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Feb. 9, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, we're talking about vulgarity today and coarseness in our culture and inappropriate language and all of that.
How many of you saw Peyton Manning in post-game interviews on Sunday when asked what he was going to do?
He said, he's going to drink a lot of Budweiser.
He's going to drink a lot of beer.
Now, in the old days, I'm going to Disneyland, dude.
I'm going to have a lot of bud.
I'm going to drink a lot of Budweiser.
Okay, so we have now, I have some tweets here from a reporter at ESPN named Mike Sando, who thinks that this is bad behavior.
This is being a bad, bad role model for the youths of America.
Anheuser-Busch said Peyton Manning was not paid to say any of that.
And by the way, post-game, I'm going to drink a lot of bud.
And then in the podium press conference after the game, I'm going to drink a lot of bud.
I mean, that's probably worth as much, if not more, than whatever they paid Sunday for produced spots, for produced commercials.
Now, I don't know.
I did see some story where Peyton might have some ownership in some Anheuser-Busch distributorships in Louisiana, where he's from.
He's from Nolins.
But I don't, I don't know.
But it's a strange thing.
And for ESPN, which is the home of promoting all kinds of questionable thug behavior on the field, to be talking about Peyton Manning suggesting that he's going to drink a lot of Budweiser as being a bad role model for the youths of America.
Of all things.
I just wanted to run it by you.
Here's that story on the Super Bowl halftime show.
It's where's this from?
Well, wouldn't you know, the website didn't print.
Let's see if it's – I'm sorry.
Oh, it is music.mike website, music.mic.
Tom Barnes, staff writer, editor for this website for much of the nation.
The first two hours of Super Bowl 50 were nothing but pregame.
When halftime finally came, it was on that Cold Play and Chris Martin put on what was called a 12-minute tribute to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender love.
According to another article in the French news agency, Cold Play paid tribute to the Super Bowl's host city of San Francisco with a stage that flashed in the tie-dye of the city's 1960s counterculture as dancers on the field hoisted giant flower shapes.
All of it added up, meaning it was code-lingo for this is a halftime show game aimed at and produced for the LGBT crowd.
Let's not forget the Black Panther contingent that Beyoncé was performing for.
In fact, I saw a story today, Snerdley.
You'd be interested in this.
It was in the New York Post.
It was the entertainment section.
I think it was a woman.
I didn't get her name.
It might have been a guy.
I did not recognize the name of the writer, so that's why I don't remember it.
But it was lauding this Beyoncé show.
Oh, this was the greatest political statement in the history of sports.
And this is in your face.
And the people whose face it was in didn't even know what was happening to them.
Beyonce was telling these people what for, and they didn't even know it.
These people that are out there being attacked are applauding it and singing along with it and said this is what the Oscars ought to learn how to do.
This is how you do politics in entertainment and jam it down people's throats.
That whoever's doing Chris Rock and whoever is going to be appearing in a host or guest role at the Oscars Beyonce is how you do political statements during such things as award shows or halftime shows in public.
There were a lot of people that really jazzed about this.
But what good is a protest song if the people being protested don't recognize it?
If they're sitting there applauding it, oh man, it's Queen Bay.
I got Beyoncé at the halftime Trump to the Super Bowl.
This is cool.
Look at those cute little black berets.
Isn't that cute, Mabel?
Look at it.
These people have no idea they're being called a bunch of crackers.
And they're sitting out.
What good's the protest if the people being protested, the people being told they're SOBs, walk out of there think it was the greatest thing they've ever seen.
Don't you kind of, if you're being protested, don't you want to, I mean, if you're Black Lives Matter, don't you want the targets to end up being ticked off at you?
Don't you?
I mean, I'm not of the public protest mentality.
Okay, why consciousness?
You want them to be aware that you think that they're reprobates or whatever?
Well, I don't know that.
I mean, you have two coded performances here.
The Beyoncé thing was probably easier to recognize.
I mean, the Black Berets, the Panthers, and Beyonce out there.
I thought something was wrong with the Super Bowl sound system because I was able to hear it.
Well, normally you can't hear the lyrics of those things.
Normally, you're watching that.
You can't, even people can hear, can't understand what's being said, but you could.
So obviously somebody screwed up.
Final polling data coming out of New Hampshire.
Final CNN tracking poll.
Trump leads big.
Rubio in second.
Bush and Christie in deep trouble.
Never mind the numbers.
They're buried here.
But pretty much that's how the CNN poll lines up.
Trump is at 31%, down two points from February 3rd through the 6th.
Rubio, 17%.
Cruz, 14%.
Kasich, 10%.
Jeb Bush at 7%.
Where is Christie?
I don't see the name Christie in there.
It says here he's in deep trouble.
4%.
There it is.
It says, if you're wondering about Chris Christie, stuck at 4%.
Now, the Channel 7 Eyeball News University of Massachusetts Lowell poll, New Hampshire tracking, day eight.
Bernie Sanders beating Hillary by 16 points, 56 to 40.
And the Republican side, Trump has a nine-point lead on the Republican side.
Tied for second, 13.
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Then we move.
This is Nate Silver's 538, where they predict percentage odds on winning.
Bernie Sanders has a greater than 99% chance of winning a New Hampshire primary.
That greater than 99%.
That's like dead certainty, right?
What if Hillary pulls it out?
What are they going to do at 538?
They must not be counting a Clinton fraud machine.
Or maybe they are in saying the Clinton fraud machine doesn't have to overcome it.
The real numbers are Sanders 57, Clinton 40.
So it's a 17-point lead for the Bernster.
The Emerson poll.
Everybody got a big charge out of the Emerson poll yesterday because the Emerson poll is the only one that called Iowa right.
Everybody, 13 polls had Trump winning by minimum four.
The Emerson poll had Trump and Cruz tied.
And Cruz actually won.
So here's the latest Emerson poll.
Are you ready?
When you hear this, this is why everybody stood up and said, whoa, mama.
Trump 31.
Second place, Jeb Bush, 16.
Third place, John Kasich at 13%.
In fourth place, Marco Rubio at 12% and Ted Cruz at 11%.
Nowhere to be found.
Is Chris Christie?
This was always my question.
Christie was celebrated for really making Rubio look bad in the debate on Saturday night.
But I, of course, your host, El Rushbo, said, well, does that mean Rubio is going to lose support?
And does that mean that Rubio Sport is going to go to Christie?
I'm just going to tell you right now.
I want to prepare you because if Jeb Bush finishes in second place tonight, if this Emerson poll is right, then you are not going to recognize the news tomorrow.
You are not going to recognize the Republican primary.
You are going to think you have been asleep, and tomorrow you have just awakened, and nothing that's happened up to tomorrow will mean anything.
If Jeb Bush comes in second place tonight, Jeb Bush is going to be treated as the winner, particularly if Trump's margin is not 15 points or whatever Frank Lunt says it has to be.
But the margin doesn't matter.
I'm just telling you that the establishment Republicans and their cohorts in the media are not going to be able to contain themselves.
And you're going to see stories like, has all the polling up to now been wrong?
Have we been worried for nothing?
Has it been Jeb from the get-go?
Has Jeb's money not been wasted?
Is Jeb really, you just, you'd have no idea.
And all it's going to take is a second place finish because expectations are that Jeb is not even going to be breathing after tonight.
So I'm just warning.
I have no idea if the Emerson toll's right.
Who does?
It was right in Iowa, but that's it.
But again, just a warning.
If Jeb Bush comes in second place, there are people that you haven't seen on TV in months who you're going to see nonstop wall-to-wall tomorrow as though they have been around from a get-go.
Don't care where it is.
I don't care if it's New Hampshire.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter where it is.
The establishment wants Jeb.
They have been up to now embarrassed, paranoid, humiliated, perplexed, shocked, surprised.
Remember, this was going to be theirs anyway until Trump got in.
Trump upset everything.
This is Jeb's race.
This was Jeb's time.
Jeb was going to be the nominee.
All these other guys are just fodder placeholder pretenders.
Trump gets in, turns everything upside down.
The Jeb PACs, the Jeb fundraisers, it's all just been blown to Smithereens.
And if he finishes in second place, you might still need binoculars to see him in second place.
If he's in second place, just warning you, they're going to take over Fox.
They're going to take over CNN.
And you're going to be watching.
You're going to think, it's over.
Jeb won.
You're going to see how you have been misled.
You're going to be hearing and reading about how all this stuff, the experts and the polls, obviously didn't know what they were talking about.
You're going to see the country wants a continued leadership of the Bushes.
It's always been the case.
Everything up to now, going back to last June, somehow was so dead wrong, we got to go back to the drawing board and figure out how we got it so wrong because it's going to be looked at as though Jeb was guaranteed second place all along.
Now, if he doesn't finish in second place or third place, then they've got to start looking at other alternatives.
And no, I don't know.
I have no feel for it.
I'm just, as you know, warning you what to look for given certain outcomes.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
The drive-by media obsessed with me again yesterday and last night, ABC is world news tonight.
David Muir, the anchor, talking with their correspondent, Tommy Yamas, about Marco Rudio, Rubio, in a Saturday night debate.
Tom Yatmas joins us tonight from a Rubio rally.
And Tom, some prominent conservatives are coming to Senator Rubio's defense tonight.
That's right, David.
Rush Limbaugh acknowledges the debate was not Rubio's finest moment, but he says the line that Rubio kept repeating is a winning strategy of Republicans.
Rush saying that President Obama, quote, executed a plan to transform America into something it was not thought it to be.
Rush says more Republican candidates should be saying that.
David?
Tom Yamas with us here in New Hampshire tonight, Tom.
Thank you.
Folks, I was the news.
What I said was the news.
Just goes to show you it is true.
And they're worried sick, more and more Republicans are going to start talking this way.
It's it is, folks, this is such a teachable moment.
It's stunning to me that more people don't see this for what it is.
Anderson Cooper 360 last night, panel discussion on Marco Rubio and me.
Rush Limbaugh came to his defense.
They're going to listen to what Lindbaugh said.
This is what I was talking about earlier when I say, I think some of these professional media analysts, God bless them, and they do hard work, and many of them, they're just fine people, but I don't know that they have the ability to see these debates the way people watching the debates on TV see them.
Meaning, I don't know how big a faux paw this was for Rubio.
Clearly, it was not a positive.
Clearly, it was not his best.
But I don't think it ruined his chances and wiped him out, like some in the media opine.
Audio soundbite number four next is Gloria Borger reacting to this.
Anderson Cooper says, these polls, Gloria, we really have no idea what is going to happen, right?
I agree with Rush Limbaugh.
We really don't know, but I think it wasn't so much what Rubio said, which was, by the way, Barack Obama knows exactly what he's doing because that has been the thesis of his entire campaign.
I think it is the way he said it, which was robotic over and over again.
And when Christie, to use Christie's phrase, punched him in the face, he didn't know how to respond to that.
We got to take a quick time out, but we have more.
Always have more.
Get to it after this.
Continuing here with the audio soundbites, this is Nia Malika Henderson, CNN Anderson Cooper.
Last night, and she weighs in on me and the entire Marco Rubio circumstance again on Anderson Cooper show.
I think it's good for Rubio that he has Rush Limbaugh out there, you know, sort of blocking and tackling in front of that really big audience that Rubio is going to need if he's to win this thing.
And Rush Limbaugh has done that before, defending Marco Rubio.
I think it's notable that Rush Limbaugh has come out.
She's, what is she?
She's a senior political correspondent, CNN, Jeffrey Lord from the American Spectator and the new conservative and conservative review.
And he's prolific out there.
He's also on CNN, and he weighed in after Malia Nika Henderson.
In terms of Marco Rubio, I would say it's always good to have Rush Limbaugh blocking and tackling for you.
Maybe he over-messaged a little bit, but the fact of what he was saying is something Rush Limbaugh has been talking about for years.
So to get to the point of what the audience hears, what Gloria was talking about, and what Rush is talking about, they are hearing this.
This makes sense to them.
So, you know, I'm not sure that that's as much of a negative as they think.
Yeah, but Lord Jeffrey went on to point out, I didn't endorse anybody.
And this is just to repeat, for those of you who might have missed it, I haven't, you know, I'm blocking and tackling for ideas.
Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, sorry.
Ted Cruz and Rubio are the only guys honestly, accurately describing Obama in this problem.
And I think they all need to be.
But look, it's old territory.
I've explained why the governors can't.
They can't properly characterize Obama because they've been working with him.
So the only thing they can do is try to make the case that he's a bumbling idiot, not qualified by virtue of his inexperience, which happens to be what they're saying of both Cruz and Rubio.
But that whole thing's blown out of the water.
Obama, yeah, he hadn't spent many days in the Senate, but his whole life has been devoted to undermining the American founding.
He was raised that way.
He was educated that way.
He was promoted that way.
He was inspired that way.
He's at a Linskyite.
I mean, how much experience do you need?
He's got a lifetime of it.
And he happened to get elected president, not telling anybody what his true intentions were.
So, yeah, he might be inexperienced in the Senate, but big whoop, how much experience do you need to sign executive orders when Congress won't work with you?
How much experience do you need to know when you're an opposition party scared to death of you that there's nobody to stop you?
What kind of experience is needed to know how to take advantage of people who aren't even going to get on the field and oppose you?
Give me a break.
That's experience garbage.
He's got plenty of it.
Cynthia in Long Beach, California.
Really glad you waited.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
My original anger was blunted by all the lovely Trump supporters that called in, but I think that the conflation of the cultural rot from the original statement, the lead-in to what happened at the Trump rally from the woman there, and then with the Super Bowl and the whole cultural rot, it remains the same.
And I know Snarendley would get angry with me by diverting, but it actually is included.
The Emerson poll is probably totally correct.
And just like you said, the Clinton fraud, let's not forget the GOP fraud.
And we have with us the Emerson owned by Aristotle Inc., which is a DC Silicon Valley owned by Google and Murdoch with News Corps.
So it's probably correct.
And I just want to take it back to that, of course, Trump did not say that.
He repeated it.
And if he had not repeated the word, which I wouldn't use, and I would never call out, and I have no idea if that person was a plant, or if that person just was excited, or if that person has a foul mouth, or maybe that's not even a foul word.
Whatever.
Well, of course it wasn't Trump's fault.
Trump would never use a word like that.
But what if he had not repeated it?
First of all, the caller that called in and said that he didn't even hear it.
I'm assuming he was in the audience.
This rally was for the voters.
Unlike anybody else's rallies, these rallies are held and they're live on television and everything else.
So if Russ, well, Trump Trump, pardon me, if Trump hadn't repeated it, it would, of course, be the Pearl Clutching and the fainting couches on the 24-hour news cycle and on AM radio the next day without Trump having told the 5,000 people standing out there what just was said.
And it would be used by Jeb Bush and everybody else under the sun within 24 hours of let's get it together quick before the voting starts to call the narrative that is of course being solidified even as I'm listening right here on hold for two hours that Trump is somehow he's craft, he's undignified.
In fact, what he's done, and I do listen to every single rally and every single speech, much like I listen to every single day to your show for 20 years.
You taught me to do that.
And what he is doing is restoring dignity, the dignity that was lost the day that we said boxers are briefed.
Cynthia, let me jump in here for just a second, and I want to let the audience know that it might be confused.
She thinks Trump is getting a bad rep. That's what she's saying.
Am I right about that?
I think that would be a, okay, sure.
Yes.
Well, is that not what you're saying?
Well, I think that the narrative is being steered from what he actually is trying to do, which is he is not aware of.
Cynthia, it's not every day that one candidate calls another candidate a pussy in a presidential campaign.
You can't expect that not to be made news of.
But did he?
Well, he repeated what somebody in his audience said.
Technically, no.
That's your point, right?
And if he had not worked.
And he even admonished her for saying it, and he made sure he showed his disapproval of her saying it by saying it again so that everybody could hear it.
Because had he not, it would have still, they would have left not knowing that.
They would have heard whatever they wanted to hear, whatever they had.
He had to control the narrative by making sure everybody at the rally knew what was said instead of hearing about it later on TV, where Trump might have been unfairly blamed when he really had no complicity in this.
Is that your best?
Sure, and really just blunts the whole issue.
But my original call is because immediately you went from Katrina Pearson and discussion of the First Amendment to the cultural rot, which was on full display in the disgusting halftime show.
And what has been done purposefully by Barack Obama, which if anybody had takes six time to listen to everything that Trump says, is a message that, yes, not only is it on purpose, but it's with incompetence that Obama has not even been able to do his master's bidding.
He doesn't edify Obama.
I've done my best here.
And Cynthia, I get it.
I appreciate it.
I just have to move on.
There's a lot of people waiting.
And I think You made your point essentially that Trump had to control this by repeating the word, lest his supporters, innocent souls they are, hear it portrayed as out of context the next day, and getting mad at Trump when he hadn't said anything.
And over here, you got Obama purposely participating in the coarsening of our culture and that Super Bowl rot and so forth.
And why are we dumping all over Trump is the point.
So I got it.
I do.
That's why patience, patience, folks, patience is a virtue.
Reading the stitches on the fastball is all part of that.
Cynthia, thank you.
El mucho.
This is Bob, Bob in Spokane, Washington.
You're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Blue Star Dittos to you.
Thanks for what you do.
A couple of things real fast because I know you're short.
I'm tired of being told at the second, third place in Canada that we're the winners.
And but on to what I was calling about.
There are many different meanings for a word in our language.
And I was under the impression that that word that Trump repeated was short for pusillanimous.
And I looked it up on Merriam-Webster, and it says pusillanimous is lacking courage and resolution marked by contemptible timidity.
Exactly right.
Now, the kicker is in the examples of pusillanimous, it says pusillanimous politicians who vote according to which weather at whichever way the political wind is blowing.
There you go.
So, you know, I think that I'd like to suggest it's all Tempest in the teapot and much ado about nothing and a false controversy, you know, contrived by the drive-bys.
They might want to look into the word.
And, yeah, it has multiple meanings, but they've run with one of them and absolutely disregarded the rest.
The others.
Yeah, but no, no, I don't think they're disguising it.
You say pusillanimous.
The way the drive-bys are spreading it is that Cruz was called a coward.
That works.
They hate Cruz.
That's the only reason this is getting a pass is because it was said about Ted Cruz.
Well, it's not the only reason.
But at the same time, you can't really be, none of you can be that outraged that the drive-bys are making a big deal.
I know we have Clinton and Lewinsky and all of that, and we had tons of that.
But I don't know.
I don't know that I recall one candidate being called this word by another candidate in the course of a campaign.
And if you put it in the context of some of the other things that Trump has said himself and other things that have been repeated at Trump rallies, such as what he said about the Mexicans, what he said about McCain, much of it applauded.
And it hasn't hurt.
I think the drive-bys are still looking to take Trump out.
The Republican establishment is still looking to take Trump out.
I am here to tell you, and I don't want you people to doubt me, there are people who still believe Trump's going to get out of this, no matter what happens in New Hampshire, and no matter what happens in South Carolina, there are people who still maybe it's a triumph of hope over common sense,
but they still believe he's going to quit, that he's going to grow tired of it, that it isn't going to provide thrills anymore, that it's going to hit him, how expensive this is, and he's going to start asking himself, is it worth the money?
And there are still people.
So when something like this happens, the people who think that allow themselves to get even closer to that day where Trump just says, you know what the heck with it.
Do not doubt me.
There are going to be people, if Trump is the nominee, there are going to be Republican establishment types hoping that he quits in October.
It's never going to go away.
By the way, our last caller, Bob, he said he was sick of second and third place winners being proclaimed or finishers, second and third place finishers being proclaimed the winners.
Don't forget Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton, nobody was taking seriously back in 1992, came in second place in New Hampshire, was declared the comeback kid, and went on to win from a second place finish in New Hampshire.
I'm just telling you, folks, I'm not predicting any because I don't know.
I'm just telling the establishment is still celebrating for Jeb.
That's why he's still in there.
That's why they're still spending and raising all this money.
And if he comes in second, and there's only one poll that shows he will, that's Emerson.
Only one.
Everybody else has him in fourth place at like 7 or 8%.
If he comes in second, I'm just warning you, you haven't seen what you're going to see starting tonight and into tomorrow morning.
And it's going to, well, I won't characterize it.
You can tell me tomorrow how you feel about it.
Well, if he comes in, if he comes in near the bottom, it's still even over because it's South Carolina.
Anything can happen.
Nothing changes then.
Anything can happen.
Broad-based South Carolina, nobody's sweeping a Dexter super.
Is Jeb still in it?
It's the other guys that's going to look a sick and but because the belief is that Trump's going to quit is why so many people are still hanging in there.
Do not doubt me.
And if Trump ever were to quit, it would shake everything up.
There's the majority of voters to go where?
That's what they're all hanging in for, folks.
It's what they're all hanging in for.
Jerry in Clark, Missouri.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I had a comment.
Without Donald Trump in the race, we would be talking about global warming and why fat lesbians drink too much.
That seems to be where.
You know, folks, before you start laughing, that's absolutely true.
The things that we would be talking about in this campaign, the media would be leading and be in debates, asking these about such things as global warming and all this other stuff.
There's no question.
And Trump, because Trump dominates the media and he leads the media around, the questions have become: Senator Cruz, what do you think of what Donald Trump said about you?
And Senator Christie, what do you think about Marco Rubio said about you?
You're right.
Jerry here's got a good point.
I don't know about fat lesbians drinking, but surely something close.
I get your point, yes.
That's what they talk about the most, is the most ridiculous things.
I mean, global warming my foot.
I mean, there is no such thing.
It's been this way since I've been born, and that's a long time ago.
I know.
Global warming is, we know.
So are you, is this a way you are expressing your thanks that Trump is in the race?
Absolutely.
So you're a Trump supporter?
Absolutely.
And when he comes to Missouri, I'll vote for him.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the call out there, Jerry.
Thanks so much.
You know, that is an interesting point.
The things that would be discussed is valid.
But we're out of time now, friends.
Sadly, sorry.
Time for tears, but we'll be back in 21 hours.
That's it.
The first wave of exit polls.
If you want to believe them, my guess is around 4:35 o'clock.
Up to you as to whether you believe them.
Anyway, we'll make sense of it all when we get back here tomorrow.
Should be pretty wrapped up by then.
So see you then, folks.
Have a wonderful night tonight.
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