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April 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 15, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you back with us.
This is the one and only Rush Limbaugh program, the most talked about radio talk show out there, the most talked about host out there, and a most talked about network.
Great to have you on Friday as we head on down the line.
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I've got to grab a call here before we continue.
This is Mark in uh in Western, oh, Carolina.
I thought that was California.
Western North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, Mark.
Hi.
Hey there, Rush.
How are you doing?
Well, I'm fine.
Smoky Smoky Mountain Friday over here.
It's uh nice to hear from you.
Hey, I've been listening to you from way back.
Way back from uh probably early nineties.
Appreciate that.
And I think I've been listening too long because today as you were speaking and talking about this event that happened in New York when Ted Cruz's audio was uh disturbed with.
I was just listening to the timber of your voice, and I was just saying Rush is gonna go with this somehow or another.
Somehow or another.
And I just about uh I guess about a half an hour ago, I was tooling down the highway listening, and the audio transmission of your show sounded suspiciously like the cruise audio that we heard yesterday.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the fact there were tinkling dishes and uh audio that was uh posted right over your own voice.
You could hear your voice in the background, but it was When did this happen?
When did this happen?
About a half an hour ago.
Half an hour ago.
Yeah.
Now you may not be aware of it like Mr. Cruz.
Well, I don't know.
I d I'm not aware of it.
What this uh half hour ago was talking about You're talking about Cruz.
You're right.
I was talking about could play the soundbite from Axelrod and that commie babe from MSNBC about that the establishment wanting Cruz to win so that he would lose so they could say conservatism loses.
What what did it before that?
Are you telling me that you heard noise over me?
You couldn't hear what I was saying.
You mean you heard a replay of what they did to Cruz?
Yeah, it sounded like you had a whole dinner party going on in there.
You got it, but you you you this I know I bet you I know exactly what happened.
I know who did this.
I can tell you why it happened is because the minute that I accused engineering of having any culpability what happened to Cruz, Brian in there said that he did not didn't think that because he couldn't join me in condemning his engineering brothers.
And so I know exactly what happened.
Whoa, what did you hear?
Like I said, I heard dishes clanging.
Oh my god.
Uh dinner conversation.
Uh-huh.
I heard uh some other newscaster.
I don't know where that came from, but it was kind of like a murmur of the.
How long did this go on?
How long did it go on?
Oh, probably around three, four minutes.
You gotta be kidding me.
I'm not kidding you.
I heard it.
I know I did, and I know it has nothing to do with it.
My own program sabotaged by my own staff, and I didn't even know it.
It could happen to anyone.
Wait a minute, now they're telling me it didn't happen.
They're telling me they're telling me it didn't happen.
No, no, no, it happened.
I'm but you know what?
Just like you said, nobody else reacted in the chat.
Snerdley says you're pulling my leg and making it up.
I am not.
I just like you said that no one who is a cruise supporter made anything about it.
I just happened to be the first one that had enough guts to call you and say I heard it.
They're saying nothing happened.
And I'm not and and I and I is line just went dead.
This is a lot of strange stuff happening here.
Folks, I can't believe that I that that didn't happen.
That couldn't happen.
I mean knowing about it.
I mean, it would be I I th they would be in there laughing, they'd be doing something about it.
I mean, I would know if somebody started monkeying around at least here.
Now, maybe at our satellite uplink, who knows?
You know, there's a lot of people get their fingers in on this program from the uplink here all the way up to the various relay stations and repeaters before it finally ends up on the bird.
But I I I know what we probably got a bunch of commie people in that link.
You know, the odds are that somebody.
What do you mean?
It's not fair.
Well, the guy claimed it happened.
You're denying that it happened.
You're denying you're denying that you did anything.
And it's it had it had to happen somewhere if it happened.
You think the guy's making it all up?
Open line Friday, he's pulling my.
Okay.
All right, fine.
It is open line Friday, and time is dwindling.
And even if it did happen, folks, you know, I'll get to the bottom of it.
I'll get to the bottom, because people can monkey with this program that way, and I don't even know about it.
That's not gonna work.
That's a breach issue.
If uh if nothing else.
Okay, now I mentioned in the last half hour the Carl Rove sound bites that we have.
Before I get into those, the latest Fox News poll.
And it's I know this it's it's it's it's gonna be it was surprising to some based upon the momentum that appeared to be shifting, even slightly in the campaign this past uh couple of weeks.
Donald Trump has now jumped to an 18-point lead over Ted Cruz, record-high support in the Fox poll for the Republican nomination.
Trump, this is a national poll now.
Trump tops crews 45-27 among Republican primary voters in a new Fox News national poll.
Kasich is in third place with 25%.
Three weeks ago, it was Trump 41 Cruise 38.
Now it is 4527.
That's huge.
Uh Kasich was at 17% back on March 20th through 22nd.
45%'s a new high for Trump.
As I said, the previous uh high was last month's 41%.
And as I say, we we the the the the what is the trend or the narrative this past week and the week prior is that Trump is fading.
Is that the momentum has shifted?
Is that uh maybe there's been peak Trump and uh it needs to do something here to recapture the magic that people were clearly saying had vanished, but according to this poll, no.
According to this poll, peak Trump is as much of a myth as uh as peak oil.
Trump's best numbers in the latest Fox poll come from Republican voters without a college degree, 54%.
And also those who describe themselves as very conservative.
Trump is getting 50% of those who describe themselves as very conservative.
And that is a huge change too.
Cruz used to do best among the very conservative.
On the Democrat side in the Fox poll, Clinton's ahead by two points, 48 to 46 over Crazy Bernie, that's margin of error.
Last month, before Sanders won eight of the nine most recent primaries, she had a 13-point lead.
55-42.
You know what the difference is in this poll?
Women.
Clinton's support has dropped 11 points among women in the past couple of weeks in the Fox poll.
Bernie's support among women is up by nine points.
Support among men, mostly held steady.
And it's in Sanders' favor, 57 to 30.
Why is there no outrage that Bernie's supporters are mostly white men?
I mean, they use that to castigate Trump.
Trump supporters are mostly not only just white guys, but they're failure white guys.
They're they're angry white guys, they're poor white guys, they're white trash white guys, is the way they're described as Trump supporters.
Why is no similar correlation made to the white guys supporting Crazy Bernie?
Of course, we can answer our own question.
We know the uh the answer.
From politico, Trump is poised for a New York landslide, but a new poll shows the frontrunner could lose two dozen state delegates in the process.
Let me explain this.
And again, this is according to Politico.
The New York delegate rules are convoluted and complex.
And just explaining these are going to be tough for you to follow because there's numbers involved, and it's it's always tough to follow numbers and keep them in your head while you're listening to them.
But here goes.
According to Politico, Trump is poised to win a landslide next Tuesday in the New York primary.
But he could lose as many as 24 critical delegates by failing to win an outnight outright majority in every corner of the state.
Now, this survey is from a Republican polling group called Optimus Consulting.
And this survey shows Trump doubling Kasich, 49 to 24%, Cruz in third place at 14.
Can anybody say New York values?
So in this poll, it's Trump 49, Kasich 24, Cruz 14.
The survey has Trump leading in all 27 congressional districts.
Trump's margins in those districts, the margins of victory will prove crucial.
There's 95 delegates in New York.
And this poll suggests that Trump, based on their polling in all the congressional districts, might not win all 95.
There might be 24 that he does not win.
Are you ready?
Under New York's complex rules, all three delegates in each of the 27 districts are awarded to the winner if he or she gets 50%.
So in every district, if you want all three delegates in every district, you've got to get 50%.
So Trump could have a landslide victory statewide, but not get to 50% in four or five districts, in which case he would not get all the delegates.
And these people using their polling or adding all this up and concluding that Trump could fall 24 delegates short of a sweep on Tuesday.
Again, this is all based on polling data, of course.
If Trump wins a congressional district only by plurality and doesn't get to 50%, he'll get two delegates.
The runner-up will get one.
So Trump has to win.
In other words, Trump has to win 50% of the vote in every congressional district in order to get all of the district's delegates.
Otherwise, he'll only get two, and a runner-up will get one.
And of course, this lends itself perfectly.
For a theme on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the fix was in.
if Trump doesn't get all delegates from all districts.
And that seems to be the narrative of the Trump campaign.
It's crucial.
It's a crucial part of a populist campaign.
You're an outsider or you're a candidate representing outsiders and the big guys in the establishment are trying to rig things against you because they're trying to rig things against your supporters, the little guys.
You're trying to rig the outcome.
The way the Trump campaigns portraying what happened to Colorado is classic.
It is classic.
And from a deeply, you can just, when you read this, folks, you can you can just sense the desperation and the sadness on the page from the Washington Post headline.
Republicans are a lot closer to maybe Trump than never Trump.
This is a piece written by Philip Bump.
In CBS polling, Trump's lead over cruise has dropped since March.
Last month he led by 20 points, now leads by 13.
But that's where the good news for the never Trumpers ends.
First of all, Republicans are slightly more likely now to say that they would support Trump's nomination enthusiastically than they were last month.
Two-thirds of Republicans say they would support him enthusiastically or with some reservations.
The number of people saying never Trump, literally, the people say they would never ever vote Trump is essentially the same as the number of people who say that's the same thing about Cruz or Kasich.
So there's no, shall we say, disadvantage in the never Trump column because it's no higher than it is for Cruz or Kasichs.
And that's vain.
Let's hit the Carl Rove sound bites.
This is from this morning, America's newsroom.
Bill Hemmer talking with Carl Rove.
He says, Politico says that you have warmed up to Trump.
That you're you're you're thinking now moving closer to Trump.
Is that right?
It was a story in yesterday's politico, and it is third-hand reporting on a conference call we had with our donors.
The answer is no.
We had a conference call in which we briefed our donors.
We're involved in a continuing set of research, focus groups and polls focused on Hillary Clinton and how to beat her.
The evidence was that as weak a candidate as she is, he can't exploit those weaknesses.
Michigan, Wisconsin, uh, Minnesota, they don't come into play.
What's your conclusion then?
Can he beat her in a national election?
The purpose of the call was not to identify that.
My personal view is he can't.
It's Rove disputing that he's moving closer to Trump, and then saying in answer to a question he does not think Trump can beat Hillary.
So we go to Fox on the record with Greta last night, talking to uh talking to Rove, and she says this.
She says, okay, let's assume that he gets to 1237 and he wins, but he's got this bad number against Clinton November polling data.
Between July and November, do you think the Republican Party and Donald Trump can whoop up the party to vote for him and get all the needed voters?
They need to beat Hillary by November.
Can he turn this around?
The real question is can Donald Trump unify the Republican Party?
Bob Woodward said, you know, you've broken a lot of eggs.
Don't you think it's time to stop and unite the party?
And he said, I think I got two more eggs to break.
Later on, they said to him, you know, don't you really want to have the support of these people?
Do you want the support of Ted Cruz?
He says, I don't want it.
He says, I think unity is overstated.
The nominee of the Republican Party, whoever he is or she is, has to take the principal responsibility for uniting the party.
That's gonna be tough for Trump to do if his mindset is I don't need these people.
Well, maybe, like our caller said, maybe Trump doesn't care about uniting the Republican Party.
Maybe his objective is to start a whole new one called the Trump Party.
And he's the nominee of the Trump Party.
I mean, an official break from it at some point.
Maybe that if if if Rove is right here.
Only time will tell.
We've got a break and be right back after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, and this is Valerie in Gurney, Illinois.
Hey Valerie, great to have you here.
Thanks.
Well, I'm sure you're real happy to hear from me.
I I call because just like that guy from California Carolina.
I heard that same interference.
And I just figured you were trying to prove a point.
You wait a minute.
All right.
So I'm just I I'm I'm she hung up, right?
She hung up.
I I am supposed to think that right when she got to the payoff that she hung up.
You know, I'm going to tell you people in there, I'm getting emails from people who said they heard it.
All right.
Now I didn't hear anything, but I've got emails from other people on the staff who say they heard it.
So I know you did something in there.
I I can't not believe that you are still trying to pass this off.
I've got people that I trust telling me that something happened.
You know, I'm so and snurdly just open line Friday, Rush better get back to the phone.
Yeah.
And you're disconnecting phone callers next.
You think you can put this past me?
You think I'm some guy making a speech in New York, doesn't know what's going on here.
All right, here's uh David.
Oh, the Verizon strike is why we got to doubt it.
Is that right?
You know, I just happen to know she's calling in on Verizon?
Right.
They've got an answer for everything.
David Chesterton, Indiana, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Yeah, Russ, thank you.
I wanted to uh ask about um ask you to predict or what you foresee uh Fox doing now that you expose them trying to sabotage crews.
Um can you kind of give us an idea what to expect?
I kinda have an analogy that you know the saying that when you fling a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is the one that got hit.
I'm wondering now that you uh said that.
No, I I can tell in fact I just saw something.
Nothing's gonna happen beyond what has happened.
There will not be any acknowledgement that anything untoward happened.
I was just watching during the break here uh I've got Fox and CNN on uh the the Fox anchor was going to a discussion of crews last night at the speech because there are two guests in there and happen to say and some people even think they messed with the audio can you believe that so the the Fox angle is that what are you talking about?
What what audio?
We didn't do anything.
So I haven't blown the whistle on anything here.
And my only point is and in all of this is a look it it's clearly I realize some of you may not know we're talking about you tuning in late but it's clearly a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed bit.
I mean this was aimed at crews and it hit bullseye whoever did it this is somewhat shocking the NBA has announced that they are not pulling out of Charlotte for the next All-Star game.
They're gonna stay there good for them good for them refusing to be bullied by one tenth of one percent of the population good for them.
So the NBA is going to keep their all-star game in Charlotte next year not pulling out because of this can you so a guy wants to go into a bathroom with a girl and you say that that doesn't sound right and makes you the bigot tolerance means oh yeah you're not supposed to assume the worst was so bad.
They're both human beings oh yeah I didn't look at it that way wants to go in a uh bathroom with a girl and it's discriminatory to not think that's cool.
That's right, Mr. Limbo you're learning that that's exactly right.
Okay.
Well anyway, the NBA says they're not moving out of um Charlotte I frankly am surprised I mean there were six United States senators putting pressure on them to move out of there.
Not to mention all their other corporate buddies I'm gonna tell you something folks you mark my words there are some American corporations that are kicking butt right now sales records and all that and ever so slowly but ever so surely they are politicizing themselves and they are they they are gluing themselves to some of these radical leftist causes and it's gonna hurt them.
They're going to start losing customers and losing sales, and nobody's going to chalk it up to this.
They're going to chalk it up.
They fail to keep innovating.
Their products don't change enough.
They've maxed out.
Their prices are too high, whatever.
Nobody is going to properly identify why.
Well, Apple for one, Disney for another.
I mean, take your pick of any of these corporations that are trying to establish a radical left-wing corporate identity.
I mean it used to be you know it doesn't matter what the politics your customers are because you sell to everybody.
Michael Jordan classic would never do politics because Republicans buy Air Jordans too but that seems to be out the window some of these CEOs are are becoming uh as well known for their political activism as well as their leadership of their corporations and I'm gonna just tell you it is going to have an impact but it'll never be chalked up to this.
Mark my words in fact I'm gonna make a note right here.
I have an app that actually keeps track of predictions like this that I make.
And reminds me every three months, six months, however often I set the interval.
Remember that back on, it'll say April 15th, you predicted it.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna do this on this one.
Because it's and I know that what's gonna happen if there is a slowdown, a tapering off, or even a reduction in uh in sales.
The official media analysts of all this will never chalk it up to anything other than you know they failed innovate.
Everything looks the same.
They didn't drop their prices.
You know what, their rides are too dangerous.
Whatever.
They'll chalk, they'll chalk it up to anything but the political activism.
I want to go back.
There's some there's some really juicy sound bites here from the Democrat debate last night, with these two seasoned citizens just shouting and angry and losing it.
It was embarrassing even to Wolf Blitzer and some of the moderators begging them to just cool it.
It happened in Brooklyn, and here's another series of bites.
Wolf Blitzer says, Senator Sanders, do you believe that Secretary Clinton has the judgment to be president?
I question a judgment which voted for the war in Iraq.
The worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country voted for virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which cost us millions of decent paying jobs, and I question her judgment about running super PACs, which are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including $15 million from Wall Street.
I don't believe that that is the kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need.
Let me just tell you something.
The Democrat Party was okay with Bernie running.
They were okay with him making it look like Hillary had a fight, but he's not supposed to be going here.
Democrats are not supposed to be putting people on a stage with her, telling everybody she's not qualified.
He's not supposed to be saying this stuff.
He's not supposed to be pointing out all of her warts and zits and stuff.
And he is.
And she's not happy about it, and a whole lot of Democrats are not happy about it.
But you know what?
His supporters love it.
And there are more of his support.
This party, the Democrat Party has become more radicalized leftist than anybody knows.
And you can get an indication of it with the size of his sport.
But it wasn't supposed to happen.
Whoever was Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, whoever's on that stage supposedly running against her, was supposed to be nothing more than, you know, my analogy about the Republicans, nothing more than the Washington Generals.
And here he's acting like he actually wants to win.
Uh-uh-uh-uh.
That wasn't a deal.
So here's Hillary's natural response to this.
She has just had her qualifications, her judgment challenged.
And her natural response is to play the victim and complain about being called names all of her life.
Senator Sanders did call me unqualified.
I've been called a lot of things in my life.
That was a first.
And then he did say that he had to question my judgment.
Well, the people of New York voted for me twice to be their senator from New York.
And President Obama trusted my judgment enough to ask me to be Secretary of State for the United States.
Obama chose you to keep you close and to keep Clinton close.
And the fact that people in New York elect you there, that's no big deal to people outside of New York.
But did you hear her say, I've been called a lot of things, but nobody's ever called me unqualified.
That's that was a first.
I'm telling you.
That's the kind of statement when the debate ends, they call Don Corleone.
You don't call Hillary Clinton unqualified.
You call anything, but you because that's her calling card.
Her calling card is she's the most qualified Democrat ever.
She's been around, she'd been more qualified than Her husband, more qualified than Obama, more qualified than John Kerry, more qualified.
Yes, she still hasn't been acknowledged as such, and that's what this campaign is all about.
Next question was Dana Bash.
Senator Sanders, you have consistently criticized Secretary Clinton for accepting money from Wall Street.
Can you name one decision that she made as senator that shows that she favored banks because of the money they gave her?
The obvious decision is when the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior of Wall Street brought this country into the worst economic downturn since the Great Recession.
Great depression of the 30s.
The obvious response to that is that you got a bunch of fraudulent operators, and that they have got to be broken up.
That was my view way back, and I introduced legislation to do that.
Now Secretary Clinton was busy giving speeches to Goldman Socks for $225,000.
And you know why she's giving those speeches?
Because that's that's path-through money.
That's how they are contributing to her campaign.
Twenty-minute speech, two hundred and twenty-five, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
She won't release a transcripts of the speeches.
You know why?
Because she praises the banks and she tells them how important they are, how great they are for economic growth and employment and all that.
And if her voters heard that, that would be huge, huge problem.
So she won't release transcripts.
Bernie keeps harping on that.
Um Hillary's response was this.
He cannot come up with any example because there is no example.
And it is it is important.
It is important.
It's always important.
It may be inconvenient, but it's always important to get the facts straight.
I stood up against the behaviors of the banks when I was a senator.
I called them out on their mortgage behavior.
Right, right, sure you did after your husband had ganged up on the banks and basically demanded that they make loans to people who couldn't pay him back under penalty of investigation.
You were right in there all support.
These people are such hypocrites.
You know, hypocrisy never harms Democrats.
Never comes back to bite them.
But Bernie, crazy Bernie, when he heard that, he pounced.
Well, at least for him.
Secretary Clinton called them out.
Oh my goodness.
They must have been really crushed by this.
And was that before or after you received huge sums of money by giving speaking gauges behind them?
So they must have been very, very upset by what you did.
If elected president, I will break them up.
We've got legislation to do that, and what discussion.
That's exactly if he's elected president, he's gonna bust up everything.
He's gonna bust up big oil, he's gonna bust up big pharmaceutical, he's gonna bust up big bank, he's gonna bust up big retail, he's gonna rip everything he can apart.
And it may even cost you your job, but that's okay, because he's gonna have legislation to recompense you in the event you lose your job to save America.
Which is what he's actually talking about.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here's Luke driving around in Houston.
Luke, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
I'm fine, sir.
I had you on iHeart Radio driving from Houston to San Antonio, and then you were doing the Ted Cruz uh speech and that background noise.
Yeah.
And the other two callers are correct.
I mean, the horrible white noise came on while you were explaining on your radio program, and it was it was I don't know who did it, but it was all going on.
Yeah, I've I don't doubt that it happened now.
I just I've I've um I've got no evidence of right now.
I can find out later, but I can find the proof later.
If it happened, if it happened, it'll be in the replay at Rushlinbaugh.com.
That's probably immediate matter.
Uh the one thing I don't know is if they were able to also sabotage the Ditto Cam feed.
That's the thing I'm not sure about.
Well, I don't know.
Well, you wouldn't know that you weren't watching TV as you're driving down the road to San Antonio.
Exactly.
Well, what did you do when you heard it?
I d I don't know.
I thought it was a prank that you were uh playing, just uh you know, trying to I was trying to listen to your uh uh commentary.
Wait, you thought I you you you you thought I was in on it.
Yeah.
Oh.
So you thought it was a pretty pretty funny, brilliant bit.
Uh it became annoying afterwards because you were making your point.
I mean, in the past where I've been listening to you, you've been making a really, really significant point, and then the radio just goes blank like they like something's jamming the signal.
Wait a minute.
This has happened before?
It's happened to me.
I uh I live and work in Houston, Texas, and then it's like someone jams the signal when you're really making a a wonderful point about something.
I wonder if you know, I never I wonder if our local affiliates would ever do something like this.
You know, I never thought about this.
See, this is a damaging thing.
This guy thought that I was doing it, but that it wasn't any good.
That's not if when I do a bit, you're gonna think it's great and brilliant.
You're gonna want to hear more of it.
Whatever happened here today.
Yeah, it doesn't have my fingerprints on it, obviously.
Well, a weekend has arrived here, my friend, at least for us.
Hope it has uh for you too.
If uh if not, regardless, have the next couple of days be great as they can be.
We'll be back here on Monday.
Revd and ready to kick it all into gear once again.
Again, thank you so much for being with us.
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