forth the soundbite eight now, also the same event Drake University on a fusion network.
During the QA, the co-moderator, Jorge Ramos, said, Senator Sanders, Secretary Clinton's been criticizing you.
Have you noticed lately that she'd be getting more aggressive with you?
Yes.
Why is that?
I don't know.
It could be You tell me.
It could be that the uh inevitable candidate for the Democratic nomination may not be so inevitable today.
Oh, those there's this Bernie jumping all over Hillary, the inevitable candidate may not be so inevitable.
Her lead over Sanders is nearly vanished in Iowa.
She's 14 points behind in New Hampshire.
Donald Trump says that Hillary is facing a tough time against Bernie.
He said she came out with a little bit of a statement about me, and I came out with a very big statement about her and Bill, and she stopped talking about me all of a sudden.
And I haven't even started on her yet.
Although last week I did a little bit, but we haven't even started on her, she's already backtracking.
And he said that this Bernie guy, and he's nothing to write home about Trump says.
Bernie's not a great shake about Bernie, but he's making mincemeat out of her.
Here's Trump last night on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show.
Question, let's talk about Hillary Clinton.
How do you think she's doing out there?
She's having a tough time.
She's got some guy who's I mean, he should be easy to beat.
I mean, how can you lose like this?
He really isn't even a Democrat.
Well, he said he's a socialist, and I think he may be a step beyond a socialist, and she's not doing well.
She's about tied in Iowa.
She's losing New Hampshire, which is sort of amazing.
And uh I think she's got maybe a race that's going to be a little bit tougher.
I think she'll win, I guess.
But she's got the email problem.
She's got a big problem with emails.
We'll see what happens.
Who knows?
You know, it's a world of politics.
You really never know.
But she certainly has a race that's a lot different than people thought.
Exactly right.
Now we go to CBS this morning.
The host John Dickerson is uh talk to Anthony Mason, who actually fill in host Manton and Mason filling in for John Dickerson, who says Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders running neck and neck in Iowa, New Hampshire.
Sanders said on this program a few weeks back that those two states were critical for him, New Hampshire and Iowa.
If Hillary Clinton were to lose those states, how troublesome would it be for her?
Well, it would be quite bad for her to lose those states, but uh we got to remember she has a serious organization across the entire country.
She ran a long campaign against Barack Obama in 2008.
She knows how to go there for the long game, and she's got a lot of states in South Carolina.
She has been organizing there uh as if she were the one 40 points behind, so she has a durable and strong organization out there that would help her if she did lose those two states.
Yeah, she's got uh she gets uh what is it, a lot of states in South Carolina.
That's John Dickerson, CBS.
He misspoke.
A lot of delegates is what he means.
A lot of support in South Carolina.
Um haul, yeah, probably.
I mean, Bernie's always been a pretender, and like I told you from the get-go, they're never gonna let Bernie Sanders be the nominee of the party.
But I'm just telling you, this not supposed to happen, none of this.
If she loses Iowa, and it look, it's one thing we speak of this stuff theoretically.
The polling data shows this, but let it really happen.
You know, let the caucuses happen and let Sanders win there.
It's the same thing.
Let Cruz win there.
It changes everything.
Now these are real votes.
These are real results, not polling data.
And there's a winner and a loser and the loss, Hillary, not supposed to happen, and New Hampshire.
Those two in a row.
Now it's not automatic that you have to win one or the other in order to get to the White House, particularly in this year's Democrat primary.
But it's not good.
It is totally against what has been set up.
This, again, like 2008.
The skids have been greased for Hillary.
And it doesn't matter.
There's a significant portion of this party that doesn't want her at all, anywhere near the White House, victorious or whatever.
They want her gone.
They want her to go away and her husband to go away.
And and they're they've tried to send that message twice here, while Hillary and her crowd continue to think all of this is just pro forma and is is uh the equivalent of a of a coronation.
They get Biden chiming in here.
So this is this is gonna end up, it's gonna be in contest.
Like I said yesterday, we might get to the point where we have to reactivate Operation Chaos at some stage of the Democrat primary.
And folks, don't forget something else Mrs. Clinton did.
She has called for free abortions for Medicaid recipients.
Now that's on the Democrat side, that's gonna get applause.
On the Democrat side, she's going to be heralded for this as uh very compassionate and uh caring and uh concerned.
And of course, any any anybody that that promotes and advocates abortion uh benefits the Democrat Party, but I just want to remind you, Some what this is.
Who are Medicaid recipients?
By definition, Medicaid is for the poor.
Medicare is for the elderly, seasoned citizens and the infirm, the unfirm, the disfirm, the whatever.
But Medicaid is for the poor.
Here's Mrs. Clinton promising free abortions, which is an incentive for Medicaid recipients.
Now, if a Republican came out and did this, the first person erupting like a jack in a box would be the Reverend Vac, followed closely by Al Sharpton, and they would both be screaming that this is tantamount to racial genocide.
That this Republican is giving away abortions to the poor, and we all, they would say, we all know who the poor are, we all know who these Republicans, so they're actually paying, and this is what would be said, if it were a Republican doing this.
The practical matter is the effect is the same.
Mrs. Clinton, however, is the agent here, so she's going to be heralded.
She's going to be applauded, she's going to be hailed as a great caring woman.
The very same result, very same occurrence, if proposed by a Republican would be condemned because of what it is.
So if a Republican proposed it, you would actually have people coming out speaking against abortion.
And I position this way just to illustrate what this is and how the Democrats benefit and what they actually do.
It's sick is what it is.
And she, as I say, will be heralded.
We've got some new polling numbers in here on the Trump Race The Hill.com NBC Wall Street, I'm sorry, NBC News Monkey.
Survey monkey poll.
Trump's almost 40% in this one now.
38%, this is nationwide.
Trump 38, Ted Cruz 20, Marco Rubio, 11.
Ben Carson 9, and Jeb and Christy and Paul are tied at 3%.
Three weeks before the Hawkeye Calcai.
Jim in uh in Monmouth, Oregon.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
And uh I'm so glad to get a chance to talk with you.
Thank you.
I was thinking about your remarks about the State of the Union.
Yeah.
And the address.
And I was just thinking, if your wife is at the door and her bags are packed, and the kids are in the car, and she gives you a business card for her attorney, the State of the Union isn't good.
And I was thinking that uh with the president and how he's conducted himself and just the very notion of the truth.
You were talking about the empty seat that's gonna be represented at the State of the Union.
That's right.
Perhaps on the empty seat, maybe they put a little placard and it would be called the truth.
Because uh it's just been uh it's been catastrophic.
You and I are the same age.
And I've watched the very notion of truth itself come under assault in such a fashion in my lifetime.
Right.
I'm sounding very geezer-like, but I want to tell you, I'm seeing things I never thought I'd see too.
Like I believe her name was Judith that called you earlier.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I yeah.
Uh I'm still who who who's whose wife and kids are at the door and she gives you the lawyer's card?
Uh I think it's the American people with uh our leadership in general.
I think people are jaded.
I think they've they've had the I think they're at the place where anybody that would speak truth, even if it was truth that made them uncomfortable, they're ready to hear it now.
I really believe they are.
And uh, like you, I'm optimistic that there are better things if Americans would act like Americans have always acted, and I think the turnarounds are possible, but only if it's Martin.
That's what I keep that's what I've got the faith in.
That the American people are still the American people.
The uh empty seat, let's be honest.
The empty seat here is Obama.
The empty suit, the empty seat.
Uh, but I'm still trying to figure out whose wife and kids are at the door handing out lawyer cards.
It's got me worried.
The official program observer just asked me a question.
Mr. Bo Snerdley was uh unable to hear portions of the program because he's screening calls.
And he asked me, who is the empty seat?
What's it supposed to represent?
The empty seat up there next to Michelle Obama tonight is supposed to symbolize all the people killed by guns uh in America in some recent time frame.
I think the number being bandied about is 4,000 plus.
So look at the people being honored.
People who've been killed by guns, empty seat, and there will be a Syrian refugee in honor of illegal immigrants uh refugees.
As I said earlier, I mean, these are in your face.
These are not unifying uh moves, folks.
That and then and the people doing this know full well this is not about unification.
This is in your face.
This is take this.
It's exactly what it is.
It's it's provocative.
Purposely provoking people with this.
I mean, if all of us were a bunch of Von Ta's burphics, nobody would be safe in that place tonight.
That's my point.
But we're not all Von Tays Burfics, and we're not all Pac-Man Joneses.
And look, you people in Cincinnati, would you get off of this?
I'm not for the last time.
None of this has anything to do with me being a Steelers fan.
None of it.
And if you want to hear me criticize Joey Porter, what difference does it make now, as Hillary Clinton's famously said?
Okay, so Porter shouldn't have been out there.
The thing is, if you know that a coach is gonna go out there to provoke your players, and if you're a player knowing that Porter's coming out to provoke, walk away.
What kind of an idiot knows full well that a coach is coming off the sideline to provoke you and you fall for it.
Walk away.
And is Mike Munchek business?
Uh little thing that happened on the sideline.
I don't know.
That the pulling of the hair.
You know, there's no penalty for pulling the hair in football.
Did you know that?
You can tackle somebody by their hair.
They're gonna wear long hair, it's fair game.
But that was a you know, it was pushing and shoving.
That's any big deal in the big scheme of things.
And by the way, by the way, here's the big thing for you, Cincinnati people.
I'm gonna put on a little fandom hat here.
You people in Cincinnati all upset over Ryan Shay Zier's hit on Gio Bernard.
That hit has been judged to be NFL legal.
Because of the nature of the play.
By virtue of the fact that Bernard fumbled, it means he had possession and was running, had established control, and was in charge of his movements.
Bango.
Had there not had that play not been ruled a fumble, if it had been ruled not a fumble, then it wouldn't have been possession, then you'd have had an issue.
You'd have a case.
But the big thing here, I can't believe how some of you sound.
What about Joey Porter?
What about Joey?
What about Joey Porter?
Everybody knows who Joey Porter is.
Joey Porter comes out there, he's laughing, he's trading jokes, commerce of the Bengals players, and they know that he's an agent provocateur, and they knowingly fall for it.
Walk away.
Instead, it Joey Porter made me do it.
Joey Porter made me do it.
Joey Porter shouldn't have been out there.
Well, you have to know when to walk away.
You have to know when you're being set up, if that's indeed what was happening here.
My point is they wanted the confrontation.
This was a contest of who's looking nothing about that game that recommends itself in the big scheme of things.
Donald Trump, in addition now to the NBC monkey bar poll, whatever that monkey.
Hell is it monkey what?
Survey monkey.
Okay, Trump 38, Cruz 20.
From the New York Times, Donald Trump has commanding lead in latest New Hampshire poll.
Trump's 32% among likely Republican votes.
Oh, by the way, speaking of Byron York has a piece in the Washington Examiner saying that if if any of you who are not Trump fans, any of you in the media, any of you in the Republicans who think that Trump's people are not going to actually attend the caucuses in Iowa, you may have another thing coming.
It might well be that Trump's supporters are more motivated than anybody else's to show up at these caucuses.
Which would stand to reason, wouldn't it not?
You know, something that's always amazed me, just in the logical sense.
Here you have Trump with the biggest crowds, the most energetic crowds.
You've got people standing, thousands and thousands of people, uh, far beyond the capacity of the venue, standing in line in all kinds of inclement bad weather, and then they tell us, yeah, but they're not the kind of people who are going to show up and vote.
What uh really?
You got all this enthusiasm, but all this is is a bunch of people going to a circus act.
This is what they want to tell you what you want, they they want you to believe is that all these people supporting Trump, they don't really support Trump.
They're just, you know, they're bored, they're looking for things to excite them, they live in cold weather towns, Trump lies in, so it's a big deal to go see him, big yuck, but they're not gonna vote, they're not gonna go to the caucuses.
I think Trump's supporters are showing more enthusiasm than anybody else's out there.
He and Cruz.
But where do you get, where is it axiomatic that all of this support doesn't show up and vote or doesn't show up the caucuses?
The two don't go together.
So I think it's just more of the uh powers that be, the establishment Republican side, media, whatever, trying to make themselves feel better about what is obviously a phenomenon.
I saw this happen during the Perot phenomenon.
People on the Republican side say, well, he's not real, he's not in this for he's got a personal vendetta against George H. W. Bush.
And uh these parole people, uh, they're fly by nights, they're not gonna be there in a long haul.
And they were.
Trump, I mean, Perot, the reason he got out was because he was gonna win.
He didn't want to win.
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post.
Liberal columnist wrote today that Trump could win.
He's warning a Democrat Party against underestimating Trump's chances.
For Democrats who might be rooting for Donald Trump thinking he would be easy to beat in November, I have some advice, writes Eugene Robinson.
Be careful what you wish for.
The important thing is that Trump, by being transgressive in the way he speaks, gives listeners the license to be transgressive in the way they think.
When he rails against political correctness, he's talking about the manners and courtesies that many of us would call being civil.
No, he's not.
Political correctness is not civility.
Political correctness is censorship.
Political correctness is a bunch of bullies.
Political correctness is intimidation.
There's nothing civil about it.
That actually ticks me off.
When he rails against political correctness, he's talking about the manners and courtesies that many of us would call being civil.
But his in-your-face bullying strikes a chord with a large segment of the Republican electorate that's tired of being polite.
That's not at all what this is about.
It's not about being polite, it's about being smart versus stupid.
It's not about being polite, it's about being afraid.
Mr. Robinson, you're confusing things.
You're confusing politeness.
You're not seeing what it is, it's fear.
All these people being polite, they just fear what people like you are going to say about them in the media, which doesn't make any sense, but that's what it is.
Political correctness is who the bully is.
Look at what political correctness people do to enforce what they believe.
They set out to punish people for what they say and for imagining what they think.
Daily Caller, Trump leads Florida, Virginia, Michigan.
Overtime politics poll.
Trump ahead and Texas cruise senator by nine.
Um leading uh Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
And would beat them both.
Now I mentioned earlier the politico has some ironic stories, and here's there are two of them, and let me give you the first one.
The first is from the political magazine.
You know, the magazine like the New York Times has a magazine.
New York Times Sunday magazine.
Liberals love it.
They get that and they go out and find their coffee beans and they smash them and grind them up there, and they drink their coffee and imagine organic heaven and start reading a New York Times magazine.
The other spouse is reading a newspaper, then they switch off about three in the afternoon to spend the whole day reading a New York Times.
So the political wanted to get on in action and get their own magazine.
Headline, Trump's campaign is damaging his brand, his business brand.
New data obtained by political magazine shows that among the high-income consumers Trump's businesses rely on, his reputation is plummeting.
If Donald Trump is nothing else, he is an American brand.
The Trump name adorns luxury condominiums, hotels, and golf courses around the world.
It has sold a TV show, millions of books, a line of cologne, and even briefly an airline.
Remember that, the Trump shuttle?
Remember that, Snerdley?
You ever fly the Trump shuttle?
He bought it from U.S. Air, so it was Delta and Trump competition.
He served champagne on his first flight only.
He was not on the flight.
He was on the plane, but got off of it before it took off.
It's all coach.
Flew his own plane down to meet his shuttle plane and arrival.
Trump has built his distinctive trademark over the course of decades of public life, blah blah blah.
They go on and talk about how Trump's business brand is was big and fabulous and great.
But now Trump is destroying it.
He is damaging his brand.
His reputation is plummeting.
The next political story, Trump's strange new respect moment.
You saw it here first, says the politico.
The media is coming around to the mogul.
Having survived public thrashings from his political foes and the press for his policy proposals, his increasingly outrageous speeches and his personality.
Donald Trump now finds himself receiving strange new respect from unexpected corners.
Now, if you're not familiar with the strange new respect trope, a short primer.
American spectators Tom Bethel introduced the concept in a 1992 article to ridicule the practice Of liberal journalists who would reward conservative politicians who migrated from right to left by commenting in print on how they were now commanding strange new respect.
This is another way of putting it was this politician is showing growth.
Why, he's actually growing.
That meant becoming liberal.
Transferring from conservative to liberal.
So what they're now saying is that Trump is a recipient of strange new respect, just like McCain had it.
All of a sudden the media's coming along, coming around now.
And they have a strange new respect for Trump.
They're trying to say it signals the end of the guy.
Just like when they when they say McCain had it, you know.
McCain didn't.
McCain fell for it.
He thought the media was his base.
He thought the media would never abandon him.
There are those of us that tried to tell him Senator McCain, the minute you have a Democrat opponent, this love affair is over, and the media is going to be all over you and hate you.
Yeah, it's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen because I built years and years Billy's relationships.
And it happened.
So they're trying to run the same uh shtick here on Trump.
But they're still amazed that all of a sudden the media is now treating Trump with uh newfound respect.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away.
After this, we'll be right back.
Thanks once again to everybody who has extended happy birthday wishes along the way.
There's no way now I can respond to all of them, so I'm doing it here.
Sincerely appreciate it.
It's a hell of a present to have to watch the swan song State of the Union.
Is it a bad sign that I don't want to watch this tonight, or is it mean I'm still sane?
I don't think anybody does want to watch it either, but it is required.
Anyway, we'll be here tomorrow, folks, and we'll look forward to being back together with you then.
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