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April 4, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, look, I'm not, I don't want to mention any names.
I'll tell you why, because these conservatives that are writing, they're gonna regret this.
This campaign's gonna be over at some point.
And people are gonna have long memories.
And I really think this is just it's um I don't know.
It's unfortunate.
I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about here in just a second.
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Now what is happening, and it's been going on for a couple of weeks, maybe even longer.
There is a contingent of conservative media, and I I guess it is probably assumes some people on TV and radio too, but primarily at one blog or another.
And again, I'm not going to name any names because that's not the point.
Um you might not even know these people anyway.
But I'll give you an example.
Let me read something that was written, what, a couple weeks ago.
A column about Trump's appeal.
And everybody's trying to figure it out.
And it doesn't make sense to a lot of quasi establishment types or pure establishment types.
It doesn't make sense to a lot of people who consider themselves to be just straight down the line, mainstream conservatives.
So they've they've exhausted themselves.
They're trying to diminish Trump.
They're trying to diminish his support so that it goes elsewhere.
Scared to death Trump's going to get nominated, scared to death Trump's going to get elected for all the reasons that I've discussed.
Don't need to rehash those.
But since that hasn't worked, since writing critical things of Trump hasn't worked, the frustration has now begun to boil over, and these people are writing about Trump supporters.
These are people that work at publications that ask for donations from people.
These are places that sell subscriptions to people.
Trump's appeals to the white working class are immoral because that demographics way of life deserves to die out.
White working class deserves to die out.
It's immoral because it perpetuates a lie that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces.
Nobody did this to them.
They failed themselves.
They're already failures.
It's nobody's fault.
It's not NAFTA's fault.
It's not TPP's fault.
It's not Mexico's fault.
It's not the fault of a legal.
They're failures.
These people supporting Trump are failures.
They're angry.
They know their failures.
They know they've failed in life, and so ratted and blame themselves.
They're seeking to blame anybody else.
They're nothing but victims, and Trump comes along and makes them feel like they're special and makes them feel like that Trump's going to get even with the people that screwed them.
But since they're already failures, they deserve to die out.
White middle class working lifestyles deserve to die out.
The white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized not by outside forces.
Nobody did it to them.
They failed themselves.
The truth about these dysfunctional down-scale communities of white working class people is they deserve to die.
Economically, they are negative assets.
Morally, they are indefensible.
They are drug addicts.
They are alcoholics.
Man, I uh I I'm I'm aware of Democrats and the media insulting Republican voters.
When the Democrats and the media start in on that, it's usually Southerners who go to church who are pro-lifers.
They make them out to be Hayseeds, uneducated Bible thumping hicks, the people Obama calls bitter clingers.
But I am not aware, it's probably been thought before I'm I've not seen these kinds of really angry, vitriolic things written about people that support Trump.
But obviously what's happening is that the efforts these people have made to warn Trump's voters that he's not what they think he is, that he's inexperienced, that he's a charlatan, that he's a carnival barker, that he's not worth your time, that he's dangerous.
That's not working.
They have failed to harm Trump by criticizing him so in their desperation are going after Trump voters.
And it's not just one or two of them.
It's become a theme in uh in several places.
The problem is that all this is going to be over at some point.
You know, that there is going to be a Republican nominee at some point.
And there will be the usual call, as there are every four years, there'll be the usual calls for unity.
But I don't know what people who have been told they deserve to die, that they're immoral, that they're inherent failures, that time has passed them by.
They're basically a bunch of incompetence.
And I'd you couldn't blame them if they don't forget about it.
Of course, the theory is they're too dumb and stupid to even know this is being written about them.
And another theory is that nobody in the Trump camp will admit that they are one of these people, so nobody's going to take it personally, because nobody's going to admit that they're a loser and deserve to die out.
So there may be some safety in it, you know, the psychological reasons.
But still it's it's um it's really over-the-top kind of stuff.
When you just start blaming voters for the fact that you can't persuade people, you start blaming voters that your guy is losing, or maybe you don't even have a guy, you just don't like the front runner in this case, and you resent his success or what have you.
I'm telling you, folks, within the uh Republican establishment, all areas of it, there's a lot of people deathly afraid of what a Trump victory would mean for them and their lifestyles.
This guy, Michael Gerson, former George W. Bush speechwriter, columnist Washington Post.
He had a very, very caustic piece about me recently.
But what apparently what really ticked him off is when I opine that one of the reasons establishment people so feel threatened by Trump is that they might lose their standard of living because they might lose their position in the power structure,
which might, and he really took offense that I was in any way saying that their virtuous attitude about Trump was in any way related to personal wealth or money.
And I'm telling you, when they tell you it's not the money, it's the money.
It's the money for everybody.
The people that are voting Trump, many of them, not all, by the way.
I it's impossible to typecast the Trump supporter.
They come from too many different places.
They're not all monolithic, just like most constituencies aren't.
But to go down this pathway, claiming that these people who haven't had a raise in 15 years, it's because of their own incompetence, their own inability to modernize, their own inability to get with it.
They deserve to be sitting there in poverty if they're going to be that stupid.
I mean, these are people that have voted Republican time and time again.
They probably, these same people probably voted for McCain.
They probably voted for Romney, some of them.
They probably voted for George W. Bush.
Some of them probably subscribe to some of these websites and magazines now where they're being insulted.
So there's a lot of people who are very personally frightened by what's it.
And I've been making the point from the get-go.
All right, to the audio sound bites.
I mentioned the uh reaction to people throughout the drive-by media to my reaction over Trump's interview on abortion with Chris Matthews all over the place.
I want to share some of it with you.
We'll start State of the Union Sunday morning on CNN with Jacob Tapper, who was interviewing the chairman of Republican National Committee, Rince Previs.
And uh and and Jacob Tapper started the interview with uh an audio soundbite of me.
Rush Limbaugh, who is a major conservative voice, as I'm sure you know, expressed real concern about what that answer will mean to Democrats.
Take a listen.
I'm telling you what happened last night was huge in terms of rejuvenating the Democrats.
They were moribund.
They were falling asleep, they were depressed.
They don't have a candidate they can give a damn about.
They're excited, not at all.
Their turnout is nothing.
Now they're energized.
So Tapper then said to the chairman of Republican National Committee, okay, Rince, what do you think of that?
What's your reaction to that?
Are you concerned at all?
Is Russ Limbaugh right?
Well, he's right about the first part that they have nothing to be excited about.
It said it better than I could.
But look, I mean, he's since walked that back.
Of course, we don't want women prosecuted.
But again, as I said before, we're the party of the open door.
That means anyone can come in.
Obviously, we have our principles that we're a pro-life party.
We believe that.
I expect that obviously to be the case moving forward.
And I'm happy he clarified his comments.
Yeah, he did uh uh three times in uh the next five or six hours, which I don't, folks the if you remember my concern with this was not about how it affects Trump, because the the purpose of the question was to smear all Republicans.
It was to continue the meme of the war on women against all Republicans, not just Trump.
But if they can make Trump look like he doesn't know what he thinks or maybe thinks scary things, he's the frontrunner.
He's the face of the party now.
That's why they did it.
And that's why I thought it was a huge deal, and and people need to understand that it's it's it's the criticism of Trump here could be damaging to the party at large, was the only point that I was trying to make about this.
Here is on um the lead with Jake Tapper on Friday night, same subject.
He spoke with Kaylee McCaney, or McEnany, I'm sorry, McKinney, Kaylee McEnamy, Trump uh spokeswoman about the same thing.
Rush Limbaugh, who has said some very nice things about Donald Trump.
Rush Limbaugh said that will be hugely damaging in a general election that Trump harmed his potential to get Democrats to cross over.
Are you at all worried?
It was definitely a misspeak.
It was not a good moment.
There's no doubt about it.
But the point is he quickly came back.
He retracted the statement or at least revised the statement and said what he truly meant.
So I don't think that it will harm uh Republicans generally, because Donald Trump did clarify his position.
And John King, CNN's inside politics on Sunday morning.
Talk radio inside the state of Wisconsin is quite a vibrant industry.
Also nationally, Rush Limbaugh among those saying, sorry, Mr. Trump, I defend you a lot, but this is Republican 101.
George H. W. Bush changes position.
Mitt Romney changes his position.
You can change your position on abortion as long as you can explain why.
And being unprepared at this point in a campaign is what has everybody thinking, whoa, right?
No, no.
That's a good who does it have thinking, whoa, right.
It has me thinking, whoa, right for the big broad reason that I understand how and why the Democrats do what they do.
And the Republicans don't seem to ever understand this.
The Republicans look at this as an operative.
Aha!
Trump got exposed as a neophyte, we can get rid of Trump.
They don't understand that this is an assault and A continuation of the war on women attack against the party.
I'm not suggesting gotta go out and defend Trump over it.
That's not the point.
The point is to understand what's coming and how they're gonna do it, because they don't have anything else.
The race card and pro-life abortion is all they've got.
They've got a dead campaign going right now.
Their turnout is down.
I don't mean to be repetitive, but it's important to make the point.
And so here's here's King pointing out that you can change your position on abortion as long as you can explain why.
Being unprepared at this point in the campaign is what has everybody thinking, whoa.
Well, back to my point about insiders and outsiders.
As an outsider, doesn't it sort of by definition as an outsider that you're not focused on the same stuff insiders are, and you don't talk about the same things insiders do, and you don't even think like them.
I mean, insiders equals the establishment equals the business of politics, and Trump is not that.
His strength is he's none of that.
And yet he's being taken to task and held to account here because he doesn't know how to answer a question like this, instinctively know how to answer a question like this as an insider, which he's not.
The irony of this is rich.
Everybody claims they want an outsider, but then when the outsider in their mind screws up, my God, everybody ought to know the way you Well, yeah, if you're an insider and this is rote and and standard operating procedure, but Trump talks about abortion when he's asked about it.
It's not something I don't think it's something that at this stage that's on the on the at the top of the page of any candidates list of agenda items.
It's on the page, I mean don't misunderstand.
Anyway, more of this, Angela Rye on um see I guess that yeah, one more on this.
No, no, no, no.
Break time, just saw the clock.
Gotta take a break.
I'm not sure if this bite fits with what we just did or if it takes it a different direction.
That's why I was him and hauling there.
Back here in just a second.
Okay.
As always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here is uh Mike and Ithaca, New York.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ.
How are you?
Good.
Good, appreciate you.
I just really wanted your take on this, because you know, we've spent a bunch of time talking about Trump on abortion, and frankly, any Republican is going to be painted as you know, reactionary and extreme on that issue.
But, you know, I saw Hillary Clinton last week, and she was describing, you know, there were no rights under the Constitution for unborn children, and she did say children under the Constitution.
I mean, not to me is an extreme position.
That's, you know, there is no rights up until birth.
And then you had Bernie Sanders on over the weekend, and he said basically the same thing.
So I'm curious, how are they that that seems to fly in the face of kind of like what the general public believes.
Well, not just that.
I mean, th the whole issue of uh of pro-life pro-choice, it has, despite what everybody thinks, it has never been an 80-20 issue in favor of the pro-choicers.
All of that period of time in the 90s, maybe into the first parts of this decade.
That was all just media presumption or or narrative.
It's always been essentially a 50-50 issue, except recently, polling data has indicated that more people become pro-life than are pro-choice.
And there's substantive reasons for it.
There is much more technology now.
You can show people pictures of a four-month-old baby with a beating heart.
You can show people four-month-old pictures of a of a baby in a womb with recognizable organs, body parts, and so forth and so on.
And there regardless the efforts to downplay it, The news coming out of Planned Parenthood has had a profound impact on people.
But but Mrs. Clinton coming along, uh, she actually has managed to tick off a lot of people with her abortion answer.
And of course, when Trump does it, it's Armageddon because the Republicans have no leeway on this.
But with the media, when Hillary Clinton says, well, unborn people do not have rights, the constitutional rights don't apply to unborn person or an unborn child.
She said it was on Meet the Press.
The unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights.
Now that doesn't mean that we don't do everything we possibly can in the vast majority of instances to help a mother who's carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy to have appropriate medical support.
Hillary Clinton has to say that because she is a prisoner to the militant feminist movement, which is the home of the pro-choice, which is really not choice, it's the pro-abortion movement.
If you choose to not have an abortion, you cannot, they won't let you say you're pro-choice.
Pro-choice means pro-abortion, but they know it's not wise to say that.
She owes.
She has to double down.
She has to say whatever to always reassure these people that she's on their side.
Take it for what it is.
You know, she might it's not a slip-up.
This is what she actually thinks.
This is what they on the left actually believe.
So I checked the email during the break.
What do you mean people on the left were mad at Hillary?
Over her fetuses don't have constitutional rights comment.
Well, let me just tell you.
Um this is from the Washington Times, Diana Arellano.
It might be Ariano.
She is the uh manager of community engagement for planned parenthood in Illinois.
Illinois action.
And she said that Hillary's comments undermined the cause for abortion rights.
Now, what did Hillary say?
The unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights.
You know, we want to help a mother who is carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy to have appropriate medical support.
So why is Planned Parenthood ticked off?
She Hillary just said they don't have constitutional rights.
What could Planned Parenthood possibly be angry about?
They're angry that Hillary didn't use the word fetus.
They are angry that Hillary characterized an unviable tissue mass as a person, as a child.
This Diana Arolano person said that Hillary's comment further stigmatizes abortion.
She calls a fetus an unborn child.
She calls for later term restrictions describing the fetus as a person or a child, which has long been anathema to the pro-choice movement, which argues the terms misleadingly imply a sense of humanity.
You see, an unborn baby is not a baby.
It's a fetus, it's an unviable tissue mass, and it isn't human.
Therefore, they're not terminating anything when they do abortions.
And therefore when they've terminated nothing, and they harvest various parts of the nothing and sell those parts, it's not human.
That's how they justify it.
Mrs. Clinton came along.
This is how these people justify to themselves what they're doing.
It's unviable tissue mass.
It's not human.
It's not a person.
It's even gotten to the point where some don't like the word fetus.
But anyway, that's why the Planned Parenthood pro-choice extremists got mad at Hillary because she humanized a baby in a human womb.
Imagine.
These people are wacko-nut dangerous.
And they are totally invested in this.
And it is why they will go to the end of the earth to try to characterize Republicans the way they do.
Fascinating thing here.
Again, Hillary Clinton is dive bombing in women.
Let's look at some of the polling numbers coming out of Wisconsin right now.
Bernie Sanders at 51%, according to the latest poll they used there, and Clinton at 43%.
That is an eight poll or eight-point lead just two weeks ago.
The same poll showed Hillary leading Crazy Bernie by six points.
50 to 44.
So this has been a swing of 14 points in uh in two weeks.
It's the Emerson College poll.
It was conducted March 30th to April 3rd, 542, likely Democrat primary voters.
Hillary's woman problem, most women don't like her.
Stephen Shepard, Politico, had an article last week about Trump's rock bottom ratings with women.
An overlook story, Hillary Clinton, who might become the first female president, isn't far behind in her unfavorability ratings among women.
Trump is at 68% unfavorable among women.
Hillary at 58% unfavorable.
You know, we we're told all the time that women hate Trump.
We're not told how badly Hillary is doing with women, but she is doing badly.
And there are a lot of women who do not like Hillary.
Not every woman is a is a is a is an East Coast snob intellectual feminist.
But that's what they think most women are.
I'll tell you something else.
These polls that show all this massive dislike for Trump among women.
I'm not so sure that it is that high.
And I might even question whether it's this high with Hillary, but I can understand that the dislike women might have for Hillary.
She sells women out whatever women have becoming more and more educated on her role in the bimbo eruptions.
They're becoming more and more educated in Hillary's role in defending her husband's philandering and womanizing.
So anyway, there's a lot of things upsetting the apple cart out there, upsetting conventional wisdom.
I mean, Hillary was thought just like Obama, the first African American president cleaned up in the black vote.
It was thought Hillary would do the same thing with a women's vote.
Of course, all women would love, love to see the first female president, and that's not a given.
Women are very judgmental of each other.
Oh, don't doubt me on this.
Pay attention closely, and you will spot it.
And there are lots of things about Hillary to be suspicious of.
She's just not a likable person because she doesn't appear real.
But this near near rock bottom rating among women that she has is it's real and it's serious.
And now she comes along and says unborn babies do not have rights.
The right to life, if it doesn't apply to a baby in the womb, how does it apply to anybody else?
Where else outside of murder is life threatened?
Don't say war.
I'm talking about the normal ebb and flow of black war.
You have the Declaration of Independence.
I'm not saying that they were thinking about abortion when they came up with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There were summary executions.
There were people being killed just because of what they believed and so forth.
That doesn't happen in America today.
People are Not in America.
I mean, it's maybe not far down the road, depending, but it's not that doesn't happen in America today.
But there is the most innocent group of people, the most innocent group, period, is children in the womb.
And if you don't you start thinking about the right to life, and these people do not want to grant that right to life to babies in the womb.
They can't.
They can't and be pro abortion.
So I'm just telling there are a lot of women who do not think of babies the way these militant feminazes do.
A lot of women love babies.
A lot of women love motherhood.
A lot of women want to be mothers.
You listen to the modern day feminist movement, and I trace that back to the late 60s, early 70s.
Um how long can you get away with portraying pregnancy as an illness?
As a disease, something you need federal protection for.
It's it's obscene.
And these things are becoming more widely known by people with the advent now of alternative media, which had said about 20, 25 years to settle in.
Anyway, uh want to get back to your phone calls quickly after this, and then we're getting a review of the actual polling data and the latest goings on in the day leading up to the Wisconsin primary tomorrow.
So hang on, we're coming right back with a And this is Sheldon in San Francisco.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Brad.
Yeah, I'm first down calling.
I think your intelligence is an outlook is very refreshing.
Well, thank you for your um show.
Um I was a Democrat before.
I'm a Donald Trump supporter, I'm also a black American.
I think Donald Trump is just what America needs.
I think it's a really annoying how all these nitpickers, every time they get a chance, they just try to just act like this.
They're so arrogant about the nitpicking too.
They act like we're so perfect, and Donald Trump can't make a mistake.
And the man's not perfect.
He made a few like errors as far as what he's a response to, but he really cares about America.
He's a doer, he's like his apocalypse.
This man has been very successful.
He's a very successful person, and all you think is gotta keep nitpick out of them.
Why don't they try to why aren't they billionaires?
They're so they're so smart, how come they're not billionaires?
I think Donald Trump is just what America needs.
And the fact that he is rocking the boat.
Let me ask you, what would it what wait a minute?
What would it take, if anything, for you to become disgruntled or dissatisfied with Mr. Trump?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Anything we do is not make me disgruntled about him.
Because he I think he really me he's I call it intuition, you call it whatever you want to.
But I think that he's really gonna be good for America.
I I don't I don't think he will do anything that will make me switch.
Let me d does it bother you that lately he's had to revise what he's said in some cases two or three times, correct what he wants to do.
No, it doesn't, because he's not a politician.
Politicians just we're so smooth talking, we try to become like uh they respond to things correctly by means that they mean what they say.
But that's a joke.
It's really a joke.
So you are just talking him if he's not a politician, and the fact that he doesn't respond what he wants to respond.
Are you ever at any point in the past few months, as long as you've been paying attention to trip, is anything happened that that is really worried you frightened you, has made you ask, does this guy actually know what he's doing?
Absolutely not.
Because I realize the thing because they're attacking with with the R setups.
They just kind of manipulate the public.
That's what politicians do.
But nothing he hasn't said has worried me about Trump, worried me about the other people that have attacked him.
That's what worries me.
What Donald Trump has done does not worry me at all.
Donald Trump says that in eight years, Two presidential terms, he could eliminate the nineteen trillion dollar national debt.
Do you think that's possible?
Well anything is possible.
I mean, he will make an effort, at least, and we certainly need somebody that does that for sure.
I mean, whether it's possible or not, I mean, I don't know if it's mathematically possible, but no, he's gonna at least make an effort, and I think he's the best person to do it.
Sheldon, you you're you're from San Francisco.
Are you white, middle class, broke, poor, out of work for 15 years?
Are you a failure and blaming it on other people, and Trump is your salvation?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
I'm very successful.
I have a college degree.
I've been in very successful businesses myself, so no, I'm not like that at all.
All right, so all right.
I'm just I'm just trying to fit the profile here to a uh so th there's nothing Trump's ever said that gave you pause.
There's nothing Trump's ever said or done.
Like, did you did you did you worry when he started treating out pictures of other candidates' wives?
Did any of you did skin crawl getting nervous at any of that?
No, because he's asking.
I mean, at some point, let me ask it to you.
This Sheldon let me ask you are you worried at on at any time that Trump's blowing it?
Are you worried that he's overdoing it and maybe too much outsider stuff and he's he's in in danger of blowing it.
Have you ever had that fear?
Well, I have a sometimes I fear that he was he shouldn't let people interview him that are gonna set him up.
I think some of these interviewers just try to set him up because they're all biased.
They all agree with each other.
If you notice that TV R and Two, they agree with each other, they all have the same opinion, mostly.
We pretend like they they are flexible, but most of them they all agree with each other.
It's really a big joke.
That's why I like to listen to the radio, because at least on the radio, you have people that had d have actual different views on the TV.
It seems like all the people agree with each other.
Oh, that's true.
I can't deny that.
I can't not only differ different views, but different perspectives and generally rooted in truth and fact, honor in the American way.
So I I I totally understand uh what what you're saying there.
But but Sheldon, one more thing here before I let you go.
You just said that he ought not do interviews with certain people.
Obviously, you're talking about his uh his interview with Chris Matthews.
But you have to understand that Trump thinks that he can persuade anybody.
He can change anybody's mind.
He's not afraid of talking to anybody.
I mean, Matthews calls he doesn't see Matthews as an enemy.
He doesn't see Matthews as a representative of the other side that wants to do him in.
He sees an opportunity to straighten out a knucklehead.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, he's a I think Trump is a good person.
He might be naive as far as how mystic other people can be.
Well, that's not his fault that other people.
Well, yeah, but but like you just said, he shouldn't do certain interviews, and a lot of his supporters agree there ought to be places he ought to know.
There's nothing to be gained going there.
No matter how good he thinks he is, no matter how persuasive he thinks he is, there are some places out to destroy him, and he ought to know that before he goes there.
And so people say, you know what?
Does he have competent people behind him?
Does he have people trying to sabotage him on his own team?
Does he have anybody that knows what they're doing?
And the answer always comes, no, the guy's an outsider.
Don't you understand Rush?
He's outsider means outsider.
You can't look at Trump and judge him in any way the way you would judge any professional politician.
He's a totally different animal.
I get this all the time.
You would not believe it.
From people who think I'm being unfairly critical of Trump.
I know.
I'm sorry, folks, that last caller, I'm I'm told people couldn't understand him.
I couldn't either, but I think I'm the only one who can't.
I had a transcription so I was able to follow along.
I'm sorry.
I thought that you know when I can't hear somebody, I think it's just me.
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