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March 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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There's some other things going on out there that I want to get into, and we'll get back to the campaign, but there are other events that I don't want to let go by without some attention.
First off, Hillary Clinton, this is this is um contradictory.
In addition to Mrs. Clinton announcing that foreign leaders have called her and asked to endorse her as a means of stopping Donald Trump, and she says that she said no.
She said no, because American elections are just that.
American elections.
And the American voters ought to decide.
Now this woman clearly thinks that she's scoring points by saying this.
This woman's political success, I don't care.
I don't care.
It has baffled me from day one.
It has completely totally baffled me, other than there is a capital D next to her name on a ballot.
I, for the life of me, will never understand it.
I think the woman's an abject political failure.
Her instincts are no good.
She's dangerous leftist, of course, but I from the first moment that they started trying to portray her as the smartest woman in the world back in the first days of the Clinton administration.
And I know my problem is, and I'm the mayor of Realville.
I'm a literalist.
And Hillary Clinton is...
She's a dry ball.
She's an empty pantsuit.
I never have seen it, and I've been proven wrong every time.
Every time I say there's no way she's going to win an election, she wins them.
And I know that the country that's made up of Democrats loves her and they think that she's the greatest thing on earth.
I just have never seen it.
And I'm trying to be as objective as I can in that.
She ran the Bimbo eruptions unit in the in the White House and screwed that up.
She was the first Democrat to be put in charge of achieving national health care, and she screwed that up.
I just have never, and yet I run into people on our side, and they're paranoid of her.
They're scared to death of her.
Even now.
Even now, I've got I deal daily with the fact that people are convinced she's an ex-president, no matter what happens.
It's all it's a fate accompli, and it's not a good one.
They're depressed it's a fate accomplished.
And I just you would think that I would wake up and and since I'm the mayor of Realville and see the reality that I'm wrong about this.
But look at these two things.
Here's Mrs. Clinton thinking that she's somehow scoring points by telling people that world leaders have called her and asked to endorse her as a means of stopping Donald Trump.
Now the voters that are not for her, the voters that she needs to be worried about are the kind of people that are not going to want to hear this at all.
The fact that foreign leaders are calling her and asking to insert themselves in this election are just gonna further distance themselves from her.
She thinks this is like an endorsement in and of itself to announce this.
She thinks it's a feather in her cap.
I don't think she realizes how damaging it is.
She can't sell books.
She doesn't have you, you know, Trump has a bond with his supporters.
All successful politicians do.
She doesn't.
She cannot draw a crowd to a book signing ceremony.
She can't sell books.
It's astounding to me.
It's her success is the kind of thing that makes me believe in conspiracy theories.
But I know I'm a lone voice on this.
Now the next one, this is a story from the Blaze.
Hillary Clinton shocked voters during a Democrat town hall last night, vowing to put a lot of coal miners out of business.
We're gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, she declared.
Okay, now I know what you're thinking.
Russia's a pretty smart thing to say because this is furthering the global warming, the carbon footprint crowd, the bunch of people that think we're destroying the planet, climate change and all that, and she is aligning with it.
Yeah, she is, but every coal mining job in this country is a union job, and they've traditionally been Democrat.
And you're saying, yeah, but Obama did the same thing and it didn't hurt him.
I know.
Well, it has hurt him, I think.
Obama's not sitting there in great shakes, just recently got back to 51% approval polls, and that's because nobody's paying attention to him anymore.
Presidential campaign has taken all the oxygen out of it.
That's not good, by the way.
He's able to do things under the radar that nobody's even aware of, but still to go out and say she was advocating for policies similar to Obama's, which have resulted in the loss of 125,000 jobs from the coal industry.
It's cost the coal industry $650 billion, and she's running around bragging about it.
However, according to her website, it says something entirely different than what she said last night in the Democrat forum.
On her website, she says that as president, she will revitalize coal communities to ensure that coal miners, power plant operators, transportation workers, and their families get the respect they deserve and the benefits they have earned.
She claims that she will make coal communities an engine of U.S. economic growth in the 21st century.
That's on her website.
Then last night she goes and brags about how she's going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
That's a quote.
I'm going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
I don't even think I don't think Obama said it this directly.
The way Obama, you had to be able to read between the lines to know what he was going to do.
The coal miners and the coal miners union didn't believe it when we told them what Obama was going to do back in 2008.
Do you realize what he's saying here?
When he says, oh, you can still open a coal-powered coal-fired power plant if you want, but you're going to go bankrupt doing it because we're going to.
When you tell them what that really meant, that's the first they'd heard of it.
They couldn't believe that a Democrat was going to target them for destruction.
Here's Mrs. Clinton admitting it while her website has something entirely different.
But more than that, I thought Obama had already done it.
What's left of the coal industry to wipe out?
Well, I know there's still some out there.
We still have more coal-powered fired power plants than they want to believe.
Here's this is another thing.
There is this uh arts and crafts thing that the tech community puts on every March in Austin, Texas, called South by Southwest.
Have you heard of it?
You heard of South?
You haven't heard of South by Southwest.
Really?
South by, well, I guess it's not mainstream.
It's it's it's sort of like a burning man or uh an awards ceremony, like a knockoff Oscars or whatever.
It's basically a week-long arts and crafts show for high-tech nerds and so forth.
And they intermingle political events.
They have rock and other music performances, and they have lectures that it's just uh it's a convention of tech people.
That's combined with the culture of the tech community.
Well, Obama shows up.
Obama shows up and basically sides with the FBI.
Have you heard what the FBI wants to do?
I I guess I better set this up.
The FBI announced late last week that they're doubling down on this fight with Apple on the issue of security and privacy of your phone.
And what they basically said, what the FBI basically said last week was that if Apple doesn't cooperate, they're just gonna go for broke and they're gonna ask for Apple source code.
And they're just gonna rewrite Apple's own operating system themselves so it has what they want in it.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, this would be like the government telling Coca-Cola, you don't cooperate with us on the amount of sugar, we're just gonna take your recipe.
We're gonna steal your recipe, or we're gonna demand you give us the recipe, we're gonna change it ourselves.
Koch has not divulged their recipe to anybody.
It's one of the tightest held secrets in the world.
Or it would be like the federal government going into a pharmaceutical company and saying, you're gonna give us the formula for this miracle cure pill that you're selling, unless you alter it the way we want.
Well, the tech nerds at South by Southwest in the blogs that I were shocked.
They can't believe it.
They said clearly Obama doesn't know.
He doesn't know what the FBI if Obama knew, he wouldn't stand for this.
And they don't understand it is Obama.
I'm reading this in incredulity.
So then Obama shows up and basically admits this is what he's gonna do, that he sides with the FBI when they threaten to seize Apple's crown jewels, which is the source code, so for the operating for IOS.
So then Obama shows up at South by Southwest and basically makes the case for doing it.
He says we can't all be rigid here.
We have to compromise, we have to be flexible.
Oh, you know, all the language that feeling, unthinking leftists think is wonderful.
Yes, we have to get along, we have to compromise, we have to realize we can't have it all and always get our way.
Oh, yes, it's so wonderful, yes, everybody ought to understand this, and then he makes his move.
But if uh if Apple's not going to cooperate, he went out and he praised Samsung and a bunch of other tech, but he left Apple.
It's clear to me that this regime has it in for Apple.
I don't know why.
It could well be lack of donations, but everybody thinks that Apple and this administration are in bed, at least ideologically they're in bed.
But this was serious stuff, but the point is here are all of these nerds who they love Edward Snowden, for example.
Edward Snowden's not a traitor, he's a hero.
They safeguard their they they don't like the NSA scooping up anything.
Metadata, nothing.
They don't want the government being able to get into their phones for any reason whatsoever.
I mean, there's some there's some laggards who think that the company Apple ought to open up that one phone to get the terrorists, but I mean, in general, they are suspicious of, but they don't associate it with Obama.
It's the most amazing thing.
You ought to when Obama goes in and admits that he's from the FBI's side, they, oh, it's so sad that Obama's wrong about this.
Maybe he doesn't understand.
If Obama really knew what the FBI's doing, and I'm reading this, it's it's it's things like this make me realize how impossible it is to dissuade, say, Obama supporters from supporting him, or to open their eyes.
The idea, they can't get it through their heads that Obama is the ultimate intruder on privacy.
Obama is the guy who is in charge of the kill list with American drones.
They hate drones, they hate drones targeting innocent people in the war on terror, and you tell them that Obama's in charge of the kill list.
Obama's essentially flying every one of those drones.
Well, but no, no, Obama can't, he must not know about this.
It's incredible.
They're so invested they can't, they can't believe that Obama's who he is.
They can't believe the Democrat Party's a bunch of statists.
They can't believe the Democrat Party's actually behind what they oppose.
They they still think it's the Republicans that want to spy on them to find homosexuals and to find uh transgenders and to find people having a board.
They think it's the Republicans that want to do all this to uncover all of these things they're doing so as to embedded.
They don't have no idea.
It's the Democrat Party that's trying to get into their phones through the rear end.
Well, where is the back door?
I'm just saying.
Now, this is going to be interesting.
This is Jeremy in Memphis.
Jeremy, glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Uh, thank you for introducing me a real bill, because I was resident of Greenville before.
Um my comment was I just don't see how Ted Cruz is going to be.
I like him.
I like what he says he's going to do.
I don't see how he can do anything, however, because over the last few years, as everybody has seen, the Republicans have blocked almost everything the Democrats try to do, which is a good thing, but that's kept Obama from doing anything.
So nothing's really moved.
When when Ted Cruz gets in office if he is elected, the Democrats are going to do the same thing, and Obama's policies will stay in place because the Democrats will do everything they can to keep his his agenda from going through.
Well, I essentially it's a good question.
It is it is an excellent.
You could ask the same question of Trump you you could and but I'm going to answer it here.
I've got a specific answer to you about Cruz, but I'm just saying that it's a it's a good question.
Um if either Cruz or Trump is elected.
You know, all these authoritarian people worried about Trump authoritarianism.
You've heard them.
Hey, you know what?
The Trump supporters are the same as Obama supporters if we're a different guy.
We don't need the same kind of thing, Rush.
We we we don't need a bunch of people think the president's all powerful either way.
I said there's a big difference.
Why is Obama gotten away with it?
Obama's gotten away with it because the Republicans stood down.
The Republicans sat down.
The Republicans backed out of the way.
In fact, the Republicans, they didn't even try to draw any distinction between themselves and Obama.
So and they furthermore, the Republicans announced they weren't going to stop Obama.
They took impeachment off the table, they took government shutdown off the table, therefore they took any spending restraint off a table if you're Obama.
The hell with the Constitution, these guys have just made me king for crying out loud, and I'm going to take advantage of it.
In one sense, given the status that he is, you can't blame him if they're going to make him king for eight years.
Do it.
Take the deal.
But if Cruz or Trump win, the Democrats are not going to similarly stand aside and just let these guys do whatever they're going to do.
Now, both Trump and Cruz would have different ways of dealing with this, I believe.
Now, I haven't talked to either of these two guys about it.
But it's Jeremy, it's a good question.
Here's what I want to say assume.
If Cruz were here and were answering the question, he would acknowledge, yeah, I can understand why you think that.
I've opposed my own party.
I've opposed the Democrats.
I've stood on principle.
I've fought everything they want to do, both individually and together.
I've stood for the American people, I've stood up for the Constitution.
I think, Jeremy, that Cruz would attempt to reach the American people in a direct fashion and create a majority of Americans who want his agenda to succeed.
I think it would be along the lines of how Reagan did it.
Uh there was opposition to everything Reagan wanted to do.
The Democrats hated Reagan.
They were coming after a dismal Jimmy Carter presidency for four years.
The last thing they wanted was for the Republican replacement to succeed.
It's the last thing Reagan did, and the first thing he did was won in a landslide.
You know, that scared the Democrats tremendously.
He won 1980 in a landslide, and he won 1984 in a landslide.
He had the American people with him.
And I'm guessing that Ted Cruz would attempt to secure the same thing and would probably lay claim to it if he were to be elected president, he would lay claim to the fact that he's got a working majority of American voters who supported him, and that would be his mandate.
He would begin to try to implement his agenda and claiming that's what the American people voted for.
And therefore he would not be bucking Republicans in Congress.
He wouldn't be bucking Dent.
Well, he would be, but he would be doing it with the expressed mandate and desire of the American people who had elected him president.
That's my guess.
My guess is that Cruz would use the power of his personality and the ability to persuade and his positive nature and love of country to persuade an even larger number of people than those who voted for him to participate with him in revitalizing America.
I know he has the ability to make that case.
And I know he has the ability to inspire the American people to want to join him on it if he has access to them in that regard.
As a president he would with the Bully Pulpit.
However, he's also going to be spending a lot of hours taking knives out of his back that will have been stabbed there by both Republicans and Democrats.
And some people think he'd be too busy taking the knives out of his back to get anything done.
But I think that's how he would do it.
Trump probably would go about it a different way.
He'd call him out.
One more thing here, folks, about uh about Hillary and this coal mine business.
Well, I forgot to mention.
She's telling these coal miners that she's going to destroy them.
And she's going to destroy the coal business, but that's not where she ends up.
She ends up telling them she's got great welfare movement plans for him.
I'm going to take care of you, she says.
I've got the best benefits program while we put the coal business out of like it's a great achievement.
While we sack the coal business, while we sack the coal cup.
Don't worry, because if I got a benefits package for you.
Now, what the hell kind of message is that?
That's Hillary Clinton basically saying to a bunch of coal miners, I'm out to destroy your industry.
But don't worry, we're going to put you on a benefits program.
Is that what Democrats?
I guess it is.
I guess Democrats want to end up on a benefits program.
That's what they talk about so damn much as their benefits.
Even Obama's out there throughout his eight years.
Make sure you get your benefits, make sure you get what you're entitled to.
There's never go out and work and make yourself the best you can be.
There's never anything about going out there and surpass your own self-expectations.
There's none of that.
There's nothing but doom and gloom and misery, and then we are going to give you the greatest benefits package you've ever seen.
Better than the Republicans would ever do.
Yay.
It's depressing that they get votes on that basis.
They do.
They've uh they've fostered it for generations.
Greg in Pocahontas, Arkansas.
Great to have you.
Hello, sir.
Rush, my hero.
I do have something to say that's gonna probably go against a little bit of what's talked about this morning.
Okay.
Um Mr. Trump scheduled an event in the heart of the Democrat radical downtown Chicago, where he had his people had to drive 45 minutes to come and see him.
Who didn't think that there was going to be a uh a protest?
The protesters simply walked outside of their apartments.
Oh, so you think you're not you you think Trump was inviting this?
I think it was a beautiful setup that that got him $10 million worth of free publicity, including, including my hero Rush.
Come on.
Are you are you saying that I have fallen for a ruse?
I I hope not.
I hope not.
But uh I believe he is.
Look, I will say this.
Look, look, look, let me say, but Greg, you you have a point.
Let's say Trump's got a rally scheduled for Chicago.
Let's say they're gonna be 20,000 people there.
Okay, but it doesn't happen because of what happened.
Okay, Trump got a whole weekend's worth of coverage out of it instead of just whatever hour and a half he does for 20,000 people at his at one of his rallies.
But is uh did he win this coverage or not?
Um, he won he won it through his own genius.
Well, but I mean you got people out there blaming him for it.
Well, good year is uh our friend Luis spent the week rallying the folks down around the campus.
Uh I heard that.
Um, but uh this was you know, they had to know.
You have to know.
And as I say, his his supporters, uh, if you saw the line of SUVs heading back to the suburbs, drove 30 to 45 minutes to come downtown to see him.
Well, and when they're on their way, they passed half a dozen larger places.
Greg, I have to admit something.
I this is uh you're you're you are the first I have thought of this.
You may be right.
You may be right that Trump scheduled this thing for the express purpose of irritating these radical leftists to the point that they would show up and try to burn down the town.
And and how much more publicity could you possibly get?
He's not got a problem, though, getting publicity.
He's not he doesn't, he's he's not he's not challenged in that way.
So I I the reason I didn't think that it's the Illinois is is voting tomorrow, too.
Chicago is Illinois in many ways, and he's trying to draw Democrats.
I mean, he's he's making an appeal to Democrats and he's bragging at all of his uh appearances and how he's expanding the Republican Party.
And uh so going into the University of Chicago?
I I f you're you're not looking I've heard a bunch of people say what did he think was going to happen?
He's going into a university in Chicago.
I mean, it's the last one.
But I'd not heard anybody speculate he did it on purpose for publicity's sake.
You could, I mean, you may be right.
Uh I I just I didn't I didn't go there because he doesn't need the publicity.
It's not as though he's getting the short shrift.
We have some audio sound bites on this.
Let's get to them.
I have been keeping them in reserve.
We'll start the the uh today's show.
How many do we have one two?
Uh oh, a couple of them here.
First off, this is F. Chuck Todd.
This is yesterday on uh I guess it'd be meet the press.
And F. Chuck says, Hey, do you plan on paying for the legal fees for this older gentleman in North Carolina whose sucker punched the protester?
Well, I'm not aware.
I will say this.
I do want to see what that young man was doing because he was very taunting.
He was very loud, very disruptive, and from what I understand, he was sticking a certain finger up in the air.
It's possible you could help him with legal fees if this man needs it.
I've actually instructed my people to look into it, yes.
Okay, now this is the incident in North Carolina where an African American protester is in the midst of a Trump rally, and some guy turns around a colcox, him 78-year-old cowboy, and they go to the cowboy, the news media finds the guy, said damn right I'm gonna clock the sun, and I'll tell you what, he next time he's gonna die.
And oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, the Trump supported next time he's gonna, oh my god, oh my god.
And the vapors and the panic all set in, and so now Trump's yeah, hell yes.
But I understand that guy started it.
He stuck a certain finger in the air.
Chuck!
My guy didn't start it.
I'm not aware.
I want to see yet, I want to see this, because this guy was being taunted, and he's admitting he's looking into paying the legal fees.
So Chuck Todd next says, I want to ask you about that moment in Dayton yesterday where the guy almost got up on the stage with you.
Looked like a scary moment there.
You praised the Secret Service, but then you said the man had ties to ISIS, which turned out to be a hoax.
Did you go over the top there on that?
What did you what did you get out of that?
All we did was put out what he had on his internet.
He's dragging the flag, the American flag, which I respect obviously more than you.
He was dragging the American flag on the ground like it was a piece of garbage, okay?
I don't like that, and a lot of people don't like that.
And he also had chatter about ISIS or with ISIS.
And you take a look at it.
I mean, people are looking at it very seriously now, but you have to check it before you ask the question.
Well, I know that's what I we have checked it.
That's my point, sir.
There's no ties to ISIS for this man, no law enforcement official, and that this video that you link to appears to be a hoax.
Okay, you just uh look.
Well, was it a hoax that he's dragging the flag?
No, it's not a hoax who the guy was.
The guy is a committed leftist, his two parents are leftists, his Facebook page, he hates America, he doesn't like it.
He wants to overthrow it and overturn it.
He's a perfect Obama voter.
He's a four-year-old what what is it?
Four years drama major, acting major, whatever it is, at Wright University.
Four years, either twenty-two or thirty-two, they can't figure out which.
In in the Trump world, the guy's a loser.
And he nearly got to the stage.
And uh now the media is trying to make a hero out of this guy.
See, this is the way this works.
We go to see it in newsroom last night.
Correspondent Martin Savage interviewed Tommy DeMassimo.
And they're they're talking about his effort to get on stage and disrupt the Trump event.
The idea that they now feel like they're under attack is ironic and laughable because they've been the ones who have been doing the actual attacking to other people.
I in no way harmed anyone, intended to harm anyone.
I'm not a member of ISIS.
I have no known ties to ISIS.
I've never been out of the country, I only speak English.
Yeah, well, you're a lot of other things.
So Martin Savage then uh continued, what he really wanted to get in a guy's head.
Wanted to find something redeeming about this guy.
So, well, what what what were you thinking, Tommy?
What were you thinking?
I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully, and he is nothing more than that.
He is somebody who is just saying a lot of bold things.
He's making bold claims, but I can see right through that, and I can see that he's truly just a coward.
Okay, stop the tape because I want to go to the next bite and I got a time problem.
So Martin Savage says you obviously purposely got yourself in that area.
I waited in line to make sure that I would be close to the front.
When he finally got there, he came in with uh 10, maybe Secret Service, 12.
One was standing directly in front of me facing me the whole time, and the other was right behind him with his foot on the stair.
To my left, there was a six-foot-tall guy right there, and between them there was a small gap.
And I said, I'm just gonna have to time out the moment when these two, because they look around when these two are looking that way, the guy over here is looking that way, and I'll have a sliver of a chance to run between them.
I'm trying to make a hero out of this guy who wanted to get on stage and do whatever he says he wanted to do or not, but he's telling how he pre-planned the attack, how he surveiled the Secret Service, how he'd outsmarted them and so forth.
They're trying to make a hero.
And this is why people are livid because this has been going on my whole life, making heroes out of leftist protesters, and trying to find some redeeming quality or virtue in them.
And I gotta take a break here.
I'm way long.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Well, there's Sarah Palin in Tampa at a Trump event.
So all those tweets about her were wrong.
She's well, I know she's le but but they no, no, I know she's gonna go to Alaska to be with her husband.
But the tweets are out there saying that Trump threw off the campaign.
Meanwhile, Carl Bernstein's on Fox calling Trump a fascist, and so forth.
And you wonder why Black Lives Matter and he's occupying Wall Street people are doing what they're doing.
I gotta get Glenn in here from Youngstown, Ohio before we have to go today.
Hi, Glenn, welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Uh a longtime listener and uh first-time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
Uh my uh my comment was uh, you know, uh this Casey, I wouldn't walk across the street to one of his rallies.
I mean, there's just no enthusiasm there.
Wait a minute, he's a governor.
Yeah, I really I realize, and I voted for him for governor, but uh to be honest with you, they had a rally in Hanoverton, Ohio, and they set up a tent outside that would hold about 500 people.
Well, they only had 400 people in the tent.
There's just nothing there.
Nobody is coming to his rallies that I've seen on TV.
Well, he just he just had one with Mitt Romney.
He just had Mitt Romney's out there uh speaking at rallies with him.
You know, I I uh supported Mitt, and I'm really ashamed of him coming out against the uh Republican.
He's not been helpful.
But you know, I look, I know what you're saying.
I shouldn't say this because people are gonna misunderstand it.
But you know what?
I watched Governor Kasich in these rallies and he talks about all the great things that he's done in Ohio and all the great things that are happening there.
And I'm wondering why isn't everybody moving there?
Don't misunderstand.
I mean that but he's telling stories about this overwhelming success in revitalizing communities and uh getting rid of rotten culture and whatever else and all this job creation and stuff.
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